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KINSELLA: Israel haters have truth in their crosshairs after Oct. 7 Hamas attack · Kvetch & Release

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  I have joining me right now, author and columnist at the Toronto Sun and
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  National Post, Warren Kinsella, who has a new column that is out.
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  It's entitled Israel Haters have Truth in their crosshairs after the October seven Hamas attack.
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  Warren, how are you good, my friend? Thanks for having me
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  on. Thank you so much for joining me here. So I'll let you
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  speak just right off the bat here. What's this column all about? Well,
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  basically, he had released my political experiences. You know, I was
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  a special assisiant to Jean Chritcia, and I've helped run lots of campaigns over
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  many years. And you know, when you're in politics for a long time,
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  whether you're a liberal or atory or a new Democrat, you get pretty
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  good at spotting money in organization. Whether it's at a rally or a protest
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  or a campaign office. You can tell who's got it together and who's got
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  money and who doesn't. And what I noticed almost immediately after the tragedy the
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  atrocities of October seventh, was the anti Israel group, who used to be
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  pretty small and ragged tag and pretty disorganized, turn into this global propaganda machine
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  with professional looking graphics and what look like tested messages and organizers and just an
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  obvious ton of money. And they were doing this on a coordinated global basis.
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  And that's kind of stuff I can tell you in politics and business.
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  Who does not happen just organically. It doesn't happen spontaneously. So I've been
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  writing about that for months for post Media and the anti Israel folks they don't
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  like it. And you know, if they object to anything, you know,
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  I could say that they're pro Hamas, they don't say boo. I
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  could say that they hate Israel, the Jewish state. They don't say anything.
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  As soon as you say that Iran in Qatar and other outlaw nations are
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  funding this type of activity on a global scale. These guys they go bananas,
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  they lose their mind and they object to that. And so we've been
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  subjected to an astro turf campaign at post Media because of what I've been writing,
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  and it tells us we're getting pretty close to our target. You know,
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  I love how you start off the column, and I guess I'm also
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  just a little bit jealous of it as well, because you're able to really
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  paint a nice narrative. What's the old military saying? You say, you
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  know you're over target when you're taking flack, when you're taking flax, So
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  you know, as you're close to your target, you know, that's when
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  they're really trying to take you out. And that goes back to World War
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  Two when we the Allies were fighting to defeat you know, Nazism and you
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  know, those who were promoting anti Semitism again on a massive scale, and
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  the same thing happened here. John, is not just for me, but
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  for my colleagues too. As soon as you kind of start trying to figure
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  out who the Wizard of Oz is, you know, who's behind the curtain
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  running this show and paying for it. Because it is a professional propaganda campaign,
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  the likes of which I've never seen in my lifetime. As soon as
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  we start writing about that, that's the thing they get most upset about.
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  And that tells us that, you know, we're getting close to our target.
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  And you know, it did start pretty well. The next day on
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  October the eighth, we saw this very organized, you know, as you
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  said, global campaign. But you know, as you mentioned, in politics,
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  things cost money. Things cost money to actually print placards and signs,
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  for example, And when you see you know, a lot of people,
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  all carrying the same signs in a lot of cases, with the same messaging
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  that have been designed and printed. It shows that there is some kind of
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  an organization there, because how do you have that all ready to go so
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  quickly. Well, let me tell you a story about one group, just
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  one group that I've written about called the Plenty Collective in Victoria, BC.
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  You know, it's a typical kind of far left organization, and they made
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  a mistake. They slipped and they left their website portal open, and they
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  were advertising that they were prepared to pay people to come in protest against Israel,
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  up to twenty thousand dollars a month they were spending on protesters and organizers,
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  and then became implicated other groups on Vancouver Island, and you know,
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  and then I discovered the same things happening in New York City and around New
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  York City. It's happening in Montreal, It's happening all around the planet.
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  And I'm not saying that every protester isn't out there on their own. You
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  know, some are, many are maybe, but many of them are being
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  paid to be there, so in affect, they're actors. And it calls
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  into question, you know, the whole operation, how sincere these people are.
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  And I think you know that's the thing that whoever the Wizard of Oz
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  is behind the curtain, that's the thing that they want to cover up.
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  So you're taking all this flak here at post Media. It's an organized campaign.
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  While that at all deter your writing and reporting, No, not a
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  chance. I've been writing with this stuff, as you know, for more
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  than thirty years. I've had rifles, gems in my chest and multiple bomb
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  threats and death threats and the whole bit, and they haven't gotten me yet.
