Rebel Assaulted in Montreal, Media Bias on Israel and Hamas
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Rebel News' Chief Videographer Mocha Bezergan was punched in the face by a pro-Hamas assailant in Montreal, Canada, on the weekend of the protests between pro-Israel and pro- Hamas demonstrators in the city.
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Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,
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in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite Rebels.
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Well, our chief videographer, Mocha Bezergan, went to Montreal last weekend.
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And thanks to clashes between pro-Israel and pro-Hamas demonstrators,
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this Canadian city looked like a municipality somewhere in the Middle East.
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And Mocha, who himself was physically assaulted, shall have plenty of details to share.
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This just in, the media party is so emboldened these days on the propaganda front
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that it doesn't even care about openly declaring its bias,
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at least when it comes to the latest violence occurring in the Middle East.
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Ezra Levent will join me to talk about an open letter making the rounds
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in which Canadian journalists proclaim that they are choosing the side of Hamas
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rather than Israel when it comes to their news coverage.
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And letters, we get your letters, we get them every minute of every day.
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And you had plenty to say about the protesting double standards
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namely anti-lockdown protesters who want the Canadian economy to open up
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Well, they're banned from Nathan Phillips Square.
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But if one is pro-Hamas and spouting hate speech,
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well, Mayor John Tory, he'll roll out the red carpet for those sort of people.
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Those are your rebels. Now let's round them up.
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The throne rocks! The throne rocks! The throne rocks!
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Hello ladies and gentlemen, I'm chief videographer at Rebel News.
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i was in montreal this last weekend where crazy things happened there were two major protests
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one was a pro-palestine protest and the other one was pro-israel protest the pro-palestinian
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protest took place on saturday same square where the very next day a pro-israeli protest took place
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and this time pro-palestinian counter protesters showed up and things got a little ugly the streets
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were filled with tear gas and pepper spray i got punched in the face pedestrians who had nothing
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to do with the protest got affected a couple people got arrested traffic was halt take a look at this
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officer here yeah i'm here i'm recording he punched me what i can't really see him don't lie
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brother i said look he was protecting himself i saw him i'm not rebel he's not protecting i'll tell you
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something they came with a knife they're there with knife look they came with knife you know what
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there's different arabs they have knives they're dirty that's him right here running and then he
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comes up to me and then punches me where is he that's not him that's not even him bro don't lie
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wow i know that footage might look like it was shot somewhere in the middle east but that was indeed
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the scene last weekend in montreal when pro-hamas and pro-israel supporters clashed throwing fists
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and projectiles as the montreal police lobbed tear gas canisters it was a shameful and disturbing scene
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and what was the deal with the thug who sucker punched our chief videographer and that would be mocha
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well joining me now is the target of the attack mocha bezragan himself so mocha you don't have a dog in
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this race i'm talking about the ongoing tensions uh between the palestinian authority and the israeli
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government you're just in montreal playing witness as a journalist to the protests that were occurring
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what was the motivation for you getting sucker punched in the first place
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well that's what i'm trying to find an answer to after the punch i went after the attacker
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and i asked him why did you punch me why did you punch me and um it was more of a like to me it was
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like some you know some kid came in and i said no no no no no no and then ran away that was i was
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under shock of that because i'm like what just happened and why did it happen i'm trying to make
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sense of it and he was just he wouldn't um look me in the eye he would keep walking away um after
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and and he started denying that it was him his friends would try to push me away so because i
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can't communicate with him i escalated to the people who were basically um kind of organizing the protest
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um um like showing the way where to go what to do um i said hey are you guys in a position of authority
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um something you know somebody punched me and they just pushed me around i mean sorry pushed me away
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from them so um you know nobody is um helping me so i went to the police this time luckily we were
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passing through a police officer and i said officer this person with the this hat punched me and um he
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called him over and um he watched a video in my video it's not clear who punched me so the police
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said i can't really see plus um the guy who punched me was like oh what i didn't you know said something
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in french and his uh lying friends his low character friends they said oh it was in self-defense the other
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one said oh arabs are playing dirty they have knives the other ones you know so they basically lied
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and um well mocha in their defense it's so easy to mistake a cell phone for a knife they almost look
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identical but you know while you're saying mocha it reminds me of the old chestnut about um the
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watergate scandal it wasn't so much the crime it was the cover-up and that's what i think is almost
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as bad or even worse than the physical assault it's that that individual and his friends start
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making these preposterous lies that you've just uh checked off and um what what i don't like about
