Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Ezra Levant breaks down Rebel's Canadian pro-Israel coverage

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Today, I want to give you a taste of what we saw at the rally for the Jewish

00:00:04.480 people in Ottawa. And one of the best speeches was by someone who's not Jewish himself, but rather

00:00:09.860 our friend Rex Murphy. But before I get to that, let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel

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00:00:45.880 Tonight, thousands of people rally for the Jewish people. I'll give you a taste of what we saw today

00:00:51.860 in Ottawa. It's December 4th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:58.940 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:10.560 Oh, hi, everybody. I'm standing in this snowfall in Ottawa. Last time I was in Ottawa, and it was 0.95

00:01:17.080 this cold. It was for the trucker convoy a year and a half ago. Well, today I was here for a rally for

00:01:22.500 the Jewish people. That's what it was called. It wasn't called pro-Israel. It wasn't called anti-Hamas.

00:01:27.380 But I think it was both of those things, too. Now, we did a lot of interviews, and we recorded a lot

00:01:32.540 of speeches, and it just ended moments ago. So in the interest of timing, we're going to give you a

00:01:38.800 sneak peek of what we saw today, and we'll have the main show for you tomorrow. I did about 10 little

00:01:45.960 interviews asking ordinary people. We call those streeters, man on the street interviews. I want to

00:01:51.260 show you those. We also talked to an MP. We recorded some speeches. We're going to have all of it for you

00:01:56.460 tomorrow, but I want to give you just a little taste of perhaps the highlight of any event where

00:02:02.200 he speaks. I want to show you the entirety of Rex Murphy's remarks today, and then come right back

00:02:09.780 because I'm going to show you some other coverage that we've had across the country. So don't go away,

00:02:15.340 but here is Rex Murphy in his blazing glory. First of all, it's really lovely to be on

00:02:24.200 Parliament Hill in a Newfoundland summer. I've got to start off with something truly serious.

00:02:34.760 You see behind me, it's understood that on Parliament Hill, I'm going to be particular.

00:02:41.680 One of the leaders of the party is regarded as the best-dressed person on Parliament Hill.

00:02:51.340 I'm about to take that title away from him. I am now the best-dressed person on Parliament Hill.

00:03:01.740 Not only the best-dressed, but as thousands of Canadians have said over the years,

00:03:20.000 he is the most unbelievably handsome human being on the face of the earth.

00:03:24.920 Listen, I wish there were about 10 to 15 times the number that is here.

00:03:36.960 I congratulate all of you who are here, but this is one of the most deeply moral movements

00:03:46.520 of this entire century. It is. It is an amazing thing. I have been unable, normally it's not a task,

00:04:03.960 I have been unable to find the words to fit the occasion when on November 7th,

00:04:12.600 some extremely brave, almost, almost crusading knights came and hit a music festival.

00:04:24.640 They came with armaments and armor and flying equipment, and they took on three-year-olds,

00:04:31.400 and they took on two-year-olds, and they took on 87-year-olds, and they shot people unarmed at a music festival.

00:04:44.280 This was one of the most black atrocities of our times, and we have had so, so many. 1.00

00:04:56.540 What does it take? What does it take for an adult, a man, or a woman with a gun 0.82

00:05:05.220 to look into the eyes of an eight-month-old baby

00:05:11.960 and either shoot it or haul it off to a dark tunnel for two months after slaughtering its parents? 1.00

00:05:23.140 This is the horror of the people who hate Jews. Do not wash it. Do not dilute it. 1.00

00:05:40.780 Look at it in the face and understand that there are motivations so deep

00:05:46.920 and there are minds so psychotic that they could walk into the very face of innocence,

00:05:56.220 a smiling baby, and do it ill. 1.00

00:06:01.980 I'm from a place called Irish Town, Newfoundland, and my last name is Murphy.

00:06:09.980 So that's a good range away from Israel, but this afternoon, and without rhetoric,

00:06:19.240 in my mind, in my heart, in my viscera, in my spirit, in my aspirations,

00:06:28.980 in everything that I am, I am a Jew.

00:06:34.300 But only if you will have me, because it is not a presumption.

00:06:51.540 We cannot calibrate the sorrow and, for once, the proper use of the word trauma.

00:07:09.880 We use trauma now when people walk by the titles of books that they don't like

00:07:15.860 and obviously can't read.

00:07:20.820 Trauma happened on November 7th by the thousands.

00:07:30.420 Can you imagine? Try it.

