EZRA LEVANT ｜ The one tweet that snapped a dozen government bureaucrats to attention
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A tweet about a guy wearing a Palestinian flag on his uniform sends a bunch of government employees into a frenzy. And it's not the first time a government employee has worn a Palestine flag on their uniform. Rebel News Plus is a new podcast from the Rebel Network. It's 8 bucks a month, you get the video stuff and the satisfaction of keeping Rebel News Strong because we take no government money and it shows.
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Hello, my friends. I made a little bit of news with a tweet. Isn't that a funny story?
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I want to show you how a federal bureaucracy jumped into action when I poked them online.
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Tonight, I made a tweet and a dozen government bureaucrats snapped to attention.
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It's March 5th and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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You know, there's a reason why we have uniforms in the world, especially for police and the
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military and other imposers of force. It's so that you understand that the force, the authority
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being mustered, is in the name of the government, the public, not some special interest, not some
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club, not some religion. It's in the name of the people itself. That's why you don't see big
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crucifixes or stars of David on a necklace of a cop. That would be against regulation. And it's
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because if you're being arrested by someone, you're not being arrested by a Christian or
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a Jew or a Muslim. You're being arrested by a policeman or a policewoman. That's why there
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was some objection to Sikh turbans being allowed in the RCMP. Although I happen to know that Sikhs
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were disproportionately served in the British Empire as police and as soldiers for centuries,
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actually, in India. And turbans were an official part of historic British uniforms in India.
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So I think I'm a little bit more open to it than some people are because I know that in India,
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Sikhs with turbans had, that was their uniform and that's how it was for centuries.
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And even Queen Victoria's servant had a Sikh turban. So I, that's part of our history too. It might
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sound unusual, but it is. But look, even that does not violate the reason for a uniform to have one
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form so that you never wonder while you're being arrested, if it's for what you did or for who you
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are. That's why we have uniforms, right? Which brings me to this tweet that I wrote a few months back.
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Just went through Canadian air traffic safety, airport security at Calgary airport. The foreign
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migrant who searched my bag had a Palestine sticker on his security badge. Why are foreigners in charge
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of our security? Every other worker and manager obviously has seen his flag. Is there a Palestine
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cell at the Calgary airport? I mean, it's not like Palestinian activists are known for blowing up
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planes or anything. Can we please stop pretending that Katza, our version of the TSA, is anything
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more than security theater that has now been infiltrated by foreign agitators? So gross,
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but so on brand for Canada. We're sleepwalking our way to our own Bondi attack.
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Now, I think those are fair questions. Don't you? Like, why are you wearing an agitator's Palestine
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pin? And you're not even from here. I mean, in some of the documents that I saw, they claim he is a
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Canadian national. What are you doing agitating for a foreign organization, a foreign, I would call it a
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terrorist organization. What are you doing? I think those are fair questions. And it reminds me of
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of this. I mean, pro-Hamas messaging at an airport on their computer systems. I mean,
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Kelowna now, where the city's airport was targeted by hackers tonight. Videos and pictures inside the
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terminal show the public address system hijacked in terminal screens with pro-Hamas messaging.
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Kelowna International Airport tells CTV News that a third party gained access to the system shortly
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after 5 p.m. Reports from Kelowna indicate the incident occurred for about two and a half minutes.
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The airport says they have regained control of the system and are investigating the cause.
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Two flights were delayed for 10 minutes during this incident.
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Now, someone asked me why I didn't stop to make a fuss, why I didn't take a picture.
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And it's because that these TSA guards can have tremendous power over you. They can be abusive
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and power hungry. And they can make you late for your flight. They can make you miss your flight.
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And I didn't want to miss my flight. So I didn't even take a picture of the guy. I just tweeted it.
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And holy moly did that tweet get a reaction because it was true. Now, here's a news story about it
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today by one of my favorite news outlets called Black Locks Reporter.
