Rebel News Podcast - Rebel Assaulted in Montreal, Media Bias on Israel and Hamas

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00:01:14.320 Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,

00:01:32.720 in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite Rebels.

00:01:37.400 I'm your host, David Menzies.

00:01:39.280 Well, our chief videographer, Mocha Bezergan, went to Montreal last weekend.

00:01:45.220 And thanks to clashes between pro-Israel and pro-Hamas demonstrators,

00:01:50.840 this Canadian city looked like a municipality somewhere in the Middle East.

00:01:55.540 It was shameful and disturbing.

00:01:57.360 And Mocha, who himself was physically assaulted, shall have plenty of details to share.

00:02:03.580 This just in, the media party is so emboldened these days on the propaganda front

00:02:09.080 that it doesn't even care about openly declaring its bias,

00:02:14.360 at least when it comes to the latest violence occurring in the Middle East.

00:02:18.580 Ezra Levent will join me to talk about an open letter making the rounds

00:02:22.160 in which Canadian journalists proclaim that they are choosing the side of Hamas

00:02:27.380 rather than Israel when it comes to their news coverage.

00:02:30.900 And letters, we get your letters, we get them every minute of every day.

00:02:34.940 And you had plenty to say about the protesting double standards

00:02:38.620 we witnessed in Toronto last weekend,

00:02:40.760 namely anti-lockdown protesters who want the Canadian economy to open up

00:02:46.100 so that Canadians can get back to work.

00:02:49.260 Well, they're banned from Nathan Phillips Square.

00:02:52.620 But if one is pro-Hamas and spouting hate speech,

00:02:56.200 well, Mayor John Tory, he'll roll out the red carpet for those sort of people.

00:03:01.400 Those are your rebels. Now let's round them up.

00:03:14.520 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

00:03:17.240 The throne rocks! The throne rocks! The throne rocks!

00:03:20.700 No! No! It's your or there.

00:03:21.780 Fuck you! 1.00

00:03:39.760 Hello ladies and gentlemen, I'm chief videographer at Rebel News. 1.00

00:03:45.100 My name is Mokhan Bezyrgan.

00:03:46.180 i was in montreal this last weekend where crazy things happened there were two major protests

00:03:52.340 one was a pro-palestine protest and the other one was pro-israel protest the pro-palestinian

00:03:59.080 protest took place on saturday same square where the very next day a pro-israeli protest took place

00:04:05.300 and this time pro-palestinian counter protesters showed up and things got a little ugly the streets

00:04:12.780 were filled with tear gas and pepper spray i got punched in the face pedestrians who had nothing

00:04:19.040 to do with the protest got affected a couple people got arrested traffic was halt take a look at this

00:04:24.800 crazy footage

00:04:42.780 officer here yeah i'm here i'm recording he punched me what i can't really see him don't lie

00:04:57.940 brother i said look he was protecting himself i saw him i'm not rebel he's not protecting i'll tell you

00:05:05.540 something they came with a knife they're there with knife look they came with knife you know what

00:05:09.240 there's different arabs they have knives they're dirty that's him right here running and then he 1.00

00:05:14.680 comes up to me and then punches me where is he that's not him that's not even him bro don't lie

00:05:19.860 wow i know that footage might look like it was shot somewhere in the middle east but that was indeed

00:05:30.040 the scene last weekend in montreal when pro-hamas and pro-israel supporters clashed throwing fists

00:05:37.740 and projectiles as the montreal police lobbed tear gas canisters it was a shameful and disturbing scene

00:05:45.900 and what was the deal with the thug who sucker punched our chief videographer and that would be mocha

00:05:52.900 well joining me now is the target of the attack mocha bezragan himself so mocha you don't have a dog in

00:06:02.760 this race i'm talking about the ongoing tensions uh between the palestinian authority and the israeli

00:06:08.200 government you're just in montreal playing witness as a journalist to the protests that were occurring

00:06:16.740 what was the motivation for you getting sucker punched in the first place

00:06:20.820 well that's what i'm trying to find an answer to after the punch i went after the attacker

00:06:26.760 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

00:06:33.600 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

00:06:39.080 under shock of that because i'm like what just happened and why did it happen i'm trying to make

