Why is a convicted terrorist teaching at Carleton University, teaching at a university funded by the Jews? Ezra LeVant explains why, and why only a terrorist could teach at one of Canada s most prestigious universities.
00:21:38.680Sure, the name Azraeli and Loeb are on the buildings, but those are people who were in their 70s, 80s, or passed away already.
00:21:48.260I'm not sure which generation of the Loeb's and the Azraeli's helped build Carleton.
00:21:52.900Their name's on the wall, but Hassan Diab is in the classroom's teaching.
00:21:56.800And I don't think either of the two people I've talked to today are actually students of the convicted terrorist, but they are advocates for him.
00:22:05.300I don't know if they're particularly good advocates.
00:22:07.600I don't know if they know how to engage with people who disagree with them.
00:22:11.420I read the course outline for Hassan Diab's class, and it talked about not necessarily agreeing with each other and having a respectful debate.
00:22:20.660It's sort of odd coming from a convicted bomber, but the two people who have come up to me, and I'm not sure exactly if they're students, because they seem older.
00:22:30.860And I mean, these days, there's people in their 20s and 30s, sort of failure to launch students for life.
00:22:37.140So I don't know if they were students or if they were teacher's assistants or something else, but I don't think they did a very good job at disagreeing with me.
00:22:44.360Hopefully, if someone feels passionate about this issue, they will come up to me and engage in debates.
00:22:52.900And maybe they don't have all the facts at their fingertips, too.
00:22:55.500I mean, I haven't read in detail the French language ruling by the French court.
00:23:00.720But what I've seen today, just in my half hour on campus, tells me that our universities really are hothouses for extremists.
00:23:09.740And I'm not going to say that either of these two guys were particularly violent.
00:23:13.700Both of them did swear at me, which suggests they didn't have other words at their disposal.
00:23:18.320And that second guy sort of physically bumped up against me, which, I mean, didn't hurt me or anything, and I'm not going to call police or sue them or anything.
00:23:26.780But it just, like, if you disagree with someone so much, maybe you have a swearing outburst at first.
00:29:47.200Give me an example of how that's happened at Carleton.
00:29:49.440There was this student group, like Independent Jewish Voices, who organized an exhibition about scholasticide that was supposed to take place at the library.
00:30:03.220This was shut down by Carleton University.
00:35:56.040So, first of all, I want to say that I am from Russia, and we, together with family, moved here to Canada,
00:36:02.420because in Russia, let's say, bad things are happening, the war is started, and the similar cases are there.
00:36:10.480There are people like Ramzan Kadyrov, like Delimkhanov, if you know such names.
00:36:15.560So, these people are used to, I can't say, used to be, because they are terrorists, like there is Ramzan Kadyrov claimed that he killed the first Russian when he was 16,
00:36:26.780and now he is basically warlord of Chechnya, and Delimkhanov is also a terrorist, and he is a lawmaker in our parliament.
00:36:37.300It is called Государственная дума, but it is like a parliament here, and we moved together to Canada, because we thought there would be law in order in this country.
00:36:47.720We thought that criminals actually serve punishment here, and crime is prosecuted.
00:36:54.340However, what I witnessed here is not really different from Putin's Russia, and I was very upset when I discovered that things like this are happening in our country,
00:37:07.300country, I mean in Canada, and I really want this to stop, actually.
00:37:14.380As far as I understand, there was a judicial decision made in France, claiming that this man actually committed this terror attack.
00:37:23.300But no judicial decisions have been made in Canada, claiming that he is innocent, and he does not seek political asylum.
00:37:30.860So, as far as I understand, there should be no legal borders to basically send him back to France, where he will serve like the punishment he deserves.
00:37:43.500At this moment, I understand that any judicial decision can be wrong, and there is, I can lead a small chance that judicial decision of French court is wrong.
00:37:56.340However, there are no decisions that take precedence over the decision of French court, so I really believe that this man should be deported back to France and serve life sentence in prison.
00:38:10.920Well, you seem very well informed on this subject, and I appreciate you coming over to me, because two other students were very hostile, but they didn't really want to engage.
00:38:21.800So, thank you very much for coming over. What field do you study in?
00:38:56.620Well, campus security was called. I'm not sure who called them. There's a lot of people in windows looking down at us.
00:39:03.260There were a couple of people who swore at me and then ran, and I ran with them.
00:39:06.640There was a couple of professors who gave me a piece of their mind. I think it was the guy who swore and then was sort of nervous about himself and called campus security.
00:39:17.660Campus security was great, by the way. They said that the one main complaint they had was that we're not parked in a proper parking area.
00:39:27.700They said they don't actually object to the truck, and I appreciate how reasonable they were.
00:39:31.740So, I told them that we had come here to display the truck, talk to people, and we had pretty much accomplished our goal, and I didn't want to turn this into a huge matter.
00:39:40.700I actually respect these campus security. They were very – I think they were actually more tolerant of a diversity of views than the other people we spoke with, which is – isn't that interesting?
