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EZRA LEVANT | The one tweet that snapped a dozen government bureaucrats to attention
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There’s a reason uniforms exist, particularly for police, soldiers and anyone exercising state authority. A uniform is meant to represent the government, not the individual wearing it. When someone in a position of power detains you, searches your belongings or restricts your movement, it should be clear that the authority comes from the state itself, not from a personal ideology or political belief. That’s why we don’t expect to see overt political or religious symbols displayed by those exercising official power. The uniform is supposed to be neutral, one standard form that removes doubt about motive or bias. That’s the backdrop to a tweet Ezra sent after passing through airport security at Calgary International Airport. The guard searching his bag had a Palestinian flag sticker attached to his security badge. Ezra's immediate question was simple: why is a security officer in a politically sensitive role advertising a political cause while screening passengers? Rather than con...
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Hello, my friends. I made a little bit of news with a tweet. Isn't that a funny story? I want to show you how a federal bureaucracy jumped into action when I poked them online. But first, let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News plus, it's the video version of this podcast. Just go to rebelnewsplus.com it's eight bucks a month. You get the video stuff and the satisfaction of keeping Rebel News strong because we take no government money and it shows.
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Tonight I made a tweet and a dozen government bureaucrats snapped to attention. It's March 5th, and this is the Ezra Leant Show. Shame on you, you sensori. You know, there's a reason why we have uniforms in the world, especially for police and the military and other imposers of force. It's so that you understand that the force, the authority being mustered, is in the name of the government, the public, not some special interest, not some club, not some religion. It's in the name of the people itself. That's why you don't see big crucifixes or Stars of David on a necklace of a cop. That would be against regulation. And it's because if you're being arrested by someone, you're not being arrested by a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim. You're being arrested by a policeman or a policewoman. That's why there were some objection to Sikh turbans being allowed in the rcmp, Although I happen to know that Sikhs were disproportionately served in. In the British Empire as police and as soldiers for centuries, actually, in India. And turbans were an official part of historic British uniforms in India. So I think I'm a little bit more open to it than some people are, because I know that in India, Sikhs with turbans had. That was their uniform, and that's how it was for centuries. And even Queen Victoria's servant had a Sikh turban. So. So that's part of our history, too. It might sound unusual, but it is. But look, even that does not violate the reason for a uniform to have one form. So that you never wonder while you're being arrested if it's for what you did or for who you are. That's why we have uniforms. Right? Which brings me to this tweet that I wrote a few months back. Just went through Canadian air traffic safety, airport security at Calgary Airport. The foreign migrant who searched my bag had a Palestine sticker on his security badge. Why are foreigners in charge of Our security. Every other worker and manager obviously has seen his flag. Is there a Palestine cell at the Calgary airport? I mean, it's not like Palestinian activists are known for blowing up planes or anything. Can we please stop pretending that Katsa, our version of the tsa, is anything more than security theater that has now been infiltrated by foreign agitators? So gross. But so on brand for Canada. We're sleepwalking our way to our own Bondi attack. Now, I think those are fair questions, don't you? Like, why are you wearing an agitator's Palestine pin and you're not even from here? I mean, in some of the documents that I saw, they claim he is a Canadian national. What are you doing? Agitating for a foreign organization. A foreign. I would call it a terrorist organization. What are you doing? I think those are fair questions. And it reminds me of this. I mean, pro Hamas messaging at an airport on their computer systems. I mean, what could go wrong? Do you remember this? Kelowna now, where the city's airport was targeted by hackers Tonight, videos and pictures inside the terminal show the public address system hijacked in terminal screens with pro Hamas messaging. Kelowna International Airport tells CTV News that a third party gained access to the System shortly after 5pm Reports from Kelowna indicate the incident occurred for about two and a half minutes. The airport says they have regained control of the system and are investigating the cause. Two flights were delayed for 10 minutes during this incident. Now, someone asked me why I didn't stop to make a fuss, why I didn't take a picture, and it's because these TSA guards can have tremendous power over you. They can be abusive and power hungry. And they can make you late for your flight. They can make you miss your flight. And I didn't want to miss my flight, so I didn't even take a picture of the guy. I just tweeted it. And holy moly, did that tweet get a reaction. Because it was true. Now here's a news story about it today by one of my favorite news outlets called Blacklock's Reporter. I'll