#4 Inside the Antizionist Movement
What Is Happening Here | Canadaland Investigates
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🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Moez Zaman is the spokesperson for an antizionist protest that has taken place in the same Jewish neighbourhood in Toronto over 40 times. He says that his group has been unfairly characterized as antisemitic and pro-Hamas. So what do they really believe? What do their signs and chants actually mean? And what responsibility do they take for the impact they are having on their neighbours? Moez sits down for an uncommon exchange about his goals.
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| 0:00.0 | Most of the Jews who live in Canada live in Toronto, and most Jews in Toronto live in neighborhoods |
| 0:08.5 | that border Bathurst Street. From north to south, Bathurst Street is over 50 kilometers long. |
| 0:14.3 | It's been called the longest Jewish neighborhood in the world. But that's not quite right. |
| 0:19.0 | Bathurst is actually a string of Jewish neighborhoods, |
| 0:22.5 | Hasidic, Sephardic, Orthodox, Reform. These are the neighborhoods where famous Canadian Jews grew up, |
| 0:29.3 | like Drake and Lauren Michaels, as well as Joe Schuster, the co-creator of Superman. Soviet Jews, |
| 0:35.5 | who came here as Refusenix in the 80s migrated over the decades |
| 0:39.8 | from Sardine-packed high-rise apartments at Bathurston Steeles to leafy Jewish suburbs around |
| 0:46.1 | Bathurston Finch, then sometimes to grand homes at Bathurst in Eglinton. There are over |
| 0:53.0 | 30 synagogues on or near Bathurst Street. |
| 0:56.0 | There are multiple Jewish community centers. |
| 0:58.3 | There are Jewish retirement homes. |
| 1:00.4 | Bathurst is the most Jewish street in Canada. |
| 1:05.7 | And it's the street where anti-Zionists gather for angry protests, weekend after weekend. |
| 1:13.4 | Long live, Incy Fada, Inky father, inkie father. |
| 1:19.9 | Look live, Inki, Fada. Come on. Come on. |
| 1:25.0 | Why are you here? Where are you here? You should be in Europe. |
| 1:30.2 | They always come to the same spot, right at the epicenter of Jewish life in Toronto, the corner of Bathurst and Shepard. |
| 1:38.3 | There have been over 40 of these demonstrations, which occupy an intersection that thousands of Toronto Jews cross on their way to their homes, to their schools, to public transit. |
| 1:49.0 | Jewish families who live nearby can often hear the chanting from inside their homes. |
| 1:55.5 | There is only one solution. There is only one solution. |
| 1:57.6 | Antivada Revolution. |
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