In December 2025, a Pakistani father-son team massacred at least 16 Jews at Sydney’s Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration, using assault rifles while police with pistols hid. Witness Mindy described targeted attacks during menorah lighting, with authorities failing to label it anti-Semitic terrorism despite Rabbi Eli Schlanger’s murder there months earlier. Toronto’s weekly Hamas-support protests, now harassing Jewish homes with police escorts, mirror Australia’s security gaps—unvetted immigration, political cowardice, and rising extremism. Canada’s trajectory risks repeating Sydney’s tragedy unless governments act decisively against both violent and ideological threats. [Automatically generated summary]
A massacre of at least 16 Jews murdered and dozens more wounded by a father-son Pakistani terrorist team.
And the government has shown a terrible response, blaming right-wingers, saying more gun control would fix it.
Just absurd.
The Jews in Australia are sitting ducks with no armed guards.
It's the same here in Canada.
I'll take you through it.
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Absolutely horrific news out of Sydney, Australia, one of the world's most beautiful cities.
At Sydney's world-famous Bondi Beach, a crowd of hundreds of Jews had gathered to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
But two heavily armed Muslim migrants from Pakistan, father and son, were there also, and they proceeded to shoot dozens of Jews, killing, I think the latest death toll is 16, wounding 30 or so more.
It was a massacre in Australia, of all places, in Sydney.
A little bit later, we'll talk to our friend Avi Yamini, our Australia Bureau chief.
He interviewed a witness yesterday who was there, and he went to Sydney today.
We'll get an update from him shortly.
I don't know.
Australia is not a country I might normally associate with terrorism.
How about you?
But neither is Canada.
In fact, the two countries are remarkably similar in their approach to Islamic extremism.
Like Canada, Australia has had an open borders policy towards immigrants, bringing in hundreds of thousands from the most anti-Semitic extremist backwaters in the world, including Pakistan, where the murderers were from yesterday.
None of the migrants in Australia are vetted to weed out anti-Jewish, anti-Christian, anti-Western views.
Like Canada, Australia's government and media have tolerated public expressions not only of deep anti-Semitic hatred, but of support for violent terrorism, including a massive march in support of Hamas and chants calling for worldwide anti-Semitism, a worldwide pogrom to globalize the intifada.
I mean, so-called hate speech laws are never used against Islamists.
They're reserved more and more for right-wingers and Christians who speak out against Islamists.
And like Canada, Australia has publicly aligned itself with the terrorists, unilaterally declaring their support for Palestinian sovereignty under its current Hamas leadership.
So no preconditions.
They didn't have to lay down their arms.
They didn't have to agree to a peace deal.
They were granted sovereignty by Australia, as if Australia had the power to do so, which is Canada did too.
A symbolic move for which Hamas publicly thanked Australia and Canada.
So it was an unmistakable signal that Australia and Canada were happy to deal with murderous terrorist regimes.
What signal do you think that gave the hundreds of thousands of migrants?
So I ask again, if those conditions were sufficient for a terrorist attack in Sydney, mass immigration, unvetted people from anti-Semitic countries, and all sorts of nodding along and winking along to Hamas, if those conditions created a mass terrorist attack in Sydney, why wouldn't they be enough for a terrorist attack in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, or other Canadian cities?
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And there's one more thing I've got to mention.
In Australia, like in Canada, it's very difficult for law-abiding people to get firearms to defend themselves.
Now, news reports say there were half a dozen private security guards at the Bondi Beach event for Hanukkah, which rings true.
That's sort of how it is in Toronto and Montreal, too.
I say that from personal experience.
But they were unarmed.
What's the use of that?
Like, literally, what is the point of that?
Someone says, I'll arm wrestle you.
Okay, fine.
Other than that, what's the point of unarmed guards?
What exactly are they guarding?
In fact, eyewitness reports say that the Sydney police arrived on the scene, but instead of immediately engaging with the terrorists, they hid out of fear.
Here's one man saying so.
We didn't hear that.
The shooting was so loud that we couldn't hear it.
They say, I was too far.
He was on a bridge.
I was near the tent.
But I saw, I look at him, I look what he shot, I look at his rifle, he aimed, he did, he really like take his time.
It should take his time.
And four policemen there didn't give fire back.
I don't understand why.
Why?
What was going through your mind?
I feel like I'm Israeli, like I'm familiar with this situation, but it's terrible in the middle of Bondi.
