Rebel News Podcast - November 12, 2024


EZRA LEVANT | Amsterdam's antisemitic riots are a warning for the West


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I was in Amsterdam over the weekend reporting on the anti-Semitic riots in that city. It's a flashback to the 1940's, and it's a reminder of how we treat our veterans in peacetime. They save us during wartime, but when it's peacetime, we don't treat them properly or they're widows.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, welcome back. You know, I was in Amsterdam over the weekend reporting on the anti-Semitic
00:00:05.420 riots in that city. Really a flashback to the 1940s. I want you to see it because, boy,
00:00:12.160 it's a feast for the eyes. It's terrible and awful and not a lot of hope. But it's important
00:00:17.680 we know what's going on over there because it's going to be us in a few years if we keep
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00:01:34.160 Tonight, an anti-Semitic riot in Amsterdam. It's November 11th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
00:01:40.220 You've got it for freedom. Shame on you, you censorious bug.
00:01:52.140 It's November 11th, which is Remembrance Day, and normally I'm in the studio on Remembrance Day,
00:02:00.480 and I read the poem by Rudyard Kipling called Tommy Atkins. It's one of my favorite poems by one of my
00:02:06.560 favorite poets. It was written over 100 years ago, actually, before the Great War, certainly before
00:02:12.020 the Second World War, but it shows, I think, one of the characteristics of the West, which is we treat
00:02:21.660 our veterans poorly and we rely on them. They save us during wartime, but when it's peacetime, we don't
00:02:27.720 treat them properly or they're widows. Here's a little bit of a snippet of me reading that poem by
00:02:33.220 Tommy Atkins last year.
00:02:34.720 I went into a public ouse to get a pint of beer. The public canning up and says, we serve no red
00:02:40.280 coats here. The girls behind the bar, they laughed and giggled, fit to die. I ouse into the street
00:02:46.120 again and to myself, says I, oh, it's Tommy this and Tommy that and Tommy, go away. But it's thank you,
00:02:52.200 Mr. Atkins, when the band begins to play. The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play.
00:02:58.200 It's thank you, Mr. Atkins, when the band begins to play.
00:03:01.000 I went into a theater as sober as could be. They gave a drunk civilian room, but had none for me. 0.85
00:03:08.700 They sent me to the gallery around the musicals, but when it comes to fighting, Lord, they'll shove
00:03:13.680 me in the stalls. For it's Tommy this and Tommy that and Tommy, wait outside. But it's special
00:03:19.200 train for Atkins when the trooper's on the tide. The troop ship's on the tide, my boys, the troop
00:03:24.560 ship's on the tide. Oh, it's special train for Atkins when the trooper's on the tide.
00:03:31.000 Yes, making mocking uniforms that guard you while you sleep is cheaper than them uniforms
00:03:36.420 and their starvation cheap. And hustling drunken soldiers when they're going large a bit is
00:03:42.120 five times better business than parading in full kit. Then it's Tommy this and Tommy that
00:03:47.680 and Tommy, how's your soul? But it's thin red line of Eros when the drums begin to roll.
00:03:52.960 The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll. Oh, it's thin red lines of Eros
00:03:57.860 when the drums begin to roll. We aren't no thin red heroes, nor we aren't no blaggards
00:04:04.140 too. But single men in barracks most remarkable like you. And if sometimes our conduct isn't
00:04:10.560 all your fancy paints, why single men in barracks don't grow into plaster saints? Well, it's
00:04:16.400 Tommy this and Tommy that and Tommy fall behind. But it's pleased to walk in front, sir, when
00:04:22.660 there's trouble in the wind. There's trouble in the wind, my boys. There's trouble in the
00:04:26.540 wind. Oh, it's pleased to walk in front, sir, when there's trouble in the wind.
00:04:31.780 You talk of better food for us and schools and fires and all. We'll wait for extra rations
00:04:37.200 if you treat us rational. Don't mess about the cookroom slops, but prove it to our face.
00:04:42.780 The widow's uniform is not the soldier man's disgrace. Where's Tommy this and Tommy that and
00:04:47.700 chuck him out, the brute? But it's savior of his country when the guns begin to shoot.
00:04:53.860 And it's Tommy this and Tommy that and anything you please. And Tommy ain't a blooming fool.
00:04:58.920 You bet that Tommy sees.
00:05:00.700 Well, this year we're in Amsterdam and I'm here for a number of reasons. Yesterday I was in the
00:05:06.860 United Kingdom where I went to visit Tommy Robinson in prison. Tommy Robinson, of course, has nothing
00:05:12.300 to do with Remembrance Day. He's in prison because of a contempt of court sentence that was given
00:05:19.040 by a British judge because he published an investigative documentary film, contrary to a judge's
00:05:26.580 order. That's not a crime. It's a civil offense, but it's a jailable offense nonetheless. So he's a civil
00:05:34.760 prisoner. He's been kept in solitary confinement, though, for his own safety. And it's true,
00:05:42.280 it has given him physical safety from a prison that's 37 percent Muslim, but it's also put him 1.00
00:05:47.860 in a psychological duress. You can't be in solitary confinement 23 and a half hours a day
00:05:53.900 without it doing damage to your mind. Here's a little bit of a video I filmed yesterday when I
00:06:00.880 was driving home from my one hour prison visit. I'll just play a couple of minutes of it, but you can
00:06:06.760 watch the whole thing at SaveTommy.com. Tommy, I think, is being fair-minded about it. He says,
00:06:12.920 look, the prison HMP Woodhill was given him, likely unsuspectingly, that Tommy was sent to
00:06:21.560 Belmarsh, and then Belmarsh sort of got rid of him and sent him to Woodhill, and they're trying to
00:06:25.540 figure out what to do. So he himself seems to be patient with them as they try and figure things
00:06:32.200 out. But he says his patience is running out. Today was his 15th day in custody. So he's hoping
00:06:40.740 that this week provides some alteration. I can tell you from my personal involvement that a prison
00:06:49.140 law firm has been retained and has written a very detailed and footnoted letter to the prison governor
00:06:57.840 addressing the impropriety of keeping Tommy in these current conditions in general, even if he was
00:07:05.420 a criminal prisoner to be treated this way. You don't put people in solitary confinement for nine
00:07:13.340 months. You don't do that. That's a form of torture. And that's if he were a criminal prisoner. He is not.
00:07:19.680 He's a civil prisoner. And we'll hope that there's a positive response from the prison. Tommy says that
00:07:27.560 other civil prisoners in his situation are allowed into the community, allowed to go home, allowed to
00:07:32.520 work, and that he would obviously like to do that. And it's not just something he would like to do,
00:07:38.860 it's his right. We also talked about the Terrorism Act case against him, a bogus case where police
00:07:44.640 admitted that he was no terrorist, but were simply using the law as a way to compel him to answer
00:07:50.260 questions. Unlike a regular arrest, when you're arrested under the Terrorism Act, you have no
00:07:55.360 right to remain silent. And that was their way for demanding access to his cell phone, even though his
00:08:01.080 cell phone contains privileged information, both legally and journalistically. Anyways, I'll leave my
00:08:07.440 report there. And I guess if I had to report in general, I would say he's 15 days in. So of course,
00:08:15.900 he's not going to be falling apart physically and mentally. He's still sharp. He was cracking jokes.
00:08:20.560 He was energetic. He was talking about having another mass rally when he's out. He was giving
00:08:26.880 his thoughts on the legal case of the Terrorism Act. So he's doing fine 15 days in. But he would not
00:08:34.800 be doing fine because no man can do fine if you're in solitary confinement for an extended period of
00:08:40.320 time. Well, I was rushing home from the prison, not rushing home, rushing to the airport to come
00:08:46.640 here to Amsterdam, where I am today, because on Thursday night, there were anti-Semitic riots. I
00:08:52.960 think you could even call them a pogrom on the streets of Amsterdam. The football team, that's what
00:08:59.120 they call soccer over here, Ajax, was hosting the football team from Israel called Maccabee.
00:09:05.200 And the thing about the Ajax team is it's got some Jewish characteristics. Some of their fans,
00:09:11.520 who are not Jewish, by the way, fly Israeli flags, sing the Jewish song Hava Nagila,
00:09:16.960 for a variety of historical reasons. It would sort of be like the Cleveland Indians
00:09:21.600 and, you know, the tomahawk chop or the Atlanta Braves. Believe it or not, some of the Dutch sports
00:09:29.280 teams have a Jewish character like those sports teams have a Native American character. But when
00:09:37.600 you had the combination of the Ajax team and the Maccabee team where thousands of fans came over
00:09:44.080 from Israel, well, you had a situation where the local Islamist immigrants here in Amsterdam,
00:09:50.960 where they couldn't resist a bit of a pogrom. Here, take a look at some of the insane footage of
00:09:58.720 foreign and, in some cases, Dutch-born Islamist extremists beating Jews senseless,
00:10:05.360 beating some unconscious, driving over some in cars. I'm going to play a couple of minutes of found
00:10:12.000 footage. Much of this recorded by the pro-Hamas activists documenting their crimes in a manner
00:10:19.600 similar to what happened in Gaza, attacking southern Israel on October 7th, 2023.
00:10:31.360 So, I wanted to keep my appointments in the UK because it was difficult for me to get my hearing with Tommy Robinson.
00:10:43.360 So, I didn't come straight to Amsterdam. I went to the prison to visit Tommy first, and then I came to Amsterdam.
