BREAKING VIDEO: While reporting on the ongoing pro-terrorist demonstrations in the predominantly Jewish neighborhood of Toronto, @EzraLevant was arrested.
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Jewish pro-Israel activist Ezra Levant, founder of Rebel News, was arrested Sunday at a pro-Hamas rally for no reason other than covering the protest as a journalist. At the same rally, one of the pro-Hamas protesters was portraying Yahya Sinwar, yet suffered no consequences.
Toronto Police said Levant was “causing a disturbance”.
Levant wrote: “But I wasn’t. I was quietly doing journalism — filming a grotesque pro-Hamas demonstration in a Jewish neighbourhood in Toronto. It really was sick: they had someone reenacting Yahya Sinwar, the former leader of Hamas. They had a whole display on a sidewalk.”
He added: “I live nearby and I wanted to film this astonishing act. It was as brazen as the KKK burning a cross on the lawn of a Black church. Except in this case, the police were defending the Klansmen. Bizarre.
“One cop kept pushing me away, which I told him was inappropriate and illegal. But then the boss of the whole police operation — named Officer Macduff — told me that my mere presence there was a “disturbance”, because the Hamas people didn’t like me.
“In other words, he was giving them a veto over my Charter rights. In my earlier analogy, it would be like police telling the folks inside the Black church not to antagonize the KKK outside, because they could get violent.
“Since when do foreign provocateurs, promoting a banned terrorist organization, get to veto who can and can’t walk on a sidewalk? Or which journalists can film a news story?
In a video of the arrest posted to social media by Rebel News, officers can be heard telling the conservative activist that his presence at the pro-Palestinian rally was “inciting the crowd.”
The officer then tells him he is under “arrest for breaching the peace,” at which point the protesters erupt in cheers and calls of “Zionist” and “loser.”
One protester held a sign urging Jews to go to Amsterdam, the site of a massive antisemitic riot earlier this month.
In a report about the arrest, Times of Israel referred to Levant as a “Canadian far-right political pundit”
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