
How ironic that Prime Minister Mark Carney's government has offered little beyond sympathetic statements while the United States now treats Canada's antisemitism crisis as a serious foreign policy concern.
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Pro-Palestinian Protester
Foreign.
Ezra Levant
Tonight, the best and worst of Rebel News's coverage of new anti Semitic terrorism in our own Country. It's August 5th and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Rebel News Reporter
Are you a Canadian or are you a foreigner?
Pro-Palestinian Protester
What are you?
Rebel News Reporter
I'm a Canadian, fourth generation.
Pro-Palestinian Protester
Well, good for you if you're not a Canadian. Baby killers. The baby killer parade is on full force here.
Pro-Palestinian Activist
White supremacist piece of sh. T. Right? Why do you hate Canada? If you move the air, but you hate Canada. White supremacist pieces of shit. And you hate our culture. I hate pieces of like you.
Jewish Protester
You have a right to stop me going in and I will go in. Excuse me. Don't get in my way. Excuse me. You want me to call?
Jewish Supporter/Counter-Protester
Why are you letting the terrorist supporters in and not them?
Jewish Protester
Don't have a right to block me.
Police Officer
Move.
Police Inspector
Do you see the flag across the.
Police Officer
I'm asking you, what do you see with the flag?
Police Inspector
I see an anti Semitic symbol. Somebody mocking the appearance of Jews.
Police Officer
Jewish settler. Is that the actual depiction of the person's face? Is that the person's face?
Jewish Protester
Yes.
Police Officer
So they have a picture of a person that actually exists. So it's not been manipulated, but it
Jewish Protester
doesn't really look like that.
Rebel News Reporter
Shame on you, you sensorious bug.
Rebel News Correspondent
Hi everybody.
Ezra Levant
We're still working on editing our special presentation about the AI Data center and the protest against it that Sheila Gun Reed and I went to on Sunday in Morinville, Alberta. A very interesting visit. First of all, to see that many people turn out on a long weekend protest in a small town was quite surprising. I won't give any more away, but we'll have a full edited show for you hopefully tomorrow. But today I wanted to refer to three things that happened in a row. First of all, the Wall Street Journal, arguably the second most influential newspaper in America. Next, only to the New York Times started covering Canada's antisemitism wave. And in a very powerful way. Speaking as the US media often does about Canada, our own media pulls punches. If you want to know the truth that criticizes Canada, don't expect to find it in the pages of the Globe and Mail or Toronto Star or on the cbc because of course they're funded by the government. I find that you often find more critical coverage in the New York Post or the Daily Mail of London. Well, the Wall Street Journal had a story about antisemitism and it was certainly pulling no punches. At the same time, US think tank, the American Enterprise Institute was arguing that Canadian Jews are pretty much at the point where they should start being regarded as refugees. You may know that earlier Donald Trump declared that the only refugees that he would admit to the United States are the Boer farmers, the white Dutch farmers from South Africa, because they are literally being marked for by racist radical parties in South Africa. So he would open the door to Bors. And there was a suggestion that perhaps the Jewish community of Canada would be welcome as well. And when you think about it, they already speak English. They are economically self sufficient. Frankly, it would be probably an economic and cultural bonus to have them as opposed to less assimilable migrants. And then finally, an actual member of the Trump administration. They have an anti Semitism officer in the State, State Department whose job is to go around the world and point out anti Semitism. He highlighted. He shone a bright light on anti Semitism in Canada, which is the first time he's done so. Normally he's been focused on other countries, but what's so interesting about these things happening all at once is they're all American. The Wall Street Journal, the think tank, the rabbi who works on the anti Semitism beat for the under secretary for the, for the State Department. And this is what usually happens. Canada downplays something. We cover things up. But when the United States and their media notices, things actually move. And I wonder what, if anything, will change in Canada. It would not shock me if Donald Trump or Secretary Marco Rupio said that Jews from Canada could indeed come to America as refugees fleeing what fleeting the UN definition of a refugee, Someone who is in real danger because of a particular characteristic. In this case, being Jewish. Does that shoe not fit in Canada? I think it's very interesting that America has finally noticed the anti Semitic crime wave in Canada and they're not doing thoughts and prayers like Mark Carney does. Anyways, without further ado, please watch this compendium of the best and worst coverage of rebel news of the anti Semitic crime wave in our country. See you tomorrow.