00:11:02.800 Now, obviously, by the time I arrived in the city, the riot had been cleaned up. However, shocking news,
00:11:10.880 here it is, as tweeted by Geert Wilders, not a single rioter was arrested by police. Not one.
00:11:19.760 They, in many cases, walked right by police. Police were right there. They tweeted or filmed their own
00:11:26.720 activities. Not a single one was arrested. How does that happen? How do you have a mass riot with
00:11:33.680 hundreds of Islamist rioters and police don't take a single one? I find it incredible. We're still early 1.00
00:11:41.120 days here. It's still morning, and we just came to the Jewish Museum in Amsterdam. It was very strange,
00:11:48.960 though, when they saw the rebel name on my shirt and our mic flash, they told us we're forbidden from
00:11:54.800 going in. And I said, well, we're happy to leave our camera and our microphone out just to take in the
00:12:01.120 museum to learn a little bit about the Jewish history and maybe to talk to people inside the
00:12:05.040 museum about where to go in the city to learn more about this story. I found it very weird that because
00:12:12.400 we were with Rebel News, and they specifically talked about Rebel, they banned us from going in.
00:12:17.360 I think they were panicky or something. It was very strange. But I want to point out something a
00:12:23.840 little quirky. This Jewish neighborhood that we're in here, it used to be a Jewish neighborhood. And
00:12:30.400 there are some Jews in the Jewish quarters still here. But the Jews on this street were killed.
00:12:36.880 They were deported and shipped away to death camps. And there's little copper bricks in the sidewalk.
00:12:42.400 Most of the sidewalk is just brick. But you can see there's little copper nameplates
00:12:48.400 with the names of individual Jews who were taken away and where they died in the death camp. So
00:12:55.440 you can see that shocking history around here. But I want to criticize the museum. And it's not just
00:13:02.080 because they're banning Rebel News from going in. I've come to Amsterdam because there was a real
00:13:08.320 live medieval-style anti-Semitic riot, except for instead of being perpetrated by the local community,
00:13:15.760 it was perpetrated by the colonizing community of Islamists. I should say that the king of the 1.00
00:13:23.280 Netherlands specifically said that the country failed the Jews in a manner that it hadn't done
00:13:28.320 since the Holocaust. I thought that was actually a touching thing to hear from the king.
00:13:31.920 So it's on my mind, the pogrom. Please turn around. We want to check. So we want to film it.
00:13:42.640 What's your name? I don't care. You don't care what your name is?
00:13:48.640 Here, let's come closer here. No, no, no, no, no.
00:13:54.800 What's your name? Don't touch me. That's assault. I'll call the police on you. 0.96
00:13:58.720 I'll call you. If you touch me again, I'll call the police.
00:14:06.000 So I came to Amsterdam because of this pogrom, because of this crisis. And I want to learn more
00:14:14.240 about it. I want to learn about the, is the Jewish community here vulnerable? I've done this in other
00:14:18.800 cities in Europe. For example, when I was in Hungary, I went to the great synagogue and I was
00:14:24.480 delighted to learn that Jews in Hungary and Budapest are very safe. You might recall,
00:14:30.000 I talked to some young men in front of the synagogue who said it's easy to be Jewish in
00:14:34.480 Hungary. And in fact, Hungary was voted, Budapest in particular, one of the cities in which is the
00:14:40.320 best place to be Jewish in Europe. And that's a very short list, I can tell you. I want to criticize 1.00
00:14:47.200 this museum just for one second. As you can see, like many museums, they have occasional exhibits
00:14:54.960 that are on for a few months. And the exhibit that is starting here in a couple of weeks
00:15:00.240 is a sex exhibit. The Jewish museum sex, Jewish positions. And I can't help but think of two 0.99
00:15:12.800 things. First of all, how irrelevant that is to the Jewish story of the Netherlands. Jews came here
00:15:21.360 in mass when they were expelled from Spain in the Inquisition, more than 500 years ago. So there's
00:15:28.560 this incredible historical story to tell of the Jews being kicked out of Spain, coming to the
00:15:35.360 Netherlands, becoming involved in Holland's life, in the life of Amsterdam, being important traders,
00:15:43.120 and actually giving a real boost to the Netherlands as a global power. You may forget the Netherlands
00:15:49.360 actually was a global empire and the Jews had an important role to play there. And then the horrific 0.94
00:15:54.320 story of the occupation of the Netherlands. Hitler was in the Netherlands for five years. And many of 0.70
00:16:01.840 the Jews were extinguished. Anne Frank was a Dutch story. So you have all these real important stories
00:16:08.960 of Jews in the Netherlands. And the Jewish museum chooses to have a lascivious exhibit about sex. 0.95
00:16:15.280 It shows a disconnect not only from the past, but from the present. How about do a museum exhibit
00:16:22.400 about the place and the status of Jews in the face of mass immigration from people who want to
00:16:31.360 do what the Nazis did last time. But there's a second thing. And I was talking to some friends in the UK
00:16:37.040 about this yesterday. I was asked the question, why do some people hate Jews? That's a tough one to ask.
00:16:44.400 And my response was, I'm not the mayor of the Jews. I can't answer for everyone and for everything.
00:16:49.760 But I have a few ideas. There's some historical reasons. There's some theological reasons.
00:16:54.880 The Jews rejected Jesus's claims and in fact tried him for blasphemy. So there's theological,
00:17:01.760 there's historical reasons. There's some atrocious reasons. I think these days Iran and Qatar fund 0.91
00:17:10.880 anti-Semitism in very subtle ways, including on social media. But the answer that I gave to my
00:17:19.520 friend in the UK who asked me about anti-Semitism was, one of the things I think that revs up anti-Semitism
00:17:26.560 is when there are counter-cultural or anti-cultural things in society that are being led by someone who
00:17:33.680 is ostentatiously Jewish. And I think of the terrible case of Rabbi Shmuley, who is a caricature of a Jew 1.00
00:17:42.480 in terms of how he looks and how he sounds. And he just says so many offensive and atrocious things,
00:17:50.080 including about sexuality. And he's doing so with the word Rabbi attached to his name.
00:17:55.040 And every time I see Rabbi Shmuley on TV, I just wish he would shut up because every minute he talks,
00:18:02.000 he creates another 100 anti-Semites. And I have to say that's how I felt coming here to see that the
00:18:07.920 Jewish Museum of Amsterdam, what's their big focus? It's been a year since the horrific attacks on
00:18:15.200 southern Israel from Hamas. It's been days since the pogrom in this city. And what's their focus? What do 0.50
00:18:21.600 they want to tell the world about? Jewish sex positions. I got to tell you, there is no such 0.99
00:18:27.120 thing as a Jewish sex position. But this goes to my answer to my friend in the UK yesterday.
00:18:34.480 One of the reasons why anti-Semitism puts roots in the ground is because individuals who pursue
00:18:42.720 counter-cultural ideas do so in an ostentatiously Jewish way. There is no reason whatsoever why a 0.94
00:18:50.400 Jewish museum should be having a sex show. And it's not interesting. This is Amsterdam. There's 1.00
00:18:56.000 plenty of sex shows around. It's a very permissive and progressive society. Amsterdam is famous for
00:19:02.480 its red light district of prostitutes. Drugs were legalized here decades before they were in North
00:19:08.960 America. The Jews don't need to get in on the pornographic or drug use story. But the fact that in 2024, 0.70
00:19:18.880 that's what the Amsterdam Jewish community cares about, is deeply depressing to me. How about tell
00:19:24.400 the story of how the Jews helped build Holland? How about tell a story about how the Jews in 2024
00:19:31.280 are at risk? Now, to them, being liberal is more important than being Jewish. 0.99
00:19:36.400 Step aside because we don't want, uh, we don't, this thing here is for the visitation, so.
00:19:47.040 For the visitation? I don't understand. So why can't I go in there? Is it,
00:19:52.560 your colleague says it because I'm with Rebel News? Is that right?
00:20:00.400 Can I go? Will you let me in there? No comment, sir. No comment? I don't understand. It says
00:20:06.320 open for everyone. So why can't we go in? No comment, sorry. I'm a block over at the famous
00:20:15.280 Portuguese synagogue. And again, why would it be called the Portuguese synagogue if it's in Amsterdam?
00:20:21.040 And the reason is because so many Jews who fled the Spanish Inquisition, fled to Portugal, eventually
00:20:27.840 made their way to the Netherlands about 500 years ago. And it's a mighty and massive building.
