Rebel News Podcast - Trudeau silent on anti-Zionist Toronto eatery Foodbenders (GUEST： Marty Gold)

00:00:00.060 Hello Rebels, you're listening to a free audio-only recording of my weekly Wednesday night show, The Gun Show.

00:00:06.620 Tonight my guest is Marty Gold, he's the editor-in-chief of the J.ca.

00:00:11.960 And tonight we're discussing the Black Lives Matter protests that took place in Winnipeg

00:00:18.160 and some of the more anti-Semitic things that happened over the past few weeks

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00:01:38.740 There's a vehemently anti-Israel restaurant in Toronto and Rebel News broke the story on it.

00:01:45.120 Now it's gone international.

00:01:47.180 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:01:50.340 Now if you're a regular viewer of Rebel News, I'm sure you know the story of food benders. 1.00

00:02:12.380 That's the anti-Zionist, as they describe themselves, lunch counter, catering company in Toronto.

00:02:18.720 They hate cops.

00:02:19.920 They hate pro-Israel people.

00:02:21.680 And they don't seem to like my friend and colleague David Menzies so much.

00:02:25.900 Now David Menzies has been on the food bender story for over two weeks now.

00:02:31.180 And now the story's gone international and politicians around Ontario and across the country are speaking out against them.

00:02:39.700 Except Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

00:02:42.320 The guy who couldn't get out a tweet fast enough when he heard that a little girl in Toronto a couple years ago had her hijab snipped at by an Asian man on the way to school.

00:02:52.420 Now that story was a hoax, but Justin Trudeau was quick to renounce the so-called Asian man before all the facts were in.

00:03:00.740 But Trudeau's silent now as food benders refuses to serve Zionists, which account for some 97% of the Jewish population.

00:03:08.720 So joining me tonight to talk about this issue and some of the other issues facing the Jewish community is Marty Gold.

00:03:16.100 He's the editor-in-chief of the Jewish publication, TheJ.ca.

00:03:34.980 Marty, thanks for coming on the show.

00:03:37.520 I wanted to have you on because there's so much happening in the Jewish community in Canada, especially with food benders and the Day of Rage and a few other things that have definitely been on the radar of TheJ.ca. 0.73

00:03:51.400 But first I wanted to start closer to home because we don't always hear a lot about Winnipeg, but you're in Winnipeg and some things are happening in Winnipeg that seem to be happening all over and that's the BLM protests.

00:04:05.840 So why don't you fill us in with what's been happening in Winnipeg with regard to those BLM protests?

00:04:11.920 Because it seems as though the coronavirus has sort of gone away, at least in Winnipeg.

00:04:17.260 Glad to be back.

00:04:19.140 The number of COVID-19 cases in Manitoba leveled off at under 350 with only seven deaths.

00:04:28.500 There's been, as we tape this, no new diagnosed cases in almost a week.

00:04:34.160 And so, accordingly, because the sense here is that the risk is relatively low.

00:04:41.360 This is, I think, a compliment to the Pallister government and the senior health officials who, although not everybody's crazy, are in agreement with the methodology and some of the messaging per se.

00:04:54.120 But it's obviously worked, and that can't be disputed that we could have had far worse situations in terms of communities where people live in very close quarters, in northern Manitoba, for instance.

00:05:05.580 And so, with the reduced sense of risk and with a number of people still taking various distancing and masking measures,

00:05:21.120 the Black Lives Matter movement was reflected in this community by a group organized by, it seems to me it was five young ladies, called Justice for Black Lives, J4BL.

00:05:37.420 And they initially organized a march at the Manitoba legislature that went from the Manitoba legislature to, I think it went to the Forks, actually.

00:05:45.800 And it was attended by what is believed to be about 15,000 people.

00:05:51.820 It was definitely a sizable crowd.

00:05:55.260 City councillors, a couple of city councillors attended.

00:05:58.760 It was bizarre in that we don't really see Marxism and Maoism in action very often in these prairie parts.

00:06:08.520 They, the organizers did not want white media attending.

00:06:13.260 They asked media outlets to send, not send white journalists or photographers, to send people of colour. 0.99

00:06:22.360 I was amazed, I was amazed at the stupidity of people who thought this was a reasonable idea, 0.99

00:06:28.760 because you're dealing in an era where newsrooms are cut to the bone in many cases. 1.00

00:06:33.660 You don't have a lot of options.

00:06:35.200 It's bordering on summertime.

00:06:36.560 There's, you know, various pandemic things that have come up.

00:06:39.920 Not every newsroom or every media outlet is going to be able to pick and choose the skin colour of who they assign to that kind of event.

00:06:49.280 And for them to, I mean, this just shows the level of indoctrination they, as university-age students have had,

00:06:57.200 to a particular way of thinking that is not just foreign to the Canadian way of life,

00:07:02.700 but is actually a rejection of the Canadian way of life.

00:07:05.340 I don't know that any media outlets acquiesced to that request specifically,

00:07:10.960 but even leading into the event, they started taking shots at major media outlets for not reporting on them,

00:07:19.140 their beliefs or their activities the way that they wanted to.

00:07:22.300 So they already, like, were going to boycott the free press or CBC and whatever.

00:07:26.980 One of the organizers actually said that she was fine with violence, but there wouldn't be any violence at her rally.