00:39:50.960I don't know if the campus security folks themselves are college educated, but it seems that they have more of an open mind and more of a tolerance for diversity of opinion than the actual students here,
00:40:04.800although we did talk to that one Russian guy who didn't have any time for Hassan Diab.
00:40:09.960You know, one thing I heard, and it's obviously a line that has been circulated on campus, is that Hassan Diab's conviction was illegal, was controversial, was inappropriate, in some cases was false.
00:40:25.220That one professor who spoke with me at length actually took different positions. He said he wasn't convicted, and then when I said, well, actually he was, he said, well, the information upon which he was convicted was shoddy,
00:40:37.420and he claimed that there was a Canadian trial of some sort, which there has not been. The only people prosecuting and convicting Diab was French.
00:40:46.040Now, I will confess, I did not read the entire conviction in French. I suppose I could get it translated, but I do know it's an incontrovertible fact that he was convicted of terrorism.
00:40:58.220It's true, it was in absentia, but the fact that he resists going to the trial and refuses to go and to file an appeal and has found a luxurious home here at Carleton, I think is odious.
00:41:10.080And when I asked the professor the state of anti-Semitism on campus, he denies it exists at all. He wouldn't really let me pin him down on Hamas.
00:41:21.180And he said, in fact, the only discrimination on campus is against pro-Palestinian voices. I'm not sure if I believe that.
00:41:27.480But I tell you one thing, the truck has again proven its worth. This truck is a conversation starter.
00:41:34.040And the reason we got this conversation started with a truck is because, as you know, we've been renting billboard trucks at Rebel News for years.
00:41:43.400But after the October 7th terrorist attack by Hamas against Israel, when we sought to rent the truck to do this kind of messaging,
00:41:51.160the truck company said, Ezra, we like you, we like Rebel News, we actually agree with you, but we're afraid.
00:41:56.760We're afraid that people will harm the truck, harm the driver, harm the company. For our own safety, we don't feel confident in Canada with this kind of messaging.
00:42:08.000So we actually bought our own truck so we can't be censored. And look at the kind of conversations they're starting.
00:42:15.400I love this truck. We'll continue to drive it. We'll continue to spark conversations.
00:42:20.660I'm not sure how much I learned today from the critics. I think I'm going to look into a little bit more the extradition legalities.
00:42:30.260I think that professor was wrong in a number of ways, but I'm going to check it out. I have an open enough mind to do that.
00:42:35.980What I really learned today is that Canadian leftists and Canadian students are so woke and so hostile to ideas that they don't agree with,
00:42:46.960but they don't know how to deal with them. I mean, seriously, running by me, coming up to me while I'm doing an interview or doing a commentary,
00:42:55.600swearing at me and then running away. That's their style. Like two guys, and they were old stock Canadians.
00:43:04.060That's sort of pitiful. Like these are the thought leaders of Canada in the future.
00:43:09.800This is our future leaders who they don't know how to marshal their words. And I don't think I was that rude to them.
00:43:16.300I mean, I, I said, you're ashamed and you're a coward. Those, I was just sort of poking them a bit, hoping they would say, no, I'm not.
00:43:22.680Here's my name. But it is sort of weird that you, you go to an elite university.
00:43:27.480I don't know if anyone calls Carlton elite, but let's give them the benefit of the doubt.
00:43:31.640You go to a university, you study, you're in the world of ideas and you encounter an idea you don't like.
00:43:37.420And the only thing you can come up with is a swear.
00:43:40.040But I will say to that one guy in the bike room, if I ever come across the founder of Rebel News,
00:43:46.500I'll give him a piece of my mind. In Carlton University at Ottawa, I'm Ezra LeVant.
00:43:52.140Well, maybe you watched our kerfuffle on Sunday when a whole team of rebels, I think there were more
00:44:05.260than a dozen of us, in support of David, to a weekly rally, a pro-Israel, pro-Canada rally,
00:44:13.760and a counter-protest by pro-Hamas Palestinian activists.
00:44:18.640The reason we went is not that the event itself was particularly newsworthy,
00:44:22.420but rather that David Menzies was arrested by police for simply asking questions of the pro-Hamas side.
00:44:30.480So a whole bunch of us put on little Panama hats. They were too little.
00:44:34.800I think they were for kids or something. And we went there in solidarity with David.
00:44:38.780And wouldn't you know it, the police did not arrest us this time because they saw we were serious
00:44:43.880and we were there in numbers. And they realized the path of least resistance,
00:44:47.480which normally is arrest David, was no longer the easiest path.
00:44:52.860But an unfortunate thing happened, and I think it's emblematic of this whole thing,
00:44:58.760is that one of our reporters, our star from Montreal, Quebec, Alexa Lavoie,
00:45:03.460who had come in to show solidarity with David,
00:45:06.860she was hit by a pro-Hamas activist with a flagpole.
00:45:12.340We caught it on tape from two different perspectives,
00:45:15.720and yet the policeman refused to lay charges until we made a fuss.
00:45:21.720Here's a quick recap of what happened.
