Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ The Anti-Defamation League weaponizes anti-Semitism to attack Elon Musk

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I am sweltering in the Sea of Galilee. It's 37, 38 degrees Celsius here,

00:00:05.940 but I got a story for you from North America. I want to talk to you about the Anti-Defamation

00:00:09.920 League, which is allegedly an anti-antisemitism group, but I put it to you that they are actually

00:00:16.160 a leading cause of antisemitism. I'll make my case. But first, let me invite you to go to

00:00:21.940 rebelnewsplus.com. That's where you can get the video version of this podcast. I'd like you to

00:00:27.720 do that because we show you so many things. We don't just tell it to you. Rebel News Plus gives

00:00:32.720 you the video version. It's just eight bucks a month. Go to rebelnewsplus.com. All right, here's

00:00:37.900 today's podcast. Tonight, the Anti-Defamation League weaponizes antisemitism

00:00:57.700 to attack Elon Musk. It's September 7th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:02.700 You're ready for freedom. Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:09.000 Hi, everybody. As you can see, I am in Israel. It is 37 degrees Celsius, but I'm wearing long

00:01:23.440 pants because we are here in Capernaum, and there are some churches where you have to dress

00:01:27.940 modestly. No shorts, really short sleeves, no tank tops. I mean, no shorts. We're here because Rebel

00:01:35.140 News is on a week-long journalist's mission in Israel, and then three days in the United Arab

00:01:40.980 Emirates. We're going to investigate the Abraham Accords, the peace treaty between Israel and some

00:01:46.940 of its Arab neighbors. So we're touring around, not just me, Sheila Gunn-Reed, Abiy Amini, David Menzies,

00:01:52.220 and a couple of other rebels, but our most enthusiastic guests. So today, we're here in

00:01:58.180 the Galilee, and we had a little bit of fun on the Sea of Galilee. Here's just some images of that.

00:02:04.560 We did a little bit of a Hava Nagila dance. We raised the Canadian flag on the boat. It was a hoot.

00:02:10.220 Getting to know some rebels from mainly Canada, but there's some Brits and some Australians and some

00:02:15.740 Americans. It's a great group of people, and you're welcome to come on all our rebel events.

00:02:20.660 But today, I want to get down to a subject that has nothing to do with our trip here. Well,

00:02:26.300 except in one way, maybe. I want to talk about how something called the Anti-Defamation League,

00:02:31.740 the ADL, has taken the real issue of anti-Semitism or hating Jews and has weaponized it and deployed it

00:02:40.840 for partisan purposes. The ADL has been around for a long time, and it was an explicitly anti-anti-Semitic

00:02:49.200 organization. By that, I mean its purpose was to fight back against anti-Semitism. They called it

00:02:55.700 the Anti-Defamation League because their theory was people were defaming Jews, and they wanted to set

00:03:01.360 the record straight, tell the truth, and fight back against the biggest. I think it was a noble mission,

00:03:07.160 sort of like the NAACP or other black organizations, trying to defend against anti-black racism.

00:03:14.200 But just like the black civil rights movement has had tremendous success, so too has the anti-anti-Semitism

00:03:21.320 movement. There is really trivial traces of anti-Semitism left in American life, in Canadian

00:03:28.680 life, in most of Western Europe. It's simply not acceptable to be anti-Semitism. I'm not to be

00:03:34.060 anti-Semitic. I'm not saying there's none, but it is so minor, it cannot be called systemic anymore.

00:03:40.020 I'd say the same thing about being black. I mean, the United States has had a black president and then

00:03:45.080 re-elected him. In Canada, we never had slavery, other than a few traces of slavery, usually

00:03:51.120 indigenous tribes having other indigenous slaves. So Canada, I mean, many of its largest cities like 0.95

00:03:58.620 Toronto and Vancouver are majority minority cities. My point is that many of the civil rights crusades of

00:04:05.120 the 60s have succeeded. But instead of wrapping up and saying, all right, we declared victory, now let's

00:04:11.060 go back to a normal life. They've perpetuated themselves for a couple of reasons. Number one,

00:04:16.400 it's good business to be in the anti-anti-Semitism, the anti-bigotry business. You get lots of sympathy

00:04:22.160 in the media. You've got lots of attention. You get government grants. It's great for fundraising.

