Marty Gold, editor of TheJ.ca, critiques Canada’s silence on anti-Zionist extremism, like Foodbenders’ refusal to serve Jewish clients—97% of whom they label "Zionists"—while its owner, Kim Hawkins, promotes violent rhetoric and boycotts. He contrasts this with mainstream media’s selective coverage of BLM protests in Winnipeg (15K attendees, 72 assault calls post-march) and Toronto’s Day of Rage, where banned groups like PFLP appeared. Gold highlights TheJ.ca’s diverse, pro-Israel journalism—including corrections on Jewish misinformation and campus advocacy—while calling for media solidarity against harassment, even when attacks aren’t physical. The episode underscores how divisive narratives thrive without accountability, demanding clearer standards in journalism and politics. [Automatically generated summary]
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There's a vehemently anti-Israel restaurant in Toronto and Rebel News broke the story on it.
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If you're a regular viewer of Rebel News, I'm sure you know the story of food benders.
That's the anti-Zionist, as they describe themselves, lunch counter catering company in Toronto.
They hate cops, they hate pro-Israel people, and they don't seem to like my friend and colleague David Menzies so much.
Now, David Menzies has been on the food benders story for over two weeks now.
And now the story's gone international and politicians around Ontario and across the country are speaking out against them.
Except Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the guy who couldn't get out a tweet fast enough when he heard that a little girl in Toronto a couple years ago had her hijab snipped at by an Asian man on the way to school.
Now that story was a hoax, but Justin Trudeau was quick to renounce the so-called Asian man before all the facts were in.
But Trudeau's silent now as food benders refuses to serve Zionists, which account for some 97% of the Jewish population.
So joining me tonight to talk about this issue and some of the other issues facing the Jewish community is Marty Gold.
He's the editor-in-chief of the Jewish publication, TheJ.ca.
Marty, thanks for coming on the show.
I wanted to have you on because there's so much happening in the Jewish community in Canada, especially with food benders and the Day of Rage and a few other things that have definitely been on the radar of the J.CA.
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But first, I wanted to start closer to home because we don't always hear a lot about Winnipeg, but you're in Winnipeg and some things are happening in Winnipeg that seem to be happening all over.
And that's the BLM protests.
So why don't you fill us in with what's been happening in Winnipeg with regard to those BLM protests?
Because it seems as though the coronavirus has sort of gone away, at least in Winnipeg.
Glad to be back.
COVID, number of COVID-19 cases in Manitoba leveled off at under 350 with only seven deaths.
There's been, as we take this, no new diagnosed cases in almost a week.
And so accordingly, because the sense here is that the risk is relatively low, this is, I think, a compliment to the Pallister government and the senior health officials, who, although not everybody's crazy, are in agreement with the methodology and some of the messaging per se, but it's obviously worked.
And that can't be disputed, that we could have had far worse situations in terms of communities where people live in very close quarters in northern Manitoba, for instance.
And so with the reduced sense of risk and with a number of people still taking various distancing and masking measures,
the Black Lives Matter movement was reflected in this community by a group organized by, it seems to me it was five young ladies called Justice for Black Lives, J4BL.
And they initially organized a march at the Manitoba legislature that went from the Manitoba legislature to, I think it went to the forks actually.
And it was attended by what is believed to be about 15,000 people.
It was definitely a sizable crowd.
City councilors, a couple of city councilors attended.
It was a bizarre in that we don't really see Marxism and Maoism in action very often in these prairie parts.
The organizers did not want white media attending.
They asked media outlets to not send white journalists or photographers to send people of color.
I was amazed at the stupidity of people who thought this was a reasonable idea because you're dealing in an era where newsrooms are cut to the bone in many cases.
You don't have a lot of options.
It's bordering on summertime.
There's various pandemic things that have come up.
Not every newsroom or every media outlet is going to be able to pick and choose the skin color of who they assign to that kind of event.
And for them to, I mean, this just shows the level of indoctrination they as university-age students have had to a particular way of thinking that is not just foreign to the Canadian way of life, but is actually a rejection of the Canadian way of life.
I don't know that any media outlets acquiesced to that request specifically, but even leading into the event, they started taking shots at major media outlets for not reporting on them, their beliefs or their activities the way that they wanted to.
So they already were going to boycott the free press or CBC and whatever.