It's terrible.
It's terrible.
Later photographs show that a number of the police on the scene were females.
And, you know, I'm all for equal opportunity, but it seems like in certain critical moments, running into a hail of gunfire is a particularly male thing.
You might recall that when Donald Trump was shot in the ear, nearly being assassinated, it was the female Secret Service agents that panicked, that didn't know what to do, that were asking for advice and blathering.
I'm not saying all women are that way, but there's something I think inherently about being shot at where women, their genetic instincts kick in, they preserve their lives as we would want them to, and men run to the danger.
I think had there been male police on the scene who weren't worried about protecting themselves rather than the citizens, perhaps this shooting spree would have been stopped sooner.
By the way, there is a Bondi Beach police station a three minutes walk away.
Why were the shootings going on for nearly 20 minutes?
It took a local bystander to rush one of the terrorists, grabbing his gun, but not knowing how to use it.
That bystander is reported to be a Muslim man himself, although I've seen other reports that he's a Maronite Christian Arab.
Either way, he's a hero for stopping, I presume, more murders.
But I deeply fear that what we've just seen in Australia will come to Canada.
I think it's already here in many ways.
It just hasn't manifested itself yet.
We've already seen plenty of dry runs, anti-Semitic crimes, and I mean real crimes.
I'm not talking about feelings crimes or hate crimes.
I'm talking about real crimes are so common, they no longer even make the news.
And when they're newsy, I can see that the police and the media are trying not to call them terrorist events.
They're just fires.
I mean, one Jewish girls' school in the Toronto area has been attacked on three separate occasions by gunfire.
I went to one of the press conferences there.
The police refused to say the words Jewish or anti-Semitic.
were just pretending it was a regular gunfire, you know, the kind that targets Jewish girls' schools.
There's a synagogue in North Toronto that has been vandalized literally 10 times.
And every week a group of Hamas supporters drives into the heart of a Jewish neighborhood near where I live right in the middle of the day and they walk through residential streets screaming at every Jew they can find and they're wearing masks and they're dressed with Hamas regalia.
Police don't stop them.
They actually escort them.
Are those dry runs?
Are they self-radicalizing exercises?
I don't know.
Like Australia, Canada is known as a soft touch for terrorism.
We refuse to criminalize terrorist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, even though the United States is doing so and other countries like the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have already done so.
We know that there are hundreds of Iranian agents operating freely in Canada.
We know there's hundreds of Hezbollah agents operating freely in Canada.
And we've had our share of terrorist attacks too, by the way.
Don't forget, an ISIS gunman burst into parliament itself in a hail of gunfire.
In the past dozen years, we've seen a Muslim convert named Ahmed Roulot who rammed his vehicle into a Canadian forces warrant officer, Patrice Vincent.
Remember that?
Killed him in his car.
Remember the ISIS terrorist Michael Zihaf Bibo?
He murdered, he walked up to Corporal Nelson Cirrillo at the National War Memorial, murdered him at point-blank range, and then went into parliament.
That was the guy who stormed parliament.
A Somali extremist, Abdullahi Sharif, stabbed an Edmonton police officer named Mike Chernik, then rammed his car into four bystanders.
And then there's the terrorist plots like the Toronto 18 bomb plot, the Via Rail bomb plot.
These are just cases that the authorities can't deny are Islamic or terrorist by nature.
I think most terrorist attacks are simply renamed crimes or mental illness.
So what happens now?
Well, nothing, of course.
I mean, Mark Carney here in Canada is pursuing Justin Trudeau's policy of mass unvetted immigration, including incredibly from the terrorist-infested Gaza Strip itself.
We're taking more than any other country from there.
Are we insane?
Politicians were online last night saying they will stand with the Jews, but they won't.
They literally won't stand with the Jews.
Many politicians now refuse to attend Jewish events, as opposed to Israeli events.
I'm not even talking about Israel anymore, because their new anti-Semitic voter base will not tolerate them being seen with Jews.
The president of Ireland put out a tweet about Australia.
He didn't use the word Jews because that would be too unpopular with the woke anti-Semites and the foreign anti-Semites in Ireland.
It's crazy.
Toronto's mayor is particularly bad for this.
And Jews in Canada, like Jews in Australia, are going to continue to be helpless.
There's not a single synagogue or school or Jewish community center or Jewish bakery or restaurant in Canada that has an armed guard.