00:20:32.960 But it's just so weird. There's, I mean, I'm a friend of the Jews. I'm Jewish myself. Our,
00:20:38.080 our Rebel News outfit is in fact accused sometimes of being too partisan on Jewish matters. We're
00:20:44.720 a Zionist in a time when that's, uh, sometimes considered a dirty word. So it's really weird
00:20:51.360 that, uh, I don't know if it's just the security guards or who it is who are demanding that we,
00:20:57.840 and here's some police coming up right now, hopefully they're not going to interfere,
00:21:01.280 demanding that we not enter the Portuguese synagogue. How you doing, boss? 0.76
00:21:05.680 I'm not sure if they're, if they're here for other reasons or here for us, but I find it very
00:21:12.320 weird. I was talking to our videographer and head of video, Efron Monsanto, about this. And I just saw
00:21:20.880 the exit polls from the US presidential election. And I'm, I've seen two different numbers. I've seen
00:21:27.760 that 67% of Jews voted for Harris. And I saw another exit poll that says 78% did. I'm not sure
00:21:35.520 what to believe or how accurate they are, but I find it deeply depressing that not, not because I
00:21:42.240 want Jews to be right wing or, or that I want Trump to have the, the, the moral support on a personal
00:21:49.120 basis, but Trump is so evidently a pro-Israel candidate. But more than that, for the last year,
00:21:57.760 Jews in America have seen antisemitism run wild in the streets of America. I'm not talking about
00:22:03.760 Israel anymore. I'm talking about New York city and Harvard. And if you saw these, basically this 0.96
00:22:10.800 antisemitic crime wave that we've been experiencing in Canada, it happened in America too. How can you
00:22:18.160 be a Jewish American, see what the left is permitting, see what mass immigration is permitting 0.77
00:22:23.760 and vote for the party that abides that? How is there some self-loathing, self-hating gene
00:22:32.720 in the Jewish community? And I say this partly because one of the security guards specifically
00:22:37.120 mentioned that it was because we were with rebel that we're not allowed in into the Jewish museums
00:22:41.920 here. And I said, we would leave our microphone and camera back. I just wanted to see them with my
00:22:45.840 own eyes. I don't understand what's going on there. And maybe it was just a misunderstanding,
00:22:49.920 but it can be no misunderstanding that 60, 70, 78% of American Jews voted for Kamala Harris and the
00:22:58.960 party of Ilhan Omar. I just don't get that. And as a Jew, it's a perplexing thing. I want the Jewish
00:23:05.440 community to thrive. I want it to be safe both in Israel and in the diaspora. I consider myself to be
00:23:12.400 a Canadian first. Canada is my homeland. My country is Canada. My family has lived in Canada for more
00:23:19.360 than 120 years. I seek to go nowhere else. And I'm actually more worried about the safety of Jews in
00:23:27.920 Canada than I am in Israel. I think Israel can generally take care of itself. Things are very 0.97
00:23:33.840 extreme here in Europe where ancient Jewish communities centuries old are being driven out.
00:23:38.800 And instead of fighting back, the Jews of Amsterdam are putting on sex exhibits at their museum and 1.00
00:23:46.240 keeping out right-wing journalists from synagogues. It's really embarrassing. 1.00
00:23:50.080 Are you filming? Can you stop filming? We have to film for our safety.
00:23:55.760 For our safety. We are police. We are free for your safety.
00:23:58.800 I don't feel very safe right now because you have a lot of weapons. And I'm a journalist. And so I'm
00:24:03.600 afraid now. We get a call. You are flying with a drone. Is that correct?
00:24:06.400 I don't have a drone. Are you have a drone? I was flying the drone. Sorry? I was flying the drone.
00:24:12.320 Okay. Do you have any identity papers? Is that a requirement to show them to you?
00:24:16.560 Yeah. It is required by lawyers. Okay. And can I ask you one more question? Thank you.
00:24:26.320 How come there were no arrests for the rioters two nights ago? I heard Wilder says not a single
00:24:32.400 rioter was arrested. I don't answer your questions. If I was a rioter, would you let me go?
00:24:39.280 You hear what I say? I don't answer your questions.
00:24:42.320 Okay, but I can still ask them because it's a free country, right?
00:24:46.800 Of course you can ask them, but only communication can answer your questions.
00:24:50.160 Okay. So if you want an answer from the police, then yeah, thank you.
00:24:53.520 So you need to contact communications, okay? Okay.
00:24:57.680 I wish that you guys had been there when there was the riot, the anti-Semitic riot,
00:25:04.000 because maybe the Jews would have been protected. But you're focusing on journalists instead.
00:25:09.760 They actually called the cops on us, which is sort of crazy. As I said to one of them,
00:25:24.240 if I was a Moroccan rioter, would they let me go? And I actually sort of know the answer to that 0.96
00:25:31.120 question because they didn't arrest a single rioter, not one. It was a massive city-wide melee,
00:25:38.560 and the cops sort of let them go. But they're a little braver in the daytime
00:25:43.200 when it's journalists they're after. I don't get that. I mean,
00:25:47.760 maybe they're political. These guys seem like really normal cops.
00:25:51.600 Maybe they're just following some instruction. I don't understand.
00:25:55.680 At least the police here in the Netherlands have firearms. In the UK, they typically don't.
00:26:02.560 That's a good thing when you're fighting against rioters. It's not a good thing when you're
00:26:05.440 fighting against journalists, though. I'd rather have the British bobbies. 1.00
00:26:09.200 What are you waiting for? For an answer. To what question?
00:26:13.440 They're checking if it's allowed to fly with the drone in Amsterdam without a permit.
00:26:17.360 So they're checking it now with the Department of Aviation,
00:26:21.840 if you need a permit or not. So we can... So you don't even know?
00:26:24.480 You don't know it. I'm not from the air traffic police. I'm from the...
00:26:28.800 In Canada, you have the Royal Mounted Police, right?
00:26:31.600 That's right. Yeah.
00:26:32.880 Yeah. They're experts with pepper spray. 1.00
00:26:34.880 Really?
00:26:37.040 Horses.
00:26:37.360 Yeah, the horses. Yeah. Have you ever been to Canada?
00:26:40.720 No, I haven't. But I heard it's very beautiful.
00:26:42.880 Thank you.
00:26:43.200 Very beautiful.
00:26:43.840 When we're done here, we were going to go to the National War Memorial for the Canadians
00:26:48.080 that helped liberate the Netherlands after the Second World War.
00:26:51.440 Yeah.
00:26:53.680 It's not allowed to use a drone here in Amsterdam.
00:26:56.240 Even a toy drone that's under 250 grams?
00:27:00.400 No drone.
00:27:01.200 Even toys?
00:27:01.920 Yeah.
00:27:02.240 Are you sure?
00:27:02.640 Don't fly with something in Amsterdam.
00:27:04.000 Okay.
00:27:04.560 Yeah?
00:27:04.960 Yeah.
00:27:05.280 Thank you for your cooperation.
00:27:06.320 Okay.
00:27:06.640 Have a nice day.
00:27:07.280 Thank you for being so cordial.
00:27:09.360 All right, good luck. Keep the streets safe, gentlemen. Keep us safe.
00:27:17.280 Well, they were pleasant after all. And I wasn't particularly grouchy, but
00:27:22.000 I couldn't help but say I wish that they had arrested someone on the riots.
00:27:27.120 But they did let us go. I happen to know a little bit about drone law.
00:27:31.680 Believe it or not, you might find this hard to believe. I'm a licensed drone operator back in
00:27:36.160 Canada. I took the exam. It's very easy to do. I recommend you do it, too.
00:27:40.080 So one of the things you study when you become a licensed drone operator
00:27:45.040 is rules about safety. And drone manufacturers around the world have a cutoff. I think it's 250
00:27:51.120 grams. I'd have to check that. Anything under that is considered a toy. And you don't need a drone
00:27:56.000 license to operate anything above that you do. And so when we operate a drone at Rebel News,
00:28:02.480 we use the toy version. And the reason it's not regulated is it's so light that even if it
00:28:08.240 bumped into you or dropped on you, it wouldn't hurt. It wouldn't do any damage. I think that's why
00:28:14.160 there's a, if you're operating a heavier drone, it makes sense to have those license because that
00:28:19.520 could do damage to a person or property. Anyways, I think those cops were set on us by the museum
00:28:26.400 folks. It's very weird what's going on. I would have liked to have gone into the Jewish museum and
00:28:30.720 to the Portuguese Jewish synagogue, not to do streeters, not even to film things, although I
00:28:36.080 don't think there's any problem taking pictures. Ordinary people do that on their cell phones
00:28:39.840 all the time. But just to learn a little bit more about the history of the Jews in Amsterdam.
00:28:44.480 And maybe if anyone seemed friendly, ask them for advice of where to go to cover the story.
00:28:50.000 I just find it closed minded that the security here saw Rebel News and talked to us about Rebel
00:28:55.920 and said that because of the word rebel, that we wouldn't be allowed in. And they gave us a bunch of
00:29:01.520 weird excuses. I think they Googled us. And you know, like I said, Amsterdam is a very left wing city.
00:29:08.960 And the Jews of Amsterdam appear to be very left wing. And they would rather stop us from 1.00
00:29:15.600 learning about the Jewish community than assisting Rebel News in any way.
00:29:19.520 We're not even here to do a story on the Jewish community. It was sort of the context and the
00:29:23.520 background to it. I don't want to overemphasize the point, but it is part of that suicide gene
00:29:28.560 that Jews around the world have, that they support the parties that left even as they're devoured by them. 0.98
00:29:33.440 One of the grave mistakes that Jews in Russia made about 100 years ago was to think that the
00:29:43.840 communist revolution would somehow free them. I think one of the reasons why so many Russian 1.00
00:29:48.320 Jews became communist is because Jews in Russia had a tough time. There were always pogroms. 0.75
00:29:53.920 There was violence against Jews. It was commonplace anti-Semitism. The protocols of the elders of
00:30:00.800 Zion was a forgery in Russia designed to make the Jews look terrible. So when someone came along and 1.00
00:30:08.320 said, we're going to have this utopian future where religion is abolished and we're all equal,
00:30:14.720 I think that appealed to Jews or to some Jews who said, finally, we won't be persecuted anymore for
00:30:22.480 being Jewish. And there was a disproportionate number of Jews that got involved in the communist
00:30:26.800 party of the Soviet Union. Some of them had very senior positions like Leon Trotsky.
