The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - October 09, 2023


Canada's Anti-Semitic Political Left

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Wyatt Claypool
Mentioned
Daniel Boardman Olivia Chow Fred Hahn Danfoe Wards Jody Gondek QP Ontario Joe Biden
BREAKING： Hamas Launches All Out War Against Israel (Murdering Civilians) CUPE Ontario Becomes Terrorism Apologists

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In this episode, I talk about anti-Semitism in Canada, and how it's much more widespread than just the fringe right wing groups and fringe left wing groups, and much more. I also talk about how the Canadian government and media have been soft-pedaling Israel's actions in Gaza, and why this is anti-Semitic.

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00:00:00.000 What me and Daniel Boardman have been saying over the past four years has been proven absolutely correct just by looking through social media that if you're looking for anti-Semitism in Canada, the best way of finding is going to find a politically left wing movement because anti-Semitism in Canada is very mainstream on the political left.
00:00:19.260 As soon as Hamas started murdering women, children and the elderly in their homes in southern Israel, you immediately had all of these proto-Islamist and left wing socialist groups coming out of the woodwork to basically promote the Hamas agenda or to pretend that murdering Israeli citizens isn't really that bad.
00:00:39.700 If you think about it, well, Israel has a bigger military, so this is just justified. 0.97
00:00:44.580 Oh, there's been 70 years of oppression. 1.00
00:00:46.920 Just nonsense, stupid talking points. 1.00
00:00:50.020 And this isn't something just on the fringe groups. 1.00
00:00:53.080 It's not just within, you know, crazy workers unions and the Green Party and whatnot.
00:00:58.960 This is mainstream stuff.
00:01:00.800 You're having left wing mayors like Jody Gondek and Olivia Chow soft peddling the violence happening in Israel.
00:01:08.640 Olivia Chow finally took her previous statements back, making it seem like, well, I really stand with the people of Palestine as Hamas murders Israelis. 0.99
00:01:19.560 Just insane crap. 0.96
00:01:20.620 Or people looking at body counts to pretend that they can find some moral equivalency in that. 0.98
00:01:25.620 I would just like to point out that Nazi Germany took more casualties than Great Britain and the U.S. combined, but that didn't make Germany right in World War II. 0.87
00:01:34.960 Just because the Palestinian Authority and Hamas build rocket batteries right on top of schools and hospitals does not mean that Israel isn't responsible for those deaths. 0.93
00:01:45.740 But anyways, but yeah, the anti-Semitism in Canada is far, far more widespread mainstream on the left than just these fringe groups.
00:01:54.760 The honest reporting candidate did a great report that showed this absolute garbage that the CBC had emailed out to their own staff, asking their own people to not actually refer to Hamas as terrorists.
00:02:08.060 This is something that they quoted from the email from a CBC news editor to their writers and anchors.
00:02:13.880 This is one of the quotes.
00:02:14.960 This is the Gaza Strip, Gaza.
00:02:16.220 It's okay to use that as a clipped form, even if first reference.
00:02:20.480 Please do not describe the 2005 as the end of the occupation, as Israel has maintained control over airspace, the seafront, and virtually movement into and out of the area.
00:02:30.740 Do you know why Israel blockades Gaza?
00:02:34.900 They do it for the same reason Egypt does it, because Gaza is controlled by a terrorist group.
00:02:40.260 And I don't mean this in the sense that there's a lot of terrorists in Gaza.
00:02:43.160 Ergo, they're controlled.
00:02:44.000 Hamas is the government, and Hamas is a terrorist group. 0.95
00:02:47.160 It's a terror state.
00:02:48.880 So Egypt and Israel have both blockaded it, because you cannot trust free movement coming in and out of that place to not be basically a big front for terrorists trying to get into Israel.
00:02:59.920 There's a reason why it's blockaded.
00:03:02.060 And it's not because big bad Israel doesn't like the Palestinian people.
00:03:06.360 They literally gave Gaza over to the Palestinian people, and they voted in Hamas.
00:03:10.860 And then right after Hamas was voted in, Hamas banned all future elections.
