Rebel News Podcast - Trudeau sides with Cuba, North Korea and other dictatorships at the UN

00:00:00.000 Tonight, Justin Trudeau breaks with the Western democracies of the UN

00:00:04.120 and votes in a block with Cuba, Syria, North Korea, and other dictatorships.

00:00:08.780 It's November 28th, and this is The Ezra Levant Show.

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00:00:38.020 In a shocking series of eight United Nations votes in a row,

00:00:41.840 Canada broke with our diplomatic tradition, broke with our allies,

00:00:45.380 and most importantly, broke with our Canadian values and our national interests

00:00:49.080 by actively defending a dictatorship at the United Nations.

00:00:53.780 Here are the details.

00:00:54.460 It was a series of votes earlier this month.

00:00:57.400 The subject was human rights violations in Cuba.

00:01:00.860 Now, I know that for some Canadians, Cuba is a cheap holiday.

00:01:04.400 Of course it's cheap.

00:01:06.120 It's a communist dictatorship, a prison island that has been kept artificially poor

00:01:10.940 because of that dictatorship and because U.S. tourists cannot easily go there.

00:01:16.220 So going there is sort of predatory by Canadians looking to vacation on the cheap. 0.71

00:01:20.480 At worst, the regime takes all that hard foreign currency and uses it to pay for its nefarious activities.

00:01:28.040 You're exploiting Cubans and you're subsidizing the Castros, but hey, you saved a hundred bucks on your vacation. 0.93

00:01:33.840 Well, there are still some people who care about Cuban human rights.

00:01:37.360 And the United States put forward eight votes at the U.N. about those.

00:01:42.360 I'm not going to read all eight in detail, but I'll skim them at least to show you how obvious it is that we ought to support these votes

00:01:49.820 and how shocking it is that we didn't.

00:01:52.360 Now, this information comes from UN Watch, which is a leading human rights NGO that keeps a close eye on how the U.N. ignores the worst dictatorships in the world.

00:02:01.340 UN Watch is based in Geneva, Switzerland, where the U.N.'s human rights headquarters is also.

00:02:07.020 UN Watch is actually run by a Canadian.

00:02:08.580 We've interviewed him on our show before.

00:02:10.400 Hillel Neuer is his name.

00:02:12.780 And he's the only one I've seen who's held Trudeau to account on this issue.

00:02:16.400 I haven't seen any of this in any other Canadian media.

00:02:18.760 Have you?

00:02:19.400 I mean, let me know if you have.

00:02:20.640 I haven't, and I think I pay close attention to this stuff.

00:02:23.500 But hey, every journalist in this country is auditioning for their share of the $595 million Trudeau slush fund right now.

00:02:29.900 So why would they write something embarrassing about their soon-to-be boss?

00:02:33.820 Anyways, here's the facts.

00:02:35.180 Here's the actual wording of the U.N. resolutions.

00:02:37.860 Now, they're debating the U.S. embargo on Cuba that I mentioned.

00:02:42.340 Canada obviously doesn't support the embargo.

00:02:44.900 But that's not what the vote was about.

00:02:47.280 The vote was about amendments, particular details, not the embargo itself.

00:02:52.860 So let me make that clear.

00:02:54.080 This is not about whether or not America should embargo Cuba.

00:02:57.920 You may have a different opinion on me than that.

00:03:00.660 Let me read the amendments, this first one, in full.

00:03:04.680 And you tell me which side Canada should be on.

00:03:07.640 You tell me what's objectionable to this.

00:03:09.160 Ready?

00:03:10.280 So the vote was about whether or not to add these words to the preamble.

00:03:13.820 Expressing serious concern that in Cuba, the severe lack of access to information and freedom of expression, the complete absence of judicial independence, and arbitrary arrests and detentions are undermining the collective efforts to implement sustainable development goal 161, meant to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development.

00:03:35.060 Provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels.

00:03:40.720 Okay, that's it.

00:03:42.400 That's a proposed amendment.

00:03:43.900 It's one of eight amendments.

00:03:45.240 It's not, I mean, would you not agree that Cuba has no freedom of speech, no freedom of the press, no independent judiciary?

00:03:52.760 Of course it's true.

00:03:53.700 Don't take it from me, and don't take it from America.

00:03:56.380 Take it from a left-wing group called Reporters Without Borders, which says this.

00:04:01.760 It's their country report on Cuba.

00:04:06.200 They say, a self-styled socialist republic with a single party.

00:04:10.760 Cuba continues to be Latin America's worst media freedom violator year after year.

00:04:16.620 Fidel Castro's death in 2016 has changed nothing.

