Western Standard - October 26, 2023


Rampant antisemitism displays are a world embarrassment

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Ryan Jesperson Hamas Broken Glass Gada Sasa Kristallnacht Trudeau
CMS： Canada has seen this kind of antisemitism before Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre responds

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The world is seeing a resurgence of anti-Semitism unlike any since World War II, and it s being fed by elements of the media, politicians, and academics. In fact, it is reminiscent of world attitudes during WW II, when rumors began to leak out about the extermination of Jews in Europe.

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00:00:00.000 So let's cut through the BS.
00:00:02.200 The world is seeing a resurgence of anti-Semitism, unlike any since World War II.
00:00:07.000 And it's being fed by elements of the media, politicians, and academics.
00:00:10.840 In fact, it is reminiscent of world attitudes during World War II,
00:00:13.700 and rumors began to leak out about the extermination of Jews in Europe.
00:00:18.140 Escaped prisoners and local citizens related stories of systematic extermination of Jews,
00:00:23.180 among other horrifying things happening years before the camps were liberated.
00:00:27.000 But countries around the world, they refused to believe it.
00:00:30.220 They were as often saying the stories are exaggerations.
00:00:32.380 If indeed these camps existed at all, they dismissed the rumors as sympathy plays being made by Jews
00:00:37.280 who probably brought the abuse upon themselves in the first place.
00:00:40.280 As the Jews tried to flee, nations closed their borders to them.
00:00:43.860 Canada's Mackenzie King famously said multiple times,
00:00:47.140 none is too many when he was talking about Jews coming in here.
00:00:49.820 He promised Canadians he wouldn't let Jews come in and pollute our bloodlines. 1.00
00:00:53.100 Yeah, that's how it was then.
00:00:54.680 Ships of Jewish refugees returned back to Europe,
00:00:57.380 where many of them ended up being murdered in the Holocaust.
00:01:00.480 Even when it became undeniable that Jews were being exterminated,
00:01:03.260 countries went out of their way to avoid helping.
00:01:05.380 King relented by allowing Jewish children to find refuge here in Canada,
00:01:09.960 but made it clear they'd be sent back to Europe as soon as possible.
00:01:12.060 Again, we don't want to pollute those bloodlines. 0.74
00:01:14.180 Again, reports of atrocities being committed against Jews in Europe were underplayed or denied.
00:01:18.780 Even today, we have losers who deny the Holocaust even happened,
00:01:21.700 despite overwhelming evidence, literally millions of witnesses. 0.84
00:01:25.720 Some people just insist on holding some perverse hatred for Jews to the point where they'll never admit any wrongdoing was done against them.
00:01:33.000 Now, despite rather overwhelming evidence that Hamas terrorists slaughtered countless unarmed Jewish citizens on October 7th,
00:01:39.780 Canadian-Palestinian activists have been claiming it was Israel who murdered the people attending a music festival that day.
00:01:46.560 Yeah, Gada Sasa, a group of Canadians for justice and peace in the Middle East,
00:01:50.200 made that claim on Ryan Jesperson's show in Alberta last week.
00:01:53.360 And Jesperson did call her out on that claim.
00:01:55.220 And he's been abused by Hamas supporters online for treating Sasa poorly in the interview.
00:02:00.880 She later, by the way, organized a protest outside of a Jewish child care centre in Ontario,
00:02:05.820 where children and parents alike were intimidated.
00:02:08.580 If the issue's just with Israel and not Jews themselves,
00:02:11.600 then what's the point of protesting outside of daycare centres?
00:02:14.940 Why not go outside an embassy or a consulate?
00:02:17.240 Because your problem is with Jews, not Israel.
00:02:20.020 Quit feeding me that BS saying it's Israel you got the beef with. 1.00
00:02:23.920 Not when you're targeting daycare centres, you losers. 0.99
00:02:27.080 Likewise, pro-Hamas protesters, and they have been pro-Hamas, 0.98
00:02:30.080 they've been intimidating customers and workers alike at Jewish-owned businesses and restaurants.
00:02:34.400 Does that sound familiar for those of you who are familiar with history?