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I'll read it to you. A social media post by the publisher of Rebel News, that's me,
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prompted federal managers to launch an immediate search for a security guard wearing a Palestine
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pin. Access to information records show. The search followed a Twitter comment last December 18th by
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Ezra Levant at the Calgary International Airport. Can you find out if this is true? A federal manager
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emailed staff only moments after the post. Wow, that's the fastest I've ever been served by the TSA.
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This requires your immediate attention, wrote another. It was posted this morning on Twitter.
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The post was retweeted a thousand times with 150 comments. Revolting and terrifying,
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wrote one Twitter follower. Insanity, said another post. This is the diversity they were looking for.
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It's a little crazy. Records show that security authority quickly tracked down the employee,
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met with him, and removed the sticker. A photograph of the offending badge distributed by managers
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depicted a heart-shaped Palestinian flag with the slogan,
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It ain't much, but it's honest work. I think there was actually two slogans that were
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combined there. Access to information records documented the authorities' panicky search for
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the flag badge. The incident was disturbing, wrote a Boyd, director of communications, wrote staff in an
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email with the subject heading, Heads Up. At 8.01 a.m. that day, Boyd wrote, Check on whether we have a
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policy now about what security officers can wear on their uniform or badges. I thought something was
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drafted recently, and if it was, we would have to investigate if the security officer in question,
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looks like this is from the last hour or so, is in contravention of that policy by wearing a flag.
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At 9.33 a.m., management emailed staff. This needs to be addressed as soon as possible. Security
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officers need to remain professional as they represent the authority and cannot wear pins that
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promote political advocacy issues or causes. It happened this morning. I believe the security
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officer may still be on shift. At 11.08 a.m., management announced they have identified the
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security officer. The badge was removed. A reminder will be sent to all security officers,
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said a staff notice. The Transport Security Authority contracts fee private firms, yada, yada,
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yada, and the guard with the Palestine sticker was not named. So to sum up, they weren't worried about
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having a foreign migrant who was pro-Palestine in an airport. They weren't worried about that.
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They were worried about people seeing that. So when they found the security officer, they just said,
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hey, take that off. Don't advertise your extremism. Your extremism is okay. The fact that you're a
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foreign national cheering on for Palestine in our airports while you're security, that's fine. Just don't
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have a sticker announcing it. They didn't fire him or discipline him. They just said, stop tipping people
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off. Some people don't like it. I love that they call my tweets terrifying as opposed to hiring a
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pro-Palestinian foreign migrant at our airport security. That's not terrifying. But it obviously
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wasn't just the one guy. Like I said in my tweet, he was in a team of a half a dozen people right there
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on that same conveyor belt. And that was part of a larger team. And he most likely would have had a
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staff meeting at the beginning of his shift. I've seen those before. So everyone there would have seen
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his sticker. Everyone. And I doubt that was the first day he was wearing it. It's just when I happened
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to see it. Literally no one out of probably 100 security staff at Calgary Airport had a problem with
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that. They all accepted it. They all saw that everyone else accepted it too. They all saw that it's normal
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at the Calgary International Airport for a foreign migrant to wear his Palestine flag and who many, who the
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others are in league with them. You know, they used to be saying, I'm old enough to remember after
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9-11. If you see something, say something. You know, I think the British transit system still
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use that. There are versions of that. But no one really does that anymore. Because first of all,
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you'd be called racist as Katza more or less does to me here. But more importantly, we see things
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non-stop all day long that are shocking. Are you going to call in everything? You look like a crazy
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person. It's being normalized. I remember it wasn't too long ago that if you saw a woman on the street
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covered head to toe, including everything other than a little slit for her eyes, their face blocked,
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looking like a ninja. You would think that is a shocking display of misogyny, the sort that we don't
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accept in Canada that's from a barbaric land far away. And whatever husband would put his wife in a
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body bag like that, that was a disgrace. Well, yeah, welcome to Canada in 2026, where terror mosques
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literally have memorials for the killed Ayatollah of Iran. Did you see David Menzies' video on that last night?