00:07:31.540 This is something the media should have hopped on, but they're also scared of having demonstrations in front of their media outlets that they didn't.

00:07:39.620 It's incomprehensible that somebody could say, I'm fine with violence, again, as part of the Black Lives Movement,

00:07:48.360 and this goes back now three weeks into what was going on in June,

00:07:51.320 that somebody would say that they were fine with violence to accomplish those goals and then be given any credibility in the media at all.

00:07:57.020 But that shows you how emasculated, so to speak, the Winnipeg media is.

00:08:02.980 At the event itself, on the legislature grounds, it opened up, actually, when they started using whatever the public address system was,

00:08:14.220 it opened up with a request for white, essentially for white journalists to leave the grounds.

00:08:18.500 This is on public property, at the legislature, nobody from the government, the premier's office, cabinet, the Human Rights Commission,

00:08:29.060 nobody spoke out against this, that obscenity.

00:08:33.260 There was the usual conflagration that we've come to expect from the political left of various grievances and lobby groups.

00:08:44.140 Antifa was present. They intimidated one independent journalist into leaving the legislature grounds.

00:08:49.600 Again, no action taken, whether it's by Winnipeg police, human rights officials, or anybody else.

00:08:54.500 There was also an incident involving a girl who is a friend of my family's,

00:09:00.440 who is a free-spirited type of person, doesn't necessarily follow old-style norms.

00:09:13.020 And so she was out-dressed the way she was dressed, with a sign that more or less said,

00:09:19.380 lesbians support Black Lives Matter, or something like that, reflecting her own sexual preferences. 1.00

00:09:26.000 And she was harangued and verbally assaulted by a number of individuals about how disgusting she is. 1.00

00:09:35.020 Here she is, as they call it in their lexicon, an ally.

00:09:38.300 And she was assailed by people who were dressed in the manner of people who are one of the, 0.98

00:09:50.560 how do I put this, one of the groups most aggrieved in present-day cultures.

00:09:56.940 That would be, they seem to be Muslim or Islamist in nature.

00:10:00.820 I'd say they're more so Islamist. 0.98

00:10:02.440 Because they were protesting, counter-protesting her sexual preferences.

00:10:08.760 And she was made uncomfortable and left.

00:10:11.860 And the mainstream media doesn't tell any of those stories.

00:10:14.660 They make it sound like it was, you know, a Woodstockian love fest, but leaving out the bikers, I guess. 0.94

00:10:21.760 Yeah.

00:10:23.160 The event itself, as I said, had 15,000 people.

00:10:26.600 And it began to advance certain messages, including defund the police.

00:10:31.520 This was then interpreted by supporters, people from the congregation, so to speak,

00:10:39.360 that wanted to show that they were, again, allies about supporting this idea that Winnipeg police

00:10:45.560 and the majority of the police funding goes to salaries and pensions and these things.

00:10:50.480 But people started to chime in with this idea that police should be, you know, have their budgets cut.

00:10:59.400 And now you've got these radicals chiming and going, you know, don't screw around with our message.

00:11:04.640 When we say abolish, we mean abolish.

00:11:06.860 We say defund, we mean no money.

00:11:09.300 And as you and I have seen in the last couple of weeks, more and more people are recognizing these Marxists mean they want the world to be Marxist.

00:11:15.380 They aren't really interested in discussing or negotiating social policy.

00:11:20.780 These are actual serious demands.

00:11:23.160 And the number of people in Winnipeg that believe in, you know, defund the police is small.

00:11:28.980 The next weekend, the police had just a stupefying number of calls, 72 assaults, 14, going to my memory, it was like 14 gun calls, 16 stabbings.

00:11:39.880 And yet the Marxists are still saying, well, when the police put that out, they're just trying to scare you and think you need police.

00:11:44.580 What good are the cops if there's an assault?

00:11:47.680 Well, they break up the assault if it's ongoing.

00:11:50.140 Like this notion that social workers are going to attend drinking parties in Winnipeg, or as the police now put it, a group of people meant to socialize.

00:12:01.660 This is preposterous.

00:12:03.260 But they live in some other universe in terms of the realities of what kind of law enforcement and law and order is needed at street level.

00:12:14.960 Now, subsequent to this, the, I can't call them an organization.

00:12:21.140 They, their fundraising was weird because it was going to like private email addresses.

00:12:25.340 Originally, their fundraising was going through some platform.

00:12:27.740 And then they said, no, don't put it through the platform.

00:12:29.760 So it looked like a way to make money with no accountability off organizing a movement that may or may not be Black Lives Matter, but is certainly Black Lives Matter adjacent.

00:12:40.840 They got, as I said, almost unquestioning media coverage.

00:12:46.540 CBC did a photo album, a CBC reporter, pictures of the march and of the gathering.

00:12:52.600 And the very last picture was of a person holding a sign of a, it was like a painting or a drawing of a police officer.

00:13:00.640 And the cop had a, was portrayed as a pig, which again would be a human rights violation.

00:13:06.160 CBC put that right in their album. 0.67

00:13:09.520 As far as I know, it's still there.

00:13:12.240 Again, that would be in breach of Manitoba human rights codes.

00:13:15.480 You see that there's now two kinds of rules and laws, some for the rest of us and some for the favored aggrieved parties.