00:04:26.560 But more importantly, even than the industry itself, is weaponizing the charge of anti-Semitism or

00:04:34.900 anti-blackism or transphobia or misogyny or whatever it is, weaponizing that and deploying it against

00:04:41.600 your political enemies. And that is what the ADL has done. The ADL was already liberal and anti-conservative

00:04:49.860 and frankly, a little bit anti-Christian to begin with. Then a few years ago, it hired as its CEO

00:04:55.080 a personal assistant to Barack Obama. You can see them here bantering in the White House.

00:05:02.240 His name is Greenblatt and he is the CEO. But I would say he's not really working for the ADL. I think

00:05:10.680 he is really an embedded Democratic Party activist. And just like Barack Obama liked to weaponize racism

00:05:19.080 and the charge of racism against conservatives, Greenblatt weaponizes the charge of anti-Semitism

00:05:24.800 against conservatives. They're quite silent when it's anti-Semitic bigotry coming from

00:05:31.800 Islamic sources. We see that in Canada too. The so-called Canadian anti-hate network only looks for

00:05:39.380 hate on the right. It never looks for hate on the left, which is where most anti-Semitism is these days.

00:05:45.300 University campuses, woke policies, and amongst Muslim communities. I'm not saying that all Muslims 0.99

00:05:52.080 are anti-Semitic. Of course not. But I'm saying that most of the anti-Semitic rhetoric you find

00:05:57.080 in Western Europe, in Canada, the United States, is not from Christians. It's from people who have

00:06:03.460 imported the anti-Semitism here from countries that are explicitly anti-Semitic. But it's difficult

00:06:11.880 for liberals to accuse someone of anti-Semitism if they are immigrants, if they are Muslims.

00:06:19.100 So the ADL does not blow the whistle on actual anti-Semitism, just like the Canadian anti-hate

00:06:25.400 network doesn't blow the whistle on actual bigotry. Rather, what they do is they accuse

00:06:30.900 the enemies of the party of being anti-Semitic. And that does two things. First of all,

00:06:36.160 it's a false accusation. But second of all, people see it's a false accusation,

00:06:42.180 and they start to devalue the word anti-Semitic to begin with. What I mean by that is if everyone

00:06:47.700 can see that an accusation of anti-Semitism is false, they become angry about it, and they say,

00:06:54.340 you're just using anti-Semitism as a trick, as a weapon. You've discredited it. It's like the boy who 0.93

00:07:01.500 cried, Walt, no one believes you anymore. In fact, they're rather resentful. And they say, oh, the Jews 1.00

00:07:07.020 are just using that label to delegitimize their political opponents. It's actually the worst of

00:07:13.120 all things. I believe that the anti-defamation leak actually creates more anti-Semitism than it

00:07:20.100 fixes. I believe that. And here's the example I use. Elon Musk, who paid $44 billion to buy Twitter,

00:07:29.180 has been falsely accused of promoting anti-Semitism and other bigotry on Twitter.

00:07:35.800 Now, here's someone, I believe it was from, I can't remember, Channel 4 of the BBC,

00:07:40.900 asking Elon Musk about it and saying, I've seen a lot more bigotry on Twitter. And look at Elon Musk

00:07:49.680 saying, give me an example, give me an example, give me an example. And it's clear that the journalist,

00:07:55.160 why? Do you remember this? This was from a few months ago.

00:07:57.560 Content you don't like or hateful. What do you mean to describe a hateful thing?

00:08:02.340 Yeah. I mean, you know, just content that will solicit a reaction, something that may include

00:08:08.900 something that is slightly racist or slightly sexist, those kinds of things.

00:08:13.420 So you think if something is slightly sexist, it should be banned?

00:08:17.060 No.

00:08:17.580 Is that what you're saying?

00:08:18.120 I'm not saying anything.

00:08:19.240 I'm saying...

00:08:19.680 Well, I'm just curious. I'm trying to say what you mean by hateful content. And I'm asking

00:08:23.540 for specific examples. And you just said that if something is slightly sexist, that's hateful

00:08:31.700 content. Does that mean that it should be banned?

00:08:33.920 Well, you've asked me whether my feed, whether it's got less or more. I'd say it's got slightly

00:08:39.800 more.

00:08:40.220 That's what I'm asking for examples. Can you name one example?

