Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ The CFL should focus on sports, not DEI nonsense

00:00:00.000 Tonight! A not-so-funny thing happened the other day. I tuned into a football game and it morphed

00:00:21.000 into a diversity training sermon. It's Friday, October 3rd, 2025. I'm David Menzies and this

00:00:31.140 is the Ezra LeVent Show.

00:00:32.940 You're fighting for freedom! Shame on you, you sensorious boobug! 1.00

00:00:39.400 Say sports fans, last week I tuned into a few Canadian Football League games. Even though

00:00:54.660 I love football, both CFL and NFL, I was left utterly confounded and confused. Now by way

00:01:02.720 of explanation, I wasn't identifying as an American watching his first CFL game, thereby

00:01:09.380 constantly screaming at the TV set, hey, why the hell are these teams always punting

00:01:15.600 on third down? No, rather, what left me somewhat mystified was that something appeared to be

00:01:23.080 a wee bit off regarding the team's uniforms and helmet logos, which is to say there was

00:01:30.060 a smattering of orange coloring on those helmets and uniforms, even though the only team in

00:01:36.640 the league that actually makes use of that color on a regular basis is the British Columbia

00:01:42.720 Lions. The team logos on the helmets were also modified. For example, here's the de rigueur

00:01:49.980 helmet of the Toronto Argonauts. And now here's a photo of the helmet the Argos donned last

00:01:57.560 Friday. Hmm. So I did a little research and came across an article in sportslogos.net. Yes,

00:02:05.680 folks, there's actually a website committed to covering the world of sports logos. Go figure.

00:02:12.580 Anyway, the article clarified the reimagining of those helmets and jerseys. Quote,

00:02:19.140 League White, tonight's looks tie into the CFL's diversity is strength platform, which amplifies

00:02:27.960 year round programming across Black History Month, International Women's Day, Asian Heritage Month,

00:02:36.160 Pride and Truth and Reconciliation. Last year, all nine CFL clubs introduced indigenous design team

00:02:45.200 logos by local artists to honor the game's ties with indigenous communities, end quote. And to think

00:02:54.360 I thought I was trying to get away from the Looney Tunes environment that is our real world simply by

00:03:02.400 trying to watch a football game. I mean, good golly, Miss Molly, where do I even start? Well, how about

00:03:09.500 this diversity is strength platform? Two things come to mind. I'm of the opinion that strength is

00:03:17.940 strength. If diversity happens to be an added feature of that aforementioned strength, well,

00:03:25.200 so be it. But simply being diverse, whatever that means, doesn't necessarily mean that one is strong.

00:03:34.380 Like, who the heck is the CFL commissioner these days, Justin Trudeau? And is this the start of

00:03:42.580 things to come for the CFL? Will gridiron fans see modified helmets and uniforms in the near future

00:03:49.940 that portray the themes of Black History Month, International Women's Day, Asian Heritage Month,

00:03:56.300 and pride? Please know if I see one more stylized rainbow this year, I think I'm going to vomit. 0.99

00:04:03.960 Then again, if Justin Trudeau is indeed CFL commissioner, perhaps commemorating Black History Month will 0.67

00:04:11.380 give our XPM yet another excuse to don blackface. Another thing, when you think about it, the CFL's 0.93

00:04:20.500 diversity platform isn't all that diverse, is it? Oh, sure, natives and Asians and women and blacks and

00:04:28.980 LGBT-ers are being singled out for recognition. But what about the Latinos? What about the Punjabis?

00:04:37.740 Closer to home, what about the Scots? You know, I think a football helmet decked out in the Menzies 0.96

00:04:44.800 Tartan would look super cool. The modern hunting tartan, to be precise. Seriously, when it comes

00:04:53.080 to the diversity sweepstakes, who decides which minority groups are honored and which ones are

00:05:00.460 summarily ignored? What are the rules? I really, really want to know. Speaking of the rules, here's

00:05:08.320 another thing. How is it that the use of indigenous symbolism in sports suddenly has gone from verboten

00:05:17.640 to vogue, at least in the terms of the CFL. I mean, post-George Floyd, cancel culture slammed down a

00:05:24.780 tomahawk big time on many teams using native logos and nicknames. I don't get the connection either,

00:05:33.480 folks, but never mind. First to go was the Washington Redskins. DC's football team is now known as the

00:05:41.920 Washington Commanders. Commanders? What are you commanding? Surrender? Next to go was the Cleveland

00:05:51.120 Indians. Cleveland's baseball team is now known as the Guardians. What are they guarding exactly?

00:05:59.080 Perhaps Cleveland's Cuyahoga River, a waterway that is so polluted, it sometimes catches on fire.

00:06:07.940 Only in Cleveland. North of the border, the CFL's Edmonton Eskimos were also deemed to be offside.