They're sitting ducks just like at Bondi Beach, thanks to gun control that applies only to law-abiding citizens, not criminals or terrorists.
I am very genuinely worried about Canada, not just for the Jews, but for all of us.
I mean, if you don't change direction, you'll probably end up where you're heading.
And we're heading to a disaster.
I've been to Europe enough to know what that looks like when it comes to mass immigration and Islamic extremism and no-go zones.
I think that we're in a real danger.
I think that Australia should be a warning about fake policing.
Even worse, when the Prime Minister of Australia took to the microphones today, he said, this is incredible to behold, he said he wants to crack down on, you guessed it, right-wing extremist groups.
Take a look at this video.
We take Aisha's advice very seriously.
We work closely with them.
We receive regular updates as well.
The Director General of Asia has warned about a range of threats, be it anti-Semitism, the rise of right-wing extremist groups as well.
And we continue to work closely with our security agencies.
Yeah, that wasn't right-wing extremist groups.
That was father and son.
Father and son, who were radicalized at a mosque.
It's nothing to do with right-wing.
They're also talking more about firearms bans.
What's that got to do with it?
If it wasn't firearms, it would be knives.
It wasn't knives.
I mean, one of the worst massacres by an Islamic terrorist in recent history was in Nice, France, where an Islamic terrorist got behind the wheel of a very large and powerful truck.
It was like a big, more than a semi.
It was a very powerful vehicle, and it just went down a coastline in Nice, and it murdered 83 people in a row.
Smash, smash, smash with the truck.
You're going to ban trucks?
It could be anything used as a weapon.
Focusing on right-wingers is absurd, but focusing on guns isn't the point.
In fact, you need more guns to protect the synagogues and schools.
I'm worried that here in Canada we're sitting ducks.
I'm worried that our politicians won't care.
And I'm worried that it's just a matter of time before we have a Bondi Beach massacre in Canada, too.
Stay with us for more.
Joining us now is Avi Yamini, our Australia Bureau Chief.
He lives in Melbourne, but he went up to Australia and bombed Eye Beach.
Avi, what is the latest situation?
Firstly, welcome to the live stream, guys.
We're here in Bondi at the scene of the ESA's horrific terror attack, where at least 16 people attending a Hanukkah event were murdered in cold blood just for the simple fact of being Jewish in 2025 in Australia.
So now we're just here to see how the community is reacting, responding, the Jewish community and the broader community.
We're going to bring you live.
This is the behind the scenes, as we've been doing lately, of our covering of different stories.
And this week we're going to cover this story wherever it takes us.
And tonight it's taking us here.
There's an organic gathering of people to pay their respects.
And remember, there's still a lot of people still in hospital now, so we don't know what the final figures are.
Hopefully there's only good news from here on in.
But in this live stream, you can see the behind the scenes, how we produce and publish this content as well.
What's going on, guys?
You're all right?
I'm Mindy.
I was there yesterday protecting my daughter with bullets skimming past my ears.
I witnessed police running away.
I witnessed other people who supposedly were supposed to be carrying firearms run away.
I'm not sure if they were or weren't.
I love the work that everybody does to protect our country.
I love all the amazing multicultural resources.
But I spoke to someone in the top three of the police of New South Wales about 15 minutes ago who's here.
And I asked him, I said, man to man, forget politics, man to man.
I had bullets skimming past my ears protecting my daughter and three other kids like the Nova videos.
And I said, man to man.
I said, man to man.
There was dozens of police there.
I've personally witnessed police hiding.
Everybody else also saw the same thing.
It's not me, there's camera footage.
It probably won't be released, but it's camera footage.
My question is, and you know what he told me, the Deputy Commissioner?
He said these words.
He said, they had pistols.
The other people had assault rifles.
We can't do anything with pistols.
That's why we didn't shoot back.
So that's all I could say.
I mean, us as a community, it's time to rethink all our security measures.
As Jewish people, obviously, we're not cowards.
We're not going to hide.
The only reason why we're going to hide, the only reason why we're not going to go through tonight with the big Hanukkah event in tomorrow is because we don't believe that our community can actually protect us.
Clearly, they failed.
They failed.
And I'm sure they'll step up and eventually get their act together.
But currently, we're not shying down.
We're not having a Hanukkah party tonight because we're afraid.
We're not afraid.