00:07:32.220 This is what empathy really... 1.00

00:07:33.620 You hear the damn word from the mouths of the people who infest this building behind me. 0.99

00:07:39.820 You hear it often enough. 1.00

00:07:42.020 Oh, it's traumatic.

00:07:42.900 What was traumatic to that mother who went searching for her seven-year-old girl

00:07:49.080 and couldn't find it?

00:07:51.540 What was trauma for the seven-year-old girl who saw her parents shot?

00:07:57.800 The blistering atrocity of November 7th.

00:08:04.680 October 7th.

00:08:07.760 I'm a former journalist.

00:08:10.060 I'm allowed to make mistakes.

00:08:12.900 It's the nature of my profession.

00:08:19.080 But the substance of what I'm saying, date or not,

00:08:23.180 can you imagine what it was like?

00:08:26.640 1,200 people in 2023 on a Saturday morning in a music festival,

00:08:35.160 if that had occurred in England, in France, in Australia, in any Western country.

00:08:43.340 Those numbers, that butchery, that savagery, that extremity of rape,

00:08:50.220 that hauling away of children, the world would still be spinning with horror and rage.

00:08:56.280 And yet so many have attempted to erase that day.

00:09:01.840 Oh, we want a truce.

00:09:04.180 You had a truce today before. 0.99

00:09:06.480 And now when you slaughter, rape, torture, and kill, you want a holiday. 0.97

00:09:16.760 Today, this is unbelievable.

00:09:20.740 There's something that needs to be said.

00:09:23.360 The reason that Israel exists, the Jews in this audience know it.

00:09:29.400 Those of you who are supporting it and are therefore really good human beings, you know it too.

00:09:36.540 Why is there in Israel?

00:09:37.780 Because one of the demons from hell, Adolf Hitler, in the 1930s and 40s, 0.68

00:09:46.440 put into motion the industrial death machine of Nazism 0.93

00:09:52.580 and wiped out with torture, dogs, whips, scorns, and gas.

00:09:59.660 Six million Jewish people because they were Jewish and for no other reason. 1.00

00:10:10.880 It was the greatest act of hate in the entire history of this sad, sad planet.

00:10:20.960 And can you believe that four years later, a half-awake world said,

00:10:26.380 We will build a sanctuary state for those that are remaining that Hitler didn't get. 0.97

00:10:34.580 We will give to the Jews a state where they can feel safe.

00:10:42.900 And on the first day that that sanctuary state was established, they were attacked.

00:10:50.020 The very first day, the Jewish state was attacked in its cradle. 0.98

00:10:56.380 No other people have suffered this.

00:11:00.160 And through the progress of Israel from that day to this day, consider this.

00:11:06.400 They have built the greatest democracy in the world.

00:11:10.240 Yes?

00:11:14.340 It is better than our democracy.

00:11:17.320 And I'll tell you why.

00:11:18.380 I'll tell you why.

00:11:20.320 They had to build it while they had to endure successive wars,

00:11:28.360 any one of which could have wiped them out.

00:11:32.400 And not only that, under the pressure of multiple wars,

00:11:36.340 right up until this latest atrocity,

00:11:39.560 they have built one of the most efficient,

00:11:42.020 the most technocratic, the most educated.

00:11:44.740 They have earned their democracy through their valor.

00:11:57.840 Do you want to know why anti-Semitism is so deep?

00:12:01.880 I can quote you lines that are 3,000 years old.

00:12:07.980 By the waters of Babylon, there I sat down,

00:12:10.680 there I wept when I remembered thee, O Jerusalem.

00:12:15.640 I can quote another.

00:12:18.060 De profundis clamavi.

00:12:20.540 Out of the darkness, out of the depth,

00:12:23.180 out of hate, out of misery,

00:12:25.520 I have called on to you.

00:12:27.600 That cry, out of the darkness.

00:12:30.720 The Jewish people have been making that cry. 1.00

00:12:35.060 Why us?

00:12:36.160 Why always?

00:12:37.360 Why does it continue?

00:12:39.180 Anti-Semitism is a corrosive, 0.93

00:12:42.620 demonic, savage asset.

00:12:45.780 And the fact that it can endure in 2023

00:12:49.780 in the modern world is a horror.

00:12:52.940 Remember, everybody here.

00:12:58.900 Everybody here on this hill,

00:13:01.360 my very last word,

00:13:02.800 and that's the greatest thing I can give you.

00:13:05.720 My very last word is very simple.