00:08:43.460 I honestly don't...

00:08:44.500 Honestly, I don't...

00:08:45.540 You can't name a single example.

00:08:46.880 I'll tell you why. Because I don't actually use that for you feed anymore. Because I just

00:08:50.460 don't particularly like it. And actually, a lot of people are quite similar. I only look

00:08:54.720 at my followers.

00:08:55.220 Well, hang on a second. You said you've seen more hateful content, but you can't name a

00:08:57.960 single example. Not even one.

00:09:00.240 I'm not sure I've used that feed for the last three or four weeks.

00:09:03.680 Well, then how did you see that hateful content?

00:09:05.920 Because I've been using Twitter since you've taken it over for the last six months.

00:09:09.540 Okay. So then you must have at some point seen for you hateful content. And I'm asking

00:09:13.120 for one example.

00:09:14.060 Right.

00:09:14.480 And you can't give a single one.

00:09:15.460 And I'm saying...

00:09:16.460 Then I say so that you don't know what you're talking about.

00:09:19.540 Really?

00:09:19.820 Yes. Because you can't give a single example of hateful content, not even one tweet. And

00:09:25.500 yet you claimed that the hateful content was high.

00:09:27.940 Well...

00:09:28.500 That's a false.

00:09:29.940 No. What I claim...

00:09:30.700 You just lied.

00:09:31.440 No. What I claim was there are many organizations that say that that kind of information is on

00:09:38.240 the rise. Now, whether it has on my feed or not...

00:09:40.400 Give me one example.

00:09:41.600 I mean...

00:09:42.160 Literally can't name one.

00:09:43.060 Something like the Strategic Dialogue Institute here in the UK. They will say that. So...

00:09:48.740 Look, people will say all sorts of nonsense. I'm literally asking for a single example and

00:09:52.980 you can't name one.

00:09:53.660 Right. And as I've already said, I don't use that feed.

00:09:56.280 But let's...

00:09:56.780 Then how would you know?

00:09:57.280 I don't think this is getting anywhere.

00:09:58.460 You literally said you experienced more hateful content and then couldn't name a single example.

00:10:03.200 Right. And as I said...

00:10:04.000 That's absurd.

00:10:04.840 I haven't... I haven't actually looked at that feed.

00:10:07.400 Then how would you know there's hateful content?

00:10:08.980 Because I'm saying that's what I saw a few weeks ago. I can't give you an exact example.

00:10:13.260 Let's move on. We have... We only have a certain amount of time.

00:10:15.860 So that journalist hadn't actually seen anything bigoted. Had not. Couldn't come up with an example.

00:10:24.160 And then through to some study years ago before Elon Musk even bought Twitter, you can see it was

00:10:30.440 an attack on Elon Musk that was baseless, that was weaponizing the accusation of bigotry just for

00:10:37.800 a partisan attack. And that has happened not just from the media, but from these so-called anti-hate

00:10:44.520 groups. And here's Elon Musk in recent days saying that the ADL in particular has been

00:10:50.840 threatening advertisers, has been putting on a boycott of advertisers who would advertise on

00:10:56.240 the Twitter platform, and that has caused Twitter ad sales to fall pretty much in half.

00:11:02.080 Here's Elon Musk saying that the advertisers themselves are blaming the ADL for the reason

00:11:09.520 they're breaking their contracts, not renewing their contracts. It's basically they have been

00:11:14.260 threatened. Now watch this. Here's a clip from the mainstream media where a liberal journalist

00:11:20.040 actually asks the head of the ADL, did you try to shake down Elon Musk and Twitter? Here, I'll let

00:11:28.640 you see the exact wording, but my point is there's a move on the left. Al Sharpton perfected it probably

00:11:34.300 20 years ago. Jesse Jackson perfected it. They would accuse big companies of anti-Black racism,

00:11:40.760 and then they would offer themselves up as a solution. They would say, your company is deeply

00:11:45.900 racist. Your company is deeply anti-Black. But for just a quarter million dollars, we'll come into your

00:11:52.020 office and have an anti-racism training session, and we will give you a bill of good health. So we're

00:11:57.900 about to make an accusation against you, so you had better pay us. That's actually one of the things

00:12:02.880 that sent Michael Avenatti to prison. He was trying to shake down Nike in that way. Take a look at the head of

00:12:09.580 the ADL being asked, did you try to shake down Elon Musk? Take a look. Brands are big boys and girls.