Rebel News Reporter
There's got to be a dozen horses. There's got to be a hundred cops. And I'm going to change my earlier estimate and guess that there's about 25 protesters. I'm here with Rebel News covering the annual Walk with Israel. Do you want to do something about it, not just talk about it? Go to our petition@deporthamas.com there's a lot of Hamas supporters in Canada who aren't even citizens. Kick them out. Go to deporthamas.com they're shouting, move, move, move. The horses are here. The horses have deployed. There's now A barrier of horses between the protesters and the march. The horses are withdrawing. The horses are going away. That's him. I see Officer McDuff who had me arrested last time. I was doing journalism from here. Let's hope it doesn't happen a second time. Have a couple of pro Hamas protesters just sitting down. Looks like the police are going to move them.
Pro-Palestinian Activist
Is actually desecrating Canadian charter rights.
Jewish Protester
Welcome to Canada. We're occupied by Taylor.
Rebel News Reporter
I understand that the police intend to keep the pro Hamas supporters at least 100, perhaps 150ft away from the route of the march. It appears they're affecting that. The police are behind me. I'm just going to get out of the way. If I had to guess how this is going to resolve. They're going to push them back 100ft now. I don't know if you can see it. Do you see that structure over there? That's actually a Holocaust memorial here in Toronto. Wouldn't surprise me if some of these pro Hamas types do some vandalism while they're here. Like I said it's a very Jewish neighborhood. They are being shooed away. The horses in the end were not necessary. Maybe they were just a dramatic effect. The pro terrorist supporters are indeed retreating. You can see the bike police. There's a lot of police here. Because here comes the march. They're being shooed away. As the march arrives and the horses are pushing them away from the road. The horses are deploying over there. Very interesting. A very different approach to policing than what we've seen over the last three years. Where the Hamas and pro Iran activists have been treated with concierge Service. There's Officer McDuff right there who had me arrested when I was doing journalism a year ago. I'm actually suing him in the Toronto police force for false arrest. It looks like they're not arresting the Jews today. I don't know if they're arresting any of the Hamas supporters but they're moving them away. Which I think is good policing. I'm going to get back on the sidewalk and walk further that way. There's a small group of. There's a Jewish cult called the Naturaikarta who don't believe in the state of Israel. They're an extreme minority. Much less than 1% of the Jews. But because they're against Israel and they're very poor, Iran pays them to attend protests to confuse. Why would Jews support Palestine?
Pro-Palestinian Protester
There we go. A baby coming parade up here. Love it.
Rebel News Reporter
What's your name?
Pro-Palestinian Protester
Out of my face.
Rebel News Correspondent
What's your name? What's your name?
Pro-Palestinian Protester
I'm.
Rebel News Reporter
Answer.
Police Officer
Levant. What?
Rebel News Reporter
Why are you afraid to identify yourself? Are you ashamed of what you're doing? No, I'm right here.
Pro-Palestinian Protester
You can do like a Google face search. Here you go.
Rebel News Reporter
You're ashamed of yourself. You won't even say your name.
Pro-Palestinian Protester
I'm not. I don't have to say my name to you. Who are you? A cop? No, I'm a journalist. No, you're not. With what? You guys don't have any?
Rebel News Reporter
Are you a Canadian or are you a foreigner?
Pro-Palestinian Protester
What are you?
Rebel News Reporter
I'm a Canadian, fourth generation.
Pro-Palestinian Protester
Well, good for you if you're not a Canadian. Baby KILLERS the baby killer parade is on full force here.