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this is that i i don't know where you are politically in terms of the conflict and maybe it's not here nor
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there but um i'm about as pro-israel as you can get these were the pro-israel demonstrators and it makes
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a mockery of why people are pro-israel i look at israel as a nation you know an island in a sea of
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intolerance and hatred surrounded by countries that want to wipe them off the the map one of the
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reasons i love israel is it is a democracy it does have freedoms and for them to act physically
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not just to another protester but to someone who's a member of the media that that brings the very
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foundation of why i love israel into disrepute when i see somebody acting in violence well it's only
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these particular protesters um they to me both sides were very acting like elementary children
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trying to steal each other flags and cheering for it i i asked myself what am i doing here
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and um i went there as a um third party as a you know with clear conscience to just report what's
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going to happen what's whatever happens and that's what i did but i didn't expect
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i did i was more afraid of getting punched by a palestinian protester than i was afraid of getting
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punched by an israeli protester it was a it was very unexpected for me but it happened and um it um
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showed me that you know you never let your guard down no you're quite right and the fact that the
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police were so lame here's an actual real crime committed with video evidence for goodness sakes mocha
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and it was kind of like you know um more than a month ago when we were in montreal covering uh
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what began as a peaceful demonstrator demonstration uh against the curfew and then those blockheads from
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antifa showed up and started smashing the windows of small businesses which was absolutely despicable
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but um we were in a dicey situation because the antifa types the black block types uh those um anarchists
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that are in montreal they would like nothing more than to harm us i'm absolutely sure about it yet
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we can't go to the police either because they despise us it reminds me of the tagline from the
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movie um aliens versus predator uh no matter which side wins we lose right so that was kind of the the
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dilemma i i think you are in because you didn't have a lot of friends on the ground yeah i only had yankee
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which um after the event we met up and um he tried to arrange um we we looked for the guy and he tried
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to arrange an apology from him but he was very uncooperative um so i started yelling at him you
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punched me why did you punch me and everyone paid attention that time and they forced me and him to come
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together to shake hands but he his he kind of apologized but it wasn't genuine he was like huh you know he's
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laughing speaking in french doesn't even know english probably i don't know unbelievable and um so he
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he was like you know if you didn't commit the crime then why are you apologizing if you're apologizing
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then you did commit the crime why are you lying and they gaslighted me they said no it's not even
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him it's not even him and you know i know who punched me of course i do i saw it's on camera multiple
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angles well i hope now i hope that um he will feel the the you know the extent of the law the power of
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the law in his bones all the way and if not the laws and the criminal law volka because of the the man
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we work for as relevant who does not bend the knee maybe this is a matter for the civil courts maybe
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there's going to be a lawsuit against this person because this cannot uh be tolerated this cannot
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we can't turn a blind eye to this um one last question in the bigger picture of things and i think
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this is another example um you remember uh two summers ago we were in kingston i had a bottle thrown
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off my head by an antifa type uh other myself other reporters we've all been the victims of physical
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assaults and it's what i'm trying to understand is the uh entitlement of these people that they think
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they can get physical and i think it comes down to when you look at the left there is a saying where
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they say it's okay to punch a nazi and the definition of a nazi isn't somebody hell-bent on world conquest and
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carrying out a genocide a nazi to them is someone who disagrees with their opinion how in the world
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in a democracy where there should be you know uh free ideas you know debated where we should have
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the ability to say you know i let's agree to disagree without throwing fists how do we get to
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this point mocha where suddenly there are those who feel that if you have a different opinion than i do
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it's fair game i'm gonna punch in the face i don't know how we got here but it's a very deluded mindset
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i think to think that you can just punch people because they disagree with you you can just imagine
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them as the nazi or as whatever you hate and um people just need to come calm down and um approach
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each individual as an individual and um start start conversations instead of throwing fists and
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punches a hundred percent well i'm glad you're relatively okay and uh i know you're going back
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to montreal so please uh always uh you know be uh aware of your surroundings although i i'm i would
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have been in the same position i never would have expected an attack from that person and speaking of
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that person uh check your mailbox in the days and weeks ahead you might be getting uh some kind of
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lawyer's letter in the mail you're not going to get away with that you're not going to get away
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with punching an innocent person in the face uh just for the egregious practice of journalism and if
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the montreal police aren't going to do anything either that's okay we have some excellent lawyers
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keep it here more of rebel roundup to come right after this
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well in any battle between a liberal democracy and a terrorist group or a dictatorship i know whose