00:12:18.780 They will make their own decisions. I mean, let's be clear here. Like, this is the wealthiest man in

00:12:26.100 the world running one of the most powerful media platforms on the planet. We're a non-profit here in

00:12:34.120 New York. So I think figuring out, like, who has the power in this relationship, it's pretty clear

00:12:39.880 to me. Fundamentally believe that Elon Musk is anti-Semitic? I have never said Elon Musk is

00:12:45.320 anti-Semitic. I've been on this show and said that I didn't think it was anti-Semitic. And I don't

00:12:50.380 think Twitter as a platform is anti-Semitic. And as we've said here, hate speech is the price of free

00:12:55.320 speech. But let's acknowledge that when Elon Musk and the platform bring people, hardened anti-Semites

00:13:04.520 back on, when they validate their rantings, when they algorithmically amplify them and allow it to

00:13:11.040 spread. How out there are you publicly and behind the scenes talking to advertisers and telling them

00:13:18.420 do not advertise on this platform? Are you doing that? We are not out there publicly or privately

00:13:24.940 talking to advertisers. Frankly, it's true. We did call for a pause back in November after the

00:13:32.080 acquisition. And then since then, since that initial statement, what we are doing is engaging with the

00:13:39.240 management of the company, trying to help them make it better. A question? Because I know this has

00:13:43.260 been a critique of your organization and of many. Were you seeking to have some kind of either role

00:13:49.640 at Twitter or any kind of donations made or other things? No. I only say that because there have been

00:13:55.200 folks who've looked at these situations and felt that they were being shaken down.

00:13:59.620 Look, I think, let me be honest about that, right? I think it is sort of anti-Semitic trope to suggest

00:14:05.720 when Jewish people express a degree of outrage over anti-Semitism, that somehow that's a shakedown

00:14:12.200 because Jews are greedy. That sounds to me, I'm not saying you believe that. I'm just saying 0.94

00:14:18.740 that that is the, occasionally you hear the critique among not-for-profits in certain cases

00:14:24.680 that are involved in certain causes that talk to companies and they, you hear it from leaders who

00:14:30.380 say, I feel like I'm. I hear that. So what we've tried to do over the years with Twitter, with YouTube,

00:14:36.180 with Facebook and all of its platforms, with Reddit, with Discord, I could go on and on,

00:14:41.260 is to work with them to make those platforms better. You'll notice that not only does he

00:14:45.260 not deny it, he lashes out at the Jewish reporter saying, oh, that's just an anti-Semitic trope.

00:14:51.300 It's not anti-Semitic to ask if you've been shaking down a guy, especially if the answer is, 0.99

00:14:56.840 yes, you have been. And here's Elon Musk confirming that the ADL actually asked for cash. So Elon Musk,

00:15:05.080 who has one of the largest followings on Twitter, no surprise, started to criticize the ADL for their

00:15:12.060 censorship tactics. And the ADL lashed back with this bizarre statement, accusing them of every sort

00:15:19.960 of racism, accusing Elon Musk of promoting neo-Nazis. It's the worst guilt by association

00:15:26.100 you ever did see. But then look at this. The ADL turned the whole thing into a fundraising campaign.

00:15:34.320 Not only did they lash out at Elon Musk and other Twitter personalities on the right, but then they

00:15:40.720 said, hey, Jewish donors, we're under attack by these anti-Semites. Better give us some cash.

00:15:47.880 So false accusations, an attempt to shake down Elon Musk for donations to make the problem go away,

00:15:54.020 Elon Musk reporting that this kind of shakedown is actually affecting his advertising,

00:15:59.120 and then playing to type and literally fundraising off the hoax and the hype. That's the ADL.

00:16:06.580 The ADL is saying that Twitter's an anti-Semitic place and saying that Elon Musk himself is anti-Semitic.

00:16:12.620 I simply don't believe that. I think not only is he tolerant in general, but he's never shown any

00:16:18.920 evidence of being anti-Semitic. Simply retweeting questions about the ADL is not anti-Semitism.