00:13:09.440 If there are people who intimidate you

00:13:11.540 when you think to speak good words of Israel, 0.59

00:13:14.880 you spit back at them.

00:13:17.040 If you see people harassing bookstore owners

00:13:26.080 because they sell books and happen to be Jewish, 0.98

00:13:29.340 you despise them. 0.83

00:13:33.900 The good in this world is secured.

00:13:38.020 Israel is not a canary in a mine.

00:13:40.960 It's an eagle flying on the most tumultuous winds.

00:13:46.900 Israel is the one granter of a genuine democracy. 0.95

00:13:52.680 It knows the cost of that democracy.

00:13:55.820 Listen, you've come from afar.

00:13:57.620 You are cheated by buses.

00:13:59.320 The people who should support you are not here.

00:14:02.400 The leaders of the parties should be here

00:14:05.300 at this particular thing.

00:14:07.000 And it is my greatest pleasure to say this.

00:14:14.900 Shimon Fogel said,

00:14:16.560 we need to have a little bit of day class in this rally.

00:14:19.960 So we're going to find the worst Newfoundlander we have, 1.00

00:14:22.840 and we're going to let him have the microphone.

00:14:25.240 Stand firm for Israel always.

00:14:28.540 Well, obviously, Rex was the highlight

00:14:30.260 of the rally for the Jewish people.

00:14:32.440 Rex has always been a philo-semi.

00:14:34.140 Tomorrow, we'll have speeches by Anthony Housefather,

00:14:38.060 the Liberal Cabinet Minister,

00:14:39.520 by Melissa Lansman,

00:14:40.880 the Conservative MP and Deputy Leader of the party.

00:14:44.020 We'll also have the parents of a child

00:14:47.400 who was murdered in Israel by Hamas terrorists

00:14:50.420 on October 7th.

00:14:51.880 We'll have some non-Jewish righteous Gentiles 1.00

00:14:54.820 who are allies of the Jewish people.

00:14:57.280 And, of course, we'll have these streeters, 0.58

00:14:59.880 which I think are really put your finger on the pulse

00:15:02.940 of what the pro-Israel community is thinking.

00:15:05.040 That's all coming tomorrow.

00:15:06.120 But for the rest of today,

00:15:07.700 let me leave you with the best of Rebel News' coverage

00:15:11.980 of the street protests and rallies for and against

00:15:15.400 these last, oh, I guess, two months now.

00:15:18.760 I'm going to say goodbye now.

00:15:20.420 I'll see you again tomorrow

00:15:21.640 with the heart of our coverage of today's rally.

00:15:24.440 But for now, enjoy the best of Rebel News

00:15:27.820 covering the rallies in Canada.

00:15:32.940 So here, Alexa for Rebel News,

00:15:50.880 and I'm in Montreal.

00:15:51.760 We are the 16th of November.

00:15:54.580 And behind me, as you can see,

00:15:56.060 there is an event for Bring the Hostage Home

00:16:00.640 made by the Jewish community. 0.78

00:16:04.020 So I don't know if you were aware,

00:16:06.260 but last week, the Jewish community

00:16:08.580 was victim of multiple anti-Semitic attack

00:16:12.920 against not only a yeshiva that was shot by bullet

00:16:17.180 in the front door, not once, but twice

00:16:20.240 for one of the establishment.

00:16:21.440 They had, like, a Molotov cocktail thrown

00:16:24.800 in the front door of a synagogue.

00:16:27.700 And I want you to show some image

00:16:30.260 of their last event that they planned here in Concordia

00:16:34.280 to show their respect to Israel

00:16:37.700 and to ask to bring the Hostages home.

00:16:41.560 Look at some crazy image of the interaction

00:16:44.480 between them and some anti-Israel people.

00:16:47.520 So following those events that you just saw,

00:17:07.220 some examples, there is a massive police presence

00:17:10.040 to make sure that this event is fully secure.

00:17:13.980 We will talk with some people,

00:17:15.280 so let's check what they have to say to me today.

00:17:18.200 I never imagined that coming to Concordia

00:17:20.700 would expose me to the worst anti-Semitism

00:17:24.120 I have ever experienced in my lifetime.

00:17:30.600 I could never have imagined

00:17:33.280 that a group of people would hate me so much

00:17:36.880 without even knowing me,

00:17:38.940 just because I'm a Jew.

00:17:40.120 My name is Michael Yitzchayek.

00:17:43.080 I'm a student at Concordia,

00:17:44.880 and I'm saying no to anti-Semitism

00:17:47.000 and any type of aid on campuses.