00:06:15.860 Poor Edmonton football fans. They're now stuck with a team that has the nickname Elks. And as an aside,

00:06:22.820 isn't the plural for elk the same as the singular? Elk. I mean, who calls a herd of elk? Elks.

00:06:31.680 Congratulations, Edmonton. You now have the most grammatically incorrect nickname this side of the

00:06:37.620 Toronto Maple Leafs. But here's the thing. Edmonton wanted to keep its iconic EE logo,

00:06:44.820 so it needed a nickname to begin with the letter E. Wouldn't the obvious choice be the Edmonton

00:06:52.160 Energy? You know, with the club being situated in oil and gas-rich Alberta, after all. Oh, wait a

00:06:59.240 minute. What am I saying? That nickname might be offensive to the climate change cooks. 0.99

00:07:05.680 How dare you?

00:07:06.680 Oh, and by the way, folks, the left-wing loonies aren't quite done yet. They're now targeting the

00:07:13.080 remaining native-themed teams in sports. That includes the Kansas City Chiefs, the Atlanta

00:07:19.080 Braves, and the Chicago Blackhawks. By the way, the CBC isn't even waiting around for the Blackhawks

00:07:26.220 to get officially cancelled. So it is that the woeful wokesters at the CBC will only refer to the

00:07:34.460 Chicago Blackhawks on air as Chicago's NHL team. I'm serious. And guess what? You're paying for this

00:07:44.480 fake news, folks. And another thing, these modified CFL logos and uniforms, they're not so much

00:07:51.960 indigenous designed, rather they're indigenous modified. You know, piggybacking additional design

00:07:59.440 elements on an existing logo is a big mistake when it comes to basic graphic design, in which

00:08:07.260 less is always more. It's kind of like unnecessarily tinkering with a Porsche 911. You know, when you put

00:08:17.380 one of those ludicrous whale tail spoilers on the back, that's not innovation, that's regression.

00:08:24.080 Indeed, in the world of sports, minimalism wins the day when it comes to logos. I speak of the iconic

00:08:31.120 NY of the New York Yankees, the SF of the San Francisco 49ers, the CH of the Montreal Canadiens,

00:08:38.780 and of course, the majestic winged wheel of the Detroit Red Wings. Those logos are all instantly

00:08:46.560 recognizable and are design masterpieces. As for the indigenous themed CFL logos, sorry, they all add up 1.00

00:08:57.060 to a dog's breakfast. Case in point, check out the modified logo of the Montreal Alouettes. Now to me,

00:09:04.760 it looks like a bird shedding its feathers somehow got caught in a spider web. As for the Hamilton Tiger

00:09:12.840 Cats, well, is Tony the Tiger actually sporting blackface these days? Meanwhile, the CFL team that

00:09:21.240 takes the cake and all of the candles with it when it comes to logo virtue signaling is surely the

00:09:28.520 Saskatchewan Rough Riders. Yes, the Riders modified logo is not just indigenous themed, but also pays

00:09:35.640 tribute to the L-G-G-B-D-T-T-T-I-I, et cetera, et cetera, community, you know, so that the millions

00:09:44.680 of people in the Rough Riders fan base aren't left out, the ones who, you know, identify as

00:09:51.960 two-spirit. So for example, what's two-spirit? Well, two-spirit sounds like there's someone they

00:09:58.260 don't know whether they're, you know, fish or fowl. They don't know whether they're frick or frack.

00:10:02.280 So they're clearly confused. By the way, that was former Liberal Party of Canada

00:10:07.240 President Stephen LaDrew being interviewed by Tucker Carlson back in 2017. LaDrew was fired

00:10:14.700 by Bell Media after that segment aired. You see, folks, in Canada, it is now strictly forbidden

00:10:20.800 to call confused people, confused people. Hey, how are you digging your liberalism these days,

00:10:27.860 LaDrew? Finally, look what the artist did to the Calgary Stampeders logo. Yikes, it looks like the

00:10:37.200 poor horse is getting electrocuted. And, you know, if any CFL logo lent itself to a little native theme

00:10:45.580 modification, surely it was Calgary's charging horse, which is to say, why not place an indigenous 1.00

00:10:53.000 chief atop that stallion? I think that logo would actually look cool. But then again, did I just

00:11:00.360 cross some imaginary line here regarding what is allowed and what is not allowed when it comes to

00:11:07.000 native icons? It's also confusing, isn't it? And again, I beg of you, please tell me, what are the

00:11:15.560 rules? Now, I did seek out guidance from the media relations department of the CFL. I sent along a

00:11:22.800 series of queries regarding the diversity and strength platform. Alas, no response to my emails.