We're not afraid of no one.
The only thing we're not doing, we're only not doing it for one reason and one reason only.
We don't feel protected.
And politicians can talk as much as they like.
And I love our politicians.
I love our country.
But don't say you can protect us when clearly you can't, when you have police hiding on the side with pistols, scared to shoot back.
You've got two shooters and dozens and dozens of police.
Sirens started.
The siren started 60 seconds at least.
Maximum, maximum, possibly less, after it happens.
The sirens started.
Yet there was only three types of shots fired.
And it was the ones from a terrorist.
Only after, and you can watch the video, anyone can watch the video, only after many, many, many minutes, a long time, a long period, but there are even shots fired back.
So it's just, you know, watching Eli Schlanger, who arranged this Chanukah party, watch, you know, he came here to spread light and watching him, I watched him get shot and fall to the ground.
Okay?
And there's not much more which could be said besides that we demand from our country to please put more effort in to protect us.
If that means for the police to carry assault rifles, then do it.
If it's going to cost a couple million dollars, take it away from some grants which they're giving to who knows what.
But we need more protection because it's just not okay like this.
We live in a multicultural country and this is out of hand.
Can you describe what it was like being there?
You said you had your two kids with you?
I got into a fight with my wife yesterday afternoon before the event and she refused to come with me.
I have two twin boys and she re- How old are they?
They are one years old.
So she refused to come with the boys and instead I just took my daughter with me.
So it was me and my daughter and when the first shot I've been to America before and I've gone to the ranges so I know what a gun sounds like.
I heard that first shot and I just grabbed all the kids next to me and I shoved them into this truck.
We were in a direct, we were, I mean if you see the bridge you won't be able to get there but the six o'clock of the shooter, you know, probably, I don't know, 20 meters, direct six o'clock of the shooter.
And we were just hiding, waiting like sitting ducks.
You know the video from Nova with the, you know, the people and they go past and they're shooting the bodies, that's exactly what it was like.
Music still going, the grass, all of us just waiting, sitting there with these kids.
I was just going, what was going through your head at that moment?
I was saying Shema Yisrael.
I was saying Shema Yisrael and I was hiding the kids, making sure that everyone's quiet, just whispering Shema Yisrael, as we say as Jewish people, we say God is one and please protect us.
And just hoping that our, knowing that several seconds earlier, I watched, I watched, I saw police, there was police everywhere, there was sirens, I'm like, okay, I'll take 60 seconds, I'll take these guys out.
Nah, we sat for 10 plus minutes waiting, sitting ducks, waiting, everyone there, old, young, children, babies, kids, everyone.
So you said Shema, but what was running through your mind in that minute?
Because I'm sure like a lot of Aussies would be watching this now going, you know, it's a Sunday afternoon where I take my kids to the beach.
I don't know if it was nice weather here last night.
Beautiful weather.
It was beautiful weather.
The beach was packed.
And then you're stuck, firstly the incident, witnessing people getting shot, but then having to stand there for 10 or so minutes protecting.
The standard was hiding under a, in a kid's, in a kid's 3D video, hiding under with a bunch of my daughter and her classmates and a few mums.
Just squashed them all under the chairs.
I left myself a bit exposed, obviously.
The only thing in your head is survival.
Obviously, anybody knows, you know, you just want to make sure that even if the guy does come in, because it started getting closer and closer, as one of the guys came down, thank God there was an amazing guy who was a Muslim, which is amazing.
It just shows how amazing our multicultural country actually could potentially be.
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And he was a hero.
I mean, he saved my life for sure, because if that guy would have not taken the gun from that guy, we all would have been gone.
Me and my daughter, all her friends, my wife's best friend, all of us.
So the only thing going through here is survival.
and just really hoping in the back of your head that the cops really are gonna take this, take these bastards down.
But I don't wanna give a message of negativity, really, because...
I was gonna say, what would your message be to that hero that the whole world has witnessed tackle the gunman?
Well, my message to him is, you know, we're a multicultural country.
We respect each other's religions.
You know, Muslims, Jews, Christians, our base religion is exactly the same, right?
Our fundamentals and values.
Yes, there are radicals who like to change a few of the core morals and values, but our basic fundamentals and value, we all value human life, or we hope to value human life.
And that was a clear example.
Yesterday of a man who valued human life at his own cost, he got shot three times.
And that was just a clear example.