00:17:53.780 It's important for me to be here today

00:17:55.500 to stand against anti-Semitism

00:17:56.820 and to stand up for the Jewish people

00:17:58.880 being held hostage in Gaza right now.

00:18:00.660 But it's really important for me to be here

00:18:02.460 to support the students on campus,

00:18:04.220 the Jewish students,

00:18:05.080 who are feeling intimidated,

00:18:06.700 who don't feel comfortable

00:18:08.240 among their student friends

00:18:10.120 and their professors

00:18:11.040 who are being very anti-Semitic.

00:18:13.340 Personne n'est insensible.

00:18:14.840 Les Français vraiment ont été choqués

00:18:16.300 depuis l'attaque du Hamas du 7 octobre.

00:18:19.920 Les Français en France,

00:18:21.420 mais aussi à l'étranger.

00:18:23.380 Et face à ça,

00:18:24.380 on réagit tous

00:18:25.020 parce qu'on ne peut pas ne rien faire.

00:18:26.760 En France, vous l'avez vu,

00:18:27.880 il y a eu des manifestations.

00:18:29.360 Le 12 novembre,

00:18:30.580 il y a eu 180 000 Français

00:18:32.240 qui ont défilé dans les rues.

00:18:34.480 Et à l'étranger,

00:18:35.360 les Français se sont réunis

00:18:36.400 à Bruxelles, à New York.

00:18:38.760 Et ici, je suis présent

00:18:40.280 pour exprimer un message de soutien,

00:18:43.460 notamment contre l'antisémitisme.

00:19:02.240 We realized that to stand here,

00:19:04.160 we need to be surrounded

00:19:05.000 by so much police.

00:19:07.240 How can we

00:19:08.180 when we can't even

00:19:09.340 use a table at our university

00:19:10.920 and not get attacked

00:19:12.280 in 15 minutes?

00:19:14.180 And the problem is

00:19:15.680 that no lotta 1.00

00:19:16.700 can promise us

00:19:17.440 that it will never happen again.

00:19:18.920 名ogho

00:19:23.780 I was here last week on Wednesday when the fights broke out and there's videos and we're

00:19:31.280 just we're doing our we're doing our rituals and everybody's yelling and screaming in the

00:19:35.380 background and we don't care it doesn't bother us we're here to have the proud Jewish identity

00:19:39.960 as you can see last week it was a lot harder than this week this week we have security we

00:19:45.280 have police last week was a little bit wild but we were there the same way same idea bring them

00:19:51.540 back home the 240 children elderly mothers fathers and grandparents bring them back 0.99

00:19:57.040 home now and I'm Israel hi these are nations with common aspirations who must unite with each other

00:20:10.020 to free themselves from the grip of the oppressive regime of the Islamic Republic 0.90

00:20:21.540 this is Daphna now she was an organizer of this event very involved in the efforts to bring the

00:20:27.800 hostages home you can find them online by searching bring them home why was it important to organize

00:20:33.100 this rally because I think there's so many things going on that I don't want the hostages to be

00:20:38.160 forgotten and people forget that they're human you know you about humanity and so many things

00:20:42.800 are mixed up with politics and the war and everything and those are people who were actually

00:20:47.900 abducted 6 30 in the morning still in their pajamas just people bursting in and and and and and being

00:20:54.320 very very brutal and I don't want this to be lost because it's been three 23 days and nothing is done

00:21:00.920 about we don't know where they are we don't know if the kids are fed we don't know if the elderly have 0.97

00:21:05.660 medication we have no idea what's going on with them and it could happen in any western country because

00:21:10.700 that's what happened it's not a it wasn't a war zone it wasn't soldiers against soldiers it was

00:21:15.180 it was families and it could have could have been my family and we everyone in the jewish community

00:21:20.600 or israeli has some connection to someone there we we heard a few people today and and I know a few

00:21:25.820 of them so it's it all integrates and it's it's more it's we want to bring I wanted to bring up the

00:21:30.700 humanity the crisis of you and of the human human side of it and not talk politics not talk religion just

00:21:36.940 human to human and and I think that's the best way for people to reach out and not to forget them

00:21:42.320 because it's the number is 239 amongst them there are 30 kids it's I can't imagine I cannot I just

00:21:49.500 beyond my it's shocking it still is shocking after three weeks all right so here are some from the

00:21:55.160 Vancouver Iranian monarch kids community why is it important for you guys to be a part of this today

00:22:01.940 well it's our natural duty because we share a really rich history with the jewish people that spans over two and a half