Rebel News Reporter
Where are you from originally? Where are you from originally? You're a bit of a coward. You talk so tough when you're shouting at women and children, but you won't even say your name to me. You're a bit of a coward.
Pro-Palestinian Protester
I don't have to tell you anything.
Rebel News Reporter
I know you're a coward.
Pro-Palestinian Protester
Yeah, yeah, you. How about that?
Rebel News Reporter
You're shouting swears at women and children. You've been swearing constantly and you won't even say your name. I think you're ashamed of who you are. You're ashamed. You're a coward.
Pro-Palestinian Protester
You're a baby killer. How about that?
Rebel News Reporter
I'm not a baby killer.
Pro-Palestinian Protester
But you are a coward killing babies. So that's what a baby killer.
Rebel News Reporter
See you later. Coward. I love when it says Giselle McKay, antifa radical. Trevor Miller, antifa radical. And now we have Jagpyle antifa. Oh, is that who he is?
Pro-Palestinian Protester
These guys? So it's like a native.
Rebel News Reporter
Very embarrassing. Thank you for all your work. Thank you.
Restaurant Owner/Local Businessman
As you can see in the footage, the protesters also harassed the Vale, who is himself Algerian. Costa repeatedly asked the police officers if they could contain the protesters so they would stop blocking the entrance and standing in front of the terrace where his clients were eating. The police did not cooperate with Mr. Dimitriou. The CO owner explained to me that several of his clients sitting on the terrace were disturbed by the situation and that multiple reservations were canceled because of it. He'd even had to relocate guests from his hotel to rooms at the back of the building because of the noise caused by these militants. At around 7.30pm, after receiving no cooperation from either the police or the protesters, Costa grabbed a garden oath to try to disperse the protesters from the front of his restaurant. That was the moment police intervened in, not with the protesters, but with the impacted restaurant owner, telling him he couldn't do that and not to do it again. Under threat of charges, the protesters remained there and were still present when he returned the next day. Costa also explained that he even had to defend himself because one of them allegedly followed him onto his terrace, forcing him to physically push the individual back. He showed me a photo of the protester in question. It is Bara Abu Hamed, a pro Hamas leader from Montreal for Palestine who was previously arrested at Carrefour Laval for unlawful assembly and assaulting a police officer. He and his father are also the one leading Islamist prayers in front of Notre dame basilica. As Mr. Dimitriou explained, regardless of the cause of the protest, he would have reacted the same way. This is about respect and basic decency, something these protesters did not demonstrate. Also visible in the footage is Samar Abdour, the Palestinian refugee who previously called me a white supremacist and piece of and insulted our country.
Pro-Palestinian Activist
Do you remember White as f. Where are you from? Because your f country is killing my people. Do you know that or not? Your f ing in Canada the government is funding Israel. White supremacist piece of, right. Why do you hate Canada? If you move the ear but you hate Canada. White supremacist pieces of you and you hate our culture. I hate pieces of like you.
Pro-Palestinian Protester
Like a bunch of losers.
Jewish Supporter/Counter-Protester
Well, I wonder why the terrorism supporters had to go into a Timmy's themselves. I guess the police didn't want to bring them their Tim Hortons today. They had to go and get the get it themselves. How oppressed they are. Again. Second class citizens in their own neighborhood. Police escort for the terrorism supporters. The people breaking the criminal code and the Jewish people are blocked.
Jewish Protester
Come on right over. You have a right to stop me going in and I will go in. Excuse me. Don't get in my way. Excuse me.
Jewish Supporter/Counter-Protester
Why are you letting the terrorist supporters in and not them?
Jewish Protester
You don't have a right to block me. Move, Move. Okay, the police are blocking me. They don't block the pallies, but they block us. I want to know on what basis you're blocking us from going in there. You didn't block them, so why are you blocking us? I want an answer. Don't get me.
Pro-Palestinian Activist
Yeah, no.