00:16:24.980 It reminds me of how people try to stop any conversation about George Soros, saying to

00:16:31.220 criticize George Soros is, by definition, to be anti-Semitic. To criticize globalist

00:16:37.500 schemers is, by definition, anti-Semitic, which is to imply that if you're a global schemer,

00:16:43.240 you're a Jew. I think it's that that's anti-Semitic. And it reminds me of Anthony Fauci saying to

00:16:49.640 criticize me is to criticize science. No, it's not. And you don't get to exempt yourself from any

00:16:55.900 public debate just by blowing your hate crime whistle. That's what's so fascinating about Elon

00:17:01.440 Musk, is he's so big that maybe he can survive the kind of cancel culture tactics that no one else has

00:17:09.240 been able to. He says he's going to sue the ADL, and they call it a frivolous lawsuit. Well, maybe it

00:17:15.260 is, or maybe it's not. Let me remind you, a few years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is

00:17:21.720 the same sort of shakedown company as the ADL, they made accusations against an interesting fellow in

00:17:27.960 London, accusing him of being an Islamic extremist. Majid Nawaz is his name, and he used to be an Islamic

00:17:36.540 radical, but then he had an epiphany, and he's become sort of an ultra-moderate, progressive,

00:17:42.180 peaceful, intellectual thinker. I actually follow him and find him quite fascinating. They said that

00:17:47.900 Majid Nawaz was an extremist. He sued them, and look at this stunning and groveling apology,

00:17:55.740 plus a multi-million dollar payment that the Southern Poverty Law Center published. So maybe it's a

00:18:03.620 frivolous lawsuit, or maybe there's internal communications in the ADL that make it clear that

00:18:10.060 they know Elon Musk is not anti-Semitic, but it's good business to say that he is, because they'll 0.99

00:18:15.460 have that fundraising letter. That's the thing about defamation suits, is you get access to internal

00:18:20.300 records. Do you doubt that the ADL, like the SPLC, like the Canadian Anti-Aid Network, do you doubt

00:18:28.340 that they have fundraising meetings when they talk about how lucrative it would be to accuse this person

00:18:33.340 or that person of anti-Semitism or anti-Black bigotry? So the ADL has forced itself into the

00:18:39.940 limelight, and then now they're complaining that they're in the limelight, and that it's just

00:18:43.540 anti-Semitism. I'm on Team Elon Musk on this one, not just because I can see it's a false smear,

00:18:49.400 but because I hate the fact that Judaism, that the Jewish religion, is being rented out by the ADL for

00:18:57.740 their own profit and to smear enemies of the Democratic Party. Elon Musk is an enemy of the

00:19:03.900 Democrats and the deep state insofar as he's against their cancel culture style. He voted Democrat in the

00:19:10.940 past. I wouldn't say he's particularly Republican. I would just say he's a free speech absolutist,

00:19:16.000 and that absolutely outrages the ADL who wants to censor anyone on the right by calling them bigots.

00:19:23.180 For example, they said that it was doubtless that Tucker Carlson himself was anti-Semitic. I've never

00:19:29.880 heard anything more absurd. I don't know anyone more philo-Semitic than Tucker Carlson. The ADL is

00:19:36.220 simply an opposition war room for the Democrats, the same way their laughable counterpart in Canada,

00:19:44.600 the anti-hate network, is basically a mouthpiece for Justin Trudeau and takes cash, as you know,

00:19:49.520 directly from Trudeau. So those are some of my thoughts here. I'm sweltering in the desert heat

00:19:54.980 here at the Sea of Galilee. It's 37, 38 degrees, so hot that my notes on my cell phone, my cell phone,

00:20:01.600 it hasn't frozen. It's overheated. I was going to read some of my notes from my phone, but I have

00:20:05.840 had to go from memory. But the reason I say this is because there is real anti-Semitism in the world.