00:22:11.920 millennia two two five hundred years essentially and because of that and we're not it's not only just

00:22:18.320 the jewish people that are going through all sorts of oppression right now we are going through a lot

00:22:22.420 of oppression back at home in iran uh you know with the killing of massa with you know the killing of all

00:22:29.860 these impressionable iranian youth that had a future that was taken away from them from the murderous

00:22:35.300 bloodthirsty islamic republic and we feel oh what the jewish people are feeling today 1.00

00:22:40.200 what do you make of you know today there were signs of the hostages but we're also seeing online

00:22:46.640 people actually tearing down those same images what do you make of that it's blatant anti-semitism it's

00:22:52.320 just it's just disgusting I can't there's no other way you can put it are you happy with Canada's

00:22:58.400 response to what's happening right now with Israel and Hamas absolutely not no primarily we want to

00:23:05.620 free the hostages we're you know this is a march about uh the sovereignty of Israel and you know

00:23:12.180 basic humanity which is why we're marching with um the Vancouver Iranian community who are struggling

00:23:17.680 with the same thing under the current uh oppressive regime so yeah this is a this is an important

00:23:23.180 march for all of us this is as you can see a very peaceful rally there is no hatred being a spouse

00:23:29.800 to anyone here and we all as always we have to be on watch for the pro hamas demonstrators to crash the

00:23:38.540 rally that always lingers in the background in the meantime let's go out into this gathering and find out

00:23:46.240 what is drawing people to this event to steal a baby from their crib after murdering their

00:23:52.840 parents let alone to kidnap 239 people is a crime against humanity

00:24:04.440 why do you think we have seen so much anti-semitism on the streets of Canada and for that matter the world

00:24:13.560 yeah probably if you let these speeches hate speeches and promote these hate speeches

00:24:22.680 over the uh country you probably will see the anti-semitism people who are pro hamas pro-palestine

00:24:29.400 they like to be the victims and now israeli side all of a sudden is a victim and it's a fact we have

00:24:37.240 to pick if we are on the side of terror or if we are on the side of humanity when innocent people were

00:24:44.360 killed we have to support israel in the in its fight for humanity for people for life it doesn't take much to

00:24:51.960 realize who the bad guys are the bad guys are the baby kidnappers the vibe at a pro-israeli rally like

00:24:58.360 you see today it generally has a more it's more joyous more celebratory you know there's canadian flags

00:25:04.120 up there's israeli flags up and the sense that i get generally when i see pro hamas a lot of times

00:25:11.080 pro-palestini rallies it's i don't know it's a much more menacing it's a much more aggressive there's there's

00:25:16.440 it almost has a mob feel to it we were actually just in poland a couple months ago we did we did the

00:25:21.400 holocaust trip together and uh to see it happening again in modern day like we haven't learned from 0.99

00:25:27.400 our history is is is shocking you can be pro-palestinian and not be anti-israel or you can be pro-palestinian

00:25:33.480 and still respect civilians i condemn you know the killing of civilians on all sides i don't support i

00:25:39.400 don't celebrate it my grandfather was a holocaust survivor his whole family was slaughtered my grandmother

00:25:46.360 is his second wife because his whole family was dead for me to live and i came here from israel

00:25:53.320 because we wanted more peace more peace than we had there and to see that and to see my children to be

00:26:00.680 witnessing this right now right here it's horrible people get caught up in a in an emotional swirl

00:26:08.440 and sometimes that shuts down logical rational thought right that part of the brain is just switched off

00:26:15.160 i'm here with iddo he lives in israel he's visiting toronto right now and tell me iddo what do you

00:26:22.280 make of the response we've seen in so many western cities around the world in which so many people

00:26:30.600 are spouting such anti-jew hatred it's awful to see that but uh i can tell you it doesn't matter

00:26:39.800 they can come millions billions it doesn't matter israel is here and they won't move from here 1.00

00:26:46.920 we're here to stay and we're not going anywhere i prefer to me prononcer sur le sujet

00:26:52.760 c'est un sujet je préfère éviter en ce moment what is your opinion on the significant presence of anti-israel

00:26:59.000 sympathies dominating the street every weekend do you believe that the police and the government should be

00:27:05.000 should take extra measure i truly believe that in today's society and today's new revelation we need

00:27:13.320 to be united love each one to some people it makes sense that some people will fight back hamas

00:27:23.000 is more than fighting back it's a terrorist organization but the word terrorism has been