00:04:19.960 The Castro family, which has ruled since 1959, maintains an almost total media monopoly, and the Constitution prohibits privately owned media.

00:04:30.000 I didn't know that.

00:04:30.680 Arbitrary arrest and imprisonment, threats, smear campaigns, confiscation of equipment, and closures of websites are the most common forms of harassment, which is constant and is buttressed by an arsenal of restrictive laws.

00:04:44.160 Yeah, that's pretty much what that amendment vote was about, wasn't it?

00:04:48.360 And Canada voted against the U.S. amendment.

00:04:51.700 I shouldn't say Canada voted against it, because it wasn't Canada. 0.73

00:04:55.380 It was Justin Trudeau who instructed Chrystia Freeland to have our diplomats vote against that. 0.71

00:05:01.880 And here's an electronic image of the voting board at the U.N.

00:05:05.380 Now, just hold that up on the screen for a minute.

00:05:07.100 So, red means voting against it, voting against the U.S. amendment, voting really in support of Cuba instead.

00:05:13.820 Green is voting along with the Americans, and yellow is the aptly chosen color for those two cowardly to vote either way. 0.86

00:05:21.160 So, red is the color of communist Cuba, I guess.

00:05:23.560 And green is the color of freedom here, freedom for Cubans.

00:05:26.280 And just four countries voted for this amendment.

00:05:29.540 The U.S., as you can see, Israel, Ukraine, and Swaziland, which is called Eswatini on this chart.

00:05:38.440 I've never heard it referred to that way, but that's what it means.

00:05:41.960 I think it's pitiful that countries like Switzerland or the United Kingdom or Italy voted to abstain from this.

00:05:48.360 But fine, 64 abstentions, most of them democracies, by the way.

00:05:52.780 Others were U.S. allies.

00:05:54.680 But look at Canada.

00:05:57.700 Canada outright voted against this.

00:06:00.900 It's in red with all the dictatorships.

00:06:04.960 Oh, well.

00:06:05.360 Well, Trudeau's never been big on freedom of speech, and that's what that was about.

00:06:08.740 But how about his signature issue?

00:06:10.940 I mean, he's a male feminist. 0.99

00:06:12.440 I put aside the fact that he admitted to sexually assaulting a female reporter named Rose Knight in Creston, B.C. back in August of 2000.

00:06:20.220 But rhetorically, at least, Trudeau says he's a feminist.

00:06:22.840 A lot of male feminists are covering up for something. 1.00

00:06:26.060 But just for a moment, let's focus on Trudeau's rhetoric, not his actions, and compare his rhetoric about feminism to the amendment put forward by the United States at the United Nations.

00:06:37.080 And here's the next resolution.

00:06:39.360 All right.

00:06:41.360 It's a serious concern that in Cuba, the absence of women from the most powerful decision-making bodies, including the executive committee of the Council of Ministers and senior military leadership, severely undermines the collective efforts to implement sustainable development goal 51 meant to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls by countering the deeply rooted gender-based discrimination that results from patriarchal attitudes and related social norms.

00:07:05.400 All right.

00:07:06.400 So it's pure feminist motion, or as Trudeau once said, because it's 2015.

00:07:14.280 Now, this doesn't even call for Cuba to be a democracy.

00:07:18.100 It just points out that in the dictatorship itself, the bullies, the military bullies, the political bullies, they're all dudes. 0.58

00:07:24.800 I mean, surely Trudeau can get behind a socialist military thug with gender parity. 1.00

00:07:34.600 I mean, he's for communists, he's for the military, they're fine, fine, fine.

00:07:38.180 But how about just some women there? 1.00

00:07:39.580 I mean, Trudeau's all about gender analysis for pipelines and transgender analysis now, too.

00:07:45.540 Where are they in the Cuban regime, eh, Mr. Because It's 2018?

00:07:50.180 Well, Trudeau doesn't really care.

00:07:55.100 He's siding with the old boys club, literally old boys.

00:07:57.740 Raul Castro is 87.

00:08:01.320 That's who Trudeau's for.

00:08:03.200 Let's look at the vote.

00:08:05.120 Hold that up on the bit.

00:08:06.220 Now it's only got three good guys, the three green countries, U.S., Ukraine, and Israel.

00:08:12.360 I don't know how we lost the Swazis there, but we did. 1.00

00:08:15.440 Again, 115 brave, courageous abstainers.

00:08:19.680 That's normally where Canada stands with the abstainers, hiding in the shadow on these things.

00:08:24.200 But not today.

00:08:24.900 No, sir, Justin Trudeau bravely stands with Raul Castro and Iran and Syria and North Korea

00:08:30.940 in opposing this American feminist motion.