00:06:44.720 sense of it and he was just he wouldn't um look me in the eye he would keep walking away um after

00:06:51.700 and and he started denying that it was him his friends would try to push me away so because i

00:06:59.020 can't communicate with him i escalated to the people who were basically um kind of organizing the protest

00:07:06.820 um um like showing the way where to go what to do um i said hey are you guys in a position of authority

00:07:15.220 um something you know somebody punched me and they just pushed me around i mean sorry pushed me away

00:07:20.760 from them so um you know nobody is um helping me so i went to the police this time luckily we were

00:07:27.960 passing through a police officer and i said officer this person with the this hat punched me and um he

00:07:35.420 called him over and um he watched a video in my video it's not clear who punched me so the police

00:07:43.140 said i can't really see plus um the guy who punched me was like oh what i didn't you know said something

00:07:50.220 in french and his uh lying friends his low character friends they said oh it was in self-defense the other

00:07:56.920 one said oh arabs are playing dirty they have knives the other ones you know so they basically lied

00:08:03.060 and um well mocha in their defense it's so easy to mistake a cell phone for a knife they almost look

00:08:09.860 identical but you know while you're saying mocha it reminds me of the old chestnut about um the

00:08:15.420 watergate scandal it wasn't so much the crime it was the cover-up and that's what i think is almost

00:08:21.980 as bad or even worse than the physical assault it's that that individual and his friends start

00:08:27.820 making these preposterous lies that you've just uh checked off and um what what i don't like about

00:08:35.400 this is that i i don't know where you are politically in terms of the conflict and maybe it's not here nor

00:08:40.940 there but um i'm about as pro-israel as you can get these were the pro-israel demonstrators and it makes

00:08:49.020 a mockery of why people are pro-israel i look at israel as a nation you know an island in a sea of

00:08:56.260 intolerance and hatred surrounded by countries that want to wipe them off the the map one of the 0.81

00:09:01.380 reasons i love israel is it is a democracy it does have freedoms and for them to act physically

00:09:09.800 not just to another protester but to someone who's a member of the media that that brings the very

00:09:17.920 foundation of why i love israel into disrepute when i see somebody acting in violence well it's only

00:09:24.500 these particular protesters um they to me both sides were very acting like elementary children

00:09:31.160 trying to steal each other flags and cheering for it i i asked myself what am i doing here

00:09:37.620 and um i went there as a um third party as a you know with clear conscience to just report what's

00:09:44.500 going to happen what's whatever happens and that's what i did but i didn't expect

00:09:49.300 i did i was more afraid of getting punched by a palestinian protester than i was afraid of getting 0.89

00:09:57.540 punched by an israeli protester it was a it was very unexpected for me but it happened and um it um

00:10:05.060 showed me that you know you never let your guard down no you're quite right and the fact that the

00:10:10.580 police were so lame here's an actual real crime committed with video evidence for goodness sakes mocha

00:10:16.180 and it was kind of like you know um more than a month ago when we were in montreal covering uh

00:10:22.580 what began as a peaceful demonstrator demonstration uh against the curfew and then those blockheads from 0.97

00:10:30.500 antifa showed up and started smashing the windows of small businesses which was absolutely despicable 0.82

00:10:36.420 but um we were in a dicey situation because the antifa types the black block types uh those um anarchists

00:10:43.860 that are in montreal they would like nothing more than to harm us i'm absolutely sure about it yet

00:10:49.220 we can't go to the police either because they despise us it reminds me of the tagline from the

00:10:55.780 movie um aliens versus predator uh no matter which side wins we lose right so that was kind of the the

00:11:02.900 dilemma i i think you are in because you didn't have a lot of friends on the ground yeah i only had yankee

00:11:09.060 which um after the event we met up and um he tried to arrange um we we looked for the guy and he tried

00:11:17.140 to arrange an apology from him but he was very uncooperative um so i started yelling at him you

00:11:23.700 punched me why did you punch me and everyone paid attention that time and they forced me and him to come 0.98

00:11:30.020 together to shake hands but he his he kind of apologized but it wasn't genuine he was like huh you know he's

00:11:36.740 laughing speaking in french doesn't even know english probably i don't know unbelievable and um so he