00:27:28.440 manipulated a lot over the last 20 years so there's no excuse for the attack of october 7th and there's

00:27:37.000 no excuse for trying to wipe out everyone that lives in gaza so the protests are kept as kind of expression

00:27:45.880 for solidarity with all the civilian casualties that are going on in in gaza not so much as an anti-jewish

00:27:51.560 thing or maybe a pro something over jewish but more that it's a pro human survival pro human life

00:27:58.280 and i'm fine with it if it's kept with that tone i think the government should definitely be like you

00:28:02.040 know making sure that hate speech and vandalism doesn't occur but i think the freedom of speech is

00:28:10.120 still a part of our constitution so people should have the right to protest talk about whatever

00:28:16.360 issues that they feel about so the moment the government starts restricting protests i don't

00:28:21.080 think that would be a good day for canadians but it seems like most of the people have feel like they

00:28:26.360 have to take a side when i don't understand that because it's a problem for all of us and we need

00:28:34.520 to together figure out a solution honnêtement j'essaie de pas avoir vraiment d'opinion genre sur c'est

00:28:40.440 qui les méchants c'est qui les bons c'est sûr quand on voit beaucoup d'affaires contre l'israël ça porte plus

00:28:46.280 à penser que ce seraient eux les méchants mais i don't support all those kind of things in the matter of

00:28:54.760 that i mean the government needs to do what they need to do uh in the matter of protest and vandalism

00:28:59.480 i think is it they they shouldn't do it but uh also i think that probably if they don't do it they

00:29:06.120 won't be hurt yeah do you support um what the activists for anti-israel are doing uh blocking

00:29:13.960 critical infrastructure uh disturbing event closing some event even uh i think it again depends i don't

00:29:22.360 think necessarily a blanket response towards anything linked with israel by kind of shutting

00:29:27.080 down or taking action like that is necessarily the most effective but i do think that in the case that

00:29:32.440 one's directly concerned about maybe what the israeli government it's i would kind of mirror the same

00:29:36.280 statement if one was concerned about the actions of hamas then one protested directly towards something

00:29:40.840 by blocking access or something towards something that was directly linked to that i think that could

00:29:44.760 be seen as a reasonable step i don't support either side no je suis pas d'accord avec ça je pense qu'il y a

00:29:52.280 d'autres façons de faire la proteste il y a des endroits plutôt et plus éloignés

00:29:57.640 so i don't think i've i can say that they're doing something wrong because it means something to them

00:30:03.240 and just because i'm not affected by it i can't say that um what they're doing is wrong

00:30:09.320 well there aren't the right to protest but uh maybe they shouldn't do like uh riots or destroy

00:30:22.280 like private property because uh let's say that if they destroy some kind of business the business

00:30:28.280 owners it doesn't have to do anything with it well over 2 000 people including some proudly waving

00:30:34.120 iranian flags gathered at vancouver's jackpool plaza for stand with us community and solidarity

00:30:39.960 gathering for israel the rally which was organized by vancouver's jewish federation canadian jewish

00:30:45.960 advocacy and the rabbinical association of vancouver also attracted politicians like vancouver's mayor

00:30:51.960 ken sim as well as leader of the official opposition party bc united's kevin falcon they all condemned

00:31:00.360 the hamas terror attack on israel what happened this weekend in israel was absolutely horrific make

00:31:09.400 no mistake about it the stuff that happened the terror that happened they weren't all palestinian 0.99

00:31:15.640 rights or human rights they were incredibly horrendous acts of evil and brutality and there is absolutely 1.00

00:31:24.120 no justification no justification for the abduction

00:31:31.560 for the rape and for the murder of innocent civilians make no mistake about it hamas is a terrorist 1.00

00:31:41.160 organization full stop now is the time that we must all stand together united

00:31:59.000 in supporting the victims and their families and their friends and it's so heartbreaking to hear about

00:32:05.400 and it's important for us to support our brothers and sisters back in israel because what happened

00:32:12.360 there is just unbelievable it's a terrorist group that breached our borders and slaughters our brothers

00:32:20.120 our sisters our families and and so we must be here and everywhere around the world to show the support

00:32:27.640 it's not about politics it's not about religion it's just about humanity and to be here and to show

00:32:33.320 that i think it's it's my duty as a person not only as a jewish person about the cyrus accords the somehow

00:32:41.640 when the cyrus was supporting jewish people we are from the same roots and we are iranians so we are doing

00:32:47.560 the same also israel from long time ago it was iran's best friend and good ally so i'm as a actual patriot