read it to you. A social media post by the publisher of Rebel News. That's me. Prompted federal managers to launch an immediate search for a security guard wearing a Palestine pin. Access to information. Records show the search followed a Twitter comment last December 18 by Ezra Levant at the Calgary International Airport. Can you find out if this is true? A federal manager emailed staff only moments after the post. Wow, that's the fastest I've Ever been served by the tsa. This requires your immediate attention, wrote another. It was posted this morning on Twitter. The post was retweeted a thousand times with 150 comments. Revolting and terrifying, wrote one Twitter follower. Insanity, said another post. This is the diversity they were looking for. It's a little crazy. Records show that security authority quickly tracked down the employee, met with him and removed the sticker. A photograph of the offending badge distributed by managers depicted a heart shaped Palestinian flag with the slogan and ain't much but it's honest work. I think there was actually two slogans that were combined there. Access to information Records documented the authorities panicky search for the flag badge. The incident was disturbing. Rhoda Boyd, director of communications, wrote staff in an email with the subject heading heads up. At 8:01am that day, Boyd wrote check on whether we have a policy now about what security officers can wear on their uniform or badges. I thought something was drafted recently and if it was, we would have to investigate. If the security officer in question looks like this is from the last hour or so is in contravention of that policy by wearing a flag at 9:33am Management emailed staff this needs to be addressed as soon as possible. Security officers need to remain professional as they represent the authority and cannot wear pins that promote political advocacy issues or causes. It happened this morning. I believe the security officer may still be on shift. At 11:08am Management announced they have identified the security officer. The badge was removed. A reminder will be sent to all security officers, said a staff notice. The Transport Security Authority contracts three private firms, yada yada yada. And the guard with the Palestine sticker was not named. So to sum up, they weren't worried about having a foreign migrant who was pro Palestine in an airport. They weren't worried about that. They were worried about people seeing that. So when they found the security officer they just said, hey, take that off. Don't advertise your extremism. Your extremism is okay. The fact that you're a foreign national cheering on for Palestine in our airports while you're security, that's fine. Just don't have a sticker announcing it. They didn't fire him or discipline him. They just said stop tipping people off. Some people don't like it. I love that they call my tweets terrifying as opposed to hiring a pro Palestinian foreign migrant at our airport security. That's not terrifying. But it obviously wasn't just the one guy. Like I said in my tweet, he was in A team of a half a dozen people right there on that same conveyor belt. And that was part of a larger team. And he most likely would have had a staff meeting in the beginning of his shift. I've seen those before. So everyone there would have seen his sticker. Everyone. And I doubt that was the first day he was wearing it. Just when I happened to see it, literally no one out of probably 100 security staff at Calgary airport had a problem with that. They all accepted it. They all saw that everyone else accepted it too. They all saw that it's normal at the Calgary International Airport for a foreign migrant to wear his Palestine flag. And who of the others are in league with them? You know, they used to be a saying I'm old enough to remember after 9, 11, if you see something, say something. You know, I think the British transit system still use that or versions of that, but no one really does that anymore because first of all, you'd be called racist, as Katza more or less does to me here. But more importantly, we see things nonstop all day long that are shocking. Are you going to call in everything? You look like a crazy person. It's being normalized. I remember it wasn't too long ago that if you saw a woman on the street, covered head to toe in including everything other than a little slit for her eyes, their face blocked, looking like a ninja, you would think that is a shocking display of misogyny, the sort that we don't accept in Canada. That's from a barbaric land far away. And whatever husband would put his wife in a body bag like that. That was a disgrace. Well, yeah. Welcome to Canada in 2026, where terror mosques literally have memorials for the killed Ayatollah of Iran. Did you see David Menzies video on that last night? It was a packed mosque having a memorial for the terrorists. If you see something and say something in 2026, you're most likely to be charged with Islamophobia. So, yeah, the entire staff at CATSA was mobilized not to stop the migrant with his Palestine agenda, but to stop the embarrassment of having somebody notice how extremist their staff is. That was their mission. Not safety or security or the comfort of passengers, but covering up who they've been hiring. We're so cooked, aren't we? Stay with us for more. Hey, you know who's been doing some amazing work on these questions of Muslim extremism is our friend Alexa Lavoie, because she's based in Montreal, which in many ways is the worst city in Canada, I mean, Toronto's awful, Ottawa's bad, but Montreal, you have this terrible thing of combining pro Hamas, pro Iran activists with antifa. Here is a report from our dear friend Alexa Lavoie.