One of the organizers actually said that she was fine with violence, but there wouldn't be any violence at her rally.
This is something the media should have hopped on, but they're also scared of having demonstrations in front of their media outlets that they didn't.
It's incomprehensible that somebody could say, I'm fine with violence as, again, as part of the Black Lives Movement.
And this goes back now three weeks into what was going on in June.
That somebody would say that they were fine with violence to accomplish those goals and then be given any credibility in the media at all.
But that shows you how emasculated, so to speak, the Winnipeg media is.
At the event itself on the legislature grounds, it opened up actually when they started using whatever the public address system was.
It opened up with a request for white for essentially for white journalists to leave the grounds.
This is on public property at the legislature.
Nobody from the government, the premier's office, cabinet, the human rights commission, nobody spoke out against this and that obscenity.
There was the usual conflagration that we've come to expect from the political left of various grievances and lobby groups.
Antifa was present.
They intimidated one independent journalist into leaving the legislature grounds.
Again, no action taken, whether it's by Winnipeg police, human rights officials, or anybody else.
There was also an incident involving a girl who is a friend of my family's, who is a free-spirited type of person, doesn't necessarily follow old-style norms.
And so she was out dressed the way she was dressed with a sign that more or less said lesbians support Black Lives Matter or something like that, reflecting her own sexual preferences.
And she was harangued and verbally assaulted by a number of individuals about how disgusting she is.
Here she is, as they call it in their lexicon, an ally.
And she was assailed by people who were dressed in the manner of people who are one of the, how do I put this?
One of the groups most aggrieved in present-day cultures.
That would be, they seem to be Muslim or Islamist in nature.
I'd say they're more so Islamist because they were protesting, counter-protesting her sexual preferences.
And she was made uncomfortable and left.
And the mainstream media doesn't tell any of those stories.
They make it sound like it was a Woodstocky and Love Fest, but leaving out the bikers, I guess.
The event itself, as I said, had 15,000 people, and it began to advance certain messages, including defund the police.
This was then interpreted by supporters, people from the congregation, so to speak, that wanted to show that they were, again, allies about supporting this idea of the Winnipeg police.
And the majority of the police funding goes to salaries and pensions and these things.
But people started to chime in with this idea that police should be have their budgets cut.
And now you've got these radicals chiming and going, you know, don't screw around with our message.
When we say abolish, we mean abolish.
We say defund, we mean no money.
And as you and I have seen in the last couple of weeks, more and more people are recognizing these Marxists mean they want the world to be Marxist.
They aren't really interested in discussing or negotiating social policy.
These are actual serious demands.
And the number of people in Winnipeg that believe in, you know, defund the police is small.
The next weekend, the police had just a stupefying number of calls, 72 assaults, 14, going by memory, it was like 14 gun calls, 16 stabbings.
And yet the Marxists are still saying, well, well, the police put that out.
They're just trying to scare you and think you need police.
What good are the cops if there's an assault?
Well, they break up the assault if it's ongoing.
Like this notion that social workers are going to attend drinking parties in Winnipeg, or as the police now put it, a group of people met to socialize.
This is preposterous.
But they live in some other universe in terms of the realities of what kind of law enforcement and law and order is needed at street level.
Now, subsequent to this, I can't call them an organization.
Their fundraising was weird because it was going to like private email addresses.
Originally, their fundraising was going through some platform, and then they said, no, don't put it through the platform.
So it looked like a way to make money with no accountability off organizing a movement that may or may not be Black Lives Matter, but it's certainly Black Lives Matter adjacent.
They got, as I said, almost unquestioning media coverage.
CBC did a photo album, a CBC reporter, pictures of the march and of the gathering.
And the very last picture was of a person holding a sign of a, it was like a painting or a drawing of a police officer.
And the cop had a, was portrayed as a pig, which again would be a human rights violation.
CBC put that right in their album.
As far as I know, it's still there.
Again, that would be in breach of Manitoba human rights code.
So you see that there's now two kinds of rules and laws, some for the rest of us and some for the favored aggrieved parties.
They then went to organize flash mobs, flash demonstrations of one hour duration at different locations around the city subsequent to that march.
And they appeared outside the police station and they announced it ahead of time.
And so the cops shut down at one o'clock.
So there's no fingerprinting or whatever the people go to the main cop shop to apply for.
