EZRA LEVANT ｜ The best (and worst) of the Walk With Israel
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The best and worst of the March for Israel in Toronto, May 26, 2019. The march for Israel has been going on in Toronto for 50 years, and the police have allowed Palestinian protesters to march up and down, hurling anti-Semitic insults and threats at the Jews.
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Tonight, the best and worst of the March for Israel.
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It's May 26th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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You gotta go back on the other side, I'm telling you.
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How come the Jews have to walk through this gauntlet of hate?
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I'm not surprised that that cop doesn't want to talk.
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but a political party that refuses to actually do anything
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They used to be a political and financial force.
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Mayor Mel Lassman, if you look at all the hospitals
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This was one of the happiest and friendliest cities
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And then came the October 7th, 2023 terrorist attack
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The mayor, Olivia Chow, who was elected in part
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for about 100 anti-Israel pro-Hamas protesters.
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You're going to be deported one day and you're going to be deported one day.
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You know I was arrested for standing over there in their space.
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And you let them all come here and interrupt the Jewish march.
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What did you say? I think you called out to us.
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Why did the Jews have to walk through this corridor and be shouted at?
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Why would you divert the Jews through these crazy screaming Hamas types?
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It looks like the police are going to form a wall of police officers between the screaming
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Hamas supporters and where the Jews walk through.
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I don't understand why the police have brought the Palestinians to this junction in the first place.
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Why did they bring the Palestinians to this juncture?
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I came across one man who actually has a court order prohibiting him from attending here.
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He was marching and the police didn't give a damn.
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In fact, when I brought it to the police attention, they told me to go away and threaten to arrest me.
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Ezra, this guy here with the keffiye around his neck, he's on conditions.
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Sir, you have to report to any officer on the side.
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One of these guys has a bail condition not to be near the Jews.
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condition not to be near the jews are you going to do anything about it can i show you who
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he's out on a police condition he's not on a bail condition why are you driving away
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why can't i interview them you gotta stay back why can't i interview them
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why can't i talk to them right now we are trying to separate people so we don't know you're letting
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these people into the heart of the jewish community you're spitting on me can you distance a bit
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we have unit commanders that can give you the statements it's not my place
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you're more than welcome to speak to the commander sir they won't talk to me
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get off either get on the road i'm gonna get off
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what's your name no comment why are you hiding your face are you ashamed of yourself never well
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then why are you hiding your face coward is it that ugly why are you hiding your face are you ashamed of
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yourself no well then show your face show your face coward show your face show your face
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remember on the quebec mass killing that mass i know you i know
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how are you hiding your face show your face show your face
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deports deports show your face coward show your face coward show your face you're hiding your face
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coward absolutely show your face coward you know my name as usual the palestinian pro hamas side brings
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along a jewish cult called the naturaicarta it's a very fringe of a fringe of a fringe it would be
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like the westboro baptist church you know something that wacky but they are so ostentatiously jewish
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but they're anti-israel they're paid by iran and they're here to muddy the waters to make it appear
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that some jews are against israel they won't say where they're from they won't say who pays them
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they're a disgrace i chatted with one guy for a couple minutes but frankly it was pretty boring
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so where do you come in from are you from montreal you're from uh tosh i'm from canada we're from
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tosh were you from montreal canada it's not the first time i'm there in toronto i'm a lot of times
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there just to bring out the real jewish voice even people there in toronto so who pays for you is it
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iran who pays you to be here i works for god and every jew no but you you were paid to be here
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someone paid for your son who paid for you yeah a lot of jewish people want that i bring out the
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voice of judaism no you're not you're with a cult you don't let me answer no but it's
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let me finish my story i finished a lot of jewish people even there in toronto paid for this that i
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come to bring out the message you don't have to believe because you're a liar you're a shanda for the
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goyim you're a shanda you know you are you're a disgrace you get paid to demonize your own people
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you're part of a cult and you're disgusting how you can say it how some people you're disgusting
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what's your name my name is ben aaron and i come there to say and the name you come here from where
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to say where did you come from you're not from toronto obviously are you from montreal i don't know what
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you say of course rebel news had our truck here our billboard truck it was located at the very
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beginning of the march we had some spicy videos i was there briefly but then i entered into the march
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so i wasn't there all day but our truck driver reports that it was well received and people would
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often stand and watch the truck for minutes because we had some great videos on it thank you to everyone
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who has supported the truck i started walking with people through the march and asking them questions
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one of the things i asked about was mass immigration some people are willing to call it out other jews are
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still too worried about being politically correct but let me be blunt most of the people shouting
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anti-semitic hatred are foreigners many of them are not citizens they're here on temporary workers