00:30:33.120 Of course, most of them in the end were assassinated. Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico City.
00:30:41.600 There was a great purge and many of the Jews who helped Lenin seize power and hold power themselves 1.00
00:30:48.560 were murdered. And soon enough, the Soviet Union became a major persecutor of Jews. And far from
00:30:55.200 being a post-religious utopia in the Soviet Union, Jews on their passports were indicated as Jews. And 0.82
00:31:04.080 they had their career and other life prospects limited. You might know that in the 70s and 80s,
00:31:11.040 there were a number of Jewish Soviet dissidents called refuseniks. And it was a subject of
00:31:18.960 negotiation between Jimmy Carter and Brezhnev in the 70s during a period called detente, where a number
00:31:25.520 of thousands of Soviet Jews and some others were let out of the Soviet Union because they were being
00:31:32.080 persecuted and they were sort of freedom activists. And, you know, Sharansky is a name of a Soviet
00:31:40.480 dissident who was put in the gulag. He was Jewish, he was a scientist, and he was an opponent of the
00:31:46.080 Soviets. There's a terrible thing, I think, Jews coping with being a minority, with being the other, 1.00
00:31:53.680 sometimes say, well, we can be part of a revolution to change the world. And I don't know,
00:31:59.840 there's no such thing as utopia. If you actually look at the Greek definition of the word utopia,
00:32:04.640 it means no place. You'll never get to a perfect utopia on earth. That's reserved for heaven.
00:32:12.240 So these Jews who buy into progressive politics do so at their own peril, and they doom the rest of us. 1.00
00:32:18.960 Right here is Olivia Chow's dream. Look at that. Happy Dutch people on their bikes, 0.91
00:32:25.520 parks, no cars. Well, there's some parked cars, but no car traffic, an electric tram.
00:32:33.280 Every progressive politician in North America who comes to the Netherlands and Denmark is the same,
00:32:39.440 they say, why can't we have this? We have low-rise buildings, we have lots of bike paths,
00:32:46.880 and here's a guy going by on a scooter right now. I think one of the answers is,
00:32:52.720 because in Canada, it's snowy six months of the year, and you can't bicycle in the snow. Another
00:32:58.880 reason is, take for example, the atrocious megalopolis we call Toronto. Six and a half
00:33:05.520 million people in the greater Toronto area. You can't have a happy little bike if you're going from
00:33:11.520 Brampton to downtown Toronto. It just doesn't work. I think the Netherlands works for the Netherlands, 0.90
00:33:17.360 and Copenhagen works for Copenhagen. It's a combination of how the city evolved historically,
00:33:23.760 too. Many of the roads in Europe are so narrow that you simply couldn't drive a full-size vehicle
00:33:30.080 down them, and bicycles are the way. Some of their emergency vehicles, like ambulances, are
00:33:36.240 clearly narrower to get through some of these ancient streets. Anyways, I just saw that little
00:33:42.960 swarm of bikes go by, and it made me think of the dream that socialist politicians want to impose
00:33:49.280 on the car-loving America and Canada. And I say this, it'll never happen. Amsterdam is such a beautiful
00:33:57.200 city, and one of its features are the canals. Just gorgeous. Of course, Netherlands became a seagoing, 0.76
00:34:05.120 mighty superpower with an empire around the world. To this day, you see remnants of it in the
00:34:10.000 Holland America Line cruise ship industry. But one of the features of these canals is
00:34:18.400 it's very cold out, and the water's extremely cold. You would not want to fall in. We just talked to a
00:34:23.360 shopkeeper a moment ago who told us about one of the things that happened in the pogrom on the streets
00:34:29.280 here two days ago is that Moroccan rioters cornered Israeli football fans on the street and said,
00:34:40.960 say, free Palestine, or we throw you in the water. Now, that sounds like, you know, it's bullying, 0.58
00:34:49.360 of course, at the very least. And it sounds like it could be like a silly prank. But when it is
00:34:54.480 very cold, it's single digits degrees right now. My hands, I can barely feel them. It's so cold.
00:35:00.640 Free Palestine. And we go. 0.98
00:35:02.560 Free Palestine.
00:35:03.760 Good.
00:35:04.240 Come here up, bitch. Come, come. 1.00
00:35:11.920 To throw someone in the water, not only could they drown, obviously, especially if they were wearing 0.99
00:35:17.920 coats and whatnot. But you could drown, you could freeze. And there's video clips of that, of these
00:35:24.800 anti-Semitic rioters catching Jews and saying, say, free Palestine, or we kill you, or we attack you.
00:35:33.280 And obviously robbing them as well. Just absolutely astonishing. And we just heard that story told to us
00:35:39.920 by a shopkeeper a minute ago. It's Sunday at around noon. The riots were on Thursday night.
00:35:45.520 So by now, obviously, things have calmed down. There still is quite a police presence. We're at
00:35:51.040 central plaza, which is really full of tourists. But you can see riot police deployed. You know
00:35:57.520 they're riot police because they have those very long batons suitable for cracking people over the
00:36:02.320 head. There's a lot of police vans, including, you can see they have those smash-proof screens over
00:36:09.120 their windshields. And one of them has what I think is a facial recognition camera on the roof.
00:36:15.120 So although it is completely peaceful now, and many of these people are tourists,
00:36:20.000 we spoke to some tourists from Yorkshire who didn't know any of the politics. They're just
00:36:25.520 here in Amsterdam having fun. But obviously, the political authorities are on standby. And part of
00:36:30.880 that is because the king of the Netherlands himself weighed in and said that the Jews were let down
00:36:38.400 by the country in a way that they hadn't been since the Second World War, he said. And I think when the
00:36:44.960 king would weigh in on a matter like that above partisanship, other authorities like the police
00:36:51.760 would pay attention. So you can see a lot of police vehicles, a lot of police with their batons.
00:36:57.040 But of course, it's daytime in a tourist area. The Israelis have long since gone home. So you're not 0.99
00:37:03.280 going to see any riots today. Well, the folks here at Anne Frank House are a lot friendlier than the
00:37:09.280 museum staff at the Jewish Museum. And I think this is an outstanding museum. It's actually the third
00:37:16.160 busiest museum in all of the Netherlands. The first, of course, being the Rembrandt Museum. And then the
00:37:21.360 second is the National Museum. This is actually the place where Anne Frank, the teenage Jewish girl,
00:37:28.720 hid in an attic from the Nazis. And she was finally revealed where she was. And she was shipped off
00:37:35.120 to her death. Her diary, of course, is a heartbreaking tale of a Jewish girl who is suddenly an alien in her
00:37:43.520 own land and invaders coming to kill her merely because she was Jewish. The Netherlands have a deep 0.75
00:37:50.960 Jewish history. We talked earlier about how many Jews came to the Netherlands when they were expelled
00:37:57.040 from the Spanish Inquisition. There are many things about the city that are associated with Jews. Even
00:38:06.640 the local football team, one of their nicknames is the Jews. And it's quite the same way in North America.
00:38:13.840 We have different Indian bands as the, you know, the icon of our sports teams. But I can't help but think
00:38:22.080 the Jewish history of the Netherlands, it was not completely extinguished by the invaders in 1940.
00:38:30.640 Hitler did not destroy every vestige of the Jews. And the Netherlands kept within their heart a sense of
00:38:37.680 loyalty to the Jews, even after Hitler had killed so many of them. But here we are in 2024. And I think
00:38:45.600 the Jewish history of the Netherlands is finally being erased by another kind of invasion, an invasion 1.00
00:38:54.720 that the Dutch are rolling up the red carpet for. I'm talking about allowing mass immigration into the 0.98
00:38:59.920 Netherlands by people from endemically anti-Semitic countries. You can't bring in hundreds of thousands
00:39:08.400 or even millions of people into a country who come from a place, a history, a nation, a culture,
00:39:16.000 a religion that's deeply anti-Semitic without one day that manifesting itself. And we see that in North 0.97
00:39:23.360 America with these pro-Hamas hate encampments. And I think here in the Netherlands, where they've had
00:39:29.360 mass immigration for longer than we have in Canada, I think it's harder to deal with. It's harder to 1.00
00:39:37.840 weed out. The roots are more deeply planted. The riots in Amsterdam two days ago against the Jewish
00:39:46.480 football fans who had come from Israel to watch a game of their local team against the Dutch,
00:39:51.840 I think that may be a turning point for many Dutch Jews just to get out. And I think we've passed that 1.00
00:39:58.640 point in France as well. France used to have one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe. Now it's 0.99
00:40:04.480 last one out, turn off the lights. I think that the demographics of France is the reason for that.
00:40:10.560 There's just simply so many people from French North Africa who are Muslim Arabs who despise Jews,
00:40:18.160 not all of them of course, but enough of them that they're starting to sway the nation. One of the
00:40:24.560 reasons why Emmanuel Macron sided with Hamas so deeply is because of the demographic reality in
00:40:31.520 France. I don't believe that Emmanuel Macron has an anti-Semitic bone in his body. I think what he's
00:40:37.040 doing is he's reflecting the modern invasion of France by millions of people who hate Jews. And I don't
00:40:45.040 know the statistics in the Netherlands, if it's in the millions yet or just the hundreds of thousands,
00:40:49.920 but this history here and the fact that it's memorialized in this museum, that's great.
