Tuesday AM update:
Last night on the Michael Coren show, there was some talk about whether or not Arnie had somehow instigated the matter by taunting Ali Mallah.
This was certainly NOT the case.
To clarify matters for readers, the Police, about a half dozen of them, were standing around about 15-20 yards away from me to my left, the Mounted Riot Cops were stationed across the street at the Princess Gates. The video records the first time Ali Mallah, a Vice President of the virulently anti-semitic Canadian Arab Federation, and I and have ever exchanged words of any kind. I have attended only two other events where Ali Mallah was also present prior to this, at neither event did we interact beyond my photographing him at a public demonstration on Bloor St.
Nothing “occured before” the clip. I had just set up and began a pan shot of the crowd.
What you clearly hear in the video is Mallah approaching me and calling out “Ernie Ernie” out of vision to my right, those were the first words ever spoken to me by Mallah. I only became aware of his presence when the camera finally captured his crazed face on film.
Video of the segment here.
Kate’s readers comment here.
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Monday AM update:
Michael Coren will be discussing the incident on his show tonight (6PM ET)
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(Original Post)
My husband Arnie blogs as BlazingCatFur, and frequently videotapes anti-Israeli demonstrations here in Toronto.
This morning, he taped footage of a demonstration against Benyamin Netanyahu’s visit to the city. The demo was co-sponsored by taxpayer funded Palestine House.
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