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side i'm on that's why i rooted for hong kong against communist china while i still love little
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taiwan i'm not ethnically related to the taiwanese or the hong kongese in any way i just know
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the good guys from the bad guys i feel the same way about israel i have a special connection and
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affection as a jew but i think i would certainly like to think that even if i were not jewish and
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even if i had never visited the place i would still stand up for israel against the hamas terrorist
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group an explicitly anti-semitic organization that can best be understood as a modern reincarnation
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of the nazi party if you read their charter you can see they explicitly want to kill not just israelis
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but jews they don't want to have some sort of rapprochement or new deal with israel they want to
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utterly destroy it and exterminate it it is language reminiscent of hitler's mein kampf
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um that's my view and i hate to see the violence and that war pop up here in canada and some of the
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violent protests we saw throughout the country on the weekend of course it's a minor point to note
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the police certainly didn't enforce anti-gathering lockdown laws mask laws social distancing laws
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against those folks meanwhile they were locking down churches and arresting pastors but one of the
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most interesting things that probably escaped much notice because it's behind the scenes
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is a an open letter to canadian newsrooms uncovering israel palestine and this has been signed by more
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than 1500 reporters or those who want to be reporters and just in the very title there you
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know where they're coming from because the battle is between the hamas terrorist group and israel but
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it's immediately being cast as a battle between israel and palestine let me just read a few lines
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from this open letter to you the middle east is complicated we need to hear both sides everyone has a
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lot of emotions about this these are just some of the excuses news editors have provided to canadian
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journalists trying to cover the escalating violence against palestinians oh is that is that what we're
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talking about is that the only violence to talk about and is we have to lose that nuance according to
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this letter and we have to embrace the truth of one side the hamas side that accuses israel of quote
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ethnic cleansing this letter goes on to demand that media in canada be advocates for hamas
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and it's signed by reporters who work for the globe and mail ctv global news the toronto star
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cbc and many others well there you have it folks the media party is so emboldened these days
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on the propaganda front that it doesn't even care about openly declaring its bias at least when it
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comes to the latest violence occurring in the middle east and so it is that there are no shades of gray
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regarding the conflict it's all black and white with israel in the role of the villain given that it is
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supposedly pursuing ethnic cleansing and with the palestinians in the role of victims of genocide oh
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come on give me a break but as the old chestnut goes in war truth is the first casualty yet now
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that we have taxpayer funded reporters stating how they have no intention absolutely of telling the
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other side of the story the question arises why and here to answer that query is rebel news commander
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ezra levant ezra how did we get here yeah i looked through this list like you can actually find this list
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it's a document that people can add their names to continuously there are an enormous number of
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people from the cbc the toronto star the globe and mail institutions like that that claim to be neutral
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but these are reporters who are saying i'm not neutral israel's the bad guy they're doing ethnic
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cleansing there was actually ethnic cleansing in gaza but it's probably not what these reporters
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most of whom know nothing about the region would say and that ethnic cleansing came in the form
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of the forced evacuation of jewish residents of gaza the gaza strip is a very dense
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i'll call it a municipality that abuts egypt and it was overwhelmingly muslim but there were
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i don't know one percent of the population were jews and they were in agriculture and they had little
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towns there it was very hard for israel to protect them because they were constantly subject to terrorist
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attacks and as a unrequited act of peacemaking israel said all right we're going to actually remove the
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last jews of gaza and the jews said no we don't want to go the israeli army went into gaza and forcibly
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removed every last jew from their farms and greenhouses um hamas took over smashed everything and just
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instead of greenhouses turned it into so there was a lot of things that happened wrong then um it was
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wrong to think that this unilateral step would appease hamas hamas is not a regular political
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organization that we would think of in the west that is looking for peace their constitution there
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it actually tracks the nazi parties in some way they explicitly call for the annihilation of israel
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they explicitly call for the killing of all jews anywhere so it's not just get the jews out of
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israel we're happy and so when israel gave up this part of the gaza strip actually yanked out all the
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remaining jews took out all the soldiers there's not a single jew in gaza neither soldier nor resident
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israel at the time was very foolish to think this would somehow create peace in return in fact all it
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did was convince hamas oh let's just keep doing more of whatever we were doing so that's the only
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ethnic cleansing i can think of that's happened in the gaza strip is those last jews were removed in fact
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abhi yamini his uh family member uh he's part of a large family one of his family members lived in the
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gaza strip and was one of those jews that was removed he's got a very touching video about that on our
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on our channel so anyway that's a little anecdote about ethnic cleansing the only ethnic cleansing in gaza