00:40:57.920 But the job of extirpating the Jews from the Netherlands, it's been picked up by a new 1.00
00:41:05.040 generation of invaders who were welcomed here in the name of diversity and multiculturalism.
00:41:10.880 You know that my number one issue is mass immigration. In Canada, I believe that that affects 0.99
00:41:16.480 every other issue there is from crime to housing to driving down wages. But the cultural factor
00:41:24.880 to me is the most important. We've imported an ancient hatred into our country. And one of the
00:41:33.040 great ironies about the anti-Semitism of mass immigration is that to this day,
00:41:38.720 the Jewish community seems dedicated to the very mass immigration that will, if left unchecked, 0.99
00:41:46.880 finish Hitler's job. Oh, you do. What did you hear about the riots a couple of nights ago from the 0.73
00:41:52.000 Maccabee football team? And is it Ajax? Is that how you say that? Yeah. So what did you hear? What
00:41:58.000 happened? I heard that a few Jewish people were attacked from other people here in Amsterdam.
00:42:07.200 But I also heard that Jewish people attacked them first. So yeah, like some people from Israel took down
00:42:14.320 Palestinian flags all over the city, attacked a taxi driver because he was Arab. So yeah.
00:42:19.920 Right now, young people are really, are not racist and anti-Semitism. No. And I don't know. No,
00:42:32.480 I don't think young people are. I heard there was no arrests made. Did you hear that also?
00:42:36.800 I don't know about that. Yeah. So, so what are your thoughts on that? So you think that the Israelis 1.00
00:42:44.400 might have started things? I think so. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think the media is doing a very bad job at
00:42:49.760 saying that it was all days like the Palestinian people would attack the Israeli people.
00:42:54.720 But I think that also Israel started first. And yeah. I saw a video of an Israeli taking down a
00:43:01.760 Palestinian flag. And that's wrong to steal a mischief. But, but I also heard that Israelis were 1.00
00:43:07.680 beaten unconscious, unconscious, and which seems a little more serious to me.
00:43:12.720 I also heard that some Israeli people beat up an Arab taxi driver though. So I don't know about that.
00:43:21.600 I think both sides were wrong in this case. And I think the media is just portraying a different
00:43:26.000 image, saying that only the other people who attacked Israel people were wrong. But I think
00:43:32.080 that both of them were wrong. And in general, do you think that the, the Dutch media is pro-Israel or
00:43:37.360 pro-Palestinian? I think the Dutch media is pro-Israel, like most of the media is in Europe,
00:43:43.840 at least. Yeah. I think most of the media in Europe is pro-Israel? Yeah, definitely. 0.73
00:43:47.040 Yeah. What, what media do you follow? Do you follow any particular websites or TV stations?
00:43:52.400 No, I follow, I look everywhere, you know. Yeah. Well, we're back at the central plaza of Amsterdam.
00:44:00.080 And when we were here a few hours ago, we counted a half a dozen police vans and police in small groups.
00:44:06.880 I presumed that the excitement was over, but in fact, today a pro-Hamas protest is happening. As you can
00:44:14.880 see, there are now dozens of police vehicles and riot police with those batons, shields, helmets, and
00:44:22.800 visors. They're forming a line to block additional people from joining the pro-Hamas protest. You can't
00:44:31.440 see them, but you can hear them. It's a small group that is meeting, they say, in defiance of the
00:44:38.640 government. Because of the riots two days ago, and I think because of, frankly, the shock by the
00:44:44.960 entire establishment from the king on down, they did not give a permit to the pro-Hamas protesters
00:44:52.080 that they normally do. Nonetheless, they chose to rally in defiance of that legal, lack of legal
00:44:59.360 sanction. Police evidently seem to be allowing the protests to continue, but have formed literally a
00:45:06.240 human wall stopping new people from joining. I should say, I would call it peaceful, even though
00:45:13.280 it's heavily armed batons, shields, helmets, etc. I see no fisticuffs. There's no opposing force. The
00:45:21.920 Israeli football fans who were here on Thursday have obviously long since gone home. A statement by the
00:45:29.280 pro-Hamas side said they're not going to allow the weaponization of anti-Semitism, they say. In other words,
00:45:36.080 the fact that there was an anti-Semitic pogrom on Thursday won't stop the pro-Hamas folks from 0.65
00:45:41.680 protesting. It's anti-Israeli. But what's the difference? There's a big difference. And what is
00:45:46.400 the difference? Israel is a state that creates extremely aggressivity and violence and genocide. 0.82
00:45:52.640 Well, Jewish people, as me, does not do it. And the Israeli claim the Judaism, which is not true.
00:45:57.360 There's a lot of Jewish people who's looking for peace. Well, looking for peace, I agree with you
00:46:02.240 that there's a lot of Israelis who are looking for peace. I'm Jewish and I'm ex-Israeli,
00:46:07.680 and I totally don't agree that it's the same thing. Well, that would be like saying,
00:46:11.920 I love French people. I just hate France. I love Italian people. I hate Italy. 0.93
00:46:16.800 Don't manipulate what I say. There's a lot of Jewish people who don't recognize themselves in Israel. 1.00
00:46:21.840 Well, they're self-hating Jews and you seem like one of them. No, I'm not self-hating
00:46:24.640 Jewish. I'm putting Shabbat every day and I go to the synagogue. I'm not self-hating
00:46:28.320 Jews. I love Jewish Shabbat. How can you be a Jew without Zionism? 0.94
00:46:32.800 Zionism is the core of Judaism. No, Zionism supports other things except Judaism. 0.91
00:46:38.320 Judaism exists everywhere. Zionism exists in Israel. Not in our name, yeah.
00:46:43.680 I don't want to talk to you. You're so manipulative.
00:46:46.240 You came up to me to speak to me, so I think you do want to talk now, rebel.
00:46:50.800 To which newspaper do you talk? I don't even know what a newspaper is. I'm not of your vintage.
00:46:55.440 No, sorry. Okay, see you later.
00:47:05.680 I think it's very interesting.
00:47:11.200 The wall of police to stop people from joining. I haven't seen that move before.
00:47:17.440 But they're very intimidating looking and they've got the body armor on their legs.
00:47:22.800 They've got the helmet. They've got the batons and the shields.
00:47:25.920 You would not mess around with there. And indeed, no one is messing around.
00:47:30.080 You can hear in the background. I don't know if you can hear it through the microphone. There is
00:47:33.520 some drumming and hollering from whatever protesters are in the center of the largest swarm of police
00:47:41.680 I frankly ever been in since the trucker convoy in 2022.
00:47:46.880 There's no messing around here with these folks.
00:47:53.840 I haven't counted. I would estimate there are at least 100
00:47:58.240 police with shields, batons, helmets. These folks are prepared for absolutely anything.
00:48:04.320 I see a female riot squad officer there. Can I join those journalists there? 0.92
00:48:10.160 Do you have your press pass on you? Yeah. Thank you. Well, because we're pressed,
00:48:16.960 we're being granted access to, I suppose, the inner circle of the protests. That was fairly easy.
00:48:23.360 This, I presume, is the closest we'll be able to get.
00:48:35.840 I have to say, if I were to attempt to count,
00:48:39.040 I would say the total number of protesters is measured maybe in the dozens.
00:48:48.800 It's a very small group, but there's one fellow with a megaphone.
00:48:57.760 They're chanting,
00:48:58.400 fuck the police, abolish the police. They're absolutely hemmed in by police. I've never
00:49:06.800 seen this before. I've heard of kettling. I mean, the kettle is quite small here.
00:49:19.440 I see some indigenous Dutch people, but also,
00:49:22.960 yeah, it's mainly Dutch nationals. I don't see a lot of foreign-born activists here.
00:49:32.720 The keffie, of course, being the ultimate fashion accessory for the Western liberal.
00:49:40.480 These are pretty gentle Dutchmen. I don't see any 1.00
00:49:47.040 migrants. I think the migrants were here on Thursday night for the riot. 1.00
00:49:52.960 This is a sympathy reaction by rich Amsterdam kids, I think.
00:50:02.000 So, I see some signs in various languages. Justice for Palestine, obviously, in English.
00:50:07.600 And then I see a sign there written in Hebrew, I believe. The Dutch police seem to have a light touch.
00:50:13.120 Now, as I criticized the cops who talked to us earlier, perhaps too light a touch. They seem to
00:50:18.400 allow the riots to happen two days ago without any arrests.
00:50:22.480 The thugs on Thursday, who beat people unconscious, who went on the pogrom,
00:50:36.080 they were not Dutch liberals. They were foreign migrants, many of them with foreign nationality.
00:50:44.160 This crew here that's meeting in solidarity with them are fancy, luxury, indigenous Dutch, 1.00
00:50:52.560 who would tell you that they're not for violence, who would tell you that they're very thoughtful about it,
00:51:00.480 and they have an economic theory or a political theory. I met one self-hating Jew who said,
00:51:06.080 you can be a Jew and not a Zionist. I don't think that's possible, actually. It'll be like a France, 0.99
00:51:11.520 a Frenchman who's saying they don't believe in France, or an Italian who doesn't believe in Italy.
