In a recent blog I cited the demonstrations taking place in a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood of Toronto, pitting pro-Palestinian sympathizers against Jews who have been publicly but peacefully asserting Israel’s right to defend itself for some time now. This past Sunday, Ezra Levant, the Jewish founder of Rebel News, decided to investigate one of these confrontations. As he has pointed out since, the anti-Israeli horde was clearly pro-Hamas, as a tribute to its recently killed leader Yahya Al-Sinwar indicated. Now while it is one thing to lament the death of innocent Palestinians in the ongoing Middle Eastern conflict, it is another to express support for a terrorist organization such as Hamas. As video evidence validates, Levant was simply wandering through the crowd taking in the language and behaviour of the anti-Israelis, when the police asked him to leave. As he is a well known Jewish Torontonian, they feared he might incite violence from those he was observing. Feeling his rights as a journalist were being violated, he argued with the cops only to be taken into custody. No charges were laid and he was released a few hours later. Yet the question he could not help but ask was how Canada had reached the point where pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic mobs were being tolerated by the police, while those seeking to report on their rantings were being arrested?
The answer is simple. Identity Politics precludes any rational appraisal of the ideas and behaviour of those who are neither White or Christian because it will inevitably lead the brain-dead Left to level charges of Islamophobia, Racism, etc.. So while those who support Hamas ought to be escorted out of our country, they are generally tolerated by the police and given a free ride by our “progressive” media. It is an absurd reality signalling the moral/intellectual decline of the West. It is the mentality that leads the very mention of Ezra Levant to charges of “far-right” extremism, racism, etc.. Absurdly, a few years ago, his Rebel News was accused of being anti-Semitic!
And oh, by the way, Ezra recently revealed that he is still being prosecuted by the Trudeau government for the 2019 publication of his book: The Libranos: What the press won’t tell you about Trudeau’s corruption. While it is likely he will be exonerated of any serious crime, his defence, he points out, has cost him a significant amount over the years. Apparently writing books critical of the powers that be in this country does not go unpunished these days.