00:11:42.100 he was like you know if you didn't commit the crime then why are you apologizing if you're apologizing

00:11:48.820 then you did commit the crime why are you lying and they gaslighted me they said no it's not even

00:11:54.020 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

00:11:59.860 angles well i hope now i hope that um he will feel the the you know the extent of the law the power of

00:12:12.020 the law in his bones all the way and if not the laws and the criminal law volka because of the the man

00:12:19.060 we work for as relevant who does not bend the knee maybe this is a matter for the civil courts maybe

00:12:25.300 there's going to be a lawsuit against this person because this cannot uh be tolerated this cannot

00:12:32.900 we can't turn a blind eye to this um one last question in the bigger picture of things and i think

00:12:39.060 this is another example um you remember uh two summers ago we were in kingston i had a bottle thrown

00:12:45.860 off my head by an antifa type uh other myself other reporters we've all been the victims of physical

00:12:53.300 assaults and it's what i'm trying to understand is the uh entitlement of these people that they think

00:13:02.740 they can get physical and i think it comes down to when you look at the left there is a saying where

00:13:07.620 they say it's okay to punch a nazi and the definition of a nazi isn't somebody hell-bent on world conquest and

00:13:17.220 carrying out a genocide a nazi to them is someone who disagrees with their opinion how in the world 0.93

00:13:24.500 in a democracy where there should be you know uh free ideas you know debated where we should have

00:13:33.460 the ability to say you know i let's agree to disagree without throwing fists how do we get to

00:13:39.460 this point mocha where suddenly there are those who feel that if you have a different opinion than i do

00:13:45.300 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 0.93

00:13:52.260 i think to think that you can just punch people because they disagree with you you can just imagine 0.99

00:13:58.020 them as the nazi or as whatever you hate and um people just need to come calm down and um approach

00:14:08.420 each individual as an individual and um start start conversations instead of throwing fists and

00:14:15.220 punches a hundred percent well i'm glad you're relatively okay and uh i know you're going back

00:14:21.060 to montreal so please uh always uh you know be uh aware of your surroundings although i i'm i would

00:14:28.900 have been in the same position i never would have expected an attack from that person and speaking of

00:14:33.380 that person uh check your mailbox in the days and weeks ahead you might be getting uh some kind of

00:14:40.580 lawyer's letter in the mail you're not going to get away with that you're not going to get away

00:14:45.060 with punching an innocent person in the face uh just for the egregious practice of journalism and if

00:14:51.380 the montreal police aren't going to do anything either that's okay we have some excellent lawyers

00:14:58.580 keep it here more of rebel roundup to come right after this

00:15:06.900 well in any battle between a liberal democracy and a terrorist group or a dictatorship i know whose

00:15:13.700 side i'm on that's why i rooted for hong kong against communist china while i still love little

00:15:20.260 taiwan i'm not ethnically related to the taiwanese or the hong kongese in any way i just know

00:15:26.100 the good guys from the bad guys i feel the same way about israel i have a special connection and

00:15:32.180 affection as a jew but i think i would certainly like to think that even if i were not jewish and

00:15:39.460 even if i had never visited the place i would still stand up for israel against the hamas terrorist

00:15:46.820 group an explicitly anti-semitic organization that can best be understood as a modern reincarnation

00:15:54.660 of the nazi party if you read their charter you can see they explicitly want to kill not just israelis

00:16:02.660 but jews they don't want to have some sort of rapprochement or new deal with israel they want to 0.97

00:16:08.900 utterly destroy it and exterminate it it is language reminiscent of hitler's mein kampf

00:16:15.380 um that's my view and i hate to see the violence and that war pop up here in canada and some of the 0.91

00:16:24.020 violent protests we saw throughout the country on the weekend of course it's a minor point to note

00:16:30.340 the police certainly didn't enforce anti-gathering lockdown laws mask laws social distancing laws

00:16:37.700 against those folks meanwhile they were locking down churches and arresting pastors but one of the

00:16:44.100 most interesting things that probably escaped much notice because it's behind the scenes

00:16:50.260 is a an open letter to canadian newsrooms uncovering israel palestine and this has been signed by more