00:51:16.160 It sort of doesn't make sense. These people here would tell you they're tolerant. They would tell
00:51:23.120 you they're progressive. They would tell you that this is an intellectual exercise. But make no mistake
00:51:30.400 about it. They are here in solidarity and in support and as an extension of the rioters and the pogrom
00:51:41.920 beaters of Thursday night. These are the people who whitewash the violence. These are the people who
00:51:50.320 justify the violence. It's that Islamist progressive alliance that we've seen in places like Columbia 1.00
00:51:57.760 University or the University of Toronto or the streets of Montreal. These people try and put an
00:52:04.000 intellectual gloss on the raw medieval violence, not only that was committed three nights ago here in the
00:52:11.760 Netherlands, but that happened on October 7th in southern Israel. A lot of trucks. Some are black,
00:52:19.040 some are white, some have cameras on the roof for facial recognition. Many have a screen, a smash
00:52:26.000 proof screen over them. But my favorite truck at this event is that one there, the hot dogs and burgers
00:52:33.920 truck. It appears to be open for business. Now that's a protest I can get behind. You know,
00:52:40.480 the Dutch people are wonderful people. Canada and the Netherlands have a long history. You might
00:52:45.200 recall that during the Second World War, there was a birth in the royal family. And the Dutch,
00:52:51.360 of course, the royal family had been driven out of the Netherlands when the Nazis invaded and they
00:52:55.920 actually moved to Canada. And the birth of the princess, who grew up to be the queen, if my history is
00:53:03.200 right, happened in Canada. But that hospital room in which the baby was born was deemed Netherlands soil.
00:53:14.720 So it could be said that the princess was born in the Netherlands. That was one connection. Also,
00:53:20.960 Canadian forces helped liberate the Netherlands after the nearly five year long occupation,
00:53:28.080 which is why, to this day, the Dutch people send to Parliament Hill tens of thousands of tulips,
00:53:38.240 which is associated with the Netherlands, almost like their official flower. Every year, the Netherlands
00:53:46.080 plants tulips on Parliament Hill as a way of saying thank you to Canada, not just for providing
00:53:53.840 refuge for the royal family, but for helping to liberate the Netherlands from the Nazis as well.
00:54:08.080 I wonder what that generation of Dutchman would think about this, of the anti-Semitism that has
00:54:16.000 reared its head again. I wonder what they would think of the whitewashing of Nazi-style propaganda,
00:54:22.960 and indeed Nazi-style pogroms on the very streets where the Nazis hounded people like Anne Frank.
00:54:31.120 Well, they're back now, and not just the thugs, but those who would justify the thugs.
00:54:36.800 I don't know if you saw it, but that megaphone that that lady is using has the Antifa flag on it. 1.00
00:54:44.800 These are garden-variety communists. They're Dutch ethnically, as you can see. 1.00
00:54:50.320 During the Cold War, they would have been on the side of the Soviet Union,
00:54:55.920 looking to weaken the West from within. Well, the Soviet Union is gone. What's the new 0.90
00:55:01.840 existential challenge to the Free West? Why? It's radical Islam. So, someone who would have been 1.00
00:55:08.160 against the West for the Soviet Union 40 years ago is now against the West for Islamic terrorism. 0.94
00:55:15.120 These people are out having a lark, these Dutch protesters. You know, they go out for a coffee 1.00
00:55:22.240 and pancakes, as is the Dutch way. And then they go for a good holler, some chants in English and in
00:55:28.400 Dutch. Feel the frisson of being a bad boy. None of them will get arrested, but they'll come close, 1.00
00:55:35.120 and they'll tell that story for weeks to come. It's a luxury view, a luxury feeling. But you know
00:55:42.720 what? It's the same old anti-Semitism and it's ugly. These are clearing people away. They're using their
00:55:49.600 batons to push them onto the bus. They're doing some pushing. The batons are out.
00:56:04.000 There's some people resisting, but not very much. A vehicle is coming up. We don't want to get any
00:56:11.120 closer. This is about as close as you can get without being pushed by a baton. In fact, I think we're the
00:56:17.760 only journalists left on the scene. It's very interesting to see the back of his shield.
00:56:27.120 This is kettling. This is what they call kettling. There's one young woman who's decided to sit down.
00:56:37.600 I don't want to get any closer lest they mistake me for a protester, but you can see they're physically
00:56:43.360 pushing the protesters onto the bus. Overhead, not only a drone, but a helicopter.
00:56:52.560 I'm most sure that's a police helicopter. That could be a news helicopter. And same with the drone.
00:56:57.920 I do not know.
00:56:58.720 There's some clowning around, some dancing around.
00:57:10.400 Some shouting, some poking with the stick.
00:57:14.640 Some hitting.
00:57:15.200 Hitting in the legs with the baton. Some people sitting down to make it more difficult.
00:57:31.360 A police vehicle pushing from behind to close the space, pushing everyone onto the buses.
00:57:36.880 This is amazing access for Rebel News on the scene in Amsterdam.
00:57:45.600 I'm going to film with a second camera.
00:57:49.840 I'm pulling back so I don't get trampled on or hit by accident.
00:58:01.360 Some people being grabbed. Some people lying down.
00:58:14.880 A form of passive resistance. But in the main, they're now being pushed on the bus. I'd say there's
00:58:21.680 about 15 people who have resisted. Looks like they're about to depart.
00:58:33.520 I believe all the protesters at this point are now on the buses.
00:58:38.560 A little bit of fisticuffs, but nothing I think that would rise to the level of an injury.
00:58:44.800 Some pushing and shoving. Very interesting to see the back of these riot
00:58:47.600 shields. They're made of some woven wicker or something. I would have thought they'd be plastic
00:58:53.920 or metal, but it looks like they're almost a medieval style of woven branches.
00:59:07.920 Police are on the bus. I'm sure they're about to depart from where I don't quite know.
00:59:12.400 My guess is that they'll be held for a number of hours and then released without charge.
00:59:21.200 They're jumping up and down in the bus. I think the bus suspension can handle it, but it's, uh,
00:59:26.400 you know, I guess that's the leftist bouncy castle.
00:59:29.920 All the protesters are on the buses. They're banging on the windows.
00:59:34.560 They are being escorted by police on the buses. There are plenty of police, and now a number
00:59:42.160 of the police vans. One, two, three, four. There's too many to count. They're all departing at once.
00:59:50.320 There are some cheers and chants outside of the big church.
00:59:56.800 Police giving us a little friendly beep so we're not run over. And with that, the square is nearly
01:00:04.320 empty. There are some, I think, sympathetic protest supporters in front of the church there,
01:00:10.240 but, uh, I don't expect them to take a second round of things as the organizers themselves were deported.
01:00:20.640 Looks like there's a smaller secondary protest near some of these shops, some very high-end shops,
01:00:27.120 Swarovski, um, Crystal, considered a luxury brand. Police vehicles absolutely blocking
01:00:35.280 any access, pulling out, pulling out one activist now. 0.95
01:00:46.080 Looks like they're going to put him in a vehicle.
01:00:47.840 And there he is, and he's away.
01:00:54.560 As you can see up there, shop keepers from, this is H&M. This is an absolute tourist
01:01:03.360 heartland of Amsterdam that's been turned into a protest zone.
01:01:08.240 Uh, I have no idea if this goes on on a weekly basis as it does in cities like London, Toronto,
01:01:15.920 and Montreal. But it seems unusual to me that it's outside of a shopping, like a, uh, a retail store.
01:01:23.680 I have experience with police in half a dozen jurisdictions, including, uh, Canada, the United
01:01:30.480 States, Australia, UK, Switzerland, et cetera. And I have to say that the policing touch here
01:01:36.720 in the Netherlands is very light touch when it comes to journalists. They are allowing us
01:01:42.320 so much access. If we were any closer, we would be in the midst of these arrests.
01:01:46.400 I contrast that to the heavy hand of policing in my own country of Canada. But where we're standing
01:01:54.000 now, believe it or not, is, uh, cordoned off by the police because of these protests that have
01:02:00.960 been ruled by the courts illegal. Now, I'm not one for banning political protests, but there was a
01:02:07.040 violent pogrom several days ago. And I think, uh, the courts were concerned that they would be violent
01:02:13.760 riots again. Uh, there were packs of foreign nationals from Morocco and other Muslim countries 0.50
01:02:21.520 that were hunting down Jews and Israelis in the street, beating them unconscious, riding over them
01:02:26.720 in cars. And I think it so shocked the nation that the court denied this protest its legal permit.
01:02:35.600 Nonetheless, as you can see, the protest is proceeding. Police have just put a big cordon around the whole
01:02:40.560 center. Frankly, these are the first, uh, people who look like foreign nationals, uh, being escorted
01:03:00.080 away. I don't know if they are foreign nationals. I see a, a foreign passport. So they do look, I see 0.78
01:03:05.840 passports out. Those look like foreign men being escorted out. Those foreign men with foreign passports 0.51
01:03:13.200 were the ones who reportedly were committing the pogroms. It's not a surprise to me that the police
01:03:19.680 immediately escorted the foreigners. They had to catch a flight. 1.00
01:03:26.160 They had to catch a flight, he said. Yeah. Isn't that the truth?