00:11:30.520 Perhaps the CFL is only responding to smoke signals these days. If so, that's something that is beyond my

00:11:37.660 pay grade. So, in the final analysis, I have two thoughts. First, as you may have noticed, I've

00:11:45.480 dropped my de rigueur fedora in favor of my gorgeous Washington Redskins ball cap. This now defunct NFL

00:11:54.280 logo and nickname was canceled because it is allegedly offensive. Yet the question arises, offensive to whom?

00:12:03.500 Exhibit A. In 2016, none other than the Washington Post or the Washington Compost, as the great one Mark

00:12:12.300 Levin likes to call this newspaper, exclusively polled Native Americans regarding the name and logo of the

00:12:20.800 Washington Redskins. And get this, folks, more than 90% of these respondents were not, I repeat, not offended by the

00:12:31.600 logo and nickname of this franchise. By the way, it's a modern day miracle that the Post actually

00:12:38.160 published the results of its poll in the first place, given its woke editorial stance on such

00:12:44.580 issues. And hey, sports fans, here's a fun fact for you. The modern day Redskins logo was rendered in 1971.

00:12:52.740 It was based upon a composite of Native American photographs, including one of the early 20th century

00:13:00.740 Blackfeet chief, Two Guns White Calf. He was born near Cut Bank Creek on the Blackfeet Reservation.

00:13:10.720 As for the man who actually created the Redskins logo, that would be none other than the late Walter

00:13:17.260 Blackie Wetzel. And get this, Wetzel was a Native American himself. He was a member of the Blackfeet

00:13:24.560 tribe in Montana, serving as a tribal chairman. He also served as president of the National Congress

00:13:32.600 of American Indians. Oh, poor Mr. Wetzel. Didn't he get the memo that his artwork is racist, even though

00:13:41.700 Wetzel himself is Native American? But clearly replacing Redskins with commanders was a fix for 0.66

00:13:50.660 a problem that did not exist. You see, everyday natives subscribe to a different agenda than those 1.00

00:13:58.100 woke natives running official native organizations these days, as well as those pearl-clutching, 0.98

00:14:05.260 pale-faced liberals that are forever hell-bent on virtue signaling. And really, isn't this NFL

00:14:13.600 indigenous agenda all about virtue signaling as opposed to, you know, actually doing something 1.00

00:14:20.620 tangible for indigenous people? Which is to say, maybe the executives at the CFL feel good about

00:14:29.140 themselves ordering the teams to splash some orange on their football uniforms come late September.

00:14:36.140 But how does that rectify the real problems that too many indigenous people face on a daily basis in

00:14:43.140 this country? Such as the drinking water crisis. Do you know currently more than 30 reserves in Canada

00:14:50.640 are under a boil water advisory? That's scandalous. Here's my advice for the CFL. Your bailiwick is to

00:15:00.500 operate a professional football league, a football league that faces challenges right now in so many

00:15:07.940 marketplaces. And these challenges are serious to the very survival of certain CFL teams. And no, those

00:15:16.800 ludicrous rule changes going into effect next season that are meant to Americanize the Canadian game

00:15:22.980 is no cure-all. And golly, the Canadian Football League embracing U.S. football rules? Is elbows up

00:15:31.700 already extinct? But if the CFL insists on getting involved with social justice issues, how about, I don't know,

00:15:40.640 kick-starting a fundraiser to address the boil-watery advisory that remains on way too many reserves?

00:15:49.500 That would actually be doing something good. That would be less of a fumble and more of a touchdown.

00:15:57.060 One last thing to all the sports commissioners, people tuning into sports are doing so for escapism

00:16:06.080 from the real, wacky, woke world. Which is to say, when I watch the Argonauts, I'm hoping to see,

00:16:14.440 you know, a football game, not some gridiron-themed lecture on how diversity is strength.

00:16:23.100 Well, folks, it's hard to believe we're just mere days away from the second anniversary of that

00:16:38.480 grotesque massacre that happened in Israel on October 7th, 2023. And what have we seen these

00:16:45.980 past couple of years? Well, inexplicably, an increase in anti-Semitism. And not only that,

00:16:54.540 anti-Semitism manifesting itself in the most unlikely places. And I speak of the Law Society

00:17:03.360 of Ontario, the Toronto Public Library, and even a certain immigration consultant. But blowing the

00:17:12.460 whistle on that trio is my guest. His name is Bryant Greenbaum. He is self-described as a Zionist

00:17:20.360 human rights lawyer based here in Toronto. So, Bryant, let's get right to business. Starting with

00:17:28.400 the Law Society of Ontario, you wrote a piece for Honest Reporting, in which you're saying you are

00:17:36.020 taking the governing body of lawyers in this province to the Human Rights Tribunal. Why is that?

00:17:43.920 I am taking the Law Society of Ontario to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, because they accredited a 1.00

00:17:52.140 speaker who has espoused what I consider to be anti-Semitic language at a protest, and more

00:18:01.320 specifically praising the October 7th paraglider attack. So, who was the speaker, Bryant?