00:32:57.800 from iran so i believe to this friendship and i want it back so we are here when you guys have a pain

00:33:04.600 we have a pain too clearly after all the atrocities that happened in israel things that we've never seen

00:33:11.240 in the history of our country ever um probably ever since the holocaust with i don't know how much i can

00:33:18.520 elaborate but with massacre of innocent people rape of women killing of children killing of entire families

00:33:28.120 we just had to be here we had to show solidarity we had to come as people well i'm not only a canadian

00:33:34.440 but i'm also an israeli citizen i spent my first 10 years in israel i have a family member a cousin

00:33:39.560 and her husband who are killed in israel um they know that their three youngest children are survived

00:33:45.320 but their oldest is also confirmed dead and when i really think about it it's important that we all

00:33:51.000 come together stand up for israel speak for peace also let israel know that they're not alone that

00:33:56.680 canada stands with them solid as a rock as i would say solid as the rocks that jerusalem and israel sits

00:34:02.760 on um also to speak up for truth and that people let people know that israel has the right to defend

00:34:09.160 itself we don't as israelis we don't want to have war we don't want to kill people we don't you know it

00:34:14.920 doesn't give us any pleasure to have to go and have a war where we're killing other people you know all we

00:34:20.280 want to do is live in peace and even from 1948 the war of independence our hand was always held out for

00:34:27.240 peace and thankfully you know the egyptian king king hussein came to a sense as he had peace

00:34:32.840 anwar sadat also made peace with israel i think it's also because they were tired of seeing their own

00:34:39.000 people come back in body bags uh children who have no fathers sometimes even mothers getting killed

00:34:44.440 women being widows um people losing their sons you know it doesn't you know i feel just as bad

00:34:51.720 when you have many combatants who are killed as get you know with israeli soldiers but when you look

00:34:57.080 at the terrorists who committed these atrocities as angry as i am what they've done i have no hatred

00:35:02.760 toward their children no hatred toward them i just want to have see people become be held accountable

00:35:08.920 for the crimes they've committed and i want people to live in peace

00:35:12.760 david menzies for rebel news here in toronto well folks i'm standing outside mel lassman square

00:35:18.360 that's where an event is taking place canada stands with israel and as you can see there are

00:35:25.720 thousands of people gathered they're now marching north on young street and you know i couldn't help

00:35:32.360 but notice some of the speakers uh tonight there was uh fraulein freeland uh she was here i hope she

00:35:39.320 didn't bring along a waffen ss nazi uh also yarra sacks uh you know the one who says that honking your

00:35:47.400 horn twice is an acronym for heil hitler gee i hope she wasn't down at nathan phillips square earlier

00:35:55.000 today i was there a lot of palestinian supporters honking their horn twice do you think that meant uh

00:36:01.240 heil hitler gee i don't know and then of course there was olivia chow mayor of toronto she says she

00:36:06.600 stands unequivocally with israel but that's tonight let's see what she says uh in the days and weeks

00:36:13.160 ahead in any event um let's see uh what some of the people gathered here have to say about this event

00:36:21.400 and uh most importantly what israel has to do in the aftermath of that horrific terrorist attack last

00:36:29.640 saturday what brought you and your your lovely family out to this uh uh event tonight we really

00:36:37.880 feel that we have to do everything we can do to be with israel our heart is in israel we're our israel

00:36:43.880 citizens we came just for two years to live in toronto oh yes and all my family is in the army now and

00:36:51.640 all our thoughts is only there and we feel everybody the whole world should know that everybody

00:36:58.360 is should be with israel the fact that we all need to come together you know the unity of the jews all

00:37:03.720 in one is super important especially during this time you know i have a lot of family and friends

00:37:08.600 currently deployed uh fearing for their lives you know so just there's nothing louder one voice

00:37:14.280 alone is one thing but multiple voices together makes a louder roar so it's important to all be

00:37:19.160 together at this time for sure jewish people around the world are shocked and horrified by what i saw

00:37:24.040 on the camera history teaches us over and over again the unity amongst the jewish people is what

00:37:29.240 will keep us strong and what will help am israel and that's what brought me out here today because

00:37:33.480 when we're united in prayer and we show solidarity obviously nothing can can conquer us in that route

00:37:40.200 and the jewish people in israel need to know that the diaspora jews are with them they're in our thoughts

00:37:46.040 and our prayers and then we wanted them to know that and see that in not only in thought but in action

00:37:51.000 guys i couldn't help but notice your flag it's uh you must be persian i take it sir and um what makes