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is the jews were cleansed out but um back to your question about the media uh it's quite interesting
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to see these journalists out themselves first of all as know-nothings but second of all as
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propagandists and the question is how can they continue to work as news producers editors at places
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like the global mail the cbc once they basically said we will not tell the israeli side of the story we
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do not acknowledge that there's a terrorist war here and we will state that israel is an apartheid
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ethnic cleanser how can people who sign that um be allowed to continue in non-part non-partisan jobs
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in a newspaper or media company what i mean by that is if you're an opinion columnist and you have a
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very strong opinion okay that's your job but if your job is to be a neutral editor producer
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uh presenter you can't say that and then say oh just kidding now pretend i'm neutral but but really
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didn't it just prove what we already all knew about the media and ezra i want to touch on that
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the twas ever thus in the world of media especially in the printed press you had the op-ed section that
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those were the opinions the editorials and then you had the front page which was supposed to be
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unbiased go reaching out to both sides you know not having a horse in this race i have seen in the
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last i i think it's been accelerated indeed in the last five years the op-ed pages have drifted over to
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the front page and in a way ezra i think the signatories of that open letter they've actually
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done as a favor we've long accused them of being biased of hiding their bias now they're saying you know
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what yeah we are biased yeah here's the deal yeah and you know um how did this happen and this whole
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phenomenon of signing these open letters and signing these open lists that feels fairly recent i mean i
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know what's happened in the past but it's so much easier with online sharing documents people sign their
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names to things um i'm reminded of a few months back when the national post itself purportedly one of
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the most conservative newspapers in canada had a similar online letter naming shaming and condemning their
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own lead columnist rex murphy and instead of firing everyone who signed that letter the national
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post to their disgraceful discredit actually had like a a staff meeting struggle session where they
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all took turns denouncing rex murphy who wasn't there by the way he refused to dignify the the whole
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presentation but national post management hosted this town hall they called it so what started out as
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the madness of universities well if you're crazy when you're 20 and no one says you're crazy and then if
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you're hired by why would the national post hire anyone from crazy town ryerson or crazy town carlton
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journalism school like if you were literally if you you know there's a saying in politics personnel is
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policy who you hire is a reflection of your mindset of course it is um
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um and if the national post and these other organizations hire the kookiest wokest craziest
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cancel culture nut bar left-wing radicals why wouldn't they think that's going to slowly take
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over their own institutions so the the craziness from the campuses a decade ago are now the craziness in
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institutions today academia is completely gone media is largely gone and shame on and i'm mentioning the
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national post there i actually i don't even recall if i saw a national post signatory on this latest
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list i think they were told not to based on the rex murphy struggle session but um that's everywhere
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now we i mean i i think of our own place we hire people here rebel news and um there are some positions
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at rebel news that are not editorial like there's an accounting position there's uh there's tech side
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positions and so there are some places where i it doesn't actually matter at all what your editorial
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view is because you're not doing that stuff but really if if you're working at rebel news you should
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share the world view of rebel news and what's incredible to me is that so-called conservative
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institutions so-called conservative media hired people who despise them who hate them if you're
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joining the national post and you hate rex murphy and you hate conrad black why are you joining them
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i know why to change them and to think those guys are in their 70s and 80s i'm in my 20s i'm gonna
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extirpate them from national post and to turn it into the toronto star that's what's going on and you
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know it is baffling i would say today's national post to use the old gm ad tagline for oldsmobile this
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ain't your father's national post but one last exit question uh ezra in the big picture we go
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back to 1948 the establishment of israel if you were a classical liberal this was a great thing this was
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renowned it was a democracy it was an island of tolerance in a sea of uh you know broiling hatred
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and how did the left change its view that uh you know this uh you know you know just three years
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after the end of the holocaust that israel was something to um it was something that was revolting
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to them and you look at and when i say that as i look at some of the signage um in london ontario
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for goodness sakes the pro-hammas demonstrators some of them had swastikas yeah displaying that in
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in public yeah projecting that on israel i can't think of anything more offensive than that how do we
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get from there to here yeah well just one quick thing i haven't seen the left-wing anti-hate groups
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in this country go after swastikas being flown from the the pro-hammas types they they keep on
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saying that the greatest threat to jews is from the far right yeah okay could be uh i haven't seen
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evidence of that i suppose i'm keeping an open mind but here you have actual people parading through
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the streets of canada with nazi flags swastikas and the anti-hate groups well that's our narrative