So my message is, yes, I'm personally highly traumatized.
I'm personally feeling, you know, Ravashlanger was my uncle of Blessed Memory.
That was your uncle that was my uncle.
He's your uncle.
And you watched him get killed.
He was a person get shot and it's his event.
It's his event.
He made the event.
How many of the people that were killed do you know?
Most.
Most.
Most of them.
I mean, people don't realize the figure 12, 13 killed, it's a very, very misleading figure because you had them shoot 60, 70 rounds.
I mean, I counted at least 50, 60.
And that was at the moment, which, you know, your judgment isn't clear.
And they just kept going, and it just kept going and going and going.
I mean, yeah, Ravashlanger made the event and then watch him go down like that and watch all these people.
I mean, you have about 50, 60 shot.
We have an amazing, I work with Hatzola as well.
So I'm a first responder.
So right when I, it was the first time in my life I couldn't treat.
So right when I finally the shooting stopped, there was a guy, you know, next to my car just bleeding out.
And I couldn't, I was my daughter, I couldn't even treat him and I couldn't mentally.
But, I mean, probably 50, 60, at least I was up the whole night going from hospital to hospital trying to identify people's bodies.
The country, you know, we haven't been equipped with a mass casualty, the resources to deal with a mass casualty event like this.
It's just simply not there.
It's not there.
So the Jewish community, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of us were assisting all the authorities last night, going from hospital to hospital, identifying people, contacting families, overseas members, liaising with coroners, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Very, very intense.
And there are a lot of very, very, very injured people.
Just because there are only 12 dead, there are 60 or 50 or 40 Hazak, maybe 50, 60, 40, I don't know how many who are shot in critical places, including my best friend who works for me.
And he was on scene as the Hatzalah member.
And he was shot, one of the first people targeted directly.
Bang, he was wearing this first responder Hatzalah.
So these are, for people who don't know at home, get a close-up of that.
So this is a local volunteer first aid responders in the Jewish community here.
People that volunteer.
We carry a radio 24-7.
We respond to any emergency.
We work with all the paramedics, all the ambulances in New South Wales.
We know all of them.
In fact, when my partner was brought into the hospital, it took us hours to even find which hospital.
All the paramedics know him because we got all the calls together.
And they were all crying and worried about him.
This just shows, you know, these people didn't discriminate.
I mean, there was a 10-year-old girl who was pronounced dead this morning, Jewish girl.
One of the other rabbis who arranged the event, his daughter was also shot in the leg, kid.
I mean, they were just knocking everyone like ducks.
Could you see, were they targeting like your friend wearing the first aid responder top?
Did they target the little girl?
Did they target or were they just shooting out into the crowd?
So it wasn't an automatic gun going like this.
It wasn't like in a movie.
We're talking about real, we're talking about guys.
I mean, you can see in the video the guy's looking in his scope and he's bang knocking, one putting it because of the type of rifle it was.
I heard that.
You know you, you put it back in, however it works, you cock it, you aim, and you see, he's precisely going bang picking out, picking out the right people.
I mean, and as well, I mean this wasn't like two guys got in their car and drove here and suddenly, you know, started shooting at an event.
They knew exactly where they were going, they knew exactly where to target, they knew what time to target it.
In fact, I mean, this is, this is crazy.
But I mean, they came at the time where the menorah was supposed to be lit.
For the last 30 years this event has been going on and at that time, at 6, 30 is usually when the menorah is lit, that's when it's, that's when it all knocked off.
They delayed lighting the menorah because um, rabbi Omen, the one of the rabbis um he uh, he wasn't there yet, so they delayed it.
Um, but it seems like that they were waiting for they that key moment to kick off, but they were precisely targeting, just picking out an individual, and again, it was.
It was a slow, it wasn't automatic fire we're talking about.
We're talking about shotgun rifle style.
I don't know exactly what kind it is I want to make with guns, but they, just they picked out.
You can clearly, you know bang, it was targeted.
There was a gap between the bullets right, bang shot bang bang, you know, and just just absolutely crazy.
I mean, we all knew it was coming, let's be real.
We all knew it was coming, but did I personally think i'd be there trying to save a few kids with my daughter and her best friend?
No, did I think it would happen at Bandai beach?
No, I thought it would be a lone wolf attack somewhere, not something at this, on this level.
And I thought that, after you know all the money which the government pours into these type of resources, we'd actually have a response.