Jewish Protester
We want to make sure that everyone is safe. Really get them the out of there. It's not their neighborhood. They're in a Jewish neighborhood wearing keffiyehs in a Tim Hortons in a Jewish neighborhood. And you think us going in there is the issue? You answered nothing. You actually created a bigger problem for the police force. So let me get this straight. They want to keep the peace by allowing pro Palestinian activists in a Jewish area. Tim Hortons where Jews are. But they're blocking the Jews from going in there. You're a disgrace. Yeah, shake your head.
Commentator/Analyst
Do you guys know.
Jewish Protester
Go talk to your World War II.
Jewish Supporter/Counter-Protester
Do you know what happened in the 1930s? Do you have any knowledge of history whatsoever? This is one of our antifa friends. Unfortunately I don't know him by name. I believe that rebel has done some investigations on his insane behavior before.
Rebel News Correspondent
The message of salvation.
Jewish Supporter/Counter-Protester
He's completely mentally unhinged and needs help. Trevor Tyler, antifa related. He's always at these things, screaming, vitriol, screaming at the Jewish people.
Pro-Palestinian Activist
Shouldn't we call 91 1?
Jewish Protester
The police are blocking us. I have a problem.
Jewish Supporter/Counter-Protester
Yeah, but then they'll tell you that you're misusing 911 and that's.
Jewish Protester
Oh, this isn't a misuse of police stopping Jews from going into an area cafe. Yeah, that's not a misuse of police.
Pro-Palestinian Activist
And that's them not in the neighborhood. Didn't you notice
Jewish Supporter/Counter-Protester
we are at a Tim Hortons in the area of Bathurst and Shepherd where the pro pallies decided to march to go and get some Tim Hortons because I guess the police are not delivering today. But of course, as usual some of the Jewish residents of the neighborhood followed because they should not be able to march through their own neighborhood if the Jewish people can as well. So they followed with their flags and signs the pro Palestine. The pro terrorism crowd went into the restaurant.
Police Officer
Thank you for waiting.
Jewish Supporter/Counter-Protester
And the Toronto police blocked the Jewish residents.
Pro-Palestinian Activist
What's it called?
Jewish Supporter/Counter-Protester
Supporting listed terrorist organizations in Canada.
Police Inspector
That's called a crime. That's called against the criminal code of Canada.
Jewish Supporter/Counter-Protester
But you guys are okay with that, right? You know, you're all over the Internet.
Restaurant Owner/Local Businessman
We're not an accredited journalist.
Jewish Supporter/Counter-Protester
And what are you? Are you an accredited terrorism supporter?
Commentator/Analyst
Now amongst the terrorism supporters who came from far and wide to welcome Bon Amico back was Vancouver based Farhood Soleimani Mouyed who goes under the alias Critical Canadian on X he has commented in reference to missing Toronto Jewish girl, 14 year old Esti. Have you checked the tunnels under synagogues nearby? I bet she's held captive there in a tunnel under a synagogue.
Police Officer
How much money you make a day? How much money? Don't fcking touch me mother.
Pro-Palestinian Activist
My secret tso.
Police Officer
How much money you make a day? No, no, don't fucking.
Pro-Palestinian Protester
I'm going. My job,
Pro-Palestinian Activist
it's my security. You can't Be around me.
Restaurant Owner/Local Businessman
Upon you.
Police Officer
That's crazy. One brother, two brothers.
Pro-Palestinian Activist
Yeah.
Police Officer
A rapist.
Pro-Palestinian Protester
Okay.
Rebel News Correspondent
It is distasteful. It is distasteful.
Rebel News Reporter
We're in agreement. Not in the criminal code.
Police Inspector
He was arrested for the hateful signs he had. Oh, now the inspector said that he doesn't have to talk to him.
Rebel News Correspondent
Don't be disrespectful.
Police Officer
That's who I am. You don't have to.
Police Inspector
I just want to know why there's no arrest being made for the flag across the street.