00:03:15.960 They are on, like, the 18th year of a four-year term. 0.88
00:03:19.900 It's completely ridiculous. 0.76
00:03:21.820 But, like, just moving on, there's more stuff in this ridiculous CBC email where they said, 0.91
00:03:26.880 Do not refer to militant soldiers or anyone else as terrorists.
00:03:31.080 The notion of terrorism remains heavily politicized, and is part of the story.
00:03:35.220 Even when quoting slash clipping a government or a source referring to fighting as terrorists, we should add context to ensure the audience understands this is an opinion, not fact.
00:03:43.840 That includes statements from the Canadian government and Canadian politicians.
00:03:47.440 That is absolutely, brutally disgusting.
00:03:51.140 And the reason why I call this anti-Semitic and why people like my colleague Daniel Wardman call this anti-Semitic is not because if you criticize Israel, it's anti-Semitic. 0.66
00:03:58.940 Daniel and I can both make criticism of Israel.
00:04:01.520 We don't like vaccine mandates that happen there.
00:04:03.400 We do not like certain policies the government has. 0.68
00:04:05.900 But what makes the current criticism and attacks on Israel anti-Semitic is because the standard that they are applying to Israel, that they are not allowed to fire back at Gaza terrorists when they're literally murdering, raping, and burning down Jewish, like, homes, is insane.
00:04:24.620 Because we would never apply that standard to anyone but Israel.
00:04:27.820 Or at least the political left never applies it to anybody but Israel.
00:04:31.300 Do we think that we wouldn't let, like, we wouldn't fire on, like, I'll just, like, some fictional city in Canada if it was, like, if it was, like, had its own government or whatever and it was firing on other Canadian cities?
00:04:44.460 We would wipe it out.
00:04:45.600 We would probably be far less soft-handed than the Israelis have been dealing with Gaza for the past 13 years. 0.82
00:04:52.220 But whatever.
00:04:53.420 Whatever. 0.99
00:04:54.560 It's, this is what I'm, this is what we, like, even, even here, this is one of the most pathetic people. 0.99
00:04:59.000 Fred Hahn, who is the leader of QP Ontario, has been putting out absolute trash. 0.99
00:05:04.600 Again, Fred Hahn, a gay man who would be murdered if he went to Gaza, is putting out stuff like this. 0.98
00:05:10.580 Sorry, I'm trying to get it to come up on screen.
00:05:12.240 He says, as we all think about reasons to be thankful this Thanksgiving, I know I am thankful for the power of workers, the power of resistance around the gold.
00:05:19.340 Because resistance is fruitful.
00:05:21.100 And no matter what, some might say, resistance brings progress.
00:05:24.100 And for that, I'm thankful.
00:05:25.100 That's absolute communist gobbledygook.
00:05:28.900 And he's not referring to some vague form of resistance. 0.85
00:05:31.960 He is very heavily implying that he supports the Gaza murder of Jews.
00:05:37.660 Because what was going on for the past two days is him liking and retweeting posts, praising Hamas for breaching the barrier that Israel puts up around Gaza and going around and murdering Jewish people.
00:05:52.220 And again, when I say the communist gobbledygook, he doesn't even put a metric on whether or not resistance is good.
00:05:58.400 It's just always good. 0.95
00:05:59.620 You know, communists in India killing people. 0.99
00:06:01.700 Kalistani terrorists in India killing people. 0.97
00:06:03.960 You know, communists in the Philippines.
00:06:05.600 There actually is still a Filipino insurgency for the communists going on there.
00:06:09.460 All this other killing around the world, as long as you frame it as resistance, that's totally fine.
00:06:14.260 The FLQ in Quebec, they were fantastic because they were resisting.
00:06:18.160 You know, the IRA in Northern Ireland, those people are great because they're resisting.
00:06:22.320 That's complete and utter nonsense.
00:06:24.760 And it's being used as a front to criticize Israel as if somehow Israel is the bad guy because they oppose resistance.
00:06:33.200 Whatever. 0.99
00:06:33.940 But he also was putting, he was also liking stuff like this, like this moron saying, I'm not supporting the attacks. 0.99
00:06:39.140 Israel has a much greater military might. 0.97
00:06:41.200 I am, however, not surprised that this has happened.