They went to the Manitoba legislature.
Then they showed up at City Council on a Friday when council was meeting and Councillor Schreier, the son of the former premier and former governor general Ed Schreier, who in the environment of the current council is coming across like Stanley Knowles as being a wise and knowledgeable person.
Jason Schreier was speaking and interrupted himself and said, well, Madam Speaker, as you can hear, there's an increasing noise level.
The speaker kind of panicked, and then Debbie Sharma called a five-minute recess that lasted 20 minutes.
And it turns out that the protesters were outside City Hall.
They came inside.
There's a security desk, not heavily armed or anything, that you have to sign into to be able to then go up the stairs of the mezzanine and then enter the gallery to watch the proceedings.
And what happened was it doesn't appear, one counselor was unaware if they had signed in or not.
I don't believe they could have because there's 75 or 80 of them.
But they appeared in the mezzanine, which is separated by the council chamber, not by a brick wall, but by glass.
So they can be seen around the stairwells and around the staircases, the railings, chanting.
And you can be assured that there is no group of taxpayers, no demographic group in Winnipeg that I can think of that could have gotten away with interrupting a city council meeting.
Now, Mayor Bowman, who has never met a movement that he wouldn't try to co-opt for his own political purposes, instead of going outside and saying, listen, you guys, you've got a lot of serious concerns about policing and city services.
We've got to do the people's business.
We're dealing with pandemic, lack of revenue due to pandemic.
We've got to get this agenda done.
This takes care of the dispossessed, the poor seniors that you claim you're caring about.
I will meet with you here in the courtyard next Tuesday at noon.
Bring your stuff and I will meet with you.
But let us do this business now, please.
Now, the movement itself is detached from Black Lives Matter.
It's called something different.
They don't on the surface receive any funding from the movement itself, but they receive a lot of support from people who think it is the movement.
Right.
And people want to jump on this because the premise, the phrase sounds great, but when you look at the reality of the roots of it, the organizers from 20, whatever, 14, 15, 16, and the kinds of comments they made about race, the comments they made about Jews, this is why the Women's March had to drop three founders like last year, two years ago now, I guess it was 2019.
Well, in Winnipeg, as it came to the Jewish angle, the Jewish Federation supported this and encouraged the Jewish community to participate.
Now, this was on a Friday.
So it's before the Sabbath.
The Sabbath begins at sundown.
Sundown is around 9:2:30 p.m.
Now, keep in mind that last year, when the J.C. launched, what was the precipitating incident for launching the newspaper was Linda Sarsour's appearance in Winnipeg.
Now, Linda Sarsour is an unabashed anti-Semite, indisputably a Jew hater, a provocateur, uses inflammatory language, a historical revisionist.
The Jewish Federation did not notify the community about the rally that was organized, that was organized, in fact, by our publisher Ron East.
It did not, they did not send an emissary.
And among the excuses were, oh, but it's Friday evening at 6:30 and Shabbos starts at like 8 o'clock or whatever.
But this year, for a rally involving people support, at the very least, supporting a movement that is unabashedly anti-Semitic, the Jewish Federation encouraged people to go, and they themselves attended the march.
So they won't go to Jewish counter-protests opposing anti-Semites.
But a protest march that promotes the agenda, promotes the ideology of anti-Semites like Black Lives Matter, that they're fine with.
We saw this reflected in a tweet by the Black Lives Matter UK that talked about mainstream British politics as gagged of the right to critique Zionism and Israel's settler colonial pursuits.
Land Disputed, Palestinians Affected00:15:16
We loudly and clearly stand beside our Palestinian comrades.
So there you see prima facie evidence of Black Lives Matter, seeing them as merging with these aboriginal causes in North America.
This creates greater discord, greater momentum to undermine the societal structures and societal norms because when they say Israel settler colonial pursuits, they're defining Israel as a white supremacist project.
Again, in Winnipeg, I do say that there has not been, in terms of the public displays, nothing that caused any alarm for Jews or for Israelis.
That I can say.
However, when the day of rages, day of rage event started across North America and in this country as protests against the state of Israel applying sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, otherwise known as annexation of occupied territories, and we see it historically different because these are traditional, these are the Jewish homelands.
Judea had the capital of Israel.