01:03:29.920 That's the truth. You know what? I'm still trying to figure out these Dutch police. I'm trying to 0.96
01:03:36.160 figure them out. Hamas is part of the people. So you cannot destroy Hamas because it's part of the
01:03:41.680 people. So you support Hamas? I support, I support, you know what? I, the, the Dutch has been occupied 0.96
01:03:49.680 for, uh, four years here by the, by the Germans. Almost five. Yeah. Yeah. Almost five. Let's say five years. 0.54
01:03:56.160 When the, when we would not have been freed and the occupation would have stayed on for 70 years
01:04:04.080 or more, then we also would have to fight against the Germans. So the Jews are like the Nazis is what 0.99
01:04:10.720 you're saying in your analogy. I'm not saying the Jews. I'm saying the Hamas are a freedom organization.
01:04:17.440 They are freeing themselves. So you're saying Hamas are like the Jews and Israel is like the Nazis?
01:04:22.240 No, that's, I'm not saying. I'm saying Hamas is a, is a liberation movement.
01:04:28.000 And how about a woman like you who's uncovered? Would you be liberated in, if you were in Gaza?
01:04:33.360 How are women treated? How are gays treated? That has nothing to do with the, with this war.
01:04:37.520 You said they were a liberation movement. Yes. It has nothing to do with your religion.
01:04:41.840 How about gay people? What's it like being gay in, in Gaza? Is it easy?
01:04:45.680 Gay in Gaza. I don't know. You don't know. I think you do know. You just won't say it.
01:04:49.520 No, I don't know. I mean, there are lots of people. It's a religious thing. So people,
01:04:55.360 people who are religious, there are some people who are following very fundamental religion.
01:05:00.720 Well, they murder gays. Can you bring yourself to say that? 0.99
01:05:04.080 Christians are against gays. Do they murder gays?
01:05:07.440 Christians are against gays. In African Christian countries, gays are murdered.
01:05:12.080 Really? Like which, like which country? I think perhaps, I don't know. No, Israel is not.
01:05:17.600 You're making things up again, aren't you?
01:05:18.960 Free, free, free battles, guys. Free, free, free battles, guys. Free, free, free battles, guys.
01:05:24.320 Do you, do you love the Netherlands? Or do you hate the Netherlands?
01:05:27.200 I love the Netherlands. My grandfather brought Jews to Switzerland in the Second World War.
01:05:31.440 He was part of that. Sounds like an outstanding man. Sounds like a great man.
01:05:34.560 And my other grandfather, he was with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
01:05:38.800 Wow, so he was an ally of the Nazis. He was fighting in the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War.
01:05:43.360 On which side? Well, what do you think? On the Muslim side. On the right side of humanity.
01:05:49.360 So you, you have both a Jew lover on one side of your family and a Jew hater.
01:05:53.440 I'm also German. I'm a German, Indonesian, Dutch and Egyptian.
01:05:56.400 Well, you, that's an interesting mix, because one of your grandfathers was saving Jews,
01:06:00.320 and one of your grandfathers was killing Jews. Yes. That's incredible. You're a mix. 1.00
01:06:04.800 But both of them, both of them live in you. Yes, and both of them were rebelling for humanity,
01:06:12.160 because every human being is against the loss of innocent civilian lives. It doesn't matter if they're
01:06:19.040 Jewish, or if they're Palestinian, or if they're Lebanese, or if they're Arab, or if they're Muslim,
01:06:25.920 or if they're Jewish, doesn't matter. It has also nothing to do with anti-Semitism,
01:06:34.320 because anti-Semitism is something very different than what happened here in Amsterdam in this last week,
01:06:40.800 because we defended our city against rebellion hooligans who were destroying our city, who were
01:06:46.400 beating a cab driver. And in Amsterdam, we don't take this. If you hit a cab driver, we will organize
01:06:53.760 the whole of Amsterdam, and we will get you. Tell me a country where gays are killed other than a 1.00
01:06:58.240 place with Islamic Sharia law. Tell me one country that kills... Uganda. Uganda kills... It does? 1.00
01:07:03.120 Oh, yes. Okay. Oh, yes. You found... I don't... I dispute that, but... And the Congo, too. Okay.
01:07:08.400 They kill gays. So let me get back to your point about Hamas being the good guys. No, I don't say Hamas are the 0.98
01:07:17.280 good guys. You said they were a national liberation movement. Yeah, a liberation movement, of course.
01:07:22.800 And between 2005 and a year ago, there was not a single Jew in all of Gaza. There was not a single
01:07:31.040 Israeli soldier. There was not a single Israeli settlement. It was occupied. The whole border
01:07:37.280 was one Israeli military camp. Well, you know it borders Egypt. You know the Gaza borders Egypt.
01:07:44.080 What's that? Sorry? Sorry? You know that... Sorry? You know that... You know that... Sorry?
01:07:47.840 You know that Gaza borders Egypt, right? Are you aware of that? The Gaza border is also part of Israel.
01:07:54.080 Yeah, but you just said it was surrounded by... A small part is Egypt. The rest is all Israel. 0.93
01:07:59.760 But you said the word... You said the word we. Were you part of that pushback?
01:08:04.800 I'm part of the rebellion. So were you on the streets on Thursday night?
01:08:08.880 I was not on the streets. Okay, so when you say we, that's a little bit of stolen valor there.
01:08:13.040 You were sort of self-aggrandizing. I have connections. My friends were out on the street.
01:08:19.040 So when you say we, it wasn't really you. My friends were out on the street. I was out on the street.
01:08:25.280 But you were. I was, but I'm not hitting anybody. Good for you.
01:08:29.440 Because I'm a pacifist. I don't believe that. Well, that's what you think.
01:08:33.600 Well, I don't believe Israeli are pacifists either. I don't think they would say they are either.
01:08:39.360 I think it's very wrong if you kill 17,000 children and think that the 7th or 8th of October happened in a vacuum.
01:08:47.280 No, it didn't. Because there's a 75 year of occupation and apartheid system.
01:08:52.480 Apartheid system, which was founded by the Dutch people in South Africa, by the way.
01:08:56.960 You've got a lot of interesting wrinkles here.
01:08:58.960 South Africa and Indonesia, former colonies of the Dutch.
01:09:02.720 They are the only ones who do not declare the state of Israel a state.
01:09:07.680 Are you a student? Are you working? Are you a university?
01:09:10.640 I'm working for the labor union.
01:09:12.640 Well, that explains a few things.
01:09:14.720 But I tell you, you're very charismatic and your eyes are a wonderful color.
01:09:19.360 And your story of your lineage is fascinating.
01:09:22.240 I know. I can even tell you about everything, you know, about Afghanistan.
01:09:26.800 Well, we don't have time for that.
01:09:28.480 But I really appreciate you coming over to talk to me.
01:09:30.560 I disagree with most of what you have to say, but you were an interesting man.
01:09:33.840 Well, I hope it spreads across the globe.
01:09:36.960 Amsterdam is such a beautiful city.
01:09:39.200 I mean, I would put it up there with the likes of Paris and Vienna.
01:09:43.520 Maybe not quite as grandiose as those cities, but absolutely gorgeous and so pleasant for tourism.
01:09:50.960 Walkable streets, the canals, coffee shops, pancake houses, and glorious.
01:09:56.800 The buildings that survived the Second World War are beautiful.
01:10:00.080 And generally, the city is being rebuilt in a very pleasant way, too.
01:10:04.080 So how odious it is to see pogroms in the street as they were on Thursday when a Jewish 1.00
01:10:10.560 soccer team was in town and foreign nationals, most of whom were Islamic, had a pogrom. 1.00
01:10:17.680 Beat people unconscious. It was really gross.
01:10:19.840 And what's interesting was we just finished reporting on an echo to that pogrom,
01:10:24.720 which was the intellectual justification of that pogrom.
01:10:28.160 The riot, the pogrom is the old Russian word for an anti-Semitic riot.
01:10:32.880 I suppose the new way of saying that would be intifada.
01:10:35.440 That's the Arabic way of saying an anti-Semitic riot.
01:10:38.400 That happened on Thursday night, the riot.
01:10:40.000 But today, Sunday, was the intellectual justification of that anti-Semitic riot by
01:10:46.400 not foreign nationals, but rather Dutch leftists who were ethnically Dutch.
01:10:51.760 I don't think I saw a single foreign national in the protest.
01:10:57.120 In fact, the police were much more racially diverse.
01:11:00.480 It was basically old Dutch leftists, or many young Dutch leftists too, actually,
01:11:06.000 wearing keffees not as an ethnic identity, but as a political identity.
01:11:11.360 They're not Palestinian. 0.99
01:11:12.320 They're not Muslim. 1.00
01:11:12.880 They're not Arab. 0.97
01:11:13.840 They're just, that's the latest fashion accoutrement if you are a leftist in Europe.
01:11:20.080 In the 1970s and 80s, you would be a disarmament leftist, an anti-America leftist,
01:11:25.600 because you would be siding with the Soviet Union, because you hate your own culture.
01:11:28.960 Who is the greatest civilizational, existential challenge to the West?
01:11:34.480 Why?
01:11:34.960 It was the Soviet Union until 1989.
01:11:37.760 And what is it now?
01:11:38.800 Well, it's Islamic extremism. 0.99
01:11:41.280 And so the same self-loathing amongst the domestic left has caused them to ally with foreign
01:11:48.160 nationals who bring more medieval anti-Semitism with them from Arab and Muslim countries.
01:11:53.360 So, on the streets on Thursday, people attacked anyone, these foreign nationals beat anyone who 1.00
01:12:01.280 was Jewish or looked Jewish or was Israeli, and they were demanding to see ID from people
01:12:08.480 to make an ethnic assessment based on their ID and what name they were.