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It was a packed mosque having a memorial for the terrorists. If you see something and say something
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in 2026, you're most likely to be charged with Islamophobia. So yeah, the entire staff at Katza
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was mobilized not to stop the migrant with his Palestine agenda, but to stop the embarrassment of
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having somebody notice how extremist their staff is. That was their mission, not safety or security or
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the comfort of passengers, but covering up who they've been hiring. We're so cooked, aren't we?
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Hey, you know who's been doing some amazing work on these questions of Muslim extremism is our friend
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Alexa Lavois because she's based in Montreal, which in many ways is the worst city in Canada. I mean,
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Toronto's awful, Ottawa's bad, but Montreal, you have this terrible thing of combining pro-Hamas,
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pro-Iran activists with Antifa. Here is a report from our dear friend, Alexa Lavois.
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Alexa Lavois for Rebel News. And I'm here in Ville Saint-Laurent, Montreal, where overnight,
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around 2 a.m., three Jewish businesses, a pharmacy, a kosher pizza restaurant and a butcher shop were
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targeted. Swastikas were painted on their windows. This comes after a series of attacks targeting Jewish
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institutions and businesses following U.S. and Israeli strikes against Iran. Pro-Iranians' freedom
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business are also facing threats. In Toronto, the gem of an Iranian protest organizer was shot 17 times
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in Montreal since the Hamas attack against Israel on October 7, 2023. There has been a significant rise
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in anti-Semitic incidents. Jewish schools have been shot at, Molotov cocktails have been thrown at
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synagogue and community centers. And multiple death threats have been reported. I was able to obtain the
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pharmacy surveillance footage which shows the suspect caught in the act. I also spoke with the pharmacist,
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On s'est réveillés ce matin et puis on a reçu ce vidéo qui filmait l'avant de la pharmacie avec des
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croix gammées sur chacune des vitrines. Donc c'est un crime haineux et on est en train de faire tout ce
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qu'il faut pour trouver le responsable et puis l'amener devant la justice. Je pense que les caméras sont assez nettes.
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C'est possible qu'on ait la chance de pouvoir identifier cet individu et j'espère que ce sera fait d'ailleurs.
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Nous avons déjà appelé la police, ils nous ont donné un numéro d'événement et puis ils vont
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poursuivre une enquête. Ça fait 40 ans qu'on est dans ce streetement et puis c'est la première fois qu'on a
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Pourquoi pensez-vous qu'on vous a visé, vous, les trois business?
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C'est simple parce qu'à l'entrée de notre pharmacie, il y a ce qu'on appelle une mezouza qui nous identifie
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comme personne de confession juive et puis donc c'est très facile à identifier.
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Vous avez des préoccupations, surtout avec la dernière frappe en Iran. Est-ce que vous avez
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des préoccupations que ça pourrait escalader et avoir d'autres crimes comme ça?
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Oui, je pense que ça pourrait escalader, ça pourrait devenir plus grave et malheureusement, des choses
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qu'on n'aurait jamais pensé seraient arrivées au Québec, elles arrivent parce que des fois, les gouvernements
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sont un peu trop doux concernant ce genre de crimes ou concernant certaines politiques et puis voilà , on en paie le prix.
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La deuxième guerre mondiale, le monde a tourné la tête. Ils sont restés silencieux et il est arrivé ce qu'il est arrivé.
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Alors aujourd'hui, il faut dénoncer, il faut poursuivre, il faut éradiquer ce genre d'événements.
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Bien sûr, je suis préoccupée. Il m'est arrivé souvent de conduire derrière des voitures, qu'il y avait un drapeau palestinien
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ou qu'il y avait une mitraillette avec écrit en arabe à l'arrière près de la plaque du Québec qui dit je me souviens.
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C'est quelque chose qui est profondément perturbateur. On est au Québec. Pourquoi est-ce que le conflit est transporté ici?