So this isn't us like wandering into the, you know, wandering into the Sinai desert just to snatch up, you know, tracts of land that had nothing to do with our history, our culture, and our self-governance.
Now the protests start across the country and it started in Vancouver with about, I think it was about 100 people in Vancouver.
They lined a city block around Clark and East Broadway.
And the lead sign was Canada is guilty in Palestinian genocide in Nakba.
Hang on for a second.
This is a genocide where there are more Palestinians now than ever before.
So I mean, it's generally not how a genocide works out.
And these people are protesting.
These are people who, by and large, have no ties to Israel or the Palestinian-controlled territories.
These are maybe in Vancouver, maybe half, but then you're dealing with university students, old-time Jew-hating leftists.
Right.
But not a lot of them have any relationship, direct relationship to the Palestinian administration.
And these are people who are protesting an American, so a Trump proposed peace plan in Israel that the Palestinian leadership immediately rejected because for the Palestinian leadership, any Jews left in the land between, I guess, the river and the sea, that's unacceptable here.
But not rejected by the Palestinian communities that might be sub, that would welcome, in many cases, Israeli administrative legislative law as opposed to Israeli military rule to have it converted to a more normal kind of administration.
And they'd rather live in Israel, where, among other things, gays aren't pitched off the top of a building than live under the Palestinian authority and under the thumb of terrorist groups.
Well, and the opportunity for elections every six months.
Exactly.
Yeah, exactly.
And I mean, to be clear, I've seen what they call settlements.
Settlements is a strange way to describe a neighborhood.
That's really what these are.
These are Jewish neighborhoods, by and large, Jewish neighborhoods.
They don't say that you can't live there unless you're Jewish.
I mean, there's Christian Arabs there.
I mean, these are just neighborhoods.
They're denormalized, I think, by the United Nations by calling them settlements, which indicates something other than what they are.
But this is the United Nations and the rest of the world saying that Jews cannot build homes in certain places.
The first thing is that anytime somebody pulls out this idea that this violates the UN law and blah, blah, blah, and they start talking about borders, these were never borders.
This was a cease.
This was an end of hostilities in a war.
Borders were never established.
Number two, many of these communities, a half million Jews, not all of them are still settlers.
Some of these communities where there's a half million Jews, this is where Jews have always lived in some respects or lands that were traditionally Jewish where Arab descendants never lived.
So when people start by talking about the laws being broken, point out the law and how this area actually fits the definitions of that law.
Not quite so simple.
So beyond genocide, what you just talked about in reference to this lead sign in Vancouver, the other part is Nakba, which is the notion that land was stolen, taken from Arab interests from Palestinians, except for the ones that fled under instruction of the Arab governments who intended to wipe out every Jew.
People forget 6,000 Jews were killed at the beginning of the 1948 war.
That was 1% of the population.
Figure out what happened to any country where 1% is killed in a war.
This discounts the land that Jews bought.
Zionists bought, especially in the 1930s under the British mandate, with way overpaying per acre compared to what a land cost in, say, New York state.
How do you say that land was stolen when it was paid for at above market rates?
Right.
Among the signs, so you'll have these signs about genocide in Nakba beside a sign where people are caring about no to annexation, which goes back to the political argument.
And then in Vancouver, there was a sign, Palestine will be free held banner carried by Students for Justice in Palestine, SJP.
And when you look at the picture that we published on the J.C., one of the girls is wearing a white t-shirt with an insignia on it.
There's two shots of her.
And when you look at it, you come to recognize that the t-shirt is the logo of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
That is a banned terrorist group in this country.
Meanwhile, one of the event sponsors was Samidun, which is an organization that references Palestinian prisoners.
It's the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network.
So you're looking at prisoners who are part of a terrorist group.
I'm sure that the majority are not in Israeli jails if they are in jails for jaywalking.
It's terror-related activities they're being jailed for.
This isn't the maintenance enforcement branch because they haven't been paying for the kids or something.
And here's Charlotte Cates, who's the international coordinator of Samidun, holding a sign saying no to annexation, no to Zionism.
So you've got an affiliate of a banned terrorist group participating in this rally saying no to Zionism when we know that Zionism is the belief in the right to a historic homeland that is held by 97% of Jews.
But she would argue that somehow she's not an anti-Semite.