00:17:00.260 than 1500 reporters or those who want to be reporters and just in the very title there you

00:17:08.420 know where they're coming from because the battle is between the hamas terrorist group and israel but

00:17:14.420 it's immediately being cast as a battle between israel and palestine let me just read a few lines

00:17:18.980 from this open letter to you the middle east is complicated we need to hear both sides everyone has a

00:17:25.700 lot of emotions about this these are just some of the excuses news editors have provided to canadian

00:17:31.860 journalists trying to cover the escalating violence against palestinians oh is that is that what we're

00:17:40.020 talking about is that the only violence to talk about and is we have to lose that nuance according to

00:17:45.700 this letter and we have to embrace the truth of one side the hamas side that accuses israel of quote

00:17:53.140 ethnic cleansing this letter goes on to demand that media in canada be advocates for hamas

00:18:02.260 and it's signed by reporters who work for the globe and mail ctv global news the toronto star

00:18:09.860 cbc and many others well there you have it folks the media party is so emboldened these days

00:18:17.300 on the propaganda front that it doesn't even care about openly declaring its bias at least when it

00:18:24.100 comes to the latest violence occurring in the middle east and so it is that there are no shades of gray

00:18:31.060 regarding the conflict it's all black and white with israel in the role of the villain given that it is 0.61

00:18:37.300 supposedly pursuing ethnic cleansing and with the palestinians in the role of victims of genocide oh

00:18:45.460 come on give me a break but as the old chestnut goes in war truth is the first casualty yet now

00:18:52.740 that we have taxpayer funded reporters stating how they have no intention absolutely of telling the

00:18:59.540 other side of the story the question arises why and here to answer that query is rebel news commander

00:19:06.260 ezra levant ezra how did we get here yeah i looked through this list like you can actually find this list

00:19:12.500 it's a document that people can add their names to continuously there are an enormous number of

00:19:18.900 people from the cbc the toronto star the globe and mail institutions like that that claim to be neutral

00:19:27.620 but these are reporters who are saying i'm not neutral israel's the bad guy they're doing ethnic

00:19:31.780 cleansing there was actually ethnic cleansing in gaza but it's probably not what these reporters

00:19:37.460 most of whom know nothing about the region would say and that ethnic cleansing came in the form

00:19:42.420 of the forced evacuation of jewish residents of gaza the gaza strip is a very dense

00:19:50.260 i'll call it a municipality that abuts egypt and it was overwhelmingly muslim but there were

00:19:57.380 i don't know one percent of the population were jews and they were in agriculture and they had little 1.00

00:20:02.740 towns there it was very hard for israel to protect them because they were constantly subject to terrorist

00:20:08.980 attacks and as a unrequited act of peacemaking israel said all right we're going to actually remove the 0.77

00:20:19.460 last jews of gaza and the jews said no we don't want to go the israeli army went into gaza and forcibly

00:20:27.140 removed every last jew from their farms and greenhouses um hamas took over smashed everything and just 1.00

00:20:35.460 instead of greenhouses turned it into so there was a lot of things that happened wrong then um it was

00:20:42.020 wrong to think that this unilateral step would appease hamas hamas is not a regular political

00:20:48.260 organization that we would think of in the west that is looking for peace their constitution there

00:20:53.220 it actually tracks the nazi parties in some way they explicitly call for the annihilation of israel 0.72

00:20:59.700 they explicitly call for the killing of all jews anywhere so it's not just get the jews out of 1.00

00:21:04.900 israel we're happy and so when israel gave up this part of the gaza strip actually yanked out all the

00:21:12.580 remaining jews took out all the soldiers there's not a single jew in gaza neither soldier nor resident

00:21:20.020 israel at the time was very foolish to think this would somehow create peace in return in fact all it

00:21:25.620 did was convince hamas oh let's just keep doing more of whatever we were doing so that's the only 0.94

00:21:30.820 ethnic cleansing i can think of that's happened in the gaza strip is those last jews were removed in fact

00:21:35.380 abhi yamini his uh family member uh he's part of a large family one of his family members lived in the

00:21:42.420 gaza strip and was one of those jews that was removed he's got a very touching video about that on our

