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”
12 comments:
Ezra was Chief of Staff for Preston Manning, the head of Canada's Reform Party which is the closest that a Canadian political party ever came to a US Republican equivalent. It merged with the Conservative Party & tilted it to the Right, which until then the "Conservatives" acted more like Socialist Democrats. His brother R' Yonah Levant learned in Kollel Elyon & was the rabbi of Young Israel Sunnyside, Queens. His father in law Rabbi Ron Koesterich founded Beth Abraham of Bergenfield, NJ.
That Canadian leftist PM Trudeau will have the same fate as Kamala Harris at election time.
The problem is that, rightly or wrongly, you cannot sue the police for abusing their power except in egregious cases like assault and even then you have to have video evidence proving without a doubt the cop acted improperly.
Ezra Levant and his team have been marked by the police everywhere. A reporter of his, wearing an official press badge, tried to interview the finance minister a few months ago. As he walked along beside her asking her questions while she completely ignored him, a man bumped into him. A cop suddenly appears and says "Hey, you hit a cop!" The first man pulls out a badge and says "Yes, you hit me and I'm a cop." The reporter pointed up that the cop had, in fact, bumped into him and he was immediately arrested and charge with "resisting arrest".
This is the state of the justice system in Canada.
Even the Red Tories weren't Socialist nor populist Democrats
Worse
The post Diefenbacker Tories were more like Gaullist Republicains except that they would mostly lose
However, if you watch the video, Ezra isn't the innocent lamb he claims to be.
Here's the deal - when there's a protest, police are allowed to limit people's movements. They can declare no civilians within a certain area to avoid the protest escalating and becoming violent. In this case, it appears the police had deisgnated a spot for counter-protestors to stand and demonstrate against the Jew hatred. It appears Levant ignored the police instructions and marched over right next to the protestors. When the police told him to return to the safe zone, he started shouting about his rights, questioned the police authority and accused them of anti-Semitism. Frankly, I can understand why the cops got annoyed.
Garnel
He is a journalist! And a Journalist no matter his political leanings is allowed stand amongst the protestors, the police are not allowed to restrict a Jounalist !
Dus,
This is Canada!
They have no 1st amendment rights in that country. Remember the truckers’ demonstrations at the height of COVID? Trudeau threatened to confiscate their trucks and personal bank accounts!
The threats to civil liberties, as in the USA, come from the left not the right.
How is it that I can always predict Garnel's response? No matter the issue, he's always on the wrong side. Talent. That takes real talent.
Canadian courts can also get very Kangarooish. A judge can just blurt out, unsupported by any evidence, that he thinks one side is lying to rule against them, or that both sides are lying, to throw the case out
Freedom of expression in Canada is protected as a "fundamental freedom" by section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ---however in practice the Charter permits the government to enforce "reasonable limits" censoring speech.
Similar to the Soviet bloc ..& Israel
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