00:18:07.620 The speaker's name was Harsha Walla. And she was invited by the Law Union of Ontario. And they're

00:18:16.240 not a union. They're a civil society, a loose group of individuals who do work on some good stuff,

00:18:24.780 like homelessness and racial profiling. So, they do work on some good stuff. But they've got on board

00:18:31.740 with anti-Israel rhetoric. And more specifically, this organization invited this Harsha Walla to speak,

00:18:40.960 well knowing that Jews would not want to attend such an event. And the Jewish bar was basically going 1.00

00:18:46.760 to be excluded, because it would be distasteful for the Jewish bar to attend this accredited CPD, EDI. 0.97

00:18:56.060 But Brian, I would argue, Jewish or not, why in the world would the Law Society or the Law Union

00:19:05.480 invite a speaker praising the greatest slaughter of Jews post-Holocaust? This was a horrific terrorist act.

00:19:15.300 And, I mean, I am baffled by that. Would they invite a neo-Nazi to address the membership,

00:19:24.160 the rank and file, you know, being an apologist for Adolf Hitler? What's the unspoken story of all

00:19:31.380 the people they could invite in, that they would invite this person to glorify that day of atrocity?

00:19:38.520 Well, the interesting part of this whole thing, really, is that the Law Society is content with

00:19:44.440 their decision to accredit it and to not revoke that accreditation. And I've learned that through

00:19:49.480 their pleadings, through their arguments in the Human Rights Tribunal complaint. So basically,

00:19:56.140 what they're saying is exactly what you have just poffered. They are basically saying the gates are

00:20:01.880 open. This law union invites someone who some would say is unsavory for continuing professional

00:20:15.540 development. The Law Society accredits that. And basically, what the Law Society is saying is

00:20:20.500 any group can invite whoever you want. You want to invite KKK members for CPD? You can.

00:20:25.840 Well, I'll believe it when I see it. Well, wait one second. I'll make you a deal. If you know a KKK

00:20:33.160 member, and you arrange for me to meet him, I'm willing to apply to the Law Society for accreditation

00:20:41.240 on that. Interesting. For the record, folks, I don't know any KKK members.

00:20:46.440 Neither do I. Neither do I. Neither do I.

00:20:48.820 Okay. So, needless to say, what was the outcome of that presentation? I mean,

00:20:58.100 did people get up and walk out? Was there heckling? Or was she preaching to the converted?

00:21:06.980 She was probably preaching to the converted, but I didn't go. I'm Jewish. I was not going to attend

00:21:11.860 an accredited Law Society of Ontario continuing professional development lecture. I was not going

00:21:18.280 to attend that when the speaker praised the paragliders on October 7th. I, as a Jew, and

00:21:24.660 from my understanding, all of my Jewish colleagues in the Jewish bar weren't interested in attending

00:21:29.980 either. Sure, there could have been a few sprinklings of anti-Zionist Jews who thought it was cool,

00:21:35.580 but the majority of the Jewish bar felt it was repugnant and would not want to step foot in that venue. 0.84

00:21:40.900 Yeah. You know, we're pretty much free speech absolutists here at Rebel News, Brian, but I've

00:21:46.780 always said there is a line in the sand. And that line is when you advocate harm, violence,

00:21:53.700 even death to an individual or an identifiable group of individuals. And that's the line being

00:21:59.700 crossed here. I'm sorry if you were praising terrorists for massacring mostly innocent Israelis

00:22:06.960 because there were people from other countries there that were caught up in the carnage. That is

00:22:11.960 completely offside.

00:22:12.840 But I must interrupt and say one thing, though. According, as a lawyer, that is offensive. And I

00:22:19.660 believe in free speech, too. I even believe that the encampments at the University of Toronto,

00:22:25.520 to a certain extent, were legitimate forms of nonviolent disobedience. And Martin Luther King

00:22:32.380 was an expert in that. So what I am saying from a lawyer's point of view is, and from a member of

00:22:40.720 the bar, is once you cross the rubric into asking for accreditation, you're basically telling the law

00:22:48.420 society, please endorse this speaker. Please endorse this lecture. And knowing that a lot of the

00:22:54.780 Jewish bar in Ontario would find that offensive and would not attend the event. So is the law society

00:23:01.640 basically saying, members, invite who you want. Do some KKK CPD. And that sounds pretty good. KKK CPD. 0.98

00:23:11.980 And do as you wish. Apply for accreditation. We don't care. We trust you. Well, I don't trust who

00:23:18.720 undertook this conference, the Law Union of Ontario. And I don't trust the law society

00:23:23.420 anymore as a lawyer. And that's sad. I'm a lawyer, a human rights lawyer, if I could backtrack for a

