#6 Antizionism Is Not Antisemitism
What Is Happening Here | Canadaland Investigates
Canadaland
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Is hatred against Jews calming down, or is it back for good? Is it correct to consider antizionism the new name of antisemitism, or is it a different ideology entirely? Finally, is antizionism actually pro-Palestinian?
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| 0:00.0 | Canada Land, funded by you. |
| 0:04.6 | Even talking about this stuff, it sort of stirs me a bit. |
| 0:09.1 | So if I stammer, I'm sorry. |
| 0:17.1 | David R. and I live in North York, Ontario. |
| 0:24.7 | I have eye issues related to something called chokrin. |
| 0:28.6 | It's an autoimmune disease where you don't produce saliva in your throat or your eyes. |
| 0:34.2 | So I had to get some surgery done. |
| 0:37.1 | They had to laser off some residual parts around my |
| 0:42.1 | cornea. The head ophthalmologist. He sends me to this person. This person's a doctor. So he's like, |
| 0:49.2 | I think the second year of his fellowship. And he's in charge when the head isn't around. The person was of Middle Eastern background. |
| 0:56.3 | Then he turned, looking at reading the chart. |
| 0:59.1 | And the first thing this person says to me, |
| 1:01.8 | he's Jewish? |
| 1:03.4 | And I felt really defensive. |
| 1:05.8 | You know, I said, yeah, but that's a German name too. |
| 1:08.4 | He said, oh. |
| 1:09.6 | And I said, is there another chair for my coat? |
| 1:11.9 | He said, oh, just throw it on the floor. |
| 1:15.0 | So what happens is when you do this laser surgery, |
| 1:18.8 | they make you open your eyes really wide |
| 1:21.2 | and you put your eyes into this thing. |
| 1:23.4 | It looks almost like a periscope, right, |
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