00:20:14.380 There is. And I think that what we have to do is keep the word anti-Semite sharp and not dull it by

00:20:22.300 overuse, so that when we do say that someone is anti-Semitic, we mean it and we can prove it. And 1.00

00:20:27.980 it's a call to arms, not a false boy crying wolf, as the ADL has done for fun and partisan profit for

00:20:36.580 many years. Later on in this tour, we'll be going to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum and Memorial,

00:20:43.040 and we'll see what real anti-Semitism is like. And then we'll be going to the United Arab Emirates,

00:20:48.960 a country that until recently was technically at war with the Jewish state, a country that had an

00:20:54.600 ideological embargo on anything Jewish from Israel. We'll be seeing how a country has moved beyond 0.92

00:21:01.700 anti-Semitism, and we'll see what it's like for Jews in the United Arab Emirates. I wonder if it's

00:21:07.680 easier to be Jewish in Dubai and Abu Dhabi than it is, say, in Paris or even parts of London. We'll 0.98

00:21:14.260 give you that report. So that's my monologue here, sweltering from the Sea of Galilee. It's so gorgeous

00:21:20.040 here. But Canada has been on my mind, not just the ADL battle, which affects us in Canada, but of

00:21:26.920 course, Tamara Leach at her trial, which is entering its, I guess, fourth day. My colleagues Robert

00:21:34.120 Krejcik and Lincoln Jay are doing a great job there. And when I'm back in Canada and Sheila Gunn,

00:21:38.780 we will be attending the trial too. Hey, I want to show you one more video that I recorded

00:21:43.360 in the West Bank town of Ariel. We visited a company that makes scaffold, and it's a company

00:21:51.220 that is about two-thirds Palestinian and one-third Jewish. And let me tell you, let me show you my

00:21:56.720 report from there, and it was only 31 degrees. Let me take a look at this.

00:22:00.520 Ezra Levant here. I am outside the town of Ariel in Israel. Now, it's in a disputed territory.

00:22:08.580 Israel would call it Judea and Samaria. Israel's critics would call it occupied West Bank. But it

00:22:15.020 is here, and this is an enormous factory. You can see a truck just arriving with a lot of scaffolding

00:22:21.440 material. Take a look over there. It's aluminum or steel. They have different kinds. From this

00:22:28.080 factory here, they make these parts, ship them out to construction sites, mainly in Israel proper,

00:22:34.480 and then they come back here to be cleaned up, refurbished or whatnot. An enormous factory. We had

00:22:39.240 a bit of a tour earlier. And why would we come all the way to Israel to see a scaffolding factory?

00:22:45.520 And it's sort of cool, but is that really worth traveling thousands of miles? Well, the answer is

00:22:50.080 yes, because there's an interesting story here. It's about 150 men who work in this factory,

00:22:56.420 very busy. It's an industrious place. A hundred of them are Palestinian and 50 are Israeli, but they

00:23:03.380 work together in harmony. Now, that's important because this is a factory in a community where

00:23:10.860 there are Israeli towns and Arab towns. And to work together harmoniously is a success story.

00:23:17.880 And of course, no good deed goes unpunished. There are forces in the West, in the United States,

00:23:23.940 in Canada, in Europe that do not want the success of a peaceful, harmonious coexistence like this

00:23:31.480 factory. Now, this factory is sort of immune to political pressure because all of its customers

00:23:37.120 are in Israel. It doesn't matter if someone in London or Brussels or New York stamps their feet

00:23:44.260 about this factory. Its customers are here in return to use. But there have been other companies

00:23:49.360 like SodaStream, the homemade carbonation system that's pretty popular. SodaStream had a factory

00:23:56.560 nearby that employed both Jews and Muslims harmoniously. In fact, the president is quite a liberal guy who

00:24:02.520 talked about building peace through commerce. And yet there was a global boycott of SodaStream.

00:24:09.380 The president said, look, I can move the factory to China and save a lot of dough, no problem. But the

00:24:14.680 whole idea here is to build peace. And to its eternal shame, Canada's United Church boycotted SodaStream.

00:24:23.500 They despised the idea that there could be a harmonious factory in the West Bank, employing both 0.87

00:24:29.980 Jews and Muslims working together. They did not want that success story. And so regrettably, a few years 1.00

00:24:35.760 back SodaStream did leave. SodaStream is still operating, but those Muslims no longer have 1.00

00:24:41.220 work. And I think that's part of the problem. There are certain forces that have an investment

00:24:47.120 in misery and war. For example, the United Nations Human Rights Relief Agency, UNRWA, if I'm saying

00:24:55.660 that right, it's dedicated to refugees who were created in the 1948 Israeli independence. Well, that's

00:25:04.520 obviously almost a century ago, frankly. There's not very many refugees left from that. And yet that UN agency

