#3 “As a Jew”
What Is Happening Here | Canadaland Investigates
Canadaland
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Jews against Israel have been front and centre in the antizionist movement, their voices featured regularly in media coverage about the conflict.
Their very existence lends credibility to the assertion that antizionism is not antisemitic.
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But how representative are they of the Jewish community as a whole? Is their presence being weaponized against Jewish institutions, or are they willingly weaponizing their own Jewishness? And what do these individuals have to say about the presence of antisemitism in their movement?
Dave Meslin is a self-described antizionist Jew. He sits down for an in-depth interview.
CORRECTION (November 27, 2025): an earlier version of this episode mistakenly reported that a group of protesters shouted racist slogans while marching with Palestine Youth Movement at their October 4th, 2025 demonstration. While these protesters were demonstrating on October 4th at the advertised site of the PYM event, they did not in fact participate in the march.
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| 0:00.0 | Canada Land, funded by you. |
| 0:03.0 | In March of Haudetheed by Hades. |
| 0:15.0 | In March of 2020, a line was off |
| 0:30.2 | off limits. |
| 0:31.4 | Hundreds of demonstrations against Israel had been held across the country. |
| 0:35.3 | But as far as I can tell, none of them had ever targeted a synagogue. |
| 0:39.9 | Not until March, 2024. |
| 0:43.0 | We are not here protesting the synagogue. |
| 0:46.9 | We are here protesting a real estate tour trying to sell luxury properties to Canadians on stolen Palestinian land, |
| 0:58.6 | including an internationally recognized illegal Israeli settlements. |
| 1:07.6 | The Spanish and Portuguese synagogue in Montreal had rented part of its space out to a third party for a real estate fair that was marketing properties in Israel. |
| 1:18.6 | A protest at the synagogue was announced online and shared widely in pro-Palestine circles. |
| 1:26.1 | A group of synagogue members and their supporters |
| 1:28.5 | showed up with Israeli flags to defend their place of worship. |
| 1:33.5 | Police showed up as well |
| 1:34.6 | and separated the synagogue's defenders from the anti-Zionist rally, |
| 1:39.1 | moving them to opposite sides of the street. |
| 1:42.1 | The two groups chanted and yelled at each other. |
| 1:46.1 | But the anti-Zionist protesters had a larger crowd and a sound system. |
| 1:49.8 | Let's go back home. |
| 1:54.4 | Palestine is our saloon. |
| 1:57.7 | They began with well-known chants and slogans criticizing Israel, but the focus soon shifted. |
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