00:23:29.700 moment. I'm a human rights lawyer. As you introduced me, a Zionist human rights lawyer. I have taught

00:23:37.380 international human rights law at Osgoode Hall Law School for many years. I love the law. I love

00:23:43.560 international human rights law. I've taught it at Osgoode Hall for many years. I worked in Congo. I

00:23:49.100 worked in South Africa on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. I have worked with

00:23:55.320 Indigenous issues, child welfare issues at the Ontario Human Rights Commission. I can go on with

00:24:01.020 my accolades. I'm a true human rights advocate. But I'll tell you one thing. If the law society

00:24:07.900 feels that this is appropriate, I've lost faith in them. And I can't even, whenever I have to pay my

00:24:14.640 dues or file a report, it stings. Well, you know, I can tell you, Brian, from a lot of lawyers have

00:24:20.160 reached out to me over the last several months with complaints about the, I guess, the wokeness of

00:24:26.900 the Law Society of Ontario, which, by the way, didn't it used to be called the Law Society of Upper

00:24:31.420 Canada? And maybe because of wokeism that, you know, that was too colonialist. They just replaced

00:24:38.020 Upper Canada with Ontario. But here's the thing, to the heart of your matter, where does it stand

00:24:43.840 right now in terms of the Human Rights Tribunal hearing this? So right now, I'm waiting for an

00:24:50.400 interim order. And this is going to be the thing that knocks you off your stool. And you're going

00:24:54.300 to not believe this. I asked the Human Rights Tribunal for an interim order to have a confidentiality

00:25:02.560 order for my home address. And the Human Rights Tribunal refused to redact my home address

00:25:12.780 based on personal safety, personal safety, personal safety of me.

00:25:19.340 At a protest, prior to it becoming a terrorist organization, the speech where she was giving,

00:25:29.900 Samadun was the organizer of the speech, she gave a speech, and that later became a terrorist 0.94

00:25:34.940 organization. I asked the Human Rights Tribunal, redact my home address, please.

00:25:39.580 Based on personal safety, personal safety of me. There's synagogues near my home. There's, 0.98

00:25:44.780 I said to the Human Rights Tribunal, there's synagogues. I have a young family. You know, 0.74

00:25:51.420 I don't want a terrorist organization getting my home address. And the law society, at least I give

00:25:56.780 them credit, said we take no position. But the law union, the law union said, this guy's a fake.

00:26:03.900 He's got nothing to worry about, terrorists or otherwise, the law union said. So that's going

00:26:09.500 through the process, this interim order. I've appealed that confidentiality

00:26:15.580 ruling that says I can't have my address redacted. That's being appealed. But the next step will likely

00:26:21.260 be is the law union and the law society will file motions to summarily dismiss this matter

00:26:29.180 based upon no reasonable prospect of success. So any big organization, any David versus Goliath,

00:26:36.220 I'm fighting the law society. I'm fighting the law union of Ontario, which has 400 lawyers,

00:26:42.300 and little old me. They're going to bring motions. They're going to try to mess me up. And they're

00:26:47.100 going to do one thing for sure, is they're going to claim that this has no reasonable prospect of

00:26:51.500 success. I say to them, give me a break.

00:26:54.140 Interesting. Well, so many millennia ago, the kid with the slingshot, the prohibitive underdog,

00:27:01.180 emerged Victoria. So there's that bit of history on your side, Brian. But I guess it's going to be

00:27:07.820 months before it's heard. Assuming it is heard, do you think you're going to get a sympathetic

00:27:15.660 audience at the Human Rights Tribunal? Personally speaking, Brian, I consider that tribunal to be a

00:27:21.980 kangaroo court that doesn't adhere to the proper rules of the law or of the court system. And

00:27:29.980 ideologically speaking, I think you might have a lot cut out for you in terms of making the case for

00:27:38.860 them to rule in favor, or do I have this wrong? Well, you have it partly right, partly wrong.

00:27:44.140 And how do you have it wrong? Winning is not always the ultimate goal. Sometimes all you want to do is,

00:27:51.100 if I can get past this motion to summarily dismiss this for no lack of success or possibility of no

00:27:59.260 lack of success, if I can go over that hurdle and get to the discovery stage, I want the emails from

00:28:06.620 the law society to see what they said. Holy ****, what is Greenbaum saying that this person was praising

00:28:13.900 the paragliders and he's complaining and saying, why are we accrediting this crap? And I want the emails 0.99

00:28:21.740 between the law society. I want the emails at the law union that says, hey, at the law union, we know this

00:28:27.660 person is offensive to Jews, but who gives a **** about Jews? So that's the type of stuff that I want to get, 1.00

00:28:33.980 even if I don't win. Yeah. And keep us appraised of that. Number two on the list. This is an amazing

00:28:41.500 story. You discovered that the Toronto Public Library in its curriculum, it has a book that is