00:08:34.340 Can someone explain that one to me?

00:08:37.220 Again, you read it.

00:08:37.880 It did not even call for freedom.

00:08:41.480 It just called for more women to be amongst the dictators. 1.00

00:08:44.080 That's sort of Trudeau's space, too, when you think of it.

00:08:48.680 But not here.

00:08:49.500 Isn't that funny?

00:08:50.880 And by funny, I mean not funny.

00:08:53.740 Okay, here's another one.

00:08:55.000 This is one of the amendments that Canada was on the wrong side of.

00:08:57.340 This is about labor unions.

00:08:59.840 Trudeau should like that, right?

00:09:01.000 I mean, he's joined at the hip with Jerry Diaz these days.

00:09:03.580 Here's the wording.

00:09:04.280 Expressing serious concern that in Cuba, the trade union monopoly of the central union of

00:09:10.660 Cuban workers, the prohibition on the right to strike, and restrictions on collective bargaining

00:09:15.480 and agreements, including the government authorities and central union officials, have the final

00:09:19.720 say on all such agreements, severely undermine the collective efforts to implement sustainable

00:09:24.060 development goal 81, meant to promote sustained and inclusive economic growth and full and

00:09:30.140 productive employment and decent work for all.

00:09:34.140 Nope.

00:09:35.260 No, sir.

00:09:36.700 Still just the three good guys, the U.S., Ukraine, and Israel. 0.91

00:09:40.040 65 cowards, including Theresa May of the United Kingdom, Angela Merkel of Germany, Emmanuel Macron 0.87

00:09:45.300 from France, et cetera. 0.90

00:09:47.860 But Trudeau broke away from the cowards and joined the pro-Cuban anti-worker group.

00:09:55.360 He likes the fact, he's voting for it, that Cuba doesn't allow unions.

00:10:02.600 It doesn't allow collective bargaining.

00:10:04.280 There's just this one fake union that the government forces everyone to be in and the government

00:10:08.040 tells them what the deal is.

00:10:09.220 Imagine that, being pro-Castro and anti-union, but of course.

00:10:16.020 Now, I'm not going to go through all eight of these resolutions, but trust me, they're

00:10:19.760 all like this.

00:10:21.680 This one, I'll just read this quickly because it's so short.

00:10:24.520 It calls upon Cuba to fully granted citizens internationally recognized civil, political,

00:10:29.520 and economic rights and freedoms, including freedom of assembly, freedom of expression,

00:10:34.500 and free access to information.

00:10:36.460 That's pretty basic stuff.

00:10:37.400 That's like section two of our chart of rights.

00:10:41.460 But no, no, Trudeau's with Castro.

00:10:43.260 On this one, only the U.S., Israel, Ukraine, and this time the Marshall Islands, population

00:10:49.220 53,000, are for freedom, but not Trudeau.

00:10:53.700 There was another motion on safe civil society.

00:10:57.040 That means things like rotary clubs or student clubs, just letting people meet without the

00:11:02.380 government telling them what to do.

00:11:03.580 Trudeau sided with the tyrant on that one.

00:11:05.640 Let me show you this next one just for specificity.

00:11:09.420 This one urges Cuba to end widespread and serious restrictions in law and in practice on the

00:11:14.760 right to freedom of expression, opinion, associations, and peaceful assembly.

00:11:18.360 And then get this, this is interesting, including both online and offline, including by ending the

00:11:23.980 harassment, intimidation and persecution of political opponents, human rights defenders, women's and

00:11:29.960 minority rights activists, labor leaders, student rights activists, journalists, bloggers, social media

00:11:37.680 users, social media page administrators, media workers, religious leaders, and lawyers.

00:11:44.160 That sounds like a list of social justice warriors actually fighting for justice.

00:11:51.600 Nope.

00:11:52.720 Trudeau was not moved by this.

00:11:54.700 He voted against it.

00:11:56.560 He sided with Castro against his own people.

00:11:59.920 There was one about harsh and punitive jail sentences, something Trudeau rails against here

00:12:04.220 in Canada.

00:12:05.000 He likes sentences the most lenient possible.

00:12:07.780 But he loves the long prison terms in Cuba.

00:12:11.840 That was one of the resolutions he voted with Cuba on.

00:12:14.360 Again and again, eight times.

00:12:16.860 This wasn't staying neutral in the face of evil, which is execrable, which surely we have

00:12:22.940 learned from history.

00:12:24.040 No, no.

00:12:25.220 This was positively choosing to side with Cuba, to side with evil against our American allies, 0.98

00:12:32.900 and more importantly than our allies, the idea of freedom that is supposedly our idea too.