00:21:47.300 on our channel so anyway that's a little anecdote about ethnic cleansing the only ethnic cleansing in gaza

00:21:53.140 is the jews were cleansed out but um back to your question about the media uh it's quite interesting

00:21:59.300 to see these journalists out themselves first of all as know-nothings but second of all as

00:22:04.580 propagandists and the question is how can they continue to work as news producers editors at places

00:22:11.860 like the global mail the cbc once they basically said we will not tell the israeli side of the story we

00:22:18.580 do not acknowledge that there's a terrorist war here and we will state that israel is an apartheid 0.93

00:22:26.340 ethnic cleanser how can people who sign that um be allowed to continue in non-part non-partisan jobs

00:22:34.580 in a newspaper or media company what i mean by that is if you're an opinion columnist and you have a

00:22:39.940 very strong opinion okay that's your job but if your job is to be a neutral editor producer

00:22:44.980 uh presenter you can't say that and then say oh just kidding now pretend i'm neutral but but really

00:22:54.260 didn't it just prove what we already all knew about the media and ezra i want to touch on that

00:22:59.380 the twas ever thus in the world of media especially in the printed press you had the op-ed section that

00:23:05.860 those were the opinions the editorials and then you had the front page which was supposed to be

00:23:11.380 unbiased go reaching out to both sides you know not having a horse in this race i have seen in the

00:23:18.740 last i i think it's been accelerated indeed in the last five years the op-ed pages have drifted over to

00:23:25.940 the front page and in a way ezra i think the signatories of that open letter they've actually

00:23:32.500 done as a favor we've long accused them of being biased of hiding their bias now they're saying you know

00:23:38.900 what yeah we are biased yeah here's the deal yeah and you know um how did this happen and this whole

00:23:45.780 phenomenon of signing these open letters and signing these open lists that feels fairly recent i mean i

00:23:50.820 know what's happened in the past but it's so much easier with online sharing documents people sign their

00:23:56.740 names to things um i'm reminded of a few months back when the national post itself purportedly one of

00:24:02.340 the most conservative newspapers in canada had a similar online letter naming shaming and condemning their

00:24:08.420 own lead columnist rex murphy and instead of firing everyone who signed that letter the national

00:24:14.820 post to their disgraceful discredit actually had like a a staff meeting struggle session where they

00:24:20.260 all took turns denouncing rex murphy who wasn't there by the way he refused to dignify the the whole

00:24:26.260 presentation but national post management hosted this town hall they called it so what started out as

00:24:32.820 the madness of universities well if you're crazy when you're 20 and no one says you're crazy and then if

00:24:40.180 you're hired by why would the national post hire anyone from crazy town ryerson or crazy town carlton

00:24:46.660 journalism school like if you were literally if you you know there's a saying in politics personnel is

00:24:53.140 policy who you hire is a reflection of your mindset of course it is um

00:24:58.180 um and if the national post and these other organizations hire the kookiest wokest craziest 0.65

00:25:05.540 cancel culture nut bar left-wing radicals why wouldn't they think that's going to slowly take

00:25:12.180 over their own institutions so the the craziness from the campuses a decade ago are now the craziness in

00:25:19.380 institutions today academia is completely gone media is largely gone and shame on and i'm mentioning the

00:25:26.100 national post there i actually i don't even recall if i saw a national post signatory on this latest

00:25:31.620 list i think they were told not to based on the rex murphy struggle session but um that's everywhere

00:25:40.740 now we i mean i i think of our own place we hire people here rebel news and um there are some positions

00:25:48.740 at rebel news that are not editorial like there's an accounting position there's uh there's tech side

00:25:54.420 positions and so there are some places where i it doesn't actually matter at all what your editorial

00:26:00.340 view is because you're not doing that stuff but really if if you're working at rebel news you should

00:26:05.060 share the world view of rebel news and what's incredible to me is that so-called conservative

00:26:11.140 institutions so-called conservative media hired people who despise them who hate them if you're

00:26:19.940 joining the national post and you hate rex murphy and you hate conrad black why are you joining them

00:26:26.660 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

00:26:33.700 extirpate them from national post and to turn it into the toronto star that's what's going on and you