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  And it's important this story get told and because you know, clearly there's
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  some terrible things going on, shooting up the schools, Jewish schools in Montreal,
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  firebombing of Jewish delicatessens in Toronto, Jewish homes being shot up in Winnipeg.
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  Like, there's terrible things happening across the country, and it's really important
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  that not only journalists write about it and document it and find out what's really
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  going on, but also the citizens speak up and say that we oppose this,
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  we're against this, and hopefully more people do that. You know,
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  what's really concerning about it is you know, of course, what's happening right
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  now in Gaza that we're seeing as you know, it's awful, it's tragic.
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  Nobody wants to see the amount of death that's occurring. But this is
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  happening here on our streets. This is happening in Canada. And you know,
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  we talked about this a little bit the last time that you were on
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  here. But again it feels like as if the police have just decided to
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  say, we give up. This is what it's going to be. The
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  streets are going to just be taken over. And you know, sometimes people
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  are just not going to be able to leave a synagogue or a community center
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  because there are hundreds of people outside that have effectively decided to blockade them inside.
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  I mean, at what point do we collectively decide here as a country
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  to do something yesterday? I mean, this long ago. We've passed the
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  point where the authorities need to do more. But you know, for people
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  aren't Jewish who are listening to us right now, just you know, imagine
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  your grandmother being a church, a Catholic church or a Protestant church or whatever,
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  and coming out and there's a mob outside on the sidewalk screaming at her
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  that she's a murderer and that she, you know, is involved in genocide,
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  and that her religion isn't a real religion. Just imagine if that happened
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  to a member of your family, you'd be pretty upset. And you know,
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  that's why I think people need to understand what's happening to our brothers insists
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  in the Jewish community. They feel isolated, they feel angry, they feel
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  depressed, and it's just critically important that people say, no, we're with
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  you, We're against all of this stuff. And you know, you don't
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  have to love Benjamin nette Who. You don't have to love the government of
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  Israel. I am a big critic of net Who myself, but you know,
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  it's important that we stand with the Jewish community because they're Canadians like us.
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  Yeah, I mean who we are. We're just here trying to exist
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  as well. You know, I spoke with the Prime Minister last week or
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  the week before last week when he was in town in Windsor, and I
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  asked him what the government, what he thinks the government's role is in combating
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  anti Semitism, And I got to say, I was pretty dismayed by the
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  response that I got because he didn't really say anything other than listing what it
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  is that's already been done. And you know, the premise of the question
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  here is setting up that, like you know, things are bad right now.
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  I don't want to hear about what you've done. I want to hear
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  about what you're going to be doing. I've spoken with other Jews in the
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  country who have said, I can't vote for the Liberals, I can't vote
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  for the NDP, I don't want to vote for the Conservatives, but that
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  seems to be the only place that I can go right now. This is
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  reverberating through our politics, it is. And there's good people though in all
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  the parties, and a lot of people in all of the parties you know,
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  have attained the year on this thing. But all three levels of government,
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  whether they're Liberal, Tory or New Democrat, have a role to play
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  here. The federal government is the level of government that creates the criminal law.
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  We need to create a criminal law so that we can lay hate charges
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  against somebody who's targeting a synagogue, for example, without getting the permission of
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  the provincial attorney general, which is the case right now. We need at
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  the provincial level, we need special prosecutors and special courts and the way that
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  they do in the United States who are experts in dealing with this type of
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  criminal activity to stamp it out. That's what other jurisdictions around the world are
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  doing, but we are not. And at the municipal level, we need
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  to make sure that the municipal leaders, whether it's in Toronto, Olivia Chaw
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  or Valerie Plunt from Montreal, they have the two biggest problems are saying to
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  the police, we've got your back. You know, we're not going to
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  tell you what to do, but if you go ahead and lay charges against
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  the people who are doing these things, We're not going to complain. We're
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  not going to say defund the police. We're going to stand with the police.
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  All three levels of government can and should be doing more because we've got
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  the laws, you know, and in some cases we've got the resources to
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  deal with it, but we too often lack these days since October seventh.
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  Is the leadership to deal with it. Yeah, political conviction that seems to
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  be lacking. And again with this Liberal party right now, they seem that
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  they want to try to be everything, everywhere, all at once. And
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  they're really just upsetting everyone everywhere, all at once. It's a tough situation,
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  but it's especially tough to be living through this time. Hey, Warren,
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  I want to thank you again for your time and for all the work
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  that you do in writing about this subject. Just personally, thank you.
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  Thanks by friend, thanks for having me a great day. Warren Kinsella is
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  an author and is a columnist with the Post Media Company's The National Post,
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  as well as Toronto Sun