00:12:39.700 Why?

00:12:40.280 Why are we doing this?

00:12:41.700 Again, not we.

00:12:42.340 Why is Trudeau doing this to us?

00:12:44.920 Well, look at this.

00:12:46.780 Here's an article a few weeks back.

00:12:48.460 Gives us a hint.

00:12:50.340 Canada's brain-injured Cuba diplomats speak out about Ottawa's silence.

00:12:55.940 I don't know if you remember this story, but Canadian diplomats and American diplomats

00:12:59.380 had complained that Cuba was using some sort of weapon, I don't know, microwaves likely,

00:13:04.260 sonic waves of some sort, to shoot at diplomats and injure them when they were in their home

00:13:10.260 or their office.

00:13:11.280 Here's a New York Times article on the same subject.

00:13:14.940 Their headline is, 25th person at U.S. embassy in Cuba is mysteriously sickened.

00:13:20.880 Here's how the Globe and Mail described it for how it happened to the Canadian diplomats

00:13:25.620 and their families.

00:13:26.700 Let me read this.

00:13:27.320 I don't know if you remember this.

00:13:29.380 Starting in the spring of 2017, a dozen embassy staff and their family members, including

00:13:34.500 eight adults and four children, almost simultaneously began experiencing symptoms including gushing

00:13:41.000 nosebleeds, ringing in the ears, fits of nausea, dizziness, incapacitating headaches, and mental

00:13:48.820 impairment, often striking most intensely in their homes late at night.

00:13:54.380 Those affected represented about a third of the embassy's staff.

00:13:58.940 That is terrifying.

00:14:00.080 That's some sort of microwave weapon frying your brains. 1.00

00:14:05.080 It's terrifying.

00:14:05.900 It happened in Canada and the United States.

00:14:07.180 It's a weapon.

00:14:08.640 It actually happened in China also against embassies there.

00:14:13.500 Donald Trump has been hostile to Cuba in comparison to Barack Obama.

00:14:17.200 Obama, I don't know if you remember, Obama actually went to Cuba, normalized relations on

00:14:21.840 the U.S. side, at least to a degree, and got nothing in return from Castro.

00:14:25.580 No liberalization, nothing.

00:14:27.180 Trump ended that charade.

00:14:28.280 It's barbaric.

00:14:28.980 But it's not too surprising that Cuba, a regime that treats its own citizens as prisoners, 0.65

00:14:34.860 would abuse American diplomats under Trump with those microwave weapons.

00:14:38.160 But Canada, I mean, Trudeau is just as bad as Obama.

00:14:44.300 He gave everything to Castro, morally, politically, diplomatically.

00:14:47.640 He gave him this huge PR win, this propaganda win, and Trudeau got nothing in return.

00:14:53.980 Trudeau gave Cuba a PR win, huge, and Cuba still attacks our diplomats.

00:14:59.320 I mean, it's evil to attack diplomats with this weapon in any way, but Canada has given

00:15:04.700 Cuba everything, and yet they attack our diplomats, and of course Trudeau still loves them, still

00:15:11.200 won't lift a finger against them, and now votes for them at the U.N., and according

00:15:16.480 to diplomats who spoke with the Globe and Mail, it's because Trudeau wants Cuba's vote

00:15:21.880 and other dictatorships' vote, so that Canada can sit on some obscure panel called the United

00:15:28.960 Nations Security Council.

00:15:30.880 Here, let me quote from the Globe and Mail.

00:15:32.260 Now, they are afraid of asserting Cuba because of Canada's bid for a U.N. Security Council

00:15:38.360 seat, one diplomat said.

00:15:40.260 Canada is in the midst of an intensive lobbying campaign to win a rotating seat on the United

00:15:45.480 Nations Security Council in 2021-22.

00:15:48.880 Cuba is considered vital to such U.N. votes as it holds influence over many African and

00:15:54.760 Latin American U.N. member states.

00:15:57.800 Now, of course that's true.

00:15:59.040 I don't know if you remember, Trudeau bought free tickets for every dictatorship in the

00:16:06.040 world to attend a Canadian-themed Broadway show called Come From Away.

00:16:11.720 Seriously, Canadian taxpayers gave free tickets to dictatorships to watch that show.

00:16:16.440 Now, most didn't even bother to show up.

00:16:18.140 The theater was half empty, but it was part of Trudeau's pitiful campaign to bribe diplomats

00:16:21.800 to vote for him to have a seat at the Security Council for two years.

00:16:24.300 That is a meaningless, pointless symbol.