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permits or international students or they are not yet solemnized as canadians in my view they should be
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deported i think that every week we've seen anti-semitic hate marches and my own observations are you've got
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about 10 percent white leftist woke antifa activists but 90 are foreign nationals including people that global
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tv has global news has reported are agents of the government of iran here's some people talking about
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immigration well i like your attitude i got one last question for you um it's about mass immigration
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i think the jewish community used to be pretty pro-immigration but it's evident to me that so many
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of the hamas supporters are foreign nationals how do you feel about immigration has canada gone the wrong
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way on that i mean i think that's a broad question and and there's immigration and then there's
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radicalism and i think they're they're two different things and they can't be conflated there's some
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politicians here today i don't know if the mayor's here i feel like the establishment has sort of
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abandoned the jewish community what's your view on that i think i agree my theory is it's demographics
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they've just got so many mass so much mass immigration that they've changed the electorate
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and now there's more votes being anti-semitic than being pro-jewish that's my theory what do you think
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i don't think i know enough about it to have a strong opinion all right are you worried have you
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have you given thought to perhaps like some people i talked to say they're they're thinking
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about leaving canada was a pretty dramatic thing to say what do you think of that i think i have
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friends that have said the same thing i don't i don't think anyone would have imagined that 10
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years ago i tend to agree with you it's kind of depressing and sad but i hope for the best for
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canada and for the jewish people here in canada if you could change one thing what would it be
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peace and love man peace and love so what do you think about all the anti-israel protesters that the
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police have allowed to come along the route i don't think they should be allowed to do that
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particularly they shouldn't be allowed to to wear the uh to shield their faces with coffees the police
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said that they would not be on the route but the police didn't stop them why do you think that is
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i don't know i don't know we have to ask the government now so many of the haters and i've
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gotten to know some of them they're foreign nationals they're not canadians they immigrated here
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some of them are not citizens here yet how do you feel about foreigners running around stirring up hate
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and even committing some violence first of all violence needs to be condemned in all forms but
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i don't even think it's really about foreigners i think this is about well most of them are foreigners
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just my observation i actually i actually don't think so i think we need all canadians here to speak
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up i i think canadians need to understand that we are a country of freedom for all people and that's
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being attacked right now but when we allow immigrants in we don't ask them to we don't vet them for ideas we
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i i i think i think people who hate jews i i listen i think we need to be understanding that
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immigration policies around the world have to be examined for ensuring that we don't have terrorists
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in our own country but i also think we have to do a better job at educating our own canadian citizens to
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understand what actually is oppression what actually is hate i think we have to start with canadians
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what do you think we should do about immigration i think that's a lot of these protesters are foreigners
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i don't know i don't know if a lot of these are foreigners i've talked to them
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i'd say 80 80 to 90 percent are i worry that they're canadians and that this is what canada has
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become well canada's taking in refugees from gaza for sure can you imagine how are you doing good why
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are you here today gotta support israel you know what i mean important to be together i feel like a lot
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of political leaders are avoiding this event in the past they would all want to be here now they're
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staying away it seems that it's just that there's laziness there's apathy there's ignorance and it's
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really disappointing to not see mayor chow and other leaders um just probably sitting at home
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watching it on television i'm going to disagree with you i don't think it's apathy or laziness
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i think it's political math i think they've done the numbers and there's what 200 000 jews in toronto
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and half a million people who let's just call them not friendly to the jews yeah no that's a very
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good point i'm i'm just sometimes so overcome with anger about it that i might not think clearly and i
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sometimes think that they have other priorities that they believe should be on the front burner instead
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of you know supporting uh the jews community in toronto are you worried that uh things in canada
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are going to continue to get worse as mass immigration changes the demographics not just
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mass immigration but a political party that refuses to actually do anything about the huge
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rides and anti-semitism so i think under carney absolutely they will get worse but people like
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me won't be fleeing we'll be fighting but you know i asked people why they were here and i asked them
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how they felt about this hate corridor where people were shouting at them and i was impressed
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for some of the answers people said who cares people said it won't dent me that they're losers
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these hecklers which is true i was impressed by people saying look we're canadian we're proud
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we're not going to bend the knee there were a number of people who gave me that message
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and as the kids say it sort of white-pilled me it made me optimistic and hopeful and maybe i'm
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over consuming hamas propaganda maybe i'm letting it get to me a little bit because so many of the
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people here well frankly that's the reason they're here to show that they are undeterred here's a couple
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of those conversations why are you here today i'd like to think it's obvious but i guess it's not
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we're here because we believe in peace we believe in freedom we believe in indigenous rights and that
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is zionism zionism is truly our people's indigenous right to have self-determination in our homeland