00:13:22.600 Um, they then went to organize flash mobs, uh, flash demonstrations of one hour duration at different locations around the city, uh, subsequent to that, to that march.

00:13:34.000 Uh, and they appeared outside the police station and they, they announced it ahead of time.

00:13:38.580 And so the cops shut down at one o'clock.

00:13:40.720 So there's no fingerprinting or whatever the people will go to the main cop shop to apply for.

00:13:45.600 They went to the Manitoba legislature.

00:13:47.060 Then they showed up at city council, uh, on a, on a Friday when council was meeting and Councillor Schreier, the son of the former premier and former governor general, Ed Schreier, who in the environment of the current council is coming across like Stanley Knowles as being a wise and knowledgeable person.

00:14:03.420 Uh, Jason Schreier was speaking, uh, and interrupted himself and said, well, Madam Speaker, as you can hear, like it's, there's an increasing noise level.

00:14:12.920 Uh, the speaker kind of panicked and then Debbie Sharma called the five minute recess. 1.00

00:14:16.500 It lasted 20 minutes.

00:14:17.520 And it turns out that the protesters were outside city hall.

00:14:21.120 They came inside.

00:14:22.780 There's a security desk, uh, not heavily armed or anything that you have to sign into to be able to then go up the stairs of the mezzanine and then enter the gallery to watch the proceedings.

00:14:33.000 Uh, and, uh, what happened was it doesn't appear, uh, one counselor was unaware if they had signed in or not.

00:14:39.540 I don't believe they could have because there's 75 or 80 of them.

00:14:42.600 Uh, but they appeared in the mezzanine, which is separated by the council chamber, not by a wall, not by a brick wall, but by glass.

00:14:52.600 So they can be seen around the stairwells and around the staircases, the railings chanting, uh, and you can be assured that there is no group of taxpayers, no demographic group in Winnipeg, uh, that I can think of that could have gotten away with interrupting a city council meeting.

00:15:12.760 Now, Mayor Bowman, uh, who has never met a movement that he wouldn't try to co-op for his own political purposes, instead of going outside and saying, listen, you guys, you've got a lot of serious concerns about policing and, uh, city services.

00:15:30.380 We've got to do the people's business.

00:15:32.700 Uh, we're dealing with pandemic, lack of revenue due to pandemic.

00:15:37.620 We've got to get this agenda done.

00:15:39.280 This takes care of the dispossessed, the poor seniors that you claim you're caring about. 1.00

00:15:44.400 I will meet with you here in the courtyard next Tuesday at noon.

00:15:48.720 Bring your stuff and I will meet with you, but let, let us do this business now, please.

00:15:54.840 Now, um, the movement itself is detached from black, black lives matter. 0.99

00:16:02.040 It's called something different.

00:16:03.800 They don't on the surface receive any funding from the movement itself.

00:16:09.280 But they receive a lot of support from people who think it is the movement.

00:16:12.820 Right.

00:16:13.580 And people want to jump on this because the premise, the phrase sounds great.

00:16:18.340 But when you look at the reality of the roots of it, the, the, the organizers from 20, whatever, 14, 15, 16.

00:16:26.600 And the kinds of comments they made about race, the comments they made about Jews.

00:16:31.780 Uh, this is why the women's March had to drop three founders like last year, two years ago. 1.00

00:16:37.080 Now, I guess it was 2019.

00:16:38.220 Well, um, in Winnipeg, as it came to the Jewish angle, the Jewish Federation supported this and encouraged the Jewish community to participate.

00:16:49.420 Now, this was on a Friday.

00:16:51.260 Uh, so it's before the Sabbath.

00:16:53.680 The Sabbath begins at sundown.

00:16:55.760 Sundown is around 9.30 p.m.

00:17:00.720 Now, keep in mind that last year when the J.ca launched, what was the precipitating incident for launching the newspaper was Linda Sarsour's appearance in Winnipeg.

00:17:15.620 Now, Linda Sarsour is an unabashed anti-Semite, indisputably a Jew hater. 1.00

00:17:19.960 A, a provocateur uses inflammatory language, a historical revisionist, the Jewish Federation did not notify the community about the rally that was organized, uh, that was organized, in fact, by our publisher, Ron East.

00:17:35.940 Uh, it did not, uh, they did not send an emissary.

00:17:41.640 And among the excuses were, oh, but it's Friday evening at 6.30 and Shabbos starts at like 8 o'clock or whatever.

00:17:47.480 But this year, for a rally involving people, at the very least, supporting a movement that is unabashedly anti-Semitic, the Jewish Federation encouraged people to go, and they themselves attended the march.

00:18:02.760 So they won't go to Jewish counter-protests opposing anti-Semites, but, um, a protest march that promotes the agenda, promotes the ideology of anti-Semites, like Black Lives Matter, that they're fine with. 0.56

00:18:19.320 Uh, we saw this reflected in a tweet by the Black Lives Matter UK that talked about mainstream British politics as gagged of the right to critique Zionism in Israel's settler-colonial pursuits.

00:18:28.760 We loudly and clearly stand beside our Palestinian comrades.

