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Tonight on The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra delivers a stark warning after the horrific terrorist massacre at Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach.

During a public Hanukkah celebration attended by many local Australian Jewish families, two Muslim migrants — a father and son from Pakistan — opened fire, murdering at least 16 people and wounding dozens more.

It was the deadliest anti-Jewish terror attack Australia has seen in decades — and it didn’t happen in a war zone, but in one of the world’s most peaceful, beautiful cities.

This massacre was not an isolated incident, but rather the predictable result of years of government policies allowing Jew hatred in the streets.

But it wasn't just the pro-Hamas protests that brought Australia to the point of murdering Jews, lighting a menorah. It was also more universal policies, the type of politics that Canada knows all too well:

• Mass, unvetted immigration from extremist regions
• Political and media tolerance for open Hamas support
• Laws that disarm law-abiding citizens while empowering criminals
• Police and politicians who refuse to name Islamist terror for what it is

Australia, like Canada, has aligned itself symbolically with Hamas, refused to crack down on extremist networks, and criminalized self-defence — leaving Jewish communities exposed and undefended. Instead of confronting Islamic extremism, Australia’s leaders are already blaming “right-wing extremism” and calling for more gun control.

So, we have to ask: if these conditions produced a massacre in Sydney, why wouldn’t they produce one in Toronto, Montreal, or Ottawa?

This episode is a warning — not just for Jews, but for all Canadians, Brits, and Americans in the Western world. If a country refuses to change direction, it will eventually arrive at its destination.

Listen to tonight’s episode to understand what just happened in Australia — and why Canada may be closer than we think.

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Price. Do we know the latest death toll is in Australia? I still. I think it's 16, 16. Thanks. Okay. I'm ready. Yeah. 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 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, you know, Australia, of all places in Sydney. In a little bit later, we'll talk to our friend Abby Yemeni, 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, Danny? There's 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.

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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. The reserve more and more for right wingers and Christians who speak out against Islamists like Canada.

Australia has publicly aligned itself with the terrorists, unilaterally declaring their support for Palestinian sovereignty under its current Hamas leadership. And 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, the survivors. 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 yes, 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?

And there's one more thing I've got to mention in Australia, like in Canada, is very difficult for law abiding people to get firearms to defend themselves. Now, news reports say there were a 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. Two 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. 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 and nearly being assassinated, it was the female Secret Service agents that panicked.

They 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, they're 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 a 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's just hasn't manifested itself yet. We've already seen plenty of dry runs. Any minute 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. They 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 ten 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 in 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 Rouleau who rammed his vehicle into a Canadian Forces warrant officer, Patrice Vinson.

Remember that killed him with his car. Remember the ISIS terrorist Michael Zehaf-Bibeau? He murdered. He walked up to Corporal Cirillo 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 in Edmonton. Police officer named Mike Chernick then rammed his car into four bystanders.

And then there's the terrorist plots like the Toronto teen bomb plot, the viral 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 unveiled Unvetted immigration, including, incredibly, from the terrorist infested Gaza Strip itself.

We're taking more than any other country from there, 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. They 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 was 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 are 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, 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. 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 the coastline in nice and it murdered 83 people in a row. Smash, smash, smash with the truck. Are you 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 to stay with us for more. Joining us now is Avi Yemeni, our Australia bureau chief.

He lives in Melbourne, but he went up to Australia and Palm Beach. Abby, what is the latest situation? Thanks very much. Stay with us. Your letters to me next stop. If you want to focus on what's right, you know. That's right. Yeah, I'll do that and send. Thanks. I mean, 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. Moore. She went into Markham and talked to some Canadians. So let me just show you a little bit from that video. Take a look. 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. Take a look. That's our show for the day. Until tomorrow. On behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home. Good night. And keep fighting for freedom.

Hello my friends. Just horrific news out of Australia. 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. Same here in Canada. I'll take you through it. But first let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News. Plus, it's the video version of this podcast. Just go to Rebel News plus.com, click subscribe. It's eight bucks a month. You'll get this TV that you won't get anywhere else. I mean, you're going to see Abby Meany on location today. And the satisfaction keeping revenue strong because we take no government money.

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  • Watch the full show — Sixteen Jews were murdered and dozens more wounded during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach — and politicians are already blaming the wrong enemy. On tonight’s Ezra Levant Show, Ezra explains how mass unvetted immigration, tolerance for Hamas, and gun bans leave Jewish communities defenceless. Australia’s tragedy may be Canada’s warning.