00:16:26.320 I mean, the U.N. Security Council itself is important, but these rotating seats, they're

00:16:31.380 pointless.

00:16:31.800 It's perfect for Trudeau, I understand, but they're actually worthless. 0.82

00:16:34.440 Just to recap, the United Nations is pretty much worthless anyways.

00:16:39.360 Every country is part of the General Assembly, it's called, and it's a big talk shop that really

00:16:44.980 accomplishes nothing, and everyone has one vote.

00:16:46.800 It's all equal there.

00:16:48.760 But the U.N. Security Council, the grown-ups, they have five permanent members.

00:16:56.060 United States, Russia, China, and for reasons of history and sentimentality, UK and France.

00:17:02.140 Now, all those countries have a veto.

00:17:04.040 Each of them has a veto, as in any one of them can just stop anything they don't like.

00:17:08.780 But other temporary countries can sit with the grown-ups at the grown-ups table.

00:17:13.460 They can get up from the kids' table and move over to the grown-ups for two years and bask

00:17:17.220 in the glow of the five grown-ups for a couple of years in a row.

00:17:20.440 No power, no veto, just a photo op, which is why Trudeau likes it.

00:17:26.100 And these countries get to vote, get onto the Security Council through a vote from all the

00:17:34.740 member states.

00:17:35.340 And there are many more tyrants in the United Nations than Democrats. 0.54

00:17:38.140 So Trudeau is sucking up to all the dictatorships to give them one of these temporary seats.

00:17:44.980 So now I think it makes sense, doesn't it?

00:17:48.120 I mean, Israel and Ukraine, who are voting with America every time, they really need America's

00:17:53.080 help diplomatically, big time.

00:17:55.400 So they return the favor to America all the time.

00:17:57.980 It's just a vote in the U.N.

00:17:59.020 It doesn't even matter.

00:17:59.760 Most democracies like the United States and love America protecting them and letting them

00:18:09.100 sell their goods into the American market.

00:18:11.860 But unfortunately, most democracies also like distancing themselves from America for political

00:18:16.300 points. 0.98

00:18:16.880 Think of the coward Emmanuel Macron in France. 0.98

00:18:21.200 Canada used to be there. 0.96

00:18:23.200 As in, we love America, we benefit from America, but we don't like to appear too pro-American in

00:18:28.880 the public.

00:18:29.420 So we would go neutral.

00:18:30.700 But now we're no longer neutral.

00:18:33.180 We're no longer abstaining.

00:18:34.520 We have gone over to the other side.

00:18:39.140 Look, that's not Canada.

00:18:41.580 That's Trudeau.

00:18:42.880 Remember his eulogy for Fidel Castro, calling him a great man, beloved by everyone, and even

00:18:48.880 his enemies would admit he loved him.

00:18:51.380 That's what Trudeau said when Castro died.

00:18:53.700 He said even Castro's enemies admitted he loved the nation.

00:18:57.240 What?

00:18:57.540 They were in prison or dead.

00:18:58.880 Trudeau was so in love with dictatorships like China and Cuba that he is upending a

00:19:06.060 century of close political and diplomatic cooperation with the United States, more than

00:19:11.420 a century, with America and our NATO allies that goes back far before the creation of NATO,

00:19:17.680 goes back to the Great War, goes back to the British Empire.

00:19:21.420 We were one of the good guys.

00:19:23.360 We weren't neutral.

00:19:24.460 We fought in Flanders' fields.

00:19:26.740 We fought on Juneau Beach.

00:19:28.460 We were not abstainers.

00:19:30.760 And we sure as hell weren't enemies.

00:19:33.860 But Trudeau has made us into that.

00:19:35.400 That's the grossest fact you will hear today.

00:19:39.440 Other than this fact, Trudeau's slush fund media didn't report on this, did they?

00:19:43.500 Because they either agree with Trudeau on Cuba or because they simply don't want to embarrass

00:19:50.540 their new boss and his $595 million media slush fund.

00:19:56.540 Stay with us.

00:19:57.680 More ahead.

00:19:58.100 Welcome back.

00:20:15.420 Well, earlier this month, we brought you the shocking news of Airbnb deciding to ban any

00:20:22.080 Jews living in the West Bank from using their app.

00:20:24.980 Airbnb, of course, allows homeowners to rent out a room or even their entire house online

00:20:29.940 as if it's a hotel.

00:20:31.840 They operate in some of the most controversial parts of the world.

00:20:34.520 You can use Airbnb to book a room in Tibet, occupied by China, or in the Rakhine province

00:20:40.380 of Burma, where the Rohingya are in jeopardy.