00:18:32.840 So there you see prima facie evidence of Black Lives Matter, seeing them as merging with these aboriginal causes in North America. 0.65

00:18:40.580 This creates greater discord, greater momentum to undermine the societal structures and societal norms, because, uh, when they say Israel's settler-colonial pursuits, they're defining Israel as a white supremacist project.

00:18:55.900 Again, in Winnipeg, I do say that there has not been, in terms of the public displays, nothing that caused any alarm for Jews or for Israelis, that I can say.

00:19:06.900 However, when the days of rage, day of rages, day of rage events started across North America and in this country, as, uh, protests against the state of Israel, applying sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, otherwise known as annexation of occupied territories, uh, and we see it historically different because these are traditional, these are the Jewish homelands. 0.51

00:19:32.540 Uh, Judea had, uh, Judea had, uh, the capital of Israel.

00:19:36.820 So this isn't, uh, us, like, wandering into the, you know, wandering into the Sinai Desert just to snatch up, you know, tracts of land that, uh, had nothing to do with, with our history, our culture, and our self-governance.

00:19:50.540 Now, the protests start across the country and it started in Vancouver with a boat.

00:19:55.080 I think it was about a hundred people in Vancouver.

00:19:57.020 They lined a city block around Clark and East Broadway.

00:20:00.700 And the lead sign was Canada is guilty in Palestinian genocide in Nakba.

00:20:06.360 Hang on for a second.

00:20:08.220 Um, this is a genocide where there are more Palestinians now than ever before. 1.00

00:20:14.160 So, uh, I mean, it's generally not how a genocide works out.

00:20:19.500 And these people are protesting.

00:20:21.120 These are people who, by and large, have no ties to Israel or the Palestinian-controlled territories.

00:20:31.600 These are... 0.68

00:20:32.440 Maybe in Vancouver, maybe half, but then you're dealing with university students, old-time Jew-hating leftists. 0.82

00:20:40.220 Right.

00:20:40.480 You know, but not a lot of them have any relationship, direct relationship to the Palestinian, uh, administration.

00:20:48.000 And these are people who are protesting, uh, uh, an American.

00:20:52.800 So a Trump-proposed peace plan.

00:20:55.720 Yes.

00:20:56.100 Um, in Israel that the Palestinian leadership immediately rejected because for the Palestinian leadership,

00:21:03.800 any Jews left in the land between, I guess, the river and the sea, that's unacceptable here. 0.87

00:21:09.140 But not rejected by the Palestinian communities that would welcome, in many cases, Israeli administrative

00:21:19.880 legislative law as opposed to Israeli military rule to have it converted to a more normal

00:21:27.560 kind of administration.

00:21:29.040 And they'd rather live in Israel where, among other things, gays aren't pitched off the top 0.96

00:21:34.340 of a building than live under Palestine, under the Palestinian authority and under the thumb 0.90

00:21:39.260 of terror, of terrorist groups.

00:21:41.420 And, you know...

00:21:41.960 Well, and, and the opportunity for regular elections.

00:21:44.700 ...election every six months.

00:21:45.760 Exactly.

00:21:46.800 Yeah, exactly.

00:21:48.040 And I mean, to be clear, I've seen what they call settlements.

00:21:52.980 Settlements is a strange way, uh, to describe a neighborhood.

00:21:58.340 That's really what these are.

00:21:59.360 These are Jewish neighborhoods, by and large Jewish neighborhoods, they don't say that you

00:22:03.320 can't live there unless you're Jewish. 0.99

00:22:06.100 I mean, there's Christian Arabs there.

00:22:07.880 I mean, this is, these are just neighborhoods.

00:22:11.280 They're denormalized, I think, by the United Nations by calling them settlements, which indicates

00:22:16.600 something other than what they are.

00:22:18.200 But this is the United Nations and the rest of the world saying that Jews cannot build homes

00:22:25.060 in certain places, which sounds like antisemitism to me.

00:22:29.020 The first thing is, anytime somebody pulls out this idea that this is, uh, violates the

00:22:34.100 UN law and blah, blah, blah, and they start talking about borders, these were never borders.

00:22:38.980 This was a cease, this was an end of hostilities in a war.

00:22:42.260 Borders were never established.

00:22:43.660 Number two, many of these communities, half a million Jews, not all of them are, you know,

00:22:48.500 settlers.

00:22:48.860 Some of these communities where there, where there's a half million Jews, this were Jews

00:22:53.800 have always lived, uh, uh, in some respects or lands that were traditionally Jewish where

00:23:02.000 Arab descendants never lived. 1.00

00:23:04.640 So, so when people start by talking about, uh, you know, the laws being broken, point out

00:23:11.520 the law and how this area actually fits the definitions of that law, not quite so simple.

00:23:19.400 Um, so beyond genocide that way, what you just talked to talk about in reference to this lead

00:23:26.400 sign in Vancouver, the other part is Nakba, which is the notion that land was stolen, taken

00:23:31.860 from, from Arab interests, from Palestinians, except for the ones that fled under instruction

00:23:36.540 of the Arab governments who intended to wipe out every Jew.

00:23:40.080 People forget 6,000 Jews were, were killed at the beginning of the, uh, of the 1948 war.

00:23:46.520 That was 1% of the population.

00:23:48.900 Figure out what would happen to any country where 1% is killed in a war.