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But unfortunately, I mean, i'm sure there's going to be an investigation, like the deputy commissioner told me, there's going to be a big investigation into the response and there's definitely a lot of failures which occurred.
So i'm waiting to see that and hoping that the government steps up.
And, as Jewish people, I just want to say yes, i'm traumatized.
I'm going to deal with my, with my problems, but as Jewish people, we ain't going to back down.
We ain't going to back down.
You see, we value life.
They value death, and what we're going to do is we're going to grow.
Judaism in Sydney is going to grow.
Yiddish Geit and light in Australia is going to grow.
We're not going to stop.
We're going to take a 10x.
We're going to bring the light of Chanaka, which is today the light.
You know all Chanaka is about one thing, one thing only, light over darkness, and you've said it many times.
I've seen your videos.
You've said that idea many times.
You're like a shliach yourself, you can't take it to the part of the blood and um, that's what we're going to do.
We're going to go 10x, as Grant Cardon says, 10x, 10x, all the all the work here in Sydney.
That's the only only response we can possibly do.
Bring the light into your own home.
Bring the war and everyone else in the broader society who's come to say no to evil.
We also implore you to add in light.
Bring good deeds to the world.
Take an opportunity to be kind to someone.
Take an opportunity to make peace with someone else.
Take an opportunity to be that shining light amongst your friends and family, reach out to anyone in need, who you know, and we hope, and we are taught, that lightness will always persevere.
Darkness has no power.
Where you light a candle, it could be a dark evening, it could be a dark room, and one little candle dispels all the darkness.
So we're going to make the blessings, we'll answer our main and then we'll ask everyone to join us in songs of peace and prayer For healing.
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Thanks, Abby.
You know, we're bringing aboard a new rebel talent.
I'm very excited.
Her name is Scarlett Grace, and she started this weekend doing a few sort of test runs for us.
She did one with the MP that crossed the floor from the Conservatives to the Liberals, an MP named Mr. Ma.
She went into Markham and talked to some Canadians there.
Let me just show you a little bit from that video.
Take a look.
Good evening.
This is Scarlett Grace with Rebel News.
We are here at the office of MP Michael Ma, who just made the switch from the Conservative Party to join the Liberals, bringing the Liberal Party to one seat shy of a majority government.
In Michael Ma's statement announcing his switch to the Liberal Party, he said he decided to do so after, quote, listening carefully to the people of Markham Unionville in recent weeks.
He followed that up by saying, quote, Prime Minister Mark Carney is offering the steady, practical approach we need to deliver on the priorities I hear every day while door knocking in Markham Unionville.
That includes making life more affordable, growing a strong Canadian economy.
Just last week, Michael Ma stood in Parliament and berated Mark Carney, saying that the Liberals are responsible for the affordability and food bank crisis.
Mr. Speaker, we are in a shameful situation in this country where over 2 million Canadians are visiting food bank every month.
At the end of every month, paychecks aren't going far enough.
Why is that?
The Liberals will want to deflect the blames solely on the trade deficit.
However, there is a simple economic fact.
When you create more units of currency and map them to an economy that isn't meaningful, producing more units of goods and services, we get inflation.
So what changed?
And what do the constituents of Markham Unionville really think about Michael Ma's floor crossing?
Rebel News is here to find out.
I would want his answer because I voted for him.
I voted for Conservative.
And now it seems like he can just cross the floor to Liberal without answering to his constituents.
So you voted for Michael Ma with the Conservative Party.
How do you feel about the fact that he can just switch to another party, the one that you didn't vote him in with?
It's totally disgusting.
The reason why I voted for Conservative is because I agree with Conservative value, not the Liberals' value.
What values is it that are important to you that you thought Michael Ma was aligned with?
Like gender things, like education, family, like the food crisis that the liberal it's bringing to this country, bringing in unveted refugees, all these problems.
I thought that was very interesting, but I want to show you a larger video that she did for us yesterday.
Scarlett Grace went to the weekly pro-Hamas protests in the heart of the Jewish neighborhoods in Toronto.
Here's a taste of Scarlett Grace facing down Canada's would-be terrorists.
Good afternoon, Scarlet Grace with Rebel News.
We are here at the intersection of Bathurst and Shepherd for a menorah lighting ceremony with the Jewish community of Toronto.
The menorah reminds us that there is a long list of people who have tried to erase our story 2,200 years before today's attack in Sydney.