Police Officer
You know why.
Police Inspector
No, I don't.
Pro-Palestinian Protester
Because.
Police Inspector
Because somebody was arrested for the signs that he brought here that were the same thing.
Police Officer
Well, have someone bring that up other than you, and I'll have a conversation with them.
Pro-Palestinian Protester
Okay?
Police Inspector
Do you want to bring it up?
Police Officer
I'll talk to you about that flag, but I don't need to talk to you in front of her.
Jewish Protester
Okay?
Restaurant Owner/Local Businessman
Okay.
Police Officer
Cuz she already knows the answer.
Police Inspector
No, I don't. I really don't.
Police Officer
Yeah, you do.
Police Inspector
No, I don't. Why isn't the flag. Why is the flag. Okay, but the signs are.
Police Officer
What do you see with the flag?
Police Inspector
Do you see the flag across the street?
Police Officer
I'm asking you, what do you see
Police Inspector
with the flag symbol? Somebody mocking the appearance of Jews.
Police Officer
So which? The flag with the character?
Jewish Supporter/Counter-Protester
Yes.
Police Officer
Okay.
Jewish Protester
It's an actual person, actually.
Police Officer
Oh, so what is it?
Jewish Protester
It's an actual person.
Police Officer
That's an actual person. Jewish person, Jewish settler. Is that the actual depiction of the person's face? Is that the person's face?
Jewish Protester
Yes.
Police Officer
So they have a picture of a person that actually exists. So it's not been manipulated.
Jewish Protester
But it doesn't really look like that. It's a caricature. They're making fun of. They're making fun of. They're demonizing, basically. You think they're holding a flag to support us? It's to demonize us.
Police Officer
There's the person there. That's a real photo from the video. Does that look like the flag? There's a video of an Israeli settler. That's the person there.
Rebel News Correspondent
Because all of a sudden all these heavily armed police, paramilitary styles showed up with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 police cars and a major police van. You can see by their weapons. These are not the kind of weapons that ordinary police travel with. It's more the paramilitary style. I saw them driving through the neighborhood, so I asked them what they were doing. Were they responding to an act of violence? And they said no, this is part of the new ostentatious signs of Police designed to dissuade anti Semitism. So two and a half years after the October 7th terrorist attacks in Israel, two and a half years of pro Hamas radicals ruling the streets, the police has decided to have a show of force of their own. I'm not sure if the folks behind me are expecting it. It's a school. They might be a little freaked out by this police presence. I talked to the cops a little bit about it. They said it's random, it's proactive. And the idea is that if there's someone who's walking by who happens to see the show of force, maybe they'll think twice about committing acts of vandalism or mischief. Just two days ago in North Toronto, a partially covered man tried to force his way into a major synagogue. And I understand there might have been actually been a scuffle. So, you know, it continues to happen despite the show of force. I think the show of force is a positive thing. Of course the option is having these Hamas gangs storm through residential areas as they've been doing for a couple years. But let me tell you the brutal truth, this is quite a show of force and I think the local community will be chattering about it. The school will probably be chattering about it. Looks like the boss cop is going around back. Maybe he's going to introduce himself to, to the folks at the school here. That's quite a, that'll be quite a startling hello that they get. But here's the thing. You can have a dozen cops, you can have a hundred cops, you can have a thousand cops. And indeed the Toronto Police service does have thousands. But that's all addressing the symptoms. It's like a Band aid. The problem which most politicians refuse to talk about is mass immigration of cultures that are endemically anti Semitic and violent. People from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Algeria. I'm not saying 100% of people from those countries are hateful in violence, but actually Pew Research, they do studies on anti Semitism around the world and it's in the 90 percentile. Now many people who come to Canada from those countries just come for the opportunities, including opportunities for welfare and free health care. But there are many people who have brought their age old antisemitism and their hatred for the liberal West. Remember the ideology that guides the ayatollahs, it's not just Islam, it's that they see themselves as the destroyers of secularism everywhere. That's why they call America the Great Satan, because it is the secular force in the world. They want to replace secular countries with a global Islamic state. That's hence the name the Islamic State terrorist group in another instance. So you are never going to stop the anti Semitic crime wave and the anti Western crime wave in the west until you stop mass immigration from places that are endemically anti Semitic and anti Western. You just aren't going to. It's like filling up the bathtub.