This brings us, it might be out by a day, this brings us to July the 4th to the next bout of Day of Rage protests.
And our headline was Day of Rage replaces Al-Quds Day as premier anti-Israel Jew hate fest in Toronto.
Because of the pandemic, there was no Al-Quds Day this year, which again is like Nakba Day, only like Nakba Day is a warm-up.
And one of the main signs that caught our eye at this protest in Toronto said anti-Semitism, anti-Semitism is a crime.
Anti-Zionism is a Judy-free Palestine.
Well, again, trying to play this game that you donate Jews, but Zionism is colonialism when it's the Jewish homeland and free Palestine from the Jews.
I don't even, I read this week that the term Palestinian doesn't even appear in literature until like the 1890s.
And the word itself had no basis in the cultures, the Arab cultures that resided in the Middle East.
So that doesn't stop the modern day activists.
The rally in Toronto was organized by the Palestinian youth movement.
And in their call to action on Facebook, they will not stop, they say.
We will not stop until all of Palestine is free in every corner of our land.
We will not yield until we have reclaimed our land.
Like, none of it is Jewish, none of it was bought by Jews, none of it is owned by Jews, redeemed our martyrs.
Now, how do you redeem a martyr?
Freed all our prisoners, and all refugees return.
Now, what are prisoners?
Yes.
Now, what happens when the Jews say, okay, we want the right of return to Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Egypt, Morocco, all these countries where Jews were expelled, where Jews were beaten, Jews were raped, Jews were tortured.
Jews were subject to pogrom after pogrom, adapted from the European style of pogroms, might I add.
The theft of wealth from Jews forced from 800,000, the 800,000 Jews forced from Arab countries was an astonishingly high number of billions of dollars.
Now, Jews don't claim any right of return.
The right of return, according to the United Nations, is accorded to the first generation of displaced people.
It isn't passed down.
If you aren't connected to the land, you don't have a right of return.
Only for the Palestinians.
Only for them has this concept been envisioned.
Why?
Because that would serve to swamp the land of Israel and completely tip the scales on any legislation, any government process would then be completely taken out of the hands of the most oppressed minority in the region for centuries, the Jews.
Not to diminish the suffering of Kurds, Yazidis, or anybody else who've been subject to the same Islamomaticism for centuries and centuries.
Now, in Toronto on the 4th, we again saw the merger of these, the conflagration of these causes, where you had First Nation, Aboriginal speakers, people representing First Nations organizations, talking about the settler colonial policies of Canada and Israel.
Except Israel was settled by people with a historic claim to the land.
Canada was settled by the British and the French.
So how is this the same?
Well, when you're Marxists and you just want to overthrow government, you just lump in everybody as all being the same kind of bad guy.
There was signage where on the one hand, you've got a black guy, he's wearing a mask in his picture I'm looking at, defund the RCMP and police now.
And beside him is some dame holding up a sign saying defund the IDF.
Defund the IDF?
What are you talking about?
And among those that jumped on the bandwagon was food vendors in Toronto.
And they referenced a recent incident where a Palestinian fellow came up to a checkpoint, veered left, buttonhooked right, rammed the security gate, not a gate, I mean as a kiosk, rammed it, came out of the car, and before he could stab anybody, he was shot dead.
Because there's like four or five Israeli guards at the checkpoint.
Oh, this is how it's securitized is the word they've invented.
Palestinians are so securitized as a threat.
We can't make human mistakes like lose momentary control of our car, press the accelerator in a moment of haste, get in a car accident.
He's coming up to a checkpoint.
What are you hitting the accelerator for?
What are you turning?
Before those checkpoints, they also have speed bumps before you get to them.
You can't just race up.
This wasn't something in the desert that's, you know, or in the outskirts.
It's set up.
It's a standard operating procedure.
Well, Someone posts that and claiming that this person, this victim, was a cousin of theirs, same family name.
Turned out they weren't a cousin.
And Food Benders goes and says, Well, this is a George Floyd moment.
Refuse to live in a Canada that continues to support Israeli brutality and war crimes against the Palestinians.
Boycott Israel.
Join the Toronto BDS network.
So Food Benders, the proprietor, Kim Hawkins, using mostly Instagram but other social media, ramped up from the Black Lives Matter issues and kept conflating.
And this goes back to the Israeli Defense Force, somehow trains police in America into brutalizing righteous protesters or innocent people.