00:23:53.020 Uh, this discounts the land that Jews bought. 0.67

00:23:58.040 Zion is bought, especially in the 1930s under the British mandate with way overpaying per

00:24:06.060 acre compared to what a land costs in say, New York state.

00:24:10.680 Um, uh, how do you, how do you say that land was stolen when it was paid for at above market

00:24:18.260 rates?

00:24:18.840 Right.

00:24:19.320 Um, among the signs, so you'll have this, these signs about genocide in Nakba beside a

00:24:27.240 sign in the, where people are caring about no to annexation, which goes back to the political

00:24:31.020 argument.

00:24:31.680 And then in Vancouver, there was a sign Palestine will be free held banner carried by students

00:24:36.680 for justice in Palestine SJP.

00:24:38.800 And when you look at the picture that we published on the J.ca, one of the girls is wearing a white 0.98

00:24:43.740 t-shirt with a, an insignia on it.

00:24:45.540 There's two shots of her.

00:24:46.560 And you re you, when you look at it, you come to recognize that the, that the t-shirt is

00:24:51.340 the logo of the popular front for the liberation of Palestine.

00:24:54.560 That is a banned terrorist group in this country.

00:24:58.120 Uh, meanwhile, one of the event sponsors was Sami Doun, which is an organization that, uh, uh,

00:25:05.460 references Palestinian prisoner.

00:25:07.740 It's a Palestinian prisoner solidarity network.

00:25:10.560 So you're looking at prisoners who are part of a terrorist group.

00:25:16.100 I'm sure that the majority are not in jail, in Israeli jails, if they're in jails for

00:25:20.000 jaywalking, uh, it's terror related activities.

00:25:22.980 They're being jailed for not, uh, not, this isn't the maintenance enforcement branch because

00:25:26.900 they haven't been paying for the kids or something.

00:25:28.620 And here's Charlotte Cates, who's the, uh, international coordinator of Sami Doun holding

00:25:33.800 a sign saying no to annexation, no to Zionism.

00:25:36.060 So you've got an affiliate of a banned terrorist group participating in this rally saying no

00:25:44.420 to Zionism when we know that Zionism is the belief in a, the right to historic homeland

00:25:49.860 that is held by 97% of Jews.

00:25:52.080 But she would argue that somehow she's not an anti-Semite.

00:25:55.320 This brings us, it might be out by a day.

00:25:57.220 This brings us to July the 4th, to the next bout of day of rage protests.

00:26:02.260 And our headline was day of rage replaces Al-Quds day as premier anti-Israel Jew hate

00:26:07.780 fest in Toronto because the pandemic, there was no Al-Quds day this year, uh, which again 1.00

00:26:12.960 is, uh, like knock, but they only like knock with days of warmup.

00:26:18.720 Uh, and, uh, one of the main signs, um, that we, the caught our eye at this, uh, protest in

00:26:26.100 Toronto said anti-Semitism, anti-Semitism is a crime.

00:26:31.060 Anti-Zionism is a Judy free Palestine. 0.94

00:26:34.420 Well, again, trying to play this game that you don't hate Jews, but Zionism is colonialism 1.00

00:26:41.280 when it's the Jewish homeland and free Palestine from the Jews. 0.87

00:26:45.440 I don't even, if I, I read this week that the term Palestinian doesn't even appear in

00:26:50.300 literature to like the 1890s in the word, the word itself had no basis in the cultures,

00:26:59.520 the Arab cultures that resided in the, in the middle East.

00:27:05.580 So that doesn't stop the modern day activists.

00:27:09.500 Uh, the rally in Toronto, uh, was organized by the Palestinian youth movement.

00:27:16.300 And in their call to action on, uh, Facebook, they will not stop.

00:27:21.320 They say we will not stop until all of Palestine is free in every corner of our land.

00:27:26.180 We will not yield until we have reclaimed our land.

00:27:32.400 Like none of it is Jewish. 0.98

00:27:33.740 None of it was bought by Jews.

00:27:34.820 None of it is owned by Jews, redeemed our martyrs. 1.00

00:27:38.000 Now, how do you redeem a martyr?

00:27:41.760 Freed all our prisoners and all refugees return. 1.00

00:27:45.060 Now, what happens when the Jews say, okay, we want the right of return to Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Egypt, 0.96

00:27:58.960 Morocco, all these countries where Jews were expelled, where Jews were beaten, Jews were raped, 0.74

00:28:04.180 Jews were, were tortured.

00:28:06.420 Jews were subject to pogrom after pogrom adapted from the European style of pogroms.

00:28:12.940 The theft of wealth from Jews forced from 800,000, the 800,000 Jews forced from Arab countries

00:28:20.960 was an astonishingly high number of billions of dollars.

00:28:27.120 Now, Jews don't claim any right of return. 0.90

00:28:29.900 The right of return, according to the United Nations, is accorded to first, to, to the first generation of displaced people.

00:28:35.940 It isn't passed down.

00:28:38.060 If you, if you aren't connected to the land, you don't have the, a right of return.

00:28:42.320 Only for the Palestinians. 0.99

00:28:44.680 Yeah.

00:28:45.600 Only for them has this concept been envisioned.

00:28:48.720 Why?