00:26:39.540 know it is baffling i would say today's national post to use the old gm ad tagline for oldsmobile this

00:26:45.860 ain't your father's national post but one last exit question uh ezra in the big picture we go

00:26:51.620 back to 1948 the establishment of israel if you were a classical liberal this was a great thing this was

00:26:57.460 renowned it was a democracy it was an island of tolerance in a sea of uh you know broiling hatred

00:27:05.780 and how did the left change its view that uh you know this uh you know you know just three years

00:27:13.460 after the end of the holocaust that israel was something to um it was something that was revolting 0.99

00:27:20.100 to them and you look at and when i say that as i look at some of the signage um in london ontario

00:27:26.100 for goodness sakes the pro-hammas demonstrators some of them had swastikas yeah displaying that in 0.95

00:27:31.620 in public yeah projecting that on israel i can't think of anything more offensive than that how do we

00:27:37.060 get from there to here yeah well just one quick thing i haven't seen the left-wing anti-hate groups

00:27:41.780 in this country go after swastikas being flown from the the pro-hammas types they they keep on 1.00

00:27:49.220 saying that the greatest threat to jews is from the far right yeah okay could be uh i haven't seen 0.70

00:27:54.900 evidence of that i suppose i'm keeping an open mind but here you have actual people parading through

00:28:00.020 the streets of canada with nazi flags swastikas and the anti-hate groups well that's our narrative

00:28:05.380 is it's old white guys who are doing that not muslim migrants um but um as to israel in 1948

00:28:15.220 there was a few things there i think it was started sort of in a socialist way first of all i think it

00:28:22.020 was in the shadow of the holocaust there was sort of an international um consensus that something had

00:28:28.900 to be done about the jews this is the jewish homeland they were just uh six million killed in

00:28:35.300 germ in in europe this is perhaps a solution and remember most of the world's i mean the soviet union

00:28:43.060 america the main allies had just finished fighting hitler and seen the true evil evil so the memory of

00:28:49.700 the holocaust was fresher it wasn't denied or trivialized it is today secondly israel was a socialist 0.70

00:28:57.220 enterprise um the concept of a kibbutz was actually a kind of voluntary communism people would live

00:29:03.140 communally and i think that even the soviet side the leftist side said ah well maybe this jewish homeland

00:29:09.060 will be friendly to socialism and indeed it was for a while and finally i think there's something in

00:29:16.340 western minds that sympathizes with underdogs and of course the jews had just been bloodied and and 1.00

00:29:24.420 decimated by the holocaust and israel was a small weak country surrounded by big arab countries so 0.99

00:29:31.540 even the west people were sympathetic with israel it survived its independence day war it survived the

00:29:37.460 war of 1956 but that love or that honeymoon with israel only lasted two decades because in 1967 when five or

00:29:48.020 six arab armies were preparing to attack it israel made a preemptive strike knocked out various air

00:29:54.020 forces in the regions had some successful tank battles and suddenly the underdog became a top dog

00:29:58.980 and israel conquered the sinai and all of a sudden this little country that was being picked on picked

00:30:04.500 on picked on it showed the world it could not only defend itself but it knocked out sort of in a david

00:30:10.260 and goliath biblical way all these huge arab armies and so i think the world the liberals of the world the

00:30:18.020 leftist progressives of the world said hmm israel's not the underdog anymore now they're the bully even 0.99

00:30:24.420 though there's still one country surrounded by dozens of arab countries a small country surrounded by

00:30:29.540 hundreds of millions of arabs and muslims and so i think that the the west said you're no longer the

00:30:35.300 underdog we like jews when they're bent and bleeding you were too victorious we're going to switch our 1.00

00:30:41.460 allegiances to your enemies now and it's the same mental problem that throughout the cold war there 0.96

00:30:49.060 was this large segment of the progressive left that hated the west and rooted for the soviets you saw 0.94

00:30:54.260 that i remember knowlton nash of the cbc way back in the day pure pro like always had the soviet

00:31:02.260 pundits on and i thought what is he doing the free speech that knowlton nash enjoys in canada

00:31:09.060 it's because of our freedom and he would always have i forget the name of the guy he would always

00:31:12.900 have some well-spoken uh you know fluent in english soviet spin doctrine i think you're treating this