01:12:12.880 We even saw videos of them being published by the perpetrators, just like Hamas published videos 0.59
01:12:18.720 on October 7th, demanding that the Jews say, I support Palestine, lest they be beaten if they 0.93
01:12:25.680 don't say that.
01:12:27.120 The rioters on Thursday night did not hide the fact they were hunting Jews.
01:12:31.920 Today's intellectual Dutch leftists try to wrap themselves in intellectual pretzels to explain, 0.99
01:12:39.120 no, no, no, no, no, it's not about Jews, please don't understand.
01:12:42.320 It's actually about Zionism. I don't think there's any difference. It would be like saying, 0.54
01:12:48.560 I hate Italians. Sorry, I love Italians. I just don't believe Italy should exist. 0.99
01:12:54.320 Oh, I have nothing against Spaniards. I just believe that the government of Spain should be
01:13:00.000 dissolved. It doesn't make intellectual sense, but they're trying their best to sew on a cloak of,
01:13:05.920 I don't know, political gentility on top of a brutal medieval hatred. And it's all happening
01:13:13.200 under the shadow of this national monument to the dead. The Netherlands was very quickly invaded by
01:13:21.280 the Nazis in the Second World War. And the Netherlands, it was almost five full years of occupation.
01:13:28.880 Now they did their best to fight, they did their best to resist, and they did their best to hide the
01:13:33.520 Jews amongst them. And I think to this day, the Dutch have had a fond affection for the Jews.
01:13:40.000 But there's been a second invasion of the Netherlands, this time voluntarily accepted by 0.98
01:13:47.520 the Netherlands. When the Nazis stormed in in the Blitzkrieg in 1940, the Netherlands did their best to
01:13:53.760 fight. This time, the invasion of the Jew-haters doesn't come in panzer tanks and Stuka bombers,
01:14:01.120 but comes on airplanes from places like Pakistan, or Afghanistan, or Jordan, or Syria, or Lebanon,
01:14:08.800 or Iran. And it has the same effect though. There are street teams, street gangs in Amsterdam and
01:14:15.920 other cities, Rotterdam now, that are akin to Hitler's brown shirts. And every once in a while, 0.85
01:14:23.440 they're going to have themselves a pogrom. And it's very sad to me that the Jews who have had a half 1.00
01:14:28.560 a millennium of experience living and breathing in this city and animating it in so many ways,
01:14:35.280 I believe the sun is setting on half a millennium of Jewish life in the Netherlands. And what's rising, 0.97
01:14:41.360 well, I don't care to say just what. I wonder what the people who made this war memorial would think of
01:14:47.360 that. They fought and died to free Netherlands. I don't think anyone is on guard now. For Rebel News,
01:14:55.760 I'm Ezra Levant.
01:15:01.760 I'm here in Amsterdam reporting on the anti-Semitic riots. Well, it's almost four o'clock. The protest
01:15:07.760 here that was banned by the court happened at around two. They were bussed away at around three. You can
01:15:15.360 see there's still some buses remaining. I imagine they're here in case more people have to be
01:15:21.120 shipped away by police. There's still quite a large police presence, but the riot police have sort of
01:15:26.400 moved away. Although, frankly, I'm looking around and I see plenty of trucks around here and not a lot
01:15:32.480 of civilian cars. This remains, I tell you, a tourist district. I mean, Madame Tussauds,
01:15:37.600 you know, luxury boutiques. And this is also a historic place, the National Memorial. Remember,
01:15:47.760 the Netherlands was occupied by the Nazis for nearly five years. Lots of influencers with their 0.99
01:15:56.320 Instagram accounts and all the pigeons. There's hundreds of them. I thought it was an interesting
01:16:03.600 protest. And I got into some debates. I don't know. It's not very profitable to debate. There
01:16:09.920 really isn't a lot of middle ground, I don't think. I find it weird when people ask me, are you a Jew?
01:16:19.680 Now, yes, I obviously am. I mean, I don't hide it and I don't deny it. But I don't think my argument
01:16:25.280 hinges on that. When I make arguments about Israel, I'm not coming from a religious point of view.
01:16:31.760 There is, I suppose, other than to say, if you believe in the Bible, Israel is the holy land.
01:16:38.400 Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. Mount Zion is the heart of it. And saying that you can be pro-Israel 0.99
01:16:47.760 with, pro-Jewish without being a Zionist is like saying you're pro-Italian. You just think Italy should 0.95
01:16:54.560 be disbanded. I don't know. But putting that aside, I had a few debates, but it's not a profitable
01:17:00.160 endeavor. I think people are anti-Israel for deep-seated reasons. Some of them are psychological,
01:17:06.480 some of them are religious, some of them are political, some of them are financial.
01:17:12.320 Yeah, it was a little bit sad for a progressive country that was so hospitable to the Jews and 0.56
01:17:16.800 that hid the Jews in such numbers is now, I think, partly due to demographics becoming
01:17:23.440 anti-Semitic. Now, I shouldn't judge the country by a handful of protesters. I mean,
01:17:30.720 Kirt Wilders, the leading politician in the Netherlands, is the most pro-Sionist person you'll
01:17:35.280 ever meet. He's been to Israel literally dozens of times. He regularly tweets the Israeli flag.
01:17:41.920 So you shouldn't judge a country based on a fringe protest, which is paid. As I mentioned earlier,
01:17:51.360 you saw the Antifa logo on the loudspeaker that tells you a lot. But look, demographics is destiny. 0.83
01:17:58.240 If you bring in 100,000 people or a quarter million people, I don't know what the number is
01:18:02.560 in the Netherlands, you bring in a quarter million people every year from countries that endemically
01:18:07.920 hate the Jews. Do not be surprised when suddenly the balance of the majority or the plurality of 0.99
01:18:15.520 people in the Netherlands hate the Jews, or at least no longer object to people who do.
01:18:23.680 I think that the anti-Semitic coalition here is what it is in North America. Left-wing, woke, anti-Western
01:18:32.480 underminers, and the strong horse of the hour, which is Islam. During the Cold War, it was the Soviets. 0.95
01:18:40.400 I'm glad I came here to the Netherlands. I couldn't really find anyone to talk about the riots on
01:18:46.160 Thursday night, mainly because the Israelis who were here with their soccer team went home. You may know
01:18:52.160 that the Israeli government sent several jets to help pick up Israelis to get them the heck out of here. 0.72
01:18:57.280 It's interesting. Today, we were looking for members of the Jewish community to talk to,
01:19:01.920 and we went to a kosher restaurant in Amsterdam, knowing that the people there would be Jewish.
01:19:06.720 But we talked, for example, to the owner of that facility, and he said,
01:19:10.320 please, I don't want to be identified. I don't want to attract attention. When we were in there,
01:19:15.840 when he heard this protest was going on, he literally locked the restaurant door and didn't
01:19:20.320 allow anyone in. He was so afraid.
01:19:22.000 Imagine that. You're in Amsterdam, a city that is so progressive and liberal and has been a friend
01:19:28.640 to Jews for half a millennium, and you're afraid. So afraid you don't want to appear on camera. So 0.55
01:19:36.320 afraid you lock the door of your restaurant because you know that pogroms happen on the street.
01:19:41.200 And I found that deeply sad. In a modern Western country, a beautiful country, because of demographics
01:19:51.120 and politics, anti-Semitism is on the rise. And it's whitewashed. I mean, the thugs who were marauding
01:19:58.080 on Thursday night were largely foreign nationals. But the people who were whitewashing it today in these
01:20:03.600 protests were Dutch, ethnically Dutch leftists who were justifying it. And I saw an old Socialist 0.81
01:20:10.400 Workers' Party type trying to justify it too. I'm glad I came here. We still have some hope that
01:20:17.360 Geert builders will make some time for us. I didn't give him a lot of notice. I'm trying to connect with
01:20:21.760 them, as we managed to do. Last time we were here in the Netherlands, it would be great to have a comment
01:20:27.280 from him directly. He, of course, has been raging against his pogrom on social media.
01:20:33.680 I think that's my report for today. I'm heading back to Canada. I feel like I got a lot done this
01:20:38.320 weekend. I was in Toronto on Friday. I did my show there. Then I got on a plane, flew overnight,
01:20:44.400 went to the United Kingdom, met with Tommy Robinson in prison, didn't even stay the night. Flew to
01:20:49.920 Amsterdam, which is where I am today. I'm recording this on a Sunday. And tomorrow morning, getting on a
01:20:55.520 plane, I'll be back in Toronto on Monday afternoon. If there's any more interesting things, I'll add
01:21:02.000 them. We'll have a few little videos on amsterdamreports.com. What do you think? Was it worth
01:21:08.320 jotting out here? I didn't quite know what to expect. I was worried that the pogroms, the street
01:21:13.360 riots would still be happening. But the Dutch police dispatched that. And today, it was very interesting to
01:21:18.800 watch them deal with the protests. They really tightly kettled them. What was astonishing to me was how
01:21:23.840 much press freedom there was that Rebel News was allowed to go literally feet away from police
01:21:29.920 swinging batons, something that would never be allowed in Canada where our police are much more
01:21:34.160 authoritarian. Well, that's the show for today. Until next time, on behalf of all of us at Rebel News,
01:21:39.600 see you at home. Good night. And keep fighting for freedom.