Rebel News Reporter
You can take the drain out, but
Rebel News Correspondent
if you fill it up faster than it drains, you're just going to be losing ground. I feel like I'm in a stage of decline in Toronto. And what we see in the United Kingdom, Kingdom in London in particular, is probably five years down the road in our country in terms of the Jews just being pushed out of the uk it's no longer hospitable. I think a lot of Toronto Jews, including in this neighborhood, have decided that there's no long term future in a country that demographically it's going to resemble Somalia and Afghanistan more and more every year. It's sort of sad. I'm happy to see these cops. So today it's nice to see them showing force.
Rebel News Reporter
But when you bring in a million
Rebel News Correspondent
migrants a year, many of them from hateful countries, you're going to need more than half a dozen cops with long arms to stop them.
Rebel News Podcast – "EZRA LEVANT | The U.S. is calling out Canada's antisemitism problem — why isn't Ottawa?"
Date: August 6, 2026
Host: Ezra Levant
This episode centers on the escalating antisemitism crisis in Canada, with a sharp focus on how American media and political institutions are flagging the problem—while Canadian authorities and media, according to Rebel News, minimize or ignore it. Ezra Levant weaves together recent U.S. commentary, events at Canadian pro-Palestinian protests, and his team’s frontline reporting to illustrate both the scope of the issue and the official response (or lack thereof) in Canada.
Levant spotlights recent coverage from the Wall Street Journal, commentary from the American Enterprise Institute about Jewish Canadians potentially being considered refugees, and new attention by a U.S. State Department antisemitism envoy, arguing that foreign scrutiny may finally pressure Canadian institutions to act.
Levant examines high-profile U.S. media and institutional concern about antisemitism in Canada, contrasting it with muted Canadian media/government response.
Levant: "Canada downplays something. We cover things up. But when the United States and their media notices, things actually move. (04:32)
Rebel News reporters detail the heavy police presence at events, reporting tactical changes:
Comment on protest policing:
Levant and correspondents argue Canada’s immigration policies contribute to the growth of antisemitism, citing Pew Research and personal anecdotes:
Projected future:
Ezra Levant (on US scrutiny):
"I think it's very interesting that America has finally noticed the anti Semitic crime wave in Canada and they're not doing thoughts and prayers like Mark Carney does." (04:23)
Jewish Protester:
"You have a right to stop me going in and I will go in. Excuse me. Don't get in my way." (00:51, 16:09)
Rebel News Reporter:
"You're ashamed of yourself. You won't even say your name." (10:19)
"You're shouting swears at women and children... I think you're ashamed of who you are. You're ashamed. You're a coward." (11:00)
Pro-Palestinian Activist:
"White supremacist piece of sh. T... Why do you hate Canada?... I hate pieces of like you." (00:39, 15:05)
Jewish Supporter/Counter-Protester:
"Police escort for the terrorism supporters. The people breaking the criminal code and the Jewish people are blocked." (15:41)
Restaurant Owner:
"Costa grabbed a garden oath to try to disperse the protesters from the front of his restaurant. That was the moment police intervened in, not with the protesters, but with the impacted restaurant owner..." (12:51)
Throughout, the tone is urgent, combative, and unapologetically partisan, reflecting Rebel News's editorial line: strong defense of the Jewish community, criticism of police and politicians, and warnings about immigration policy. Levant and his reporters highlight what they see as failures of Canadian institutions, drawing explicit analogies to European trends and adopting language that frames the issue as existential for Jewish Canadians.
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