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is it's old white guys who are doing that not muslim migrants um but um as to israel in 1948
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there was a few things there i think it was started sort of in a socialist way first of all i think it
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was in the shadow of the holocaust there was sort of an international um consensus that something had
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to be done about the jews this is the jewish homeland they were just uh six million killed in
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germ in in europe this is perhaps a solution and remember most of the world's i mean the soviet union
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america the main allies had just finished fighting hitler and seen the true evil evil so the memory of
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the holocaust was fresher it wasn't denied or trivialized it is today secondly israel was a socialist
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enterprise um the concept of a kibbutz was actually a kind of voluntary communism people would live
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communally and i think that even the soviet side the leftist side said ah well maybe this jewish homeland
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will be friendly to socialism and indeed it was for a while and finally i think there's something in
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western minds that sympathizes with underdogs and of course the jews had just been bloodied and and
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decimated by the holocaust and israel was a small weak country surrounded by big arab countries so
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even the west people were sympathetic with israel it survived its independence day war it survived the
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war of 1956 but that love or that honeymoon with israel only lasted two decades because in 1967 when five or
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six arab armies were preparing to attack it israel made a preemptive strike knocked out various air
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forces in the regions had some successful tank battles and suddenly the underdog became a top dog
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and israel conquered the sinai and all of a sudden this little country that was being picked on picked
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on picked on it showed the world it could not only defend itself but it knocked out sort of in a david
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and goliath biblical way all these huge arab armies and so i think the world the liberals of the world the
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leftist progressives of the world said hmm israel's not the underdog anymore now they're the bully even
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though there's still one country surrounded by dozens of arab countries a small country surrounded by
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hundreds of millions of arabs and muslims and so i think that the the west said you're no longer the
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underdog we like jews when they're bent and bleeding you were too victorious we're going to switch our
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allegiances to your enemies now and it's the same mental problem that throughout the cold war there
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was this large segment of the progressive left that hated the west and rooted for the soviets you saw
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that i remember knowlton nash of the cbc way back in the day pure pro like always had the soviet
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pundits on and i thought what is he doing the free speech that knowlton nash enjoys in canada
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it's because of our freedom and he would always have i forget the name of the guy he would always
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have some well-spoken uh you know fluent in english soviet spin doctrine i think you're treating this
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propaganda liar as a truth teller why why why because he hated the west he wanted to undo the west
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and first it was supporting the soviets then it was supporting the jihadists i mean there is a part
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of the left that will always take the enemy's side against ourselves and israel is a proxy for the
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west in that region and yeah that's too long an answer to your question but but we have to stand
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by freedom and democracy the same way i would feel if taiwan were attacked by communist china god forbid
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that plucky little democracy outnumbered 10 to 1 40 to 1 we have to stand with taiwan in israel i feel
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the same way plus i have a personal connection i mean i'm jewish so i have a sympathy in israel for that
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regards but i i think even if i weren't jewish just like i i would root for the democracy of taiwan
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and it broke my heart when hong kong was conquered that's how i feel towards israel too 100 great
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analysis as we're hard to believe there was a useful idiot working at cbc after used to and you know
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folks there you got it i mean and to go back to this open letter signed by these journalists i mean
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i went to the ryerson school of journalism in the early 80s before ryerson became this woke madhouse
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that it is today and i can tell you when it came to covering hard news you know there were three
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basic tenets basically you reached out for the other side of the story you strove for accuracy
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and you kept personal bias out of it it's just the five w's all these signatories of that open letter
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they would have failed j school back in the early 80s keep it here for more of rebel roundup right after this
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david menzies for rebel news here in toronto well folks i'm just outside nathan phillips square
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you know it's one of the no man's lands for anti-lockdown protesters to go to but if you're a pro-hamas
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protester oh well mayor tory has the red carpet rolled out for the people here uh advocating their
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special brand of anti-semitism and it's not just nathan phillips square folks it is bay street itself
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cars have illegally blocked um at the uh bay street here we've seen cars going down the wrong way of a
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one-way street we see cars revving their engines unnecessarily you know if the police came here
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i would imagine they could fill their uh quota for one month in one hour but you know what not a cop
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to be seen here on bay street and that's kind of funny isn't it do you remember last summer how folks
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we came down here to cover a protest an illegal protest by the way because it broke 11 sections of
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the trespass act and that was by the rank and file of a group called afro-indigenous rising they
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were breaking 11 sections of the trespass act including starting fires uh camping overnight urinating
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defecating in the public square and nothing was done for that about that for three whole weeks but