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and this isn't even about land right now it's about just being able to live freely as jewish people
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and that is being attacked on all fronts but what about here in toronto i mean i understand the israel
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part and israel had a horrific terrorist attack against it a year and a half ago but i am actually
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more concerned about what's going on in the west i i think you should be i think you should be i think
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we are seeing sadly an indoctrination of our young people and uh i think what's happened is we've lost
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perspective we've lost perspective well young people you're right but what about officials what
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about politicians what about senior members of the establishment it's not just young people
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it's the mayor it's the prime minister i i i have to agree i think if you can't call out terrorism
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if you can't call out hate speech this this is hate what we're seeing we're seeing it here even
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at this walk peaceful protesters no this is hate speech being spewed at a bunch of people walking
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proudly and just wanting to live as jews proudly support of israel and the jewish people worldwide
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what do you think of all these hamas protesters why are they allowed to be here why are we allowing
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this to happen why is our city allowing this to happen why should they have to walk through this like
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well the police are sort of arranged it it looks to me you know what if they weren't here in the
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first place we wouldn't need the police protection like we do why has it been allowed why is our city
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allowing this i think it's because the demographics of toronto have changed 100 well what do you think
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of the march today amazing it was amazing what do you did you go up there where the hamas protesters were
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you were yeah what do you think of that they're crazy they're terrorists so why were the police
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sort of forcing a choke point where all the jews had to walk through the hamas screamers
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it's a good question i actually haven't thought about that i actually think it's i think it's a
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lot safer they have that because or else they could just be floating around and that gets dangerous
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for everyone so the police have been one spot they can contain them fair deal um are you guys
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worried about anti-semitism in toronto of course 100 i mean look at that protest down there that counter
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protest 100 especially with our federal government it's scary well look i mean this city voted for
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the liberals i mean there's a few exceptions this district itself voted roman baber the conservative
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but some canadians seem to like the way we are sad world we live in 51 muslim countries one jewish state
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who were the colonizers and then let's look at this side murdered by carney supported terrorists
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yes because carney supported hamas very publicly and very shamefully to multimedia so an embarrassing
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representation of canadians and he gave them a lot of money through the u.n well the liberals have
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actually been giving them money for a decade so that's actually no different he just didn't advertise
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it when he was running for prime minister why do you think so many politicians have forsaken the jews
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well because they see money and support in the population of muslims that far outnumber the jews
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if there wasn't a holocaust maybe we would have equal representation
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is the mayor is the mayor of toronto here do you know i'm not sure but i would imagine not
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and why has the so much of the political establishment abandoned the jews it feels like
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you know the police chief the mayor the premier the prime minister none of them care at this
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anti-semitic crime wave that's how it looks to me what do you think i agree but i'm not going to
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answer more questions okay nice to talk with you thank you hi there can i talk to you guys about
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uh the the march i i i don't think the mayor's here have you heard of the mayor's here i have not
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no i haven't heard anything i she didn't come last year i feel like the political establishment has
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abandoned the jewish community do you what do you think about that i don't know if we uh have a
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comment on on any of that stuff well we're going to keep walking at this march for israel i'm glad we
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came i should tell you that an awful lot of people say hello and support rebel news we are one of the
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only news agencies that covers this beat and when i mean this beat i mean the constant anti-semitic crime
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wave that's hit toronto montreal ottawa and other cities in this country here's some people saying
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hi tell me your reason for being here uh we come here every year it's really important to show our
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support um we have a huge community here and there's strength in numbers so it's uh it's important to
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get out here and shorts now i want to tell you in about one minute you're going to walk through a
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gauntlet of people screaming anti-semitic hate at you what do you think of that nothing at all it doesn't
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uh it doesn't phase doesn't phase me at all they can uh you know scream and and yell uh but you
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see how many people there are here on our side it's just a testament to uh the strength of our
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community and you know just just block out the noise can i ask you some questions i like your hat
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good thanks how are you we love your work we're very proud of you and the work that you do
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thank you very much why are you here today do you want to answer to support israel because we love it
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right on but how about here in canada i'm i'm worried about these hamas protesters here as
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much as i am worried about anything back in israel we're very grateful to the police for being here
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to be on the right side of the law and support us and people have a right to peaceful protest and
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hopefully we'll stay peaceful welcome to canada of 2025. thank you good how are you thank god good to be
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here free to walk in the streets i see you've got a nova hat on that's the music festival that so many of
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those young people were kidnapped from you know that for sure i have four children living there
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it's the only land we have we have to stamp out our enemies all of them as soon as possible
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please god we should be successful and victorious well no more hamas and no more hezbollah
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and no more hutis and no more iran the writing is on the wall please god they should all disappear