00:31:20.740 propaganda liar as a truth teller why why why because he hated the west he wanted to undo the west

00:31:28.180 and first it was supporting the soviets then it was supporting the jihadists i mean there is a part

00:31:34.740 of the left that will always take the enemy's side against ourselves and israel is a proxy for the 0.97

00:31:40.980 west in that region and yeah that's too long an answer to your question but but we have to stand

00:31:45.220 by freedom and democracy the same way i would feel if taiwan were attacked by communist china god forbid 0.61

00:31:50.900 that plucky little democracy outnumbered 10 to 1 40 to 1 we have to stand with taiwan in israel i feel

00:31:58.580 the same way plus i have a personal connection i mean i'm jewish so i have a sympathy in israel for that

00:32:03.140 regards but i i think even if i weren't jewish just like i i would root for the democracy of taiwan

00:32:09.140 and it broke my heart when hong kong was conquered that's how i feel towards israel too 100 great 0.76

00:32:14.340 analysis as we're hard to believe there was a useful idiot working at cbc after used to and you know 0.54

00:32:20.500 folks there you got it i mean and to go back to this open letter signed by these journalists i mean 0.95

00:32:24.900 i went to the ryerson school of journalism in the early 80s before ryerson became this woke madhouse

00:32:31.380 that it is today and i can tell you when it came to covering hard news you know there were three

00:32:36.420 basic tenets basically you reached out for the other side of the story you strove for accuracy

00:32:42.580 and you kept personal bias out of it it's just the five w's all these signatories of that open letter

00:32:50.340 they would have failed j school back in the early 80s keep it here for more of rebel roundup right after this

00:33:02.660 david menzies for rebel news here in toronto well folks i'm just outside nathan phillips square

00:33:08.420 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

00:33:16.580 protester oh well mayor tory has the red carpet rolled out for the people here uh advocating their

00:33:24.180 special brand of anti-semitism and it's not just nathan phillips square folks it is bay street itself

00:33:32.900 cars have illegally blocked um at the uh bay street here we've seen cars going down the wrong way of a

00:33:40.260 one-way street we see cars revving their engines unnecessarily you know if the police came here

00:33:47.620 i would imagine they could fill their uh quota for one month in one hour but you know what not a cop 0.62

00:33:54.740 to be seen here on bay street and that's kind of funny isn't it do you remember last summer how folks

00:34:00.260 we came down here to cover a protest an illegal protest by the way because it broke 11 sections of

00:34:08.100 the trespass act and that was by the rank and file of a group called afro-indigenous rising they

00:34:15.060 were breaking 11 sections of the trespass act including starting fires uh camping overnight urinating

00:34:23.300 defecating in the public square and nothing was done for that about that for three whole weeks but

00:34:30.260 when we went down to cover this disgrace we were threatened with being charged with trespassing here

00:34:39.140 check it out yesterday i went to nathan phillips square it has been commandeered uh by a group that's

00:34:48.820 primarily composed of indigenous and black people and evidently we're not allowed to be on the square

00:34:56.420 it is like the antifa autonomous city in seattle but it's even amped up a little more because it's

00:35:03.380 right where the seat of government is here in the municipality of toronto toronto city hall we were

00:35:09.300 told that by police that if we didn't exit the square we would be arrested and charged with trespass

00:35:16.980 and yet they're turning a blind eye to the squatters not only that folks the city is aiding and enabling them

00:35:24.260 by putting up porta potties for their comfort so isn't that amazing and again to bring it back to the

00:35:32.980 question du jour how is it that an anti-lockdown protest a peaceful anti-lockdown protest is not

00:35:40.980 allowed on nathan phillips square or young dundas square but this i don't know what this protest is

00:35:49.780 trying to say well actually i do but it would be impolite to uh speak my mind in any event it is a

00:35:56.500 double standard and we're going to try to find out why it is that people advocating for violence and

00:36:04.900 death because that's what's happening here folks people advocating for violence and death are completely

00:36:11.300 tolerated and accommodated and peaceful protesters that just want the economy to reopen resume life as

00:36:18.260 canadians in canada circa 2019 why they are ticketed and worse even arrested and put in jail so let's