00:28:49.220 Because that would serve to swamp the land of Israel and completely tip the scales on any legislation, 0.98

00:28:59.500 any, any government process would then be completely taken out of the hands of the most oppressed minority in the region for centuries, the Jews. 0.80

00:29:10.520 Not to diminish the suffering of Kurds, Yazidis, or anybody else who've been subject to the same Islamomanicism for centuries and centuries. 0.97

00:29:20.960 Now, in Toronto on the 4th, we again saw the merger of these, the conflagration of these causes,

00:29:27.380 where you had First Nation, Aboriginal speakers, people representing First Nations organizations,

00:29:31.860 talking about the settler colonial policies of Canada and Israel, except Israel was settled by people with a historic claim to the land.

00:29:41.180 Canada was settled by the British and the French.

00:29:43.960 So how is this the same?

00:29:47.460 Well, when you're Marxists and you just want to overthrow government, you just lump, and everybody is all being the same kind of bad guy.

00:29:54.480 Like, there was signage where on the one hand, you've got a black, you know, a black guy, he's wearing a wearing a mask, this picture I'm looking at, defund the RCMP and police now. 0.76

00:30:04.080 And beside him is some dame holding up a sign saying defund the IDF. 1.00

00:30:09.000 Defund the IDF?

00:30:10.040 What are you talking about?

00:30:12.140 And among those that jumped on the bandwagon was food benders in Toronto.

00:30:17.180 And they referenced a recent incident where a Palestinian fellow came up to a checkpoint, veered left, button hooked right, rammed the security gate, not a gate, I mean, it's a kiosk, rammed it, came out of the car, and before he could stab anybody, he was shot dead.

00:30:37.900 Because there's like four or five Israeli guards at the checkpoint.

00:30:40.780 Oh, this is how securitized is the word they've invented.

00:30:46.300 Palestinians are so securitized as a threat. 1.00

00:30:49.460 We can't make human mistakes like lose momentary control of our car, press the accelerator in a moment of haste, get in a car accident.

00:30:55.820 He's coming up to a checkpoint.

00:30:57.620 What are you hitting the accelerator for?

00:30:59.840 I think before those checkpoints, they also have speed bumps before you get to them.

00:31:05.180 You can't just race up.

00:31:06.560 This wasn't something in the desert that's, you know, or in the outskirts it's set up.

00:31:10.480 It's a standard operating procedure.

00:31:12.220 Well, someone posts that, claiming that this person, this victim, was a cousin of theirs, same family name, turned out they weren't a cousin.

00:31:22.220 And Foodbenders goes and says, well, this is a George Floyd moment.

00:31:25.660 Refused to live in a Canada that continues to support Israeli brutality and war crimes against the Palestinians.

00:31:31.160 Boycott Israel. 0.98

00:31:33.120 Join the Toronto BDS network.

00:31:34.600 So Foodbenders, the proprietor, Kim Hawkins, using mostly Instagram but other social media, ramped up from the Black Lives Matter issues and kept conflating.

00:31:46.400 And this goes back to the Israeli Defense Force somehow trains police in America into, you know, brutalizing, brutalizing righteous protesters or innocent people.

00:31:58.880 So Sue Ann Levy, who's been writing for the J.ca and is fantastic, giving us exclusive content, as part of her columns for the Toronto Sun, she went to the restaurant twice.

00:32:12.560 Went once, checked it out, came back the next day and tried to engage the owner about that she had made a public statement on her Instagram that the Zionists were not welcome in her restaurant. 0.75

00:32:26.080 It's a restaurant, lunch counter, catering place. 0.97

00:32:29.380 She, in shooing Sue Ann out, and then there's a few goons that attended as well, she said out loud, out of her mouth, Israelis kill thousands of children every day. 0.97

00:32:40.640 Now, I have not seen any media, not even in the Arab world, not even in the Islamist world, not even the house organs of Iran or any other despotic regime.

00:32:59.600 Nobody has claimed Israel kills thousands of children a day.

00:33:03.280 But the owner of Foodbenders told Sue Ann Levy that she didn't know what she was talking about. 0.99

00:33:09.320 So, you know, you look at this signage that she had put out on her sandwich board and the things that she'd said, Jewish people are greedy and entitled, Israel are terrorists. 0.91

00:33:18.100 And as our publisher, Ron East, he created a, you know, like a clapboard, in effect, for the Canadian, for the Israeli-Canadian Council. 0.99

00:33:31.460 If you can't say indigenous people are greedy and entitled and blacks are terrorists, then why can you say Zionists are racist, Zionists are Nazis, and other things? 0.96

00:33:41.280 You clearly can't. 0.99

00:33:43.200 But nobody stands up against this.

00:33:45.900 Never mind what human rights codes say, the doing business Bible, I guess the business license, says that you can't discriminate against people on certain grounds.

00:33:55.000 So, presumably, if you walk in, you know, plastered out of your skull and pose a danger, then they can reasonably still keep you off the premises.

00:34:02.440 But if somebody's, I was going to say Indian, but literally in Toronto would count, Indian, Fijian, black, brown of any sort, sub-Saharan, Chinese, Malaysian, if you're identifiably something, you can't be reserved service on that, Arab, you can't be refused service on that basis.