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but i've seen just a block down there a lot of hamas supporters right here in toronto they have to do
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something they have to do they lose us all the time they're losers they have to do something and whenever
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we are protesting they come and and be against us they are against us they don't know what's better
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they don't believe that we are entitled to a land one land of our own historically for the last
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thousands of years they don't believe it because they're miseducated unfortunately i don't think
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they're miseducated i think they believe in ideology that is a supremacist ideology i don't
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think it's education i think they believe it unfortunately they are taught from their mother's
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milk that if one gun can kill two israelis guess how many guns are needed for eight israelis they are
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taught in school to hate us unfortunately it stems from the quran itself now some people are
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demoralized in fact i've heard some jews talk about leaving canada what do you make of that
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uh i mean you know everyone can make their own decision i don't you know blame anyone there's uh
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you know right there there's a there's a masked man in the hamas style just walking through here
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just i mean i i i suppose it's a freedom thing but it's astonishing to me well like i just am
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surprised by that not surprised they don't want to show their faces uh i think there's there's good
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reason for that i think they're uh you know um there's police presence everywhere so you know it's
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not that surprising that people on that side are you know they don't want to show their faces i tried to
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talk to some senior officers about their policing why they basically narrowed it and made jews walk
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walk through a gauntlet of hate every time i tried to talk to a cop they ran away they bravely ran away
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excuse me they bravely ran away is there someone i can talk to you i'm just curious why you would make
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the jews walk through this shouting block like that just seems so weird is there someone i can talk to
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what call the headquarters what phone number okay i've got a camera too i'm just saying hello
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i'm trying to understand what's going on officer i respect that you just speak with our corporate
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community yeah none of them wanted none of them seem well then plg where would i find one of them
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there's two there's two in the crowd over there and they would just move and do they have some
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sort of marking it says liaison is that them yes all right i just find it really weird that you're
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sort of marshalling the haters in this narrow bandwidth that the jews have to walk through i think that's
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crazy i don't think it's good policing how come the jews have to walk through this gauntlet of hate
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like why did you station i'm not surprised that that cop doesn't want to talk
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excuse me you got some gray hair like me how come the jews have to walk through this corridor of
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hatred how come they have to walk through all the screaming hamas supporters i'm not going to answer
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any questions if you want you can speak to the other officer he ran away yeah he bravely ran away
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i'll try and talk to him again but i don't think he's got a good answer oh he's a busy guy
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oh sure he is all right all right down with the occupation we will stop deliberation are you off your
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call now no i'm not who can i talk to is there someone i can talk to communication where are they
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here on the ground you don't know then how can i talk to them why are you walking away from me
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you got some gray hair like me i'm trying to get a cop to explain why the jews have to walk through
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this corridor of hate do you know why and your boss won't talk to me everyone tells me to talk to him
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that said i do feel better i feel better seeing tens of thousands of people stand with israel
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to hell with the politicians and to hell with these rough and tumble losers who are paid to counter
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protest them the natural right car type fake jews are paid to protest the pro hamas protesters are
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paid to protest it's still a protest and it's still unsettling it normalizes anti-semitism and as we saw
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last week in washington dc with the murder of two jews outside a jewish museum there is
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a vector that goes from demonizing and dehumanizing jews to killing jews we've seen that that's one of
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the things hamas does i talked to one lady and she says look canada's a place of free speech she
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actually wasn't against the hamas protesters look at her you know up ahead there's there's about a
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hundred hamas protesters in fact you can see some of their flags already why do you think the police
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have not kept them away uh it's a great question i mean they are welcome to freedom of speech as long
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as there's no violence let them let them right into i mean right into the heart of the the jewish
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community and the jewish march i just i mean it's sort of odd to me that the police have channeled
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the the jewish march right through this gauntlet of screaming like they're i find them i mean my
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understanding is there's designated areas and we will never be afraid we will never be afraid well
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you've got the right attitude i think free speech and not being afraid but there are it's not just
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words though there's there's been a sort of a crime wave the last year and a half against jews oh that's
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for darn sure yeah and uh we won't be intimidated into not fighting for what we believe in and for who
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we are you know i admire her belief in freedom of speech and i believe it too i don't think that
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being anti-semitic or being racist in itself should be a crime i really don't but it's so often
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accompanied by intimidation harassment trespass assault threats and as we've seen fire bombings
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shootings and i think the police turn a blind eye and there's two-tiered policing i myself was arrested
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just over there in january for standing too close to the pro hamas protesters i was arrested there and
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yet these 100 pro hamas protesters not only are not arrested they have a police escort do you see what i
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mean by two-tier policing there are so many police here they could have dispatched that crowd in minutes
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said they wanted to but they don't want to the chief doesn't want to the mayor doesn't want to
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the premier doesn't want to and the new prime minister doesn't want to i'll tell you what the
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