00:25:10.880 continues on and they're calling the children and grandchildren of refugees, refugees still. My point is, it's an 0.99

00:25:17.120 entire industry based on failure. I mean, we see that in Canada with the poverty industry, the homelessness industry, the

00:25:25.800 free drug, safe drug use industry. They don't actually want people to solve the problem. They don't want East Hastings

00:25:33.960 Street in Vancouver to be cleaned up. They don't want homelessness to be fixed because then they'd be out of a job. I think

00:25:39.340 there's a lot of interests that like to see war in the Middle East, that like to see disharmony. I don't know what the

00:25:47.400 United Church of Canada's angle is. That boggles me. I hope there's no anti-Semitism behind that. There are people

00:25:54.280 who want failure. Let me leave you with, I think, a very exciting video. As you remember, last week there were riots in

00:26:03.120 three different Canadian cities in Toronto, Edmonton, and Calvary by Eritrean migrants, many of whom claimed

00:26:10.680 to be refugees. They were melees. They were up to 150 people fighting each other with bats and clubs. And yet 0.99

00:26:19.940 in none of those three cities, so far as I record this, has there been a single arrest. I tell you that

00:26:27.020 because Tamara Leach is on trial for inciting mischief. And yet she didn't do a single violence 1.00

00:26:33.100 thing. You have 150 men who go to a protest with clubs and bats on purpose. You have dozens of

00:26:41.020 police there. They literally read the Riot Act and not a single arrest. Here's the Calvary police chief

00:26:48.000 trying to explain away the fact that he hasn't made a single arrest. Look at this girl. 0.87

00:26:52.660 This clash was centered around two separate events scheduled in the city's northeast quadrant.

00:26:57.280 The scheduled events were peaceful in nature, and all attendees are not to be blamed for the

00:27:02.300 violence that transpired alongside them. I want to be very clear. The clash was not a protest. This

00:27:09.020 was a planned, targeted attack made by some members of the involved communities. This is really the

00:27:15.280 largest violent event to happen in our city in recent memory, if you think about the numbers of

00:27:20.820 people that were involved in this. We are actively investigating this incident, and we will hold those

00:27:26.500 responsible for the criminal activity that took place there. It could be characterized as a riot,

00:27:32.260 but at the end of the day, I think it's fine just to say that it was a senseless violence that was sort

00:27:38.580 of planned and premeditated. I think the underlying issues that sort of, you know, drive this are very

00:27:45.020 complicated. And there's very strong feelings on both sides of it, as you might expect. But at the end

00:27:51.480 of the day, we're not policing ideologies. We don't get on one side or the other of this. This is

00:27:57.060 around behavior for us. And so the behavior that we see in the videos and in the reporting of this

00:28:02.000 is the very same behavior that we've seen in other cities. And it's not okay. And it's not okay in our

00:28:07.180 city. I would have been very happy to see arrests made at the scene. I think there's a real deterrent

00:28:12.120 effect to that. But I understand and support the decisions that were made around the priorities that

00:28:16.980 were set and executed. And so that's fair enough. We'll deal with it after the fact. No, I don't

00:28:21.600 think you'll see it that quickly. We put together a task group today, an investigative group that will

00:28:25.800 go after all of the offenses in relation to this. So again, I think it's really important that we

00:28:30.700 demonstrate that this is not okay in our city, and that the individuals who committed criminal

00:28:35.280 offenses there in the parking lot be held to account for that. Well, I think with respect to the

00:28:38.980 violence, like when we're talking about bringing, you know, rocks and bricks and that type of thing,

00:28:43.000 and throwing them at other people and putting them in the hospital, I think there should be some

00:28:46.460 serious repercussions for that. This is not something we can condone in our city. And the

00:28:51.960 people that were involved in the worst of that should feel the wrath. What an embarrassing police

00:28:57.660 officer. That's the guy who can't make an arrest with 150 rioters, but he was happy to take

00:29:03.360 Pastor Arthur Pawlowski out of his car for a dramatic takedown arrest in the middle of the

00:29:09.080 highway. But let me leave you with a report by my colleague Avi Amini here in Israel, where the

00:29:14.520 Eritreans also had a riot. Unlike in Canada, the government here has arrested and jailed dozens

00:29:20.520 of those rioters. Take a look at what Avi found when he went to that neighborhood.