00:34:26.500 And here's a business that was openly advertising that that was the basis of her business. 1.00

00:34:32.040 So, John Tory and the Council in Toronto, some of whom I know are far left, which is a polite way of saying communist, Paula Fletcher, Winnipeg's gift to Toronto.

00:34:43.940 So, I don't know how they're going to reconcile this.

00:34:49.120 And I don't think society has a goal, the most important goal for society, rather.

00:34:54.460 I don't think it should be convincing society, we've got to wholesale change everything.

00:35:01.100 We start with what we can fix first, which is at the societal level, okay, at the level where multiculturalism functions on a day-to-day basis, which is race relations.

00:35:13.600 And I think if the politicians take the bull by the horns, stand up like leaders, and start calling race relations meetings, race relations conferences, and focus on ratcheting down those tensions, and resolving those misunderstandings, and figure out what role government has played, then we have a lot better chance of success.

00:35:40.000 A lot better chance of maintaining our civil society than what we see now.

00:35:45.360 From your lips to God's ears.

00:35:48.380 Marty, I want to give you a chance to let everybody know where they can find the work that you do at the J.ca, and how they can, more importantly, I think, support you to keep it going.

00:35:59.720 Because you're filling a huge void in Canadian journalism in general, but also for the Jewish community.

00:36:08.540 We're thrilled that our articles have been picked up by the Jewish News Syndicate and by Israeli publications.

00:36:16.220 One was written by Aviva Engel from Montreal.

00:36:18.340 Boy, is she fantastic. 0.98

00:36:19.540 She wrote a story about a Hasidic bakery, and not just about the bakery, because I love, you didn't get this size by not loving bakeries.

00:36:27.480 And not just about the Babka, but about the role they play in the community in creating goodwill and harmony among the different communities.

00:36:38.660 Because the Hasidic are, you know, like they do keep to themselves their very insular community. 1.00

00:36:46.420 But in their public pursuits, like the bakery, this article was fantastic.

00:36:53.040 I didn't see it until, literally, until we published it.

00:36:56.500 I was knocked out of my chair, how great it was.

00:36:59.460 And that's an example of the kind of story that is picked up on, not just the political stuff or the breaking news stuff that we do.

00:37:04.860 Although, again, no other publication, no other media platform in the country covered Day of Rage at all in a comprehensive manner, going over which cities it was in and what was said where.

00:37:17.060 We have a great crew of writers.

00:37:18.460 Dan Brotman has just written a story about Peruvian Jews during the pandemic, which corrected erroneous news stories about the Jews of Peru that had recently been circulated.

00:37:28.140 I referenced my piece about the history of Jews in Canada.

00:37:34.680 We have Rebecca Eckler puts out great columns called Kvetch vs. Kvel, which is like, yeah, a slice of life stuff.

00:37:48.420 Egal Hecht is a regular contributor.

00:37:50.360 His latest one was about a Rady influencer on social media. 0.79

00:37:54.160 So we're looking at Jews, the influence of Jews, the role of Jews across the spectrum of activities and businesses and in society.

00:38:03.580 Did you know Robbie Robertson had Jewish ancestors?

00:38:07.680 I didn't.

00:38:08.680 No.

00:38:09.480 It's a great story that Ira Haberman contributed.

00:38:13.360 Dave Gordon's our managing editor of Toronto.

00:38:15.540 He's done a fantastic job putting together the writers.

00:38:17.980 And he and Tevi Peltz, they're the ones collating the material and doing the majority of the editing.

00:38:28.460 And as I said, myself and Ron handle more so the breaking news and the political stuff.

00:38:34.200 And we've got, before I forget, again, Sue Ann Levy has just been knocking out of the park with what she's been giving us. 0.62

00:38:41.960 Doran Berger's contributed tremendously.

00:38:44.280 Obviously, Daniel Korn wrote a story about Israel advocacy on campuses and the challenges they face.

00:38:50.420 So we've got something for everybody.

00:38:52.040 We cover the spectrum of Jewish life, not only Canada, in Canada, but internationally.

00:38:57.400 I'm proud to be, you know, at the top of the masthead of this with Ron East.

00:39:02.420 This is, in a lot of ways, the culmination of his father's dream, of Yarmul Mizrahi's dream,

00:39:07.440 of making sure the Jewish voice is heard in this country and that it's heard loud and clear and that we are able to provide a safe harbor, as it were, for the Jewish community.

00:39:22.440 That they know that if they have a story to tell, somebody will tell it.

00:39:25.860 We are not a right wing.

00:39:27.440 We are pro-Israel.

00:39:28.760 We are pro-IDF.

00:39:29.840 We do not, we will not run stories bashing religious communities because they are, you know, religious and old-fashioned or something.

00:39:37.160 We respect our roots.

00:39:39.220 But we have run stories talking about how Jews should support Black Lives Matter movement,

00:39:44.820 even though editorially we may not agree with that perspective specifically or precisely.

00:39:50.680 We have run pieces about the Jewish role in that aspect of race relations and supporting the goals of ensuring that Blacks are treated fairly in institutions and, you know, in terms of processes.

00:40:06.420 And so we've run that, too.

00:40:07.600 It's not all one-sided.

00:40:09.720 We've got, I mean, I don't count, but I'm told that we've got a number of non-heterosexual writers and colonists.

00:40:18.340 And, like, look, I don't care.

00:40:20.140 I care about good copy.