00:49:54.060Well, I'm going to do my best to to stand with you and David and any of our staff who are attacked either, God forbid, by police or by street activists like this guy.
00:50:28.060Have illegal crossings increased since Trump's victory?
00:50:32.060Are we prepared for what might be coming?
00:50:36.060What is the current situation at the border?
00:50:39.060These are the questions my colleague Lincoln Jay and I will be working to answer in the coming days.
00:50:47.060I'm currently in Plattsburgh, New York, investigating illegal crossings.
00:50:52.060But yesterday, we conducted an extensive overview on the Canadian side in Quebec, which is a hot spot for people to illegally jump the border.
00:51:03.060With over 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S., Trump's promises of massive deportations and Canada's already struggling immigration system.
00:52:19.060Some people, you know, will try and hide.
00:52:23.060But what we've seen before is that when Donald Trump was first elected, tens of thousands of people just decided to walk across the border into Canada.
00:53:30.060There is some RCMP who are patrolling around.
00:53:35.060But as me and Lincoln Jay, we saw, it's multiple, multiple roads end up in the end of the street where there is a little fence stopping maybe a car to cross over, but not a human being.
00:53:54.060There is only a small, they dig a ditch with a little bit of water that separate the USA and Canada just for, I think it's a prevention for the car to not drive straight into the US.
00:54:09.060So what we saw is there is not enough RCMP on the ground to cover the, I think it's thousands of kilometers of unprotected border.
00:54:23.060There is camera around, but like the time, like just an example, me and Lincoln Jay, we went to one of this end of street during the night.
00:54:32.060And I did count how many times it took for the RCMP to reach out to us.
00:54:44.060And we stayed at this place for about 30 minutes.
00:54:50.060And afterwards we started driving up until that we finally got pulled over to be, for being questioned.
00:55:01.060And they, they say to us that they open a criminal investigation because we were over there.
00:55:05.060But if the person did speed or hide his car, close the lights, how the RCMP will have been able to catch them because there is no camera along the main road.
00:55:22.060So my point is, if they took about 30 to 40 minutes to find us, this, this is just a long reaction for, for many, many people who are coming in with coyote or humans trafficking.
00:55:41.060They are letting them buy car, they walk over the land.
00:55:46.060And after that, someone else is pick, pick up, pick them up on the American side.
00:55:52.060So, um, I found a lot of people advertising, uh, those illegal crossing.
00:56:14.060Well, I hope you do your reports in English, but also in French, because of course, Roxham Road is the border between New York and between Quebec.
00:56:23.060And I think of all the premiers, the Quebec premier has been the most vocal with his concerns about immigration.
00:56:30.060He's concerned about legal immigration too.
00:56:33.060He's talked about temporary foreign workers and students.
00:56:36.060But of course, illegal immigrants are even less, uh, desirable because many of them have a criminal record, which is why they were refused, um, permission to stay in the United States.
00:56:48.060Here's, here's something that's been on my mind.
00:56:50.060In my mind, a couple of months ago, there was a lot of stories out of Springfield, Ohio, which had a huge influx of Haitians and Haitians have had temporary rights to stay in America because the country of Haiti is basically in the civil war, to be honest.
00:57:06.060But if that permission is removed, you will have tens of thousands, maybe over a hundred thousand Haitians who will have to leave.
00:57:15.060And I'm, uh, Haiti, I actually have been there.
00:58:12.060And you are talking about putting 150 single men asylum claimants in one big sprung shelters in the middle of a community where children is everywhere.
00:58:45.060I say, okay, if we put that in the theory that I'm actually, um, a human trafficker and behind me, there is immigrant that I'm actually driving around.
00:58:58.060What would be the next step if you caught me?
00:59:01.060And they say, okay, but we will, uh, lay some criminal charges against, uh, the driver for facilitating the, uh, entry into the country.
00:59:25.060You know, there is no such thing as a refugee from America.
00:59:30.060America is a safe country with the rule of law.
00:59:33.060And it's a, it's a, you know, you may disagree with this policy or that policy, but no one is in danger in America.
00:59:42.060And the idea that we would even consider a refugee application is doesn't make sense.
00:59:48.060Frankly, the idea of a safe third party agreement we have with America says you can't be a refugee from Canada to America.
00:59:55.060You can't be a refugee from America to Canada, but the countries don't seem to be enforcing this.
01:00:00.060And now Alexa, I'm really glad you're down there.
01:00:02.060How long are you going to be on this project?
01:00:04.060How long do you plan to stay in New York?
01:00:06.060So I think we are going to stay overnight because there is another area where there were a lot of crossing happening.
01:00:18.060So we want to investigate on that side.
01:00:20.060Also, I tried to reach out to the main spokesperson for the sheriff department.
01:00:27.060So we, we wish we will have like a call back because they are allowed and they, they, they need to talk.
01:00:37.060So they did the whole and their duty is actually deliver the information to the public.
01:00:44.060And I would say, if we want as Canadians to have more information about what is going on at the border, the transparency is more mainly in the U.S. side.