The Times of Israel on Sunday labeled Rebel News founder and journalist Ezra Levant a “far-right activist” after he was arrested in Toronto, Canada, for filming an anti-Israel protest in a Jewish neighborhood on a public sidewalk. slandered.
era of israel reported:
Canadian far-right political commentator Ezra Levant was arrested at a pro-Hamas rally in Toronto after he claimed he was being discriminated against because he is Jewish and refused police instructions to leave.
A video of the arrest posted on social media by Levant's Rebel news platform shows police officers telling a conservative activist that his presence at a pro-Palestinian rally was “inciting the crowd.” hear.
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The police then announced that they were under arrest for violating the peace, at which point the demonstrators cheered and called them “Zionists” and “losers.”
As confirmed by the Times of Israel, one of the demonstrators at the Toronto event was dressed as Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, and another was part of a mass protest earlier this month. They held placards urging Jews to go to Amsterdam, where Jewish riots were occurring.
Such a label would be offensive to mainstream readers of the Times of Israel, but it denigrates Levant as “far-right.”
Video of the arrest posted by Rebel News, which describes itself as a conservative news organization but is not “far-right,” shows Levant being led away by police from a group of protesters carrying Palestinian flags. A standoff continues, with police claiming the Levant side is inciting the mob by filming them in public places, while the Levant side says the mob is inciting the violence.
When Levant refused to move aside as ordered by police, police arrested him for disturbing the peace.
Canadian police have a habit of arresting conservative journalists, so much so that Rebel News actually reported that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had been arrested over the previous arrest of reporter David Menzies for trying to question officials in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government. (RCMP). as she was walking on a public sidewalk.
In the United States, public sidewalks are typically the places where free speech is most free, with few boundaries.
Levant is no more “far-right” than the Times of Israel's readership. But while this online news website is often reliable when it comes to Israeli news, it frequently criticizes conservatives in the United States and Canada, as in this damning example.
Joel B. Pollack is a senior editor at Breitbart News. Breitbart News Sunday Sunday nights from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM ET (4:00 PM to 7:00 PM PT) on Sirius XM Patriot. he is the author of Agenda: What should President Trump do in his first 100 days?available for pre-order on Amazon. He is also the author of Trumpian Virtues: Lessons and Legacy of the Donald Trump Presidencynow available on Audible. He is the recipient of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter @joelpolak.