00:28:50.700 entitled Hamas, A Beginner's Guide by Khalid Harub. I mean, at first I thought, is this a parody title? But

00:29:03.020 it isn't. And you reached out to the library and you said, what's going on? A beginner's guide for

00:29:09.580 a recognized terrorist group. And how did those conversations go, Brian? Okay. Well, to be fair,

00:29:18.700 I have no problem with academics studying the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas and their inception. 0.97

00:29:27.900 And those books are at the library. Exactly. And I have no problem with people recording the history

00:29:34.300 of Hamas and looking at it objectively or critically, recognizing that they're a terrorist organization

00:29:40.700 under Canadian law and policy. But my objection with this book was that it resembled Holocaust denialism

00:29:51.900 in the sense that they said that the October 7th massacre at Nova music festival and the kibbutzes

00:29:59.420 were all done by the IDF due to this Hannibal strategy. And that grotesque Holocaust denialism, 0.65

00:30:07.980 October 7th denialism is beyond an academic discussion. It's misinformation and dangerous

00:30:15.180 misinformation that leads to anti-Semitism. And things like the terrible thing that happened

00:30:21.580 at Yom Kippur today. To my Jewish friends, I say, let us pray, let us repent, let us pray for renewal.

00:30:29.820 That's a bit over the line of an academic discussion. And the book clearly crosses that line.

00:30:38.380 And it would be the same thing if the Air India bombing, if somebody wrote a book saying the Air India

00:30:47.020 bombing was really done by Hindus. It was done by the Hindus, right? For Hindu nationalism, or similar to 0.99

00:30:55.580 the... As opposed to the Kalistani separatists. Correct. Yeah. Correct. And on that matter,

00:31:00.620 we've had two public inquiries saying that's not true. And of course, the Kalistanis want a third 1.00

00:31:06.620 public inquiry, but I know where you're going. But, and that, and that's, that's the key to the issue,

00:31:10.860 isn't it? It isn't the author saying there are some people who say this. Correct. You know, it's,

00:31:18.140 this is the way it is. Correct. Correct. And the, why are they, uh, so I wrote to the library,

00:31:23.660 the Toronto library and said, I said, get that the fuck out of circulation. Yeah. ASAP. And they wrote 0.97

00:31:30.620 me back and said, well, we got your request. Um, it's going to go to a board of librarians.

00:31:36.220 I've got a letter. What date is that letter? Yeah. This letter, it's, uh, September 23rd of this year.

00:31:42.380 And, um, it goes on and on. Uh, but I think the key paragraph, uh, Bryant is this quote,

00:31:49.020 the third edition, the third edition of Hamas, a beginner's guide aims to provide an introduction

00:31:56.220 to Hamas covering its history, ideology, and its political and military strategy. The author Khalid

00:32:03.740 Harub is a Palestinian academic and professor of Middle Eastern studies at Northwestern University

00:32:11.260 and Qatar. Pluto press has been an independent publisher since 1969 and has worked with authors

00:32:20.460 such as Karl Marx and bell hooks and quote. Um, yeah, even if all that is accurate, Bryant, I would say,

00:32:30.700 but that's how is that germane to the issue that you have a book, uh, um, glorifying the massacre

00:32:38.300 and blaming the massacre on the wrong entity and namely the IDF. Right. Uh, similar to blaming

00:32:45.740 Hindus for the air India bombing. Yeah. But irrespective of that, my main concern is that 1.00

00:32:50.620 this Toronto library, uh, response in this letter, uh, to getting this book again, sorry for the

00:32:57.660 profanity. You can beep it out the out of circulation, uh, is the problem that they have is

00:33:04.140 they're concerned that Pluto publishing a very well-respected, uh, left-wing publisher,

00:33:10.060 uh, that would question their screening and their, uh, publishing efforts and their catalog. 0.98

00:33:17.020 What type of crap do they let in the gate? And so the library is, I think worried a bit about

00:33:23.020 offending a publisher worry. And that's why, and should this proceed? And I will appeal this

00:33:29.340 decision for them because they refuse to take it off the shelves. I'm going to appeal it. It could

00:33:35.180 go to judicial review. It could go to the courts, but, uh, I'll hold their hands to the fire fire.

00:33:41.660 And you know, who's going to suffer in the end, Pluto press, that's, who's going to suffer because

00:33:46.700 it's showing that they'll print any rubbish. And, and, you know, I, it's almost cosmically

00:33:53.900 perversely amusing that they, um, wave the name of Karl Marx around as a, uh, a badge of honor.

00:34:01.660 Um, unbelievable. Let's get to the third and final issue. It's an immigration consultant,

00:34:07.340 um, who is acting, I believe, uh, you told me, uh, off air Bryant in an anti-Semitic fashion,

00:34:15.420 and yet, uh, seems to be getting away with it. What's the story there?