00:29:23.920 Avi Amini for Rebel News in Tel Aviv, Israel, at the location where violent street clashes broke out

00:29:30.520 between two opposing asylum seeker groups. The two Eritrean groups both claiming asylum here in Israel,

00:29:38.680 the red side declaring their support for the Eritrean government, while the blue opposed to the

00:29:45.680 government, they fled. It raises the question though, if they love the government, why are they seeking

00:29:52.500 asylum here in Israel? The ones wearing the red, they say they love the government there. So why are 1.00

00:29:58.580 they here? Which is stupidness. You can't go to your country because of the kind of government you

00:30:04.580 have. So why are you supporting them? Was it scary? It was very scary. We were run away, go inside the

00:30:11.580 homes. It was very scary. You know, everybody was scared, you know.

00:30:15.580 Why would they come here if they love the government there? I don't know. They came and they were claiming

00:30:30.580 they need protection from the government of Israel. So I don't know what's happening or what is happening

00:30:36.580 to them now. They are now supporting the government. I cannot tell. I'm not part of them. So I cannot judge

00:30:42.580 them. While the footage indeed shocked the nation and in fact the world, the government

00:30:47.580 here in Israel has now arrested over 50 of those responsible for the violence and are holding them

00:30:54.580 in detention, talking about deporting them.

00:31:05.580 Even a local Palestinian man who comes here to work directly across from the site

00:31:11.580 every day. He says he wasn't here on Saturday when that violence broke out. But he himself says

00:31:16.580 they should be deported.

00:31:25.580 That stance infuriating many on the left here in Israel. But a right-wing member of Knesset here says,

00:31:32.580 hey, if you don't want us to deport them back to the country they fled, well, we should deport them to your 1.00

00:31:39.580 local neighbourhoods in northern Tel Aviv.

00:31:42.580 We know, we know about that shit. We don't care. We want to live in freedom. Freedom of the creation has brought us

00:31:51.580 freedom.

00:31:53.580 Do you think it's okay to deport them if they got violent here?

00:31:56.580 Yeah, because who is a violent, the loose of the country? Supposed to deal with, according to the

00:32:05.580 the laws of the country, understand? So if they want to deport them, they use their hand and find

00:32:11.580 they got themselves in trouble.

00:32:14.580 You have people happy because people here in the street, no people, no work, no home, no food.

00:32:25.580 It's a friend.

00:32:26.580 This is why they got violent?

00:32:28.580 It's difficult. Like me now, I come 2005 until now. I don't get feel like me, I need exactly.

00:32:38.580 I'm working, I'm doing, but no.

00:32:41.580 Do you get violent on the street?

00:32:43.580 Nope.

00:32:44.580 No.

00:32:45.580 You know I'm sick and I'm also part of them, but for me I have to make sure I do what is right.

00:32:51.580 I just, after I go from work, I close from work, I go home, and I don't have to do anything that's

00:32:56.580 going to cause problems to the society and the nation or the country that I'm living in.

00:33:01.580 It's not a good idea because they have sympathised. People of Israel, the government have sympathised

00:33:07.580 and, I mean, showing us a sympathy.

00:33:10.580 Well, that's our show for today. I hope you've enjoyed it. It wasn't as perfect as I would like it to be

00:33:16.580 because I was unable to read my notes. It's just so hot. My phone shut down. I was going to be more precise

00:33:22.580 by reading some of the tweets and reading some of the memos from the ADL, but we'll show them on the screen

00:33:28.580 and hopefully that will be clear. I'm here with Sheila Gunn-Reed and David Menzies, so they will be doing

00:33:34.580 a message from Israel as well. And I'll try to make things meaningful. I can hardly wait to go to the United Arab Emirates.

00:33:40.580 In particular, I'm looking forward to, in that country, they've built this Abraham Friendship Center.

00:33:46.580 They call it the Abraham Accords, where there's a mosque, a church, and a synagogue co-located in one place.

00:33:52.580 I find that fascinating, and I can hardly wait to go there and tell you the story from it.

00:33:58.580 Until then, on behalf of all of us here from Rebel News to you at home,

00:34:02.580 good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - September 07, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ The Anti-Defamation League weaponizes anti-Semitism to attack Elon Musk

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