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Alexa Lavoie for Rebel News. And I'm here in Dil St. Laurent, Montreal, where overnight around 2am three Jewish businesses, a pharmacy, a kosher pizza restaurant and a butcher shop were targeted. Swastikas were painted on their windows. This comes after a series of attacks targeting Jewish institutions and businesses following us and Israeli strikes against Iran. Pro Iranians Freedom business are also facing threats. In Toronto, the gem of an Iranian protest organizer was shot 17 times in Montreal. Since the Hamas attack Against Israel on October 7, 2023, there has been a significant rise in antisemitic incidents. Jewish schools have been shot at Molotov, cocktails have been thrown at synagogue and community centers and multiple death threats have been reported. I was able to obtain the pharmacy surveillance footage which shows the suspect caught in the act. I also spoke with the pharmacist who is also the owner of the business. One of the business owners agreed to speak with me on the condition of anonymity.
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Attenture,
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donkey,
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that's it.
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Savvy.
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And a woman who was visiting her uncle who works at the pizza restaurant also agreed to speak with me on camera.
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Well, I just find it very disturbing that, you know, you're going into work, everything's fine and for some unknown reason somebody decides to put it a swastika on your window. I mean, what have you accomplished from that? Is it for what reason? For intimidation. Are you trying to scare? Business goes on. They wiped it, they took it off. And at the end of the day it just leaves like a lingering bad taste knowing that anybody could do that in the middle of the night. It's just a sense of intimidation and I mean they're trying to make us afraid that there's going to be escalation. Well, all them are targeted under one common denomination. They're all Jewish owned businesses. That is the main reason. I mean, he's the one who got the swastikas. But the other business, they had their windows smashed not too long ago. Them as well. It's all because they're Jewish. Don't. No other reason. Why? Well, we know clearly it's anti Semitism. Why? I don't, no, because as I said, my uncle's business, he's just, you know, here doing what he loves. It's his business, it's his livelihood, his neighbors, exactly the same thing. They're not Bothering anybody. So why are they being bothered? The only reason is because they're Jewish owned businesses and it's anti Semitism. But where does the antisemitism come from? Ignorance and perhaps to a certain level, jealousy. Jealousy that these people could stand on their own and you know, make their own living. More and more that I see people in my community seeing something like this, yeah, we get angry and we, you know, passed all the information around. When there's been one of these businesses has been vandalized, you know, targeted. There's going to be a statement obviously made by the organizations such as B' Nai Brith Cija. But the day to day people from our community, we get angry, but we're also very resilient. We just say this is not going to install fear in us. We're just going to get stronger and we're just going to get tighter and more united. As a matter of fact, since October 7, 2023, we haven't been lurking and hiding. We've actually become actually much more united and stronger as a community. And not just in Montreal. I'm talking about the Jewish diaspora all over the world.
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With the escalation that we are seeing, we are seeing like now with the Iranian war, I don't know if you can actually say that is a war, but like with what happened in Iran, do you feel that Montreal is safe now for the Jewish people?
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It's a good question. I believe that despite all these threats and vandalism and you know, anti Semitic tropes, for example, my niece who's in McGill medicine, she saw a note on the McGill Med that said jews go home free Palestine. Well, good news is she still applied to McGill in family medicine and she still got in. So again, it's not going to scare us, it's not going to fear us. And coming back to the Iranian community, as a matter of fact, whoever's feeling this type of level of antisemitism, they've actually shot themselves in the foot because the Iranian community has gotten a lot stronger with the Jewish community because they are both in favor of the IRGC crumbling. And that's exactly what happened. And if you see the protests that were going on, you would see the Iranian flag, the older Iranian flag with the lion, the Israeli flag and the Canadian flag. So I strongly believe that the group of people that are anti Semitic and the pro Pali crowd as we call them, are becoming now the minority and we are much more the majority. And you know, I keep on receiving messages from Iranian friends that keep on saying thank you so much. Thank you for support. Because when this was going on since January and thousands of people being murdered, especially women, the propali crowd was not saying, oh, this is terrible. Women and children are being murdered, babies are being murdered. No silence, zip. But the Jewish community were reaching out to the Iranian community. And I know because I have friends, and they were saying, thank you for supporting us. And now you could see that they're actually together. And no, I'm not afraid that something's going to happen in Montreal. I think that the tables are turning.
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Do you have maybe a message for the people in charge at the government, especially regarding reports that revealed that there is some individual linked to Hamas and also members of ERGC who live here in Canada?