00:34:18.620 Yeah. So basically there's a situation where, um, there is an immigration consultant who was an,

00:34:26.220 who was what part of the Indigo 11. And this guy's name is McDonald Scott.

00:34:31.740 And by the way, just for those who don't know, uh, Bryant, this was the Indigo bookstore at the

00:34:37.420 corner of Bloor Bay in downtown Toronto. Um, it was vandalized and paint bombed. And, uh, really,

00:34:45.900 that's cut to the chase. The reason is the CEO of Indigo is Heather Reisman, who is Jewish. Um, 0.94

00:34:53.100 and therefore they think that's what gives them carte blanche to attack a bookstore. Correct?

00:35:00.540 Correct. Um, uh, and I always use the analogy that if you vandalized an abortion clinic,

00:35:08.780 surely you would know that that's going to cause fear in women, uh, terrible fear in women, uh, 1.00

00:35:16.940 longstanding fear in women. And, uh, irrespective, if your goal is not misogyny is not to hurt women,

00:35:24.220 but to protect unborn children, you know, ahead of time that by vandalizing, uh, an abortion clinic,

00:35:30.060 you're going to cause fear to, uh, women as a, an unintended or intended consequence.

00:35:37.980 This McDonald Scott vandalized this Jewish store, knowing the harm it would cause to the Jewish 0.82

00:35:44.540 community. This guy's a sicko, a real sicko in my books, knowing if, imagine if he did that to a 0.99

00:35:50.700 Hindu store or an abortion clinic or to a, uh, um, uh, uh, uh, LGBT, uh, storefront. Oh, 1.00

00:35:59.420 the left would cancel culture in a heartbeat. But this guy says, so if a few Jews are upset

00:36:05.500 and it's not a few Jews, the majority of Jewish people are Zionists. And if I could do for one 0.99

00:36:12.700 second, I have a short break that I want to introduce. This is my alarm. Cause I did,

00:36:17.820 did I say Zionist? Most Jews are Zionists. So I just want to press my alarm for a second. 1.00

00:36:24.060 Oh, it's a, is that literally a trigger warning? Well, it's a trigger warning because I said the

00:36:28.140 word Zionist, but very quickly, uh, Brian, uh, this immigration consultant, he was found guilty.

00:36:33.740 Is that correct? He pled guilty to a criminal charge. Okay. And the, the, the judge, uh, was

00:36:40.220 clear that this was on the upper level. Again, the upper level of blameworthiness. Okay. 0.97

00:36:46.140 That, that there was letters from Jewish organizations like the Simon Wiesenthal, uh,

00:36:52.380 center. Uh, and they said, this caused a huge amount of harm to the Jewish community.

00:36:57.420 So these were victim impact statements? There was a community that didn't impact

00:37:01.500 statement. The college, when they make, when I applied, complained against him,

00:37:06.060 I wanted him disciplined, suspended, terminated. Uh, they said, no, we'll just give him a warning.

00:37:12.460 Yeah. So I said, I said to the college, I said, that's not appropriate. Yeah. And so I'm taking

00:37:19.260 them to federal court right now saying that the decision of the college never looked at the harm

00:37:25.660 that this caused to the Jewish community, even though there was community impact statements from

00:37:31.020 the Jewish community. The decision is void of any discussion about the harm to the Jewish community,

00:37:36.300 but makes a finding that there was no antisemitism. And again, the abortion clinic example, you know,

00:37:43.180 I, I would say Bryant, what we're dealing with here is a double standard. I don't have proof,

00:37:49.020 but I can tell you if that Indigo was an Islamic bookstore, correct. If it was an LGBT, 1.00

00:37:55.900 et cetera, et cetera. If it was a Hindu bookstore. Yeah. I think this guy, um, I think his, um,

00:38:02.460 governing body takes this way more serious. They likely sanction them. They likely forbid him for,

00:38:08.780 uh, for acting as a consultant, but you told me he's back at work already. Well, no one's done

00:38:13.900 anything. This is the sick part of it is this guy is a sick criminal. He'll always be a criminal. He, 1.00

00:38:19.980 he got a conditional discharge, but he pled guilty. The guilt, the guilty pleading is registered with

00:38:25.820 the court. He's a sick criminal. And what was his sentence? By the way, his sentence was community 1.00

00:38:30.220 service and of course, and other things and other conditions, but works at a law firm called

00:38:36.300 car Carzana, LLP, C-A-R-R-A-N-Z-A. And I think, and they, the Carzana law firm, they sent in lots of 0.72

00:38:45.260 recommendation letters to the criminal court saying, this guy's a great guy. Listen, this law

00:38:50.300 firm is a personal injury law firm. I think that not only is this sicko McDonald's got sick, but I 0.81

00:38:58.940 think this law firm is sick. I'm a lawyer and I'm calling another, uh, group of lawyers at a law firm 0.97

00:39:05.900 sick. Yeah. I think they're sick because, because they're, they've let this guy who has shown animus

00:39:12.700 to a certain group in their offices, in their personal injury office. And there's files that

00:39:17.740 contain very sensitive information. What happens if there's a Jewish client or a Zionist client?