00:40:21.600 I don't.

00:40:22.400 I don't.

00:40:22.880 I want good copy.

00:40:23.980 I want stuff that's readable.

00:40:25.240 I want stuff that's relevant.

00:40:26.320 I want stuff that's topical.

00:40:27.460 I want stuff that's timely.

00:40:28.620 I love the science pieces, the history pieces.

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00:41:39.540 And your support now is going to get us to that stage.

00:41:42.840 I'm really hopeful that by September this will be a going concern, that the staff will be in a position to make sure the staff is taken care of, that the contributors are taken care of, and that we can continue to not only tell our stories, but to advocate for the Jewish communities in Canada, not just Toronto, not just Montreal, but the Jews of Halifax, St. John's, Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Saskatoon.

00:42:05.840 We are here for all of you and for all those of you who support a Jewish homeland, who support the state of Israel, who support our Judeo-Christian way of life, our traditions and our ethics.

00:42:16.980 We are here for you.

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00:42:19.520 Letters, the editor, Marty at the j.ca.

00:42:22.380 And always glad to hear from you.

00:42:23.940 And Sheila, once again, thank you for, as Gene Konisky would say, having me into your homes via TV and for being so supportive of our efforts.

00:42:33.380 Since our inception a year ago, and your audience communicates with us as well.

00:42:39.540 We get followers from the rebel and some donations from people that I know also donate to your efforts as well.

00:42:48.640 And one last thing I forgot to mention, a shout out to David Menzies, who walks into the belly of the beast, who gets the footage.

00:42:56.860 What he and Ezra have done is incomparable in terms of journalism in this country, no matter what anybody says.

00:43:03.200 Because when you strap on your boots and you walk into what is really hostile territory to tell those stories, to show what's going on, to make sure people know what's being said, whether it's in the Nathan Phillips Square or whatever.

00:43:19.020 Was that the courtyard in front of the city hall?

00:43:20.860 Wherever it was.

00:43:21.760 David Menzies is a very brave guy who could be doing a lot of different things at his age.

00:43:26.140 I'm sure he could be hanging out at the beaches or something.

00:43:30.760 And instead, he's putting in the work to make sure that the reporting is done at ground level that we try to do not in Toronto.

00:43:38.000 But again, David has been a good friend to us, along with the rest of the correspondents at the Rebel.

00:43:46.080 But what David's put up with, guys, he's got a big heart and a lot of guts.

00:43:51.420 He's a saint.

00:43:54.800 When he's dealing with those people, he is not malicious.

00:43:58.180 He doesn't have a mean bone in his body.

00:44:00.760 And as I said to you earlier, Ezra refers to him as like Columbo.

00:44:06.140 When he just sort of, you underestimate him until he gets to the right question and gets the answer that he knew was there.

00:44:14.800 That's how David Menzies operates.

00:44:16.340 And, you know, it's hard to watch him being mistreated, but what he's doing is valuable.

00:44:22.860 Very uncomfortable.

00:44:24.180 Yeah.

00:44:24.440 What he's doing is valuable work that nobody else is willing to do.

00:44:27.760 And shame on the mainstream media that does not report on these kinds of incidents that ignore it until, God forbid, one of them gets spit on or jostled or some epithet is yelled while they're doing a live hit.

00:44:42.460 And then it's, you know, like Federal Court of Canada issue.

00:44:46.040 But, right?

00:44:48.160 But all journalists should be safe from harassment.

00:44:54.340 They should be safe from abuse.

00:44:55.800 Whether CBC or CTV or Global or any of these outlets, whether they agree with the style of reporting or the kinds of stories that are being followed and that they don't speak up, there should be solidarity.

00:45:12.820 If anything, there should be solidarity among journalists.

00:45:15.200 And instead, you've got parliamentary press galleries, and then they look down their nose at people who do reporting that doesn't follow their narrative.

00:45:22.940 And, you know what, one day, one day too soon, they're going to need the support of everybody.

00:45:29.680 And already we see how Canadian society is becoming increasingly skeptical, increasingly questioning, increasingly untrusting of the agenda in some of those newsrooms.

00:45:41.040 And they should seriously think of what's been experienced by Menzies and other people in the course of the last couple of years in trying to cover the radicalized elements of Canadian politics, Canadian protest movements.

00:45:54.080 And they should be carefully considering why they are silent and why they should not stay silent in the face of people being mistreated in that manner.

00:46:04.800 Well, I don't think we ever have to worry about you being silent, Marty.

00:46:08.660 Marty, thank you so much for coming on the show.

00:46:13.000 Again, thank you again for your generosity with your time always, but especially today.

00:46:18.380 We did have some technical difficulties earlier.

00:46:20.460 We'll have you back on again real soon, and best of luck with the J.ca.

00:46:24.760 Thank you so much, and the best to you and to everybody at the outlet, and to all of you viewers.

00:46:32.500 Keep supporting the alternatives, because without the alternatives, you know what you're stuck with.

00:46:37.800 Amen.

00:46:45.780 Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight.

00:46:47.700 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:46:49.200 And I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week.

00:46:52.920 And remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

00:46:56.700 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - July 09, 2020

Trudeau silent on anti-Zionist Toronto eatery Foodbenders (GUEST： Marty Gold)

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