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when we went down to cover this disgrace we were threatened with being charged with trespassing here
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check it out yesterday i went to nathan phillips square it has been commandeered uh by a group that's
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primarily composed of indigenous and black people and evidently we're not allowed to be on the square
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it is like the antifa autonomous city in seattle but it's even amped up a little more because it's
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right where the seat of government is here in the municipality of toronto toronto city hall we were
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told that by police that if we didn't exit the square we would be arrested and charged with trespass
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and yet they're turning a blind eye to the squatters not only that folks the city is aiding and enabling them
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by putting up porta potties for their comfort so isn't that amazing and again to bring it back to the
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question du jour how is it that an anti-lockdown protest a peaceful anti-lockdown protest is not
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allowed on nathan phillips square or young dundas square but this i don't know what this protest is
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trying to say well actually i do but it would be impolite to uh speak my mind in any event it is a
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double standard and we're going to try to find out why it is that people advocating for violence and
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death because that's what's happening here folks people advocating for violence and death are completely
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tolerated and accommodated and peaceful protesters that just want the economy to reopen resume life as
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canadians in canada circa 2019 why they are ticketed and worse even arrested and put in jail so let's
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see what reaction we can get also there really is no sense in me interviewing the pearl hamas demonstrators
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here these are the same people that congregate for the odious al-quds day rally typically in late june
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they actually print out pictures of me uh on uh pages telling people not to speak with me i swear i'm
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not making this up check out the video footage how do you explain marching with the very people who despise
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you who would want you killed and of course hey hi guys sorry you're not playing oh there there you're
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they're training them young as i say in the marketing business get them young get them forever
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yeah so they're not in a mood to talk to me i wonder why maybe it's because i'm not asking the
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kind of softball questions cbc reporters do in any event let's wander into the square and see if we can
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have authorities explain why there is such a glaring and odious and egregious
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double standard when it comes to freedom of protest i'm just wondering i'm trying to get
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clarity in terms of the rules of protesting how anti-lockdown protests people waving can you
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no comment you have no comment but but why is there a double standard can you please answer me that sir
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i can't comment at this time okay he can't comment i'm just wondering last summer we came here to cover
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the afro-indigenous rising illegal occupation of the square we were threatened with being charged
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with trespassing by you and the police i am wondering why were we not allowed to practice
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journalism in the square and yet this protest is occurring in the square right now where and some
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of these people are advocating very nasty things indeed why is that okay i just want to stop you right
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there unfortunately i cannot comment on that because i don't know what happened with you or
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in that incident uh the best person to contact is uh prior strategic communications with the city
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oh that would be bruce hawkins he him and bruce hawkins he him and in case we uh mistake bruce hawkins
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for a she her or a zzer folks he was actually part of a spying mission on us coming to nathan phillips
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square to uh cover the protests so i don't think he's going to give us an answer he was uh uh like i said
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spying on our activities so again i just wonder why journalists can't practice journalism on nathan
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phillips square and yet you can have basically people advocating hate speech gathering here again
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i'm unable to comment to that okay well that was the disgraceful scene in downtown toronto last saturday
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and the message is clear isn't it in mayor john tory's hogtown all protests are equal but some protests
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well they're more equal than others translation anti-lockdown demonstrators are verboten in nathan
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phillips square but a pro-hamas demonstration well diversity is our strength i guess in any event you had
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plenty to say about this odious double standard when it comes to freedom of speech and assembly
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jürgen reichelt writes yet they are arresting peaceful pastors and treat them like animals
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tory and trudeau destroying canada as we know and love it hey maybe you are on to something jürgen
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perhaps if these peaceful pastors wrap themselves in the flag of the palestinian authority and serve up
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a sermon full of anti-semitism they shall be left alone johnny lawrence writes
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guess covid magically disappeared for this protest yes johnny we've been told from day one the decisions
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made by our politicians and bureaucrats and public health officials are based on science i wonder if
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they meant to say political science because that's not science at all john t minus 20 minutes mercier writes
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quote those are my principles if you don't like them i have others end quote as noted by groucho
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jay john i thought you were perhaps quoting any number of politicians in canada these days from
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premiers ford and kenny to mayor tory and prime minister trudeau horrible leaders who believe that
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principles like gender these days is fluid and brent baker writes i have police officer friends in the
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united states that i sent this to and they're absolutely disgusted well brent those are my kind
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of police officers well that wraps up another edition of rebel roundup thanks so much for
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joining us see you next week and hey folks never forget without risk there can be no glory good night