Sue Ann Levy, who's been writing for the J.C. and is fantastic, giving us exclusive content, as part of her columns for the Toronto Sun, she went to the restaurant twice, went once, checked it out, came back the next day, and tried to engage the owner about that she had made a public statement on her Instagram that the Zionists were not welcome in a restaurant, restaurant, lunch counter catering place.
She in shooing Sue Ann out, and then there's a few goons that attended as well.
She said out loud, out of her mouth, Israelis kill thousands of children every day.
Now, I have not seen any media, not even in the Arab world, not even in the Islamist world, not even the house organs of Iran or any other despotic regime.
Nobody has claimed Israel kills thousands of children a day.
But the owner of Food Benders told Sue Ann Levy that she didn't know what she was talking about.
So, you know, you look at this signage that she had put out on her sandwich board and the things that she'd said: Jewish people are greedy and entitled.
Israel are terrorists.
And as our publisher, Ron East, he created a clapboard in effect for the Canadian, for the Israeli-Canadian Council.
If you can't say Indigenous people are greedy and entitled, and blacks are terrorists, then why can you say Zionists are racist, Zionists are Nazis, and other things?
You clearly can't, but nobody stands up against this.
Jewish Community Writers00:09:02
Never mind what human rights codes say, the doing business by, well, I guess the business license says that you can't discriminate against people on certain grounds.
So presumably, if you walk in, you know, plastered out of your skull and pose a danger, then they can reasonably still keep you off the premises.
But if somebody's for I was going to say Indian, but literally in Toronto would count, Indian, Fijian, black, brown of any sort, sub-Saharan, Chinese, Malaysian, if you're identifiably something, you can't be reserved service on that Arab, you can't be refused service on that basis.
And here's a business that was openly advertising that that was the basis of her business.
So John Torrey and the council in Toronto, some of whom I know are far left, which is a polite way of saying communist, Paula Fletcher, Winnipeg's gift of Toronto.
I don't know how they're going to reconcile this.
And I don't think society has a goal.
The most important goal for society rather, I don't think should be convincing society.
We've got to toll sale change everything.
We start with what we can fix first, which is at the societal level, okay?
At the level where multiculturalism functions on a day-to-day basis, which is race relations.
And I think if the politicians take the bull by the horns, stand up like leaders and start calling race relations meetings, race relations conferences, and focus on ratcheting down those tensions and resolving those misunderstandings and figuring out what role government has played.
Then we have a lot better chance of success, a lot better chance of maintaining our civil society than what we see now.
From your lips to God Zero.
Marty, I want to give you a chance to let everybody know where they can find the work that you do at the J.C. and how they can, more importantly, I think, support you to keep it going.
Because you're filling a huge void in Canadian journalism in general, but also for the Jewish community.
We're thrilled that our articles have been picked up by the Jewish News Syndicate and by Israeli publications.
One was written by Aviva Engel from Montreal.
Boy, is she fantastic.
She wrote a story about a Hasidic bakery and not just about the bakery, because I love, I didn't get this size by not loving bakeries, and not just about the Babka, but about the role they play in the community in creating goodwill and harmony among the different communities because the Hasidim are, you know, like they do keep to themselves.
They're very insular community.
But in their public pursuits, like the bakery, this article was fantastic.
I didn't see it till literally till we published it.
I was knocked out of my chair, how great it was.
And that's an example of the kind of story that is picked up on, not just the political stuff or the breaking news stuff that we do.
Although, again, no other publication, no other media platform in the country covered Day of Rage at all in a comprehensive manner, going over which cities it was in and what was said where.
We have a great crew of writers.
Dan Brotman has just written a story about Peruvian Jews during the pandemic, which corrected erroneous news stories about the Jews of Peru that had recently been circulated.
I referenced my piece about the history of Jews in Canada.
We have Rebecca Eckler puts out great columns called Kvetsh versus Kvelle, which is life, yeah, a slice of life stuff.
Egal Hecht is a regular contributor.
His latest one was about a Haredi influencer on social media.
So we're looking at Jews, the influence of Jews, the role of Jews across the spectrum of activities and businesses and in society.
Did you know Robbie Robertson had Jewish ancestors?
I didn't.
No.
It's a great story that Ira Haberman contributed.