00:20:43.640 But only Israel, only the West Bank, and only Jews in the West Bank are banned from using the

00:20:52.220 app.

00:20:52.400 Muslims in the same towns are allowed to use them.

00:20:55.520 Joining us now via Skype is one Jew in the West Bank of Israel who is the target of this 0.99

00:21:02.240 ban.

00:21:02.820 His name is Giddy Kelman.

00:21:04.100 He joins us now via Skype.

00:21:05.240 Giddy, thanks so much for taking the time to be with us today.

00:21:09.140 Thank you for being interested.

00:21:11.140 Now, I know it's nighttime over there in Israel, so you might not be able to show us around

00:21:16.280 your place, but you've sent us some photos.

00:21:18.420 Tell me a little bit about your property.

00:21:21.160 How long have you been renting it out on Airbnb?

00:21:24.200 How many times have people come to visit?

00:21:26.440 What's it like?

00:21:27.060 I've been here since 2006.

00:21:33.400 Our B&B, our chalet, I built it myself.

00:21:36.840 It's all handmade.

00:21:38.260 It's been active for about two, two and a half years.

00:21:41.740 And we've been working with Airbnb just under a year.

00:21:48.400 So we have other sources that send us clients.

00:21:51.940 And obviously, all the clients we have are, you know, they come back again.

00:21:57.560 We have clients from all around the world, a lot of Israelis, Americans, Canadians, English,

00:22:03.860 people from Belgium, you know, all around.

00:22:08.200 And how important is Airbnb to your business?

00:22:14.340 I mean, is it a lucrative source of money?

00:22:16.120 How many times have people booked your chalet on Airbnb?

00:22:19.640 Well, for my place, I said, we do two things.

00:22:25.260 We have people staying over like a B&B.

00:22:28.860 And we have different sessions, yoga, meditation, permaculture, natural birth control,

00:22:35.460 things like this in the same premises.

00:22:38.140 So some of the income comes from Airbnb and some from other platforms.

00:22:41.680 And some is not connected to this at all.

00:22:43.960 But many businesses in Judea and Samaria are definitely very badly harmed from this anti-Semitic

00:22:52.240 decision because they are just B&Bs.

00:22:56.300 And maybe 18, 19, sometimes more percent is based on Airbnb.

00:23:01.840 And by the way, we didn't get a message up till now that they're doing this boycott.

00:23:07.140 Only from the news we know this, from the media.

00:23:10.640 So has the boycott kicked in?

00:23:12.580 Have you actually been banned?

00:23:14.420 Is your account being shut down?

00:23:16.060 Or is it just a statement out of San Francisco?

00:23:20.140 Well, I checked it last about three days ago.

00:23:24.120 It was still active.

00:23:26.060 And as far as I know, it's supposed to be not active.

00:23:30.000 Even like, or now, or maybe tomorrow, the next few days.

00:23:34.140 You know, I believe that income comes from God.

00:23:38.260 So I'm sure he's going to take care of us.

00:23:41.600 But the feeling of being discriminated in such an evil way is definitely very upsetting.

00:23:47.500 Takes us back to very dark times in history.

00:23:51.380 And the truth is, I think that Airbnb made a big mistake because they are an amazing platform

00:23:57.440 from actually connecting people.

00:23:59.560 That should be their logo.

00:24:01.060 Because when you go to another country and you, instead of going to a hotel, you go to 0.57

00:24:05.660 someone's house.

00:24:06.960 You actually sit with them, talk to them, meet them.

00:24:09.660 This is a great opportunity to connect people.

00:24:13.300 So they're doing the opposite.

00:24:15.300 Yeah, that's a good point.

00:24:17.280 Tell me, has the Israeli government or has any local governments in the West Bank, do they

00:24:25.400 have any legal plan or political plan to push back?

00:24:29.560 I mean, I don't know if this would break a law, if this would be against an anti-discrimination

00:24:35.020 statute, either in America or in Israel.

00:24:38.100 Have you heard anything about that?

00:24:39.300 Well, first of all, I want to say my personal opinion, I will be very happy if Airbnb is sued in the States.

00:24:50.340 And I will definitely join that if it happens.

00:24:52.720 I know there's quite a few serious attorneys working on lawsuits like this.

00:24:59.860 And there are some Israeli, anti-Zionist, very left organizations that were basically pushing Airbnb to do this act.

00:25:09.660 One of them is called Shurat Haddin.

00:25:11.480 And the other one is called Kerem Navot.

00:25:14.280 And both of them have put a lot of pressure on Airbnb to do this act.

00:25:19.700 And I hope they're sued as well.

00:25:21.420 I don't think Airbnb should be banned from Israel because a lot of people, it's their source of income.