00:36:27.460 see what reaction we can get also there really is no sense in me interviewing the pearl hamas demonstrators

00:36:34.820 here these are the same people that congregate for the odious al-quds day rally typically in late june

00:36:43.780 they actually print out pictures of me uh on uh pages telling people not to speak with me i swear i'm

00:36:51.860 not making this up check out the video footage how do you explain marching with the very people who despise

00:36:58.660 you who would want you killed and of course hey hi guys sorry you're not playing oh there there you're

00:37:05.780 they're training them young as i say in the marketing business get them young get them forever

00:37:13.060 yeah so they're not in a mood to talk to me i wonder why maybe it's because i'm not asking the

00:37:17.140 kind of softball questions cbc reporters do in any event let's wander into the square and see if we can

00:37:24.660 have authorities explain why there is such a glaring and odious and egregious

00:37:32.180 double standard when it comes to freedom of protest i'm just wondering i'm trying to get

00:37:37.140 clarity in terms of the rules of protesting how anti-lockdown protests people waving can you

00:37:43.060 no comment you have no comment but but why is there a double standard can you please answer me that sir

00:37:48.180 i can't comment at this time okay he can't comment i'm just wondering last summer we came here to cover

00:37:56.820 the afro-indigenous rising illegal occupation of the square we were threatened with being charged

00:38:02.740 with trespassing by you and the police i am wondering why were we not allowed to practice

00:38:09.380 journalism in the square and yet this protest is occurring in the square right now where and some

00:38:15.380 of these people are advocating very nasty things indeed why is that okay i just want to stop you right

00:38:20.900 there unfortunately i cannot comment on that because i don't know what happened with you or

00:38:24.340 in that incident uh the best person to contact is uh prior strategic communications with the city

00:38:29.700 oh that would be bruce hawkins he him and bruce hawkins he him and in case we uh mistake bruce hawkins

00:38:37.460 for a she her or a zzer folks he was actually part of a spying mission on us coming to nathan phillips 0.53

00:38:44.900 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

00:38:52.420 spying on our activities so again i just wonder why journalists can't practice journalism on nathan

00:38:58.580 phillips square and yet you can have basically people advocating hate speech gathering here again

00:39:04.340 i'm unable to comment to that okay well that was the disgraceful scene in downtown toronto last saturday

00:39:10.660 and the message is clear isn't it in mayor john tory's hogtown all protests are equal but some protests

00:39:18.020 well they're more equal than others translation anti-lockdown demonstrators are verboten in nathan

00:39:25.300 phillips square but a pro-hamas demonstration well diversity is our strength i guess in any event you had

00:39:33.060 plenty to say about this odious double standard when it comes to freedom of speech and assembly

00:39:39.140 jürgen reichelt writes yet they are arresting peaceful pastors and treat them like animals

00:39:46.980 tory and trudeau destroying canada as we know and love it hey maybe you are on to something jürgen

00:39:54.100 perhaps if these peaceful pastors wrap themselves in the flag of the palestinian authority and serve up

00:40:01.860 a sermon full of anti-semitism they shall be left alone johnny lawrence writes

00:40:09.060 guess covid magically disappeared for this protest yes johnny we've been told from day one the decisions

00:40:15.780 made by our politicians and bureaucrats and public health officials are based on science i wonder if

00:40:22.340 they meant to say political science because that's not science at all john t minus 20 minutes mercier writes

00:40:31.540 quote those are my principles if you don't like them i have others end quote as noted by groucho

00:40:38.660 jay john i thought you were perhaps quoting any number of politicians in canada these days from

00:40:44.900 premiers ford and kenny to mayor tory and prime minister trudeau horrible leaders who believe that

00:40:52.020 principles like gender these days is fluid and brent baker writes i have police officer friends in the

00:41:00.500 united states that i sent this to and they're absolutely disgusted well brent those are my kind

00:41:08.340 of police officers well that wraps up another edition of rebel roundup thanks so much for

00:41:13.220 joining us see you next week and hey folks never forget without risk there can be no glory good night

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Rebel News Podcast - May 22, 2021

Rebel Assaulted in Montreal, Media Bias on Israel and Hamas

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