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Il est transporté ici parce qu'il y a des radicaux ici aussi au Québec, c'est tout. Sinon, ça ne serait pas, ça n'arriverait pas.
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Si la situation s'empire et puis les actes deviennent plus violents et plus graves, éventuellement, il y aura une exode.
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One of the business owners agreed to speak with me on the condition of anonymity.
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Moi, j'arrivais de chez moi et puis, comme d'habitude, j'ouvre la porte et ça ne pouvait pas passer inaperçu.
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Ça se voyait, c'était bien flagrant, c'était de la peinture, c'était des gros signes.
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Donc, j'ai juste, je les ai nettoyés, d'ailleurs. Ce n'est pas la première fois que ça arrive déjà .
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Donc, c'est la troisième ou quatrième fois. Donc, on a un peu l'habitude.
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C'est pour ça que, c'est franchement, je suis arrivé et j'ai vu ça, ça ne m'a rien fait parce qu'on a l'habitude.
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Donc, j'ai juste commencé à nettoyer et je me suis dit de toute façon, ça, ça va toujours durer ça.
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On nous a cassé l'audit la dernière fois. Moi, je pense que c'est juste de l'intimidation, je pense que c'est juste pour embêter, nous embêter et ça ne nous fait rien du tout.
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Donc, voilà , je sais que ça va encore se répéter, ça ne va jamais s'arrêter. Je ne pense pas que ce sont des gens intelligents.
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Et voilà , ça va toujours être comme ça, je pense.
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Je pense, d'après ce que j'ai entendu tout à l'heure, que la police a arrêté ce matin une ou deux personnes.
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C'est vrai que n'importe quoi peut arriver, mais voilà , on verra bien, on espère que nous.
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Et a woman who was visiting her uncle, who works at the pizza restaurant, also agreed to speak with me on camera.
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Well, I just find it very disturbing that, you know, you're going into work, everything's fine,
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and for some unknown reason, somebody decides to put a swastika on your window.
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Is it for what reason? For intimidation? Are you trying to scare? Business goes on.
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They wiped it, they took it off, and at the end of the day, it just leaves like a lingering bad taste,
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knowing that anybody could do that in the middle of the night.
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It's just a sense of intimidation, and I mean, they're trying to make us afraid that there's going to be escalation.
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While all of them are targeted under one common denomination, they're all Jewish-owned businesses.
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That is the main reason. I mean, he's the one who got the swastikas,
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the other business they had their windows smashed not too long ago, them as well.
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It's all because they're Jewish-owned, no other reason why.
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Well, we know clearly it's anti-Semitism. Why? I don't know, because as I said, my uncle's business,
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he's just, you know, here doing what he loves. It's his business, it's his livelihood.
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His neighbors, exactly the same thing. They're not bothering anybody, so why are they being bothered?
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The only reason is because they're Jewish-owned businesses, and it's anti-Semitism.
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But where does the anti-Semitism come from? Ignorance, and perhaps to a certain level, jealousy.
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Jealousy that these people could stand on their own and, you know, make their own living.
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More and more that I see people in my community seeing something like this, yeah, we get angry,
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and we, you know, passed all the information around when there's been one of these businesses
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There's going to be a statement, obviously, made by the organizations such as B'nai B'rith, Sija.
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But the day-to-day people from our community, we get angry, but we're also very resilient.
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We just say, this is not going to install fear in us.
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We're just going to get stronger, and we're just going to get tighter and more united.
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As a matter of fact, since October 7th, 2023, we haven't been lurking and hiding.
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We've actually become actually much more united and stronger as a community.
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And not just in Montreal. I'm talking about the Jewish diaspora all over the world.
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With the escalation that we are seeing, we are seeing like now with the Iranian war,
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I don't know if you can actually say that is a war, but like with what happened in Iran,
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do you feel that Montreal is safe now for the Jewish people?
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I believe that despite all these threats and vandalism and, you know, anti-Semitic tropes,
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for example, my niece who's in McGill, McGill Medicine,
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she saw a note on the McGill Med that said, Jews go home, free Palestine.