00:25:26.700 And the way I'm very upset that someone tries to harm my source of income, I have no intention of doing the same thing to someone else in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem.

00:25:36.520 So or by the way, by my Arab neighbors, I'm very happy that neighbors in Bethlehem or Jericho, whatever they should be, should make a living and make good money.

00:25:46.560 That prevents them doing other things.

00:25:48.220 So I'm much more happy with a well-financed neighbor, although some of them are not my side, than a hungry neighbor.

00:25:58.080 So I'm against discrimination of anyone, especially Airbnb, in anywhere, including in Palestinian neighborhoods close to me.

00:26:08.200 That's a good point.

00:26:09.180 If tourism is a reliable source of income for your Arab neighbors, that, I suppose, relieves the pressure on them to make money by appeasing Hamas or the PLO and committing terror. 1.00

00:26:24.400 And more to the point, it puts them in a good face forward.

00:26:27.340 They want to put their best face forward to the world to welcome visitors.

00:26:31.840 That's a very thoughtful way of looking at it.

00:26:35.520 Now, how close or where are you geographically?

00:26:38.440 Are you able to step outside and show me?

00:26:41.640 I know it's nighttime there, but can you show me where you are relative to other recognizable cities or towns?

00:26:52.400 I'll try.

00:26:54.100 So if we're looking towards the lights over there, that's Jerusalem.

00:27:00.300 That's behind me.

00:27:01.220 So you're very close to Jerusalem.

00:27:02.760 That's just, what, 10 miles away, maybe?

00:27:06.660 Yeah, something like that.

00:27:08.000 It's about 20 minutes drive, 15, 20 minutes drive.

00:27:12.300 And the Arab neighbors next to me are Hussan and El-Khader, which are, say, a couple of miles away from me each.

00:27:19.340 And Jewish settlements, Neveh Daniel, is closest to us. 0.94

00:27:21.920 It's about a mile away.

00:27:23.200 Efrat is just around the corner.

00:27:24.480 So we're in the middle of Gush Etzion.

00:27:26.980 We are the connection to Jerusalem.

00:27:29.840 There is about 35 families living here.

00:27:33.300 And it's called Sdeboaz because it was established around Shavuot in 2001.

00:27:37.880 And we are connecting to the Tanakh, the Bible, the place where Boaz and Ruth made a connection.

00:27:44.420 Again, we're talking about connections here or disconnecting people.

00:27:48.540 So we are very in favor of connecting.

00:27:51.580 We live here, religious and non-religious people together.

00:27:56.000 We are very Zionist.

00:27:57.660 We are very connected.

00:27:58.860 And we don't hate.

00:27:59.800 We don't hate Arabs.

00:28:01.300 We don't hate non-Jews.

00:28:02.940 We don't hate Airbnb.

00:28:05.140 So we are trying to connect.

00:28:06.660 We are trying to improve connections between people. 1.00

00:28:10.480 And discrimination is just sad and stupid. 0.98

00:28:15.840 Well, point the camera towards Jerusalem just one more time because it's a stark reminder 0.99

00:28:20.720 of how small everything is in Israel, how tiny it is geographically.

00:28:27.380 If that's Jerusalem, just a short drive away, and you're in, quote, the disputed territory,

00:28:36.760 it's amazing and a reminder how tiny a sliver of land Israel is.

00:28:41.720 That was Giddy Kelman, who is an Airbnb homeowner just outside Jerusalem.

00:28:48.360 He says, at least for now, he's actually still on the system, but he expects to be kicked off

00:28:52.760 any time.

00:28:53.940 If you haven't yet signed our petition, please go to protestairbnb.com.

00:28:59.740 Stay with us.

00:29:00.360 More ahead on The Rebel.

00:29:11.880 Hey, welcome back.

00:29:12.760 On my monologue yesterday about Unifor's decade-long attack on the Alberta oil industry, Billy writes,

00:29:18.440 you tell the truth about union leadership.

00:29:20.460 I was in a union for years, and the leadership's anti-labor narratives were not to be argued

00:29:25.020 with.

00:29:25.780 Most members were silently against some dogmatic actions by leadership and wouldn't dare confront

00:29:30.200 them or we'd risk our positions, be shunned, bullied, and forced into doing the dirtiest

00:29:34.920 jobs.

00:29:35.640 Unions are one of the most authoritarian and fascist structures in our society.

00:29:38.920 I have a tiny bit of a union experience myself, and I know what you mean.

00:29:45.560 I mean, I was just obviously the lowest guy on the totem pole, and so I didn't dare speak

00:29:50.680 up, even when I saw things that were obviously not in my interest because I would just be pushed

00:29:56.240 down even lower.

