00:00They were not working on them! I went there to defy civilians!
00:03They assaulted me, and they broke our own property!
00:10Now, block it! Block it! I need these over here!
00:26So I came to Canada in order to share my story.
00:29The story of my uncle, Sharon Eder, who was kidnapped, my personal experience at war.
00:33And to tell people that we are putting our lives at risk to differentiate between combatants and civilians.
00:39We've done everything in our power to maintain the sanctity of life.
00:42Really, the entire situation is something I would never have assumed.
00:45I've spoken to other college campuses before about my story, about Israel, and about the necessity to have really economic resilience.
00:54And I've never experienced violence like this.
00:56What had happened was, as soon as I came into the speaking area, we were attacked by five individuals that came from a group of 40 protesters that were waiting for our outside.
01:06They broke in.
01:07At one point, more pro-Hamas individuals stormed the building.
01:11It got very aggressive.
01:14One of the IDF soldiers was protecting us and was holding the door so more pro-Hamas individuals wouldn't be able to access the building and wouldn't be able to hurt us or attack us.
01:26Jonathan!
01:27Jonathan!
01:28Jonathan!
01:29Jonathan!
01:30Jonathan!
01:31Jonathan!
01:32At one point, one of the pro-Hamas individuals used a weapon to break down the glass of the door and to gain access to a space that was supposed to be a safe space for students to learn, to listen, and to ask questions.
01:44They turned a safe space into a violent space.
01:47Jonathan!
01:48Jonathan!
01:49Jonathan!
01:50Jonathan!
01:51Jonathan!
01:52Jonathan!
01:53Jonathan!
01:54Jonathan!
01:55Jonathan!
01:56Jonathan!
01:57Eventually the terrorists managed to push through the glass, shattering the door.
02:01Fearing for the safety of the people inside, I jumped through to stop any additional violence.
02:06Call radio files!
02:07Call the police!
02:08Call radio files!
02:09Call the police!
02:10Call radio files!
02:11And in my head, I was like, what is happening?
02:14This shouldn't be allowed to happen.
02:16Like, you just trespassed.
02:17This is not okay.
02:19I was shaking.
02:20I called the police.
02:22I was like in shock.
02:23We are women now!
02:25We are women now!
02:26We are women now!
02:28At the event just proved that Toronto and the school doesn't care about Jewish safety.
02:35Many people were hurt.
02:40A couple people were hospitalized.
02:42Again, they made a safe space into a non-safe space.
02:45We felt very scared and frightened.
02:48We didn't expect this to happen.
02:50They started shouting, free Palestine, intifada, intifada.
02:54You guys are genocide supporters.
02:56All sorts of things.
02:58It's not a genocide!
02:59I was there!
03:00I was there!
03:01I was there!
03:02I was there!
03:03I was there!
03:04I was there!
03:05I was there!
03:06I was there!
03:07I was there!
03:08I was there!
03:09I was there!
03:10I was there!
03:11I was there!
03:12I was there!
03:13I was there!
03:14I put my life on the way!
03:15The friendship!
03:16The friendship!
03:17The owner gave me permission, said that they were trespassing and they had already broken
03:21and vandalized his property.
03:23I was acting in self-defense and in the defense of all the students that were there.
03:27I had to get them off the premises.
03:28Okay.
03:29I can do this if you want for me.
03:31These people caused the damage over here.
03:34They insulted me and they broke our own property.
03:37So now I'm going to physically remove them from the house.
03:40I'm going to physically remove them from the house!
03:41I'm not going to physically remove them from the house.
03:42I'm just trying to Mark!
03:43Não, I'm not going to!
03:44I'm not going to!
03:45I'm not going to!
03:46Jonathan, Jonathan, Jonathan!
03:47Go, don't, don't!
03:49Everyone's fucking here!
03:52Don't fucking touch me!
03:53Hey!
03:55You've got to the audience!
03:56Hey!
03:57Hey!
03:59No!
04:00No!
04:01These terrorists forced us to barricade the doors.
04:12They came 40 strong.
04:14Now, block in, block in.
04:16I need these over here.
04:18Arrested!
04:25Arrested!
04:26Arrested!
04:27Arrested!
04:28Please leave.
04:30I have nothing to do with this.
04:33Roads are far against this people!
04:36Arrested!