Now this comes just hours after news of a terrorist attack in Australia that took the lives of 12 people, leaving 29 injured.
The government is prepared to take whatever action is necessary.
Included in that is the need for tougher gun laws.
Still today's events will carry on.
This is a similar event to what was happening in Australia, an event marking the beginning of Hanukkah.
But what is also carrying on is the pro-Palestine demonstrators who have been coming here every Sunday since October 2024.
Now they started coming here in response to the pro-Israel rallies that were held at this same intersection for 107 weeks consecutively after October 7th.
Now, those pro-Israel rallies concluded in October of 2025 of this year, but still the pro-Palestine crowd has come here to the heart of the Jewish neighborhood of Toronto to demonstrate weekly.
And because they haven't had a crowd to necessarily target every week anymore, because the pro-Israel rallies have concluded, they've started going into residential streets and harassing people in front of their homes with a full police escort from Toronto police.
Now, thankfully, this week they do have a crowd to target, so hopefully, people who are in their homes can stay in peace.
Give it a few generations.
Hamas and all of its fans, appeasers, and enablers throughout the world will join those that came before them in the dustbin of history.
We'll still be here lighting the lights of the Hanukkah candles.
We're here today to cover the event and hopefully going to get the opportunity to talk with people on both sides.
I'd like to talk to the Jewish community about how they feel after the terrorist attacks in Australia today and going forward if they feel safe in Toronto.
Because again, we have these continuous demonstrations on the other side.
Maybe we can get the opinion of those people too.
What brought you out today?
I think the rise of the anti-Semitism and especially what happened on Bonne Beach yesterday.
Absolutely, I have no words for what's going on in the world.
It shouldn't be happening.
Anti-Semitism.
And what I really want more than anything is for there to be peace in the world.
And that's what I really, really want.
So we are here with Aaron Hadida, who owns and operates Magen Herut, the security company that has been on scene at Bathurst and Shepard every week for the pro-Israel rallies until they concluded.
How do you feel about the pro-Palestine protesters showing up for a menorah lighting?
Hanukkah tradition.
I think it's very telling.
I think the fact that they're no longer hiding the fact that it's about Jew hatred is pretty telling because this isn't about Israel.
This isn't about the IDF.
Although for me, it always is.
But today isn't about that.
Today is about a menorah lighting and a vigil for a terrorist attack that took place in Australia.
Giddy, how are you?
I'm great, Senator.
I'm great.
Good to see you.
So you are one of, if not the main organizer of the pro-Israel rallies, right?
That's right.
Okay, so how does it feel to be back on the corner of Bathurst and Shepherd?
Because the rallies concluded in October, correct?
October 19th, we finished 107 weeks in a row without stop to support Israel, our hostages, our soldiers, and the entire community.
And we promised that we would stay there until all the hostages came back.
And by October 19th, they did come home.
Unfortunately, today, we are marking the holiday of Hanukkah, which is a celebration of the defeat of our enemies and the recapture of the temple.
Unfortunately, a joyous day has now also turned into a tragic day.
We lost, we don't even know how many people we lost today in Bondi Beach in Australia.
We're brokenhearted, but we are going to celebrate this holiday because it is how we survive 2,000 years in the diaspora, and we will continue to celebrate Hanukkah and the miracle of Hanukkah no matter what happens.
I want to read to you a letter that Rabbi Schlanger, who was murdered in Sydney today, wrote to the Prime Minister of his country a couple of months ago when Australia was on the cusp of betraying the Jewish people and denying our story.
Dear Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, as a rabbi in Sydney, as a rabbi in Sydney, I implore you not to betray the Jewish people and not to betray God himself.
The land of Israel was given to God by Abraham, then to his son Isaac, and then to Jacob to be the eternal homeland of the Jewish people.
Throughout history, Jews have been torn from their land again and again by leaders who are now remembered with scorn in the pages of history.
Today, you, Mr. Prime Minister, have the opportunity to stand on the side of truth and righteousness.
By rescinding this act of betrayal, you will not only honor the Jewish people and our heritage, but also align yourself with the word of God.
With hope and prayer, Rabbi Eli Schlanger, Sydney, Australia.
Australia was blessed with this modern-day Maccabee who spoke the word of God and spoke the truth.
Rabbi Schlanger is now dead, but his message of truth will echo throughout the ages.
