Canadian journalist placed on leave after claiming U.S. politics, cities ‘run by Jews’ on live radio | 17 Sept 2025 | A Canadian broadcaster has been yanked off the airwaves over her “anti-Semitic” and “prejudicial” comments that American politics, its cities, and Hollywood are “run by Jews.” Radio-Canada journalist Élisa Serret said during a live French-language broadcast Monday “the Israelis, in fact the Jews, finance a lot of American politics” when asked why the U.S. has not distanced itself from Israel over the course of the war in Gaza. She went on to state that they control “a big machine” and that Hollywood and major U.S. cities are “run by Jews,” during a discussion about U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s recent visit to the Jewish state. Radio-Canada, part of the publicly funded Canadian Broadcasting Company, slammed Serret’s remarks the following day as “stereotypical, anti-Semitic, erroneous and prejudicial allegations against Jewish communities” and confirmed she had been placed on leave indefinitely, the Globe and Mail reported.