04:39Arrested!
04:41Arrested!
04:42Arrested!
04:43Arrested!
04:44Arrested!
04:45Arrested!
04:47Arrested!
04:48I need more men.
04:56We need more men.
05:18KTMU! KTMU! KTMU!
05:22KTMU! KTMU!
05:26KTMU! KTMU!
05:30I don't know what you're all to say!
05:34KTMU!
05:38Thankfully the police eventually came to reinforce us and pick up where we left off,
05:42removing additional protesters to the exterior wall. Eventually they were attacked as well,
05:46but thankfully no police officers sustained additional injuries.
05:50We have other people that are trying to get in. They're currently barricading us outside.
05:54We'd like the sort of assistance to help them get in. It's dangerous outside.
05:58It's a problematic situation that the police are not taking care of the camera.
06:06How did this happen?
06:08I was on the other side of the door. They were on this side of the door.
06:12They were pushing through the door. This is a glass door.
06:15I was on the other side. Everyone was against the wall.
06:17I was holding the door closed.
06:19Everyone was trying to push through the door.
06:21It was four or five of them when I was holding the door.
06:23And one of them pushed through the door.
06:25And then broke on this.
06:27And then I went through the door.
06:29I basically went through the door.
06:31Two people waited inside.
06:33Two people waited inside, yeah.
06:35And then I tried to grab the guy that pushed through the door.
06:39And he ran away.
06:41And everyone was continuing yelling and posing a press.
06:45And then he knocked me after he broke that glass.
06:49To my knowledge, and at the time of the publication of this video, there's still two men still at large.
06:54The first one is the one that broke through the glass door and attacked me with a drill bit.
06:59And the second one was the one masked with COVID mask and black sunglasses.
07:04And I believe the police are still looking for them at the moment.
07:07Do you feel it was the event that was targeted?
07:10Or were you targeted personally?
07:11I was targeted as a Jew, as an Israeli.
07:15I think the event was targeted for being supported by the state of Israel.
07:18So basically we tried to have an event here.
07:20A civil event, a common discourse.
07:2330 or 40 protesters tried to barge in.
07:26They broke through the door here.
07:27One of them came in with a weapon.
07:29A drill bit, which is over here.
07:31Kind officers took care of us, gave us first aid.
07:35And now we're going to give a statement.
07:37We were just trying to have a peaceful event.
07:39Talking to everyone.
07:40Having open dialogue.
07:41That's all we're trying to do.
07:42That's what SSI, TME were trying to do.
07:44But we were stopped by co-Hamas agitators.
07:48Who came in, came to attack us.
07:50Broke the glass with weapons.
07:52And there was blood everywhere.
07:54We tried to get them to stop.
07:55They wouldn't leave.
07:56We shouldn't have to deal with this.
07:58We should have a safe and open space for everyone.
08:01A safe space, both sides.
08:03Like, we should have open dialogue to hear from us.
08:05The importance of students supporting Israel
08:07is to give a platform for Jewish and Zionist students
08:10to be proud of who they are.
08:12And to promote peace and the truth.
08:14The problem with SJP is they're just promoting Hamas
08:17and Hezbollah propaganda.
08:19They don't really care about the truth and the reasons
08:22why Jewish people need Israel.
08:24All they do is they just want to cause violence
08:27and make us feel scared.
08:28But we're not scared.
08:29We're loud and proud.
08:30We're Jewish and Zionist.
08:31No one can stop me.
08:33No one can stop us from being pro-Israel students.
08:36As much as they try to silence us.
08:38As much as they try to harass us.
08:41To follow us.
08:42To stalk us.
08:43To physically attack us.
08:45No one can stop pro-Israel students
08:47anywhere in the world and on our campuses.
08:49You've not succeeded in scaring us.
08:52You haven't stopped us from continuing our mission.
08:55We'll continue to go to every campus
08:57and every state and every country
09:00and continue to spread the truth.
09:02You might have the numbers, but we have the truth.
09:04I want all the students to really understand
09:06that it's okay to be scared,
09:08but it's not okay to stop talking.
09:10And we're going to continue this tour
09:12and continue spreading the truth.
09:13Even if there are 2 billion people who say otherwise,
09:14we have the truth on our side.
09:16And that's what's important.
09:17I'm Yisrael Chai.
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