If the leaders of Australia choose to turn around and embrace that truth, they will be blessed.
If they don't, it will be the undoing of their own civilization.
The leaders of this country of Canada face a similar choice.
If your strategy is to finger the political winds and electoral pants, you may win elections, but there won't be much of a country left to lead.
You want your freedom here in the Western society.
You want your Western lifestyle.
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You have to show up.
The other side, they are using our tax money as fund to be there.
We have to be there in the streets because the streets are the only thing that we have to fight with these extremists.
And we have to be here.
So you're seeing parallels between there was a terrorist attack in Australia today, and that could potentially keep people from coming out.
People are scared.
And you're saying that they need to come out anyways.
That's where it matters.
That's my point.
I just showed up as myself, standing on the corner.
They surrounded me two weeks ago screaming at me, rather a large group of them, and a group of police stood here and did nothing.
So do you think it's fair to say that there is some police bias going on or just not enough police action on part of protecting the Jewish community?
I think they're completely uninterested in protecting the Jewish community for whatever reason.
As you can see here, tons of police cars, most of them sitting in their cars playing on their phones, drinking coffee, not in amongst the crowd, not really interested in doing anything, not interested in upholding anything, not really interested in what's happening until it's right in front of their face and someone brings it to their attention.
We are joined with the rebel truck today that is promoting nohate.com.
It's recommending that if you see any targeted harassment to call 911.
It's also saying that, again, the pro-Hamas crowd is promoting hatred, supporting a terrorist organization, harassing, stalking, intimidating, and coercing the locals and uttering threats and breaching the peace.
This is all things that we have seen people carrying that flag do in the city of Toronto.
We're also showcasing footage of the anti-Israel crowd walking through the residential streets that they have been doing as of late, harassing the residents of the Jewish neighborhood in Toronto.
So I saw your Australian flag.
What brought you out today to the menorah lighting?
Well, I am a dual Canadian Aussie.
So this one hits home for me.
I lived in Bondi, a block away from the beach for 10 years.
So it's my people, it's my community, it's my friends, my family who have all been impacted today.
And so I came out today, one, to show our resilience as Jewish people that we won't power and fear, and that we will continue to celebrate our holidays.
And it just gives us the resolve and the resilience to continue on.
But also just, you know, to stand with the people that I love so much.
The police have just told this gentleman that if he continues to wear his current getup, that he will be arrested.
They threatened you with arrest?
They threatened me with arrest.
So what are you going to do?
I said, well, arrest me because I'm cold.
And they're going to arrest me for being cold.
What led you to wear this outfit today?
I'm cold.
So you're not going to take it off?
You're going to stay here even after the threat of arrest?
Yes, because I'm cold.
Good luck.
What's going on?
Officer here says to me that he was going to, he says he was going to go to the hate crime unit and the hate crime unit was going to arrest me.
For wearing a shawl?
I assume they're saying that it looks like you're mocking like a Muslim garment.
That wasn't my intention, and they were offended by it.
Isn't it interesting that they target you for wearing something that's not necessarily specific, but months ago they had somebody cosplaying as terrorist leader Yahya Sinwar in a chair, like opposed as he was in his final photo.
They didn't do one thing about that, but one shawl here offends the Toronto police that much.
Yeah.
And it's cold out.
and I'm not allowed to wear it, in the colour of...
So they stabbed him a few times.
We come back and harassing him totally.
Totally because he just walked away as I came up.
So I wonder if they're going to come back and enforce that or if you're just given a warning.
I am here with Dan Levy, who has been a regular at the pro-Israel rallies that happen here every week for 107 rallies.
Those have since concluded since October.
And we're back.
We're back for the menorah lighting ceremony.
How does it feel to be back at this intersection?
I mean, it feels good.
It feels like everyone who came here every week is like a family.
So it's good to be amongst, you know.
And also it feels important, especially after this news from Australia this morning where a bunch of people doing this exact same thing, lighting a menorah, were subjected to a terrorist attack and they were murdered for being Jews in public.
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Shame on the government of Australia, the government of Canada, because they refuse to say that it was a terrorist attack against the Jewish community.
They try to manage the public opinion, avoiding saying that it was anti-Semitic terrorist attack.
And we know that the Muslim community is the one attacking the Jewish community.
We, the citizens, the people, we know who is our enemies.
The government are refusing to protect the Jews, the Christian.