00:06:44.800 Blame the Israeli government. 0.99
00:06:45.740 Blame the Israeli government because Hamas terrorists walk into a home full, like with a Jewish family inside, and they torture and rape and shoot all of them. 0.93
00:06:55.820 Yeah, that's resistance against a greater military threat.
00:06:59.120 That's what every country does whenever they're trying to resist a greater military threat.
00:07:03.520 They just target children.
00:07:04.840 That's not nonsense.
00:07:05.800 Even now, you have the Hamas militants who kidnapped a bunch of Israeli citizens and brought them back over to the border in Gaza are saying, if Israel fires back on us for killing their people and kidnapping them, we'll start executing all of the hostages on camera, torturing and executing them on camera.
00:07:22.220 Yeah, this sounds like a freedom fighter group, but I guess the CBC thinks, though, and it's not just the CBC. 0.88
00:07:28.060 Look at any dumb political science academic from a university, any professor, and they are making excuses. 0.54
00:07:35.280 They're talking about anything but what is going on in Israel. 0.96
00:07:39.240 They just talk about how, like, I even have professors I had at UFC and MRU soft peddling what's happening, not really wanting to talk about how horrific the Hamas attack on Israel is.
00:07:49.340 It's always about this moral equivalency that, well, Israel and Hamas are fighting, so there must be a 50-50 kind of conflict going on here.
00:07:57.460 There's not – whenever you try and be neutral in a situation like this, all you're doing is elevating the actions of terrorists and pretending they're legitimate and maligning the defensive actions of a state like Israel.
00:08:10.140 You cannot be neutral in a situation like this and just say, well, you know, we should de-escalate.
00:08:17.240 We should just, you know, everyone should just, like, calm down and have a ceasefire.
00:08:21.580 All you're doing is saying that Hamas gets to have the first strike, they get to kill as many people as possible in 24 hours, and then they can call for a ceasefire and de-escalation, and then that's being morally, like, reasonable in some way.
00:08:34.480 No, a ceasefire would be a mockery of peace right now, but the Canadian left doesn't really care what about peace.
00:08:41.060 They're just trying to put up a moral shield for Hamas to keep on living. 0.65
00:08:45.800 I think Israel should wipe out Hamas. 0.70
00:08:47.640 I do not think that this is a group that you can keep letting exist on your border, not only because it's a threat to Israel.
00:08:53.360 It's a threat to all Muslims in the area as well. 1.00
00:08:55.820 The biggest killer of Muslims in Palestine is terrorist groups like Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, and Islamic Jihad, all funded by Iran, by the way. 0.59
00:09:05.100 Joe Biden just gave them $6 billion, and less than a month later, we have a bunch of shooting going on in Israel again that's by, like, terrorist groups that are funded directly by Iran.
00:09:17.340 But we're never going to note this in the Canadian media or on the Canadian left, because that's inconvenient, because not only do they soft-pedal the actions of Hamas, they support the regime in Iran.
00:09:26.680 They don't care about trying to list the IRGC as a terrorist group, despite shooting down a plane full of Canadians.
00:09:32.140 They don't care about any of this stuff.
00:09:33.480 They don't call out Kalistani terrorists in Canada. 0.64
00:09:36.120 The Canadian left is the most anti-Semitic side of the political aisle in Canada.
00:09:42.660 It is without question.
00:09:45.100 There's a reason why their union members and their activists can show up to pro-Hamas rallies all across Canada, and they're not going to lose their jobs. 0.99
00:09:53.020 Nothing's going to happen to them, because as long as they frame everything in the frame of oppressor and oppressed and resistance versus authoritarianism, then they can get away with thinking it's okay to shoot a Jewish child in the head. 0.96
00:10:05.560 Anyways, that's it for me today.
00:10:07.260 I have my donation link in the description, my legal fund.
00:10:10.000 I don't really want to talk about it too much today.
00:10:11.500 I'm a little bit mad.
00:10:12.820 Other than that, I'll see you guys next time.