00:02:37.420 We got pro-Palestine mobs demonstrating outside of these things.
00:02:41.560 I mean, anti-Jewish mobs demonstrating outside of businesses and daycares.
00:02:44.700 This is the sort of behaviour that led up to Kristallnacht in Germany in 1938.
00:02:49.280 When a pogrom was carried out against Jews' businesses, it started with them.
00:02:52.100 They were targeted.
00:02:52.620 There was graffiti, smashed glass,
00:02:55.060 Kristallnacht as translates to Night of Broken Glass.
00:02:57.620 And that event was considered the beginning of the formal pursuit of what was called
00:03:01.520 the final solution for the extermination of Jews.
00:03:04.420 So why does Israel face such scrutiny when it comes to every assault against them? 0.65
00:03:09.160 When it was revealed that Hamas terrorists had been beheading babies, that was denied.
00:03:12.860 Then finally, the Hamas apology said,
00:03:14.680 well, okay, there were a few dozen babies murdered, but not all of them were beheaded.
00:03:17.940 As if that somehow makes it better.
00:03:19.180 Next, the claim emerged that Israel deliberately bombed a hospital in Gaza and killed hundreds of people.
00:03:24.960 The terrorists of Hamas were given the benefit of the doubt and Israel was widely condemned for committing the atrocity.
00:03:30.900 Trudeau implied Israel was at fault with his initial statement.
00:03:33.800 It hasn't really walked it back now that it's been proven the hospital was hit by a rocket misfire from terrorists in Gaza themselves.
00:03:39.380 Why on earth does the world keep believing the claims of terrorists who just literally slaughtered peaceful kids in a music festival and have decapitated babies?
00:03:47.440 Well, they condemn them before the facts come out.
00:03:49.380 Why the zeal to condemn Israel, no matter how bad the source of information is?
00:03:53.580 When people were gleefully dancing in the Canadian streets in the days after the attack on Israel, 0.80
00:03:57.560 they weren't being pro-Palestine.
00:03:59.160 They were being pro-Hamas, and they were celebrating mass murder. 0.94
00:04:02.700 It can only be when the atrocity against Jews, you know, is proven and shown that it finally becomes muted, the critique. 0.52
00:04:11.920 The chant from river to sea is common among pro-Hamas protesters rearing their ugly heads in Canada. 0.94
00:04:17.140 That statement references wiping Israel from the map and slaughtering every Jew within it. 0.95
00:04:21.120 It's right in the Hamas charter, guys. 0.98
00:04:22.980 Yeah, we still tolerate this for some reason.
00:04:25.240 We wouldn't tolerate it with any other group out there, I tell you that.
00:04:27.800 The Israeli government had to bring in over 100 international journalists the other day
00:04:32.440 and show them footage of 40 minutes from the Hamas slaughter.
00:04:36.440 The terrorists are so perverse, they recorded every minute of it and what they did.
00:04:40.120 Hopefully, this did serve as an effective reality check for some of the media members
00:04:43.360 who still lived under the misconception that Hamas is some enemy that can be reasoned with or shown mercy.
00:04:48.840 People say Israel has the right to defend itself, yet condemn Israel every time they actually do it.
00:04:53.520 So what are they supposed to do?
00:04:54.560 They're supposed to sit still and wait for the next round of terrorists, the next pile of missiles.
00:04:59.520 Hamas is still firing missiles into the residential areas of Israel daily. 0.99
00:05:03.400 And Israel are the ones catching the crap. 0.97
00:05:05.060 Where's the demands that Hamas cease firing? 0.99
00:05:07.580 Israel is going to be under threat as long as Hamas exists, and they plan to eliminate that threat. 0.63
00:05:12.200 If somebody else has suggestions on how to do that, I'm all ears.
00:05:15.380 But for now, Hamas has a mandate to eliminate every Jew in Israel, so don't try to tell me they're open to reasonable negotiations.
00:05:21.440 They're holding hostages and they're lobbing bombs into residential areas.
00:05:24.240 No other nation would be subjected to such public abuse for defending itself after such an attack.
00:05:30.300 No other nation except Israel. 0.93
00:05:31.860 And let's not pretend the reason for that is because it's the only Jewish country on earth.
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