Dave Gordon's our managing editor of Toronto.
He's done a fantastic job putting together the writers.
And he and Tevi Peltz is, they, you know, they're the ones collating the material and doing the majority of the editing.
And as I said, myself and Ron handle more so the breaking news and the political stuff.
And we've got, before I forget, again, Sue Ann Levy has just been knocking out of the park with what she's been giving us.
Doran Berger's contributed tremendously.
Daniel Korn wrote a story about Israel advocacy on campuses and the challenges they face.
So we've got something for everybody.
We cover the spectrum of Jewish life, not only Canada, in Canada, but internationally.
I'm proud to be at the top of the masthead of this with Ron East.
This is in a lot of ways the culmination of his father's dream, of Yarmou Mizrahi's dream of making sure the Jewish voice is heard in this country and that it's heard loud and clear and that we are able to provide a safe harbor, as it were, for the Jewish community, that they know that if they have a story to tell, somebody will tell it.
We are not a right wing.
We are pro-Israel.
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Letters the editor, Marty at the J.C.
And always glad to hear from you.
And Sheila, once again, thank you for, as Gene Kiniski would say, having me into your homes via TV and for being so supportive of our efforts since our inception a year ago.
And your audience communicates with us as well.
We get followers from the Rebel and some donations from people that I know also donate to your efforts as well.
Valuable Work Misunderstood00:02:34
And one last thing I forgot to mention, a shout out to David Menzies, who walks into the belly of the beast, who gets the footage.
What he and Ezra have done is incomparable in terms of journalism in this country.
No matter what anybody says, when you put on, when you strap on your boots and you walk into the end into what is really hostile territory to tell those stories, to show what's going on, to make sure people know what's being said, whether it's in the Nathan Phillips Square or whatever, it was at the courtyard in front of CDL, wherever it was.
David Menzies is a very brave guy who could be doing a lot different things at his age.
I'm sure he could be hanging out at the beaches or something.
And instead, he's putting in the work to make sure that the reporting is done at ground level that we try to do not in Toronto.
But again, David has been a good friend to us, along with the rest of the correspondents at the Rebel.
But what David's put up with, guys, he's got a big heart and a lot of guts.
He's a saint when he's dealing with those people.
He is not malicious.
He doesn't have a mean bone in his body.
And as I said to you earlier, Ezra refers to him as like Columbo when he just sort of underestimate him until he gets to the right question and gets the answer that he knew was there.
That's how David Menzies operates.
And, you know, it's hard to watch him being mistreated, but what he's doing is valuable.
It's very uncomfortable.
Yeah.
What he's doing is valuable work that nobody else is willing to do.
And shame on the mainstream media that does not report on these kinds of incidents that ignore it until, God forbid, one of them gets spit on or jostled or some epithet is yelled while they're doing a live hit.
And then it's, you know, like federal court of Canada issue.
But, right?
But all journalists should be safe from harassment.
They should be safe from abuse, whether CBC or CTV or global or any of these outlets, whether they agree with the style of reporting or the kinds of stories that are being followed, and that they don't speak up.
There should be solidarity.
If anything, there should be solidarity among journalists.
And instead, you've got parliamentary press galleries, and then they look down their nose at people who do reporting that doesn't follow their narrative.
Increasing Skepticism Among Journalists00:01:29
And you know what?
One day, one day too soon, they're going to need the support of everybody.
And already we see how Canadian society is becoming increasingly skeptical, increasingly questioning, increasingly untrusting of the agenda in some of those newsrooms.
And they should seriously think of what's been experienced by Menzies and other people in the course of the last couple of years in trying to cover the radicalized elements of Canadian politics, Canadian protest movements.
And they should be carefully considering why they are silent and why they should not stay silent in the face of people being mistreated in that manner.
Well, I don't think we ever have to worry about you being silent, Marty.
Marty, thank you so much for coming on the show.
Again, thank you again for your generosity with your time always, but especially today.
We did have some technical difficulties earlier.
We'll have you back on again real soon and best of luck with the J.C. Thank you so much and the best to you and to everybody at the outlet and to all of you viewers.
Keep supporting the alternatives because without the alternatives, you know what you're stuck with.
amen well everybody that's the show for tonight Thank you so much for tuning in.
I'll see everybody back here in the same time in the same place next week.