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You know what? I think that's probably kept very under the radar. I don't think it's common knowledge, but definitely organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood should be determined as a terrorist organization, just like the IRGC is supposed to be determined as a terrorist organization. I think that there is definitely a lot more that needs to be done. And if they're aware of it, the government, there could be a very good reason why they are trying to suppress that information.
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My last question is about. We are seeing politicians saying and denouncing what is happening, but we don't see concrete action to protect the Jewish community in Canada. What would you want to see them doing regarding that?
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Well, starting with our prime minister, it would be nice because he seems to double speak. First, he made a statement that he supported President Trump and the strike against Iran. And then he clapped back just a couple of days ago and said that he condemns Israel and USA's actions, that they did it not in a legal fashion or whatever kind of jargon that he spoke. So, you know, it would be better to have a prime minister who just is clear and sticks to one story. And I understand that he needs these people that put him into power, the majority that put him into power. He has to answer them, but he also has to answer the Jewish community. We happen to be taxpayers and people that were born and were naturalized, we were born here and we contribute a lot to the society. Apart from being taxpayers, we also do a lot of philanthropic work. We give back. So there's, you know, we need a little more support coming from the government, that's for sure, to say that we are going to be protected.
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Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me. Simon. Simon says the United nations are not allies anymore. They were infiltrated by the World Economic Forum and Islamists. If Israel and the US were to inform Canada or anyone else from the United nations about this plan to assassinate Iran's leadership, the operation would 100% be a failure. Yeah, you know what? It's sort of funny when Mark Carney says, hey, no one told us. I think that's very true, because why would you know? It's like General Schwarzkopf said, going to war without the French is like going fishing without your accordion. Why would you tell Canada they haven't exactly been supportive of the United States? But when Mark Carney says he wasn't told, that's his way of saying to his extremist Muslim voter base, hey, guys, don't worry, I'm not against the Islamic Republic. It's very strange. Marie Stapleton says, let's be clear. Carney is trying to figure out what the Chinese Communist Party Xi wants him to say. You know, I've been reading some analyses online about how obviously Iran is going to have regime change and it could change so dramatically. It's going to be amazing. It really is a counter revolution, 47 years late. But how this affects China is staggering. China has been growing throughout the world in a number of ways. Through their belt and road economic initiative, through investments in places like Africa especially. They don't have foreign army bases in the same way that the United States does all around the world. But their influence, their tentacles are certainly growing. I mean, we feel that here in Canada, don't we? Including the 11 ridings that were interfered with by China. But Iran had a very special place for China. Not only was it a source of oil and deeply discounted oil, because when America and the west put sanctions on Iranian oil, that means it can't sell at marketplace. It's like contraband. So China had cheap oil, China sold military equipment to Iran. And more than that, by being strong allies with Iran, China was able to frustrate American strategy for that region, push Israel on the back foot, etc. In a way, same thing with Venezuela. Not only was it an ally of China, but it was a source of oil. So if you cut off Venezuelan oil and if you cut off Iranian oil, I mean, China will get its oil, but by paying billions of dollars more for it. And it's no longer has a toehold in the Americas because Venezuela is back in American hands and soon it'll be shoved out of the Middle East. What's so interesting is that Iran, in its final flurry, attacked what, 10 neighboring countries, all of which were Arab or Muslim, just going out with a bang and weirdly pushing all these other countries into the American and even Israeli orbit. I think so much is going to be possible when Iran is liberated and I think it's going to be good for the entire world. And economically good for Israel, of course, good for America, of course, good for the Iranian people and bad for Russia and China. And, you know, really, I think you've got two choices for the hyper power in the world. You want China or you want America. And I think this shows America is strong and America is in control and America is not in decline. I find it very hopeful. Last letter of the day from John Alexander, who says, here in London, Ontario, the mayor and council voted to give themselves a 36% raise. And the homeless and drugs are out of control. I don't know how much a 36% raise is, but I can only imagine that it's an extremely large amount. I mean, are they being paid $1,000 a year? 36% raise probably wouldn't be outrageous, but they're probably making six figures. I'm sorry, I haven't researched it. The idea of anyone giving themselves a raise, anyone being their own boss like that, if you want to be your own boss, start your own business, all the money is yours and you can pay yourself whatever you can. But to go into politics and be your own boss in terms of setting your own salary, that's super gross. That's our show for the day. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.