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Well, good news is she still applied to McGill in family medicine and she still got in.
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So again, it's not going to scare us. It's not going to fear us.
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And coming back to the Iranian community, as a matter of fact,
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whoever's feeling this type of level of anti-Semitism,
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they've actually shot themselves in the foot because the Iranian community
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has gotten a lot stronger with the Jewish community
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because they are both in favour of the IRGC crumbling.
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And if you see the protests that were going on,
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you would see the Iranian flag, the older Iranian flag with the lion,
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So I strongly believe that the group of people that are anti-Semitic
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and the pro-Pali crowd, as we call them, are becoming now the minority.
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And, you know, I keep on receiving messages from Iranian friends
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Thank you for supporting us because when this was going on since January
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and thousands of people being murdered, especially women,
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But the Jewish community were reaching out to the Iranian community.
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And they were saying thank you for supporting us.
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And now you could see that they're actually together.
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And no, I'm not afraid that something's going to happen in Montreal.
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Do you have maybe a message for the people in charge at the government,
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especially regarding reports that reveal that there is some individual
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linked to Hamas and also members of ERGC who live here in Canada?
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You know what, I think that's probably kept very under the radar.
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but definitely organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood
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should be determined as a terrorist organization,
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just like the IRGC is supposed to be determined as a terrorist organization.
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I think that there is definitely a lot more that needs to be done.
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And if they're aware of it, the government, there could be a very good reason
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why they are trying to suppress that information.
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we are seeing politicians saying and denouncing what is happening,
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but we don't see concrete action to protect the Jewish community in Canada.
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What would you want to see them doing regarding that?
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it would be nice because he seems to double speak.
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First, he made a statement that he supported President Trump
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And then he clapped back just a couple of days ago
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and said that he condemns Israel and USA's actions,
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So, you know, it would be better to have a Prime Minister
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but he also has to answer to the Jewish community.
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and people that were born and were naturalized.
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We were born here and we contribute a lot to the society.
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we need a little more support coming from the government,
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They were infiltrated by the World Economic Forum and Islamists.
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If Israel and the US were to inform Canada or anyone else
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from the United Nations about this plan to assassinate Iran's leadership,
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it's like General Schwarzkopf said going to war without the French
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They haven't exactly been supportive of the United States.
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that's his way of saying to his extremist Muslim voter base,
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Carney is trying to figure out what the Chinese Communist Party,
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You know, I've been reading some analyses online
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about how obviously Iran is going to have regime change
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It really is a counter-revolution 47 years late.
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China has been growing throughout the world in a number of ways
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through their Belt and Road economic initiative,
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through investments in places like Africa especially.
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They don't have foreign army bases in the same way
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that the United States does all around the world,
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but their influence, their tentacles are certainly growing.
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Including the 11 ridings that were interfered with by China.
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Not only was it a source of oil and deeply discounted oil
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because when America and the West put sanctions on Iranian oil,
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And more than that, by being strong allies with Iran,
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China was able to frustrate American strategy for that region,
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Not only was it an ally of China, but it was a source of oil.
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So if you cut off Venezuelan oil and if you cut off Iranian oil,
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And it's no longer has a toehold in the Americas
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And soon it'll be shoved out of the Middle East.
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What's so interesting is that Iran in its final flurry
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Just going out with a bang and weirdly pushing all these other countries
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I think so much is going to be possible when Iran is liberated.
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And I think it's going to be good for the entire world economically.
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And, you know, really, I think you've got two choices for the hyper power in the world.
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And I think this shows America is strong and America is in control.
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Last letter of the day from John Alexander, who says,
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Here in London, Ontario, the mayor and council voted to give themselves a 36% raise.
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but I can only imagine that it's an extremely large amount.
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If you want to be your own boss, start your own business.
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All the money is yours and you can pay yourself whatever you can.
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But to go into politics and be your own boss in terms of setting your own salary,
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,