00:29:57.580 It was not an important or a long-term job.

00:29:59.820 It was really just a summer job I had.

00:30:01.260 But I know what you mean.

00:30:02.880 But imagine if it was a serious job, a job that you would have for decades, and where

00:30:06.960 union dues would not be a trifling amount but would be thousands of dollars.

00:30:10.960 Well, you multiply that by hundreds of thousands of members, and the boss at the top has an

00:30:16.340 incredible power funded by these mandatory dues to go on political campaigns.

00:30:22.820 Who wouldn't love that?

00:30:23.700 Who wouldn't love not only the ability to say, I'm the union president, I speak for hundreds

00:30:29.980 of thousands, but to have millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars to fight your

00:30:37.180 personal battles over.

00:30:39.120 And the style of Jerry Diaz of Unifor is one of vengeances and feuds and vendettas because

00:30:46.060 he doesn't have, what was the last time he actually canvassed grassroots members about

00:30:50.920 the oil sands or about anything?

00:30:52.240 I bet he's never actually asked rank-and-file union members what they think of the oil sands.

00:30:57.620 I bet he never has.

00:30:59.900 John writes, it's been decades since unions have spent time, money, and energy on representing

00:31:04.220 their members' interests.

00:31:05.400 It is surprisingly about, it's simply about power, seeking it, getting it, and retaining

00:31:09.400 it.

00:31:10.020 Well, I mean, it sort of tracks the NDP, doesn't it?

00:31:13.240 The NDP, when they were formed, it was sort of the merger of the factory unions, city workers,

00:31:20.400 and farmers.

00:31:21.080 That's what the old CCF was, farmers, the CCF, and when they created the NDP, it was

00:31:26.460 sort of city, union workers, country, farmers, that's your coalition.

00:31:30.620 Neither of them are in the coalition anymore.

00:31:32.480 Now it's basically campus activists, environmental activists, grievance industry activists.

00:31:36.900 That's the NDP, but Unifor, the union, allegedly still represents guys with hard hats.

00:31:43.440 I remember last time I was up in Fort McMurray, I drove past the Unifor office.

00:31:47.460 I said, Unifor represents people up here?

00:31:49.560 They attack people up here.

00:31:50.980 Yeah, exactly.

00:31:51.840 That's what's so weird.

00:31:52.940 The NDP is the city of the campus, is the party of the campus activists.

00:31:58.080 But the Unifor still allegedly represents hard-working guys and gals.

00:32:02.520 That's the disconnect.

00:32:04.460 Peter writes,

00:32:05.120 Yeah, and of course, it's an inside job.

00:32:26.780 I mean, I'm sorry, it is.

00:32:28.300 Rachel Notley has always been against oil and gas, and she didn't lift a finger to get 1.00

00:32:34.280 the pipelines through, and she refuses to talk about equalization payments, transfer payments

00:32:39.940 that send tens of billions of dollars from the oil patch province to the provinces that

00:32:44.200 fight against the oil patch.

00:32:45.820 She's an inside, she's helped undo Alberta from the inside.

00:32:49.900 That's what I say to Alberta separatists. 0.98

00:32:52.240 I'd say, Justin Trudeau is awful, and John Horgan in BC is awful.

00:32:56.780 But most of the damage was done from Alberta by Rachel Notley.

00:33:02.700 On my interview with William Kaye, Bruce writes,

00:33:05.460 What a fascinating interview with William Kaye.

00:33:07.100 I never knew that it was the elites who supported Hitler.

00:33:09.440 It makes sense, and somebody had to bankroll his election campaigns.

00:33:12.580 This just shows how much we don't know because of today's elites and their suppression of information.

00:33:17.440 Well, yeah, I was surprised by some of the things William Kaye said also, but I know him

00:33:21.500 enough from his work, especially Environmentalism and Fascism, is a very interesting website,

00:33:26.280 that he researches everything and meticulously documents everything.

00:33:31.640 So, you know, if I learn something surprising from him, I'm going to give him credit that he's

00:33:39.320 done his homework three times over.

00:33:41.940 When I interviewed him, I had not yet read the book, and so I was at his mercy for the facts.

00:33:47.500 To me, Environmentalism and the Nazi movement was always sort of an anti-Christian, pagan spirituality,

00:33:54.660 but you heard his answer on that.

00:33:57.860 Well, that's our show for today.

00:33:59.560 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:34:03.500 good night, and keep fighting for free.

Rebel News Podcast - November 29, 2018

Trudeau sides with Cuba, North Korea and other dictatorships at the UN

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