00:39:22.860 Now tell me what's going to happen. Is the law society of Ontario going to do it?

00:39:26.380 Hey, I wrote to the law society. I wrote to the college. I said, there's a sicko in a law firm

00:39:31.100 in Ontario. Okay. What did the law society do? They wrote back to me and said, law firms can hire 0.94

00:39:36.300 sickos. No problem. Law firms can hire sickos. No problem. And, uh, then I said, well,

00:39:42.220 do they have to give a warning to prospective clients? If I'm a Jew, I don't, I want to know

00:39:46.620 that there's a sicko that has animus towards me before I go to that law firm. Do they have to give 0.78

00:39:51.100 a warning? Guess what the law society said? You don't have to give a warning. If Jews get caught 0.65

00:39:57.100 up in this sickos, uh, law firm buyer beware. I don't know. Incredible. Brian, we're running out of a 0.98

00:40:05.100 race track. I want to give you one last question going back to October 7th of 2023. Uh, as I said,

00:40:13.660 in the preamble, uh, there has been antisemitism exploding so much. So you would think if you're

00:40:21.980 a visitor from another planet and you heard about the massacre of October 7th, it's almost as though

00:40:28.060 it was the Israelis massacring Palestinians, not the other way around. I want to get your theory

00:40:35.260 as to why the greatest massacre of Jews post Holocaust has ignited this wave of antisemitism,

00:40:47.020 Jew hate, Israel hate. Why do you think that is happening when you'd think, you know, right-minded

00:40:54.140 people the world over would be condemning the terrorists, not, you know, seeing their point

00:40:59.580 of view, so to speak? Yeah. Well, I think it's a complicated situation after October 7th,

00:41:05.020 but everyone would do well to read this book. Um, it's, uh, aftershock anti-Zionism and antisemitism

00:41:13.020 by David Mattis, uh, well-respected academic, human rights advocates, uh, respected left, right,

00:41:20.700 center. And this guy, uh, in explains how anti-Zionism turns into antisemitism. But what has really

00:41:27.820 happened is the same way with the Nazis in Germany is it's the intelligentsia, it's the university

00:41:34.780 professors, it's the law societies that, uh, that condone or look away or encourage, uh, this, this dog

00:41:44.620 whispers that if you love Israel, which I love Israel, I love Israel despite, despite the difficulties

00:41:52.540 and I pray for every Gazan child. Uh, but I also see that Israel is being singled out in ways that no

00:42:03.020 other nation would be singled out. And there it's, it all ties back to Holocaust denialism. It all ties back

00:42:10.460 to, uh, anti-Semitism and the fact that, uh, people who are so quick to judge Israel are basically

00:42:21.020 saying in not so many words, the Jews never deserved a place of refuge. The Jews should 1.00

00:42:27.420 have just packed up their bags when they took their, their, the boats to Canada and Canada said,

00:42:33.580 when they took their boats to America and America said, they should have gone back to Germany, 0.67

00:42:38.700 back to where the concentration camps were and settled there. Well, I'll tell you one thing, 0.99

00:42:43.420 the Jewish nation is not going to settle in Germany after the Holocaust, the Jewish nation 0.94

00:42:49.660 settled in their birthright in their place, uh, where my son was bar mitzvahed in their place where I pray,

00:42:57.580 to Jerusalem daily, you know, as we wouldn't put, expect Muslims to, uh, expect Mecca to be moved to

00:43:07.500 Uganda. We wouldn't expect Mecca to be moved to, uh, uh, Madagascar. We would, we have to respect that

00:43:16.300 the Jews have a place in Jerusalem. No, I, I, I, you're absolutely right. I, I, I, when you look at

00:43:22.860 what is the narrative on, uh, the academic world right now, what the kids on campus are being told

00:43:29.420 they're putting Israel through the, uh, colonizer lens, much like Europeans coming to North America. 0.64

00:43:36.620 You know, the Jews were colonists when in fact, uh, I'm sorry, uh, Jews and Israel, 0.96

00:43:43.340 those are the indigenous, if you will. So, uh, the world is upside down, right? I want to thank you so 1.00

00:43:48.780 much. I'm going to look into this book, um, after shock. I have a feeling I'm going to have to buy this

00:43:54.700 online, folks. I have a feeling if I go to the Toronto Public Library, um, well, knock me down

00:44:01.180 with a feather. This isn't on the shelves.

Rebel News Podcast - October 03, 2025

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