00:37:57.800 you come out to this demonstration i guess you must have some insight in terms of it is iran that is

00:38:04.120 funding hamas iran is the i just want to correct you islamic regime in iran not the iranians uh to give

00:38:10.280 you some context throughout through history from 2500 years ago today from cyrus the great onwards throughout

00:38:16.360 history iranians have always been supporters of jews across the world uh what we have right now in the

00:38:21.480 last 40 and some years that happened after the iranian revolution with the islamic regime coming

00:38:25.720 to iran they're funding the hamas the funding hezbollah of lebanon that doesn't mean that iranians

00:38:31.560 are against israel or against jews uh we are here today to just show our support as iranians to the

00:38:36.440 jewish community to the to the israelis across the world uh and just tell them that know that iranians

00:38:41.960 love you will care about you it's unfortunate our government who's funding the terrorism that's

00:38:46.680 happening across the world this is anti-semitism at its finest people this is all that it's about

00:38:53.080 they hate the jews and there's no other reason for this okay do we understand that they hate the jews

00:38:59.960 they've made it clear they don't want us there okay and this is not justifiable resistance we don't

00:39:05.880 celebrate when palestinians die we don't celebrate when innocent women and kids are dying okay this 1.00

00:39:13.880 is war this is no reason to celebrate right now this is not justifiable resistance okay this is no way

00:39:21.960 in shape or form justifiable resistance you don't take women and kids that are innocent civilians and 0.93

00:39:29.560 rape them on the street well i think it's disgusting that uh that they would even have the audacity 0.64

00:39:35.560 to show their face after what hamas and the rest of those people did i mean it's just 0.96

00:39:42.280 just makes me sick what it is robert krychik here in ottawa ontario reporting for rebel news

00:39:48.520 here on parliament hill at the we stand with israel peace rally we got to speak with a bunch of

00:39:54.760 demonstrators rally goers ask them why they're here what's on their minds their rationale for participating

00:40:00.840 here and before we show you that we want you folks to go to canada stands with israel.com check

00:40:09.320 out our petition and sign it if you wish to do so it's a statement of support that we will then provide

00:40:15.240 to the israeli embassy in canada here in ottawa the saturday before last hamas terrorists entered israel

00:40:22.920 broke through the security barrier and fence and murdered something like 700 to a thousand people those

00:40:29.480 numbers are still being determined and since then there's been an onset of retaliation from the idf

00:40:37.800 into gaza and as these events unfold we're going to see a lot more demonstrations across large cities

00:40:43.400 in canada and the broader west for example earlier today just hours ago there was a demonstration right

00:40:49.160 here on parliament hill with a march as well that we can call for lack of better term a pro-palestine

00:40:56.600 rally sort of a tale of two cities as it were here in ottawa ontario why don't you tell us why you're

00:41:02.280 here today what's the purpose of this demonstration and your motivation for participating well you know

00:41:06.840 in difficult times like these it's important that we come together as a people to strengthen each other

00:41:13.880 when one part of the body is hurting we need to strengthen our immune system and so we come here we

00:41:19.880 unite and we know that we will come out strong it's we're going through a difficult time and

00:41:25.000 challenging times but it's important for us to come together to combat this hate and to combat it with

00:41:32.360 love and light and goodness and that's why we come together and what i see in the facebook and all other

00:41:40.840 these type of platforms i don't like that some people in this world are supporting hamas and supporting 0.69

00:41:50.600 this barbaric attack this cannot be done anywhere in the planet and this has to be the our israel's acts 0.98

00:42:02.680 now to defend itself and to bring peace to this area eventually is something that the whole world

00:42:09.080 eventually will enjoy i want to show that there are people in outside of israel in canada who do

00:42:16.520 support um who do support the fight against terrorism within um within israel um and i just want to

00:42:24.520 you know i want to help people feel like they're not alone in this the hamas seems to stand for the

00:42:32.440 destruction of the jewish state it seems to stand for um the murder of jewish people and to me those two 0.99

00:42:41.560 are uh like non-negotiable yeah that's one in the same if you stand by hamas then you stand by the

00:42:48.520 holocaust you stand by the murder of the jewish people that's our show for today on behalf of all 0.99

00:43:00.280 of us at rebel world headquarters here in ottawa and around the world until tomorrow good night

00:43:05.960 and keep fighting for freedom

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Rebel News Podcast - December 05, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Ezra Levant breaks down Rebel's Canadian pro-Israel coverage

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