Ezra Levant's latest piece on the anti-Semitism in British politics, from the perspective of a Muslim-first mayor in a pro-Israel city, and the reaction of Muslim politicians in response to anti-Semitic protests by Jewish fans in the city of Birmingham.
00:07:17.720They saw that they could push around the football league.
00:07:21.080They saw they could push around the police.
00:07:22.740Why not become emboldened and push further?
00:07:27.060So they said they would have a huge rally here at the football game against Israel.
00:07:33.480At the same time, a smaller group of people said they wanted to rally to prove that Jews could go wherever they want to in the UK and that Birmingham would not become a no-go zone for the Jews.
00:07:44.400Here's Ahmed Yacoub, one of these activists, calling for people to come out en masse.
00:07:52.680On the day of the match, we will be here joining the many groups that are protesting, and I'm sure we'll make enough noise to show them our disgust with the Israeli establishment.
00:08:03.780We need to unite because we need to send a clear message to the Israeli establishment that we will not stand with any sort of genocide, and we will stand with the Palestinians.
00:08:15.080By the way, that's the same lawyer who represents Muslim men who beat up policewomen, in an atrocious case, at the Manchester airport.
00:08:34.420And he has also advice for people who want to carry bats around with them, which is carry a glove with you, too, so you can tell police the bat isn't for hurting people.
00:08:43.780I don't know if you've ever seen this.
00:08:45.080If you have a bat in your car, but you can't demonstrate that you have a sporting event, you can get into trouble with the police and the prosecution, and see yourself in court for possession of an offensive weapon.
00:08:58.640So if you do have a baseball bat, for example, for a sporting event, then make sure it is clear and you have other equipment with it as well.
00:09:08.020Otherwise, it will be difficult for you to show that you have a reasonable excuse to have this bat.
00:09:13.960But always remember, there's a defense for every offense.
00:09:17.680Yeah, so it seems like a really nice guy.
00:09:20.120On the other hand, there were some Jews saying, hey, don't push us around.
00:09:24.500There's only about 2,000 or 3,000 Jews in all of Birmingham.
00:09:38.340I wanted to go and see the counter-protest because I've been to massive anti-Semitic pro-Hamas rallies before I've seen that.
00:09:45.880But I wanted to see what the pushback looks like for Jews who would be slowly extinguished, not through violence, although there is violence in this country, but through just abuse and hectoring and defamation and denormalization.
00:10:27.240I'm at a counter-protest, a massive Islamist protest that's happening a few hundred yards away.
00:10:35.700The reason for the protest and the counter-protest is the Israeli football team, or soccer, as we would say in North America, is playing the local Birmingham team here in Birmingham, UK.
00:10:46.680Birmingham has a massive Muslim population, and Muslim politicians managed to convince, terrify, threaten, whatever you want to say, the Israeli team, into not allowing Israeli fans to come to the stadium.
00:11:01.260And that's sort of spread into any pro-Israel fans, which include Jewish people.
00:11:05.640Local activists, including local politicians who appeal to the Islamist base, and it's a very Muslim city, have called for mass protests, even though the Jewish fans were banned.
00:11:21.360They want the Jewish team itself banned.
00:11:23.300Really what we're talking about here is whether or not the UK becomes a no-go place for Jews.
00:11:30.340Now, obviously, not the whole UK, but places like Birmingham, where 30-40% of the population is Muslim.
00:11:36.540And even if only one in ten of those is radicalized and willing to commit certain acts, well, that's enough to terrify the community.
00:11:44.480More than 1,000 police are being deployed tonight.
00:11:47.340As you can see at this Jewish counter-demonstration, there's only about maybe 100 people, and that's including journalists and security.
00:11:55.620Maybe I, myself, of course, security, because who knows what's expected.
00:12:00.400We're going to do a march, and police, there's got to be 100 police out front there, will do their best to keep the Jews and the pro-Israel side separate from the pro-Hamas side.
00:12:13.320I'll have all my reports at rebelfieldreports.com.
00:12:17.900I get the feeling that this very small number of pro-Israel supporters will be kept far away from the pro-Hamas supporters, but we'll show you how that looks.
00:12:27.460They're trying to protect folks associated with the Jewish community and the anti-Semitic community.
00:12:33.660You can see there's a sort of a gated section there with police at the doors.
00:12:38.060That's where some speeches were held about 10 minutes ago.
00:12:41.720On this side, you can see a ton of police as well, and the Aston Villa fans.
00:12:47.560And Aston Villa fans, I've been able to talk to a few of them about football.
00:12:50.960I know almost nothing about the sport, I must confess, but I just needed a break from the politics for a minute.
00:12:56.900Everyone who I've spoken to here is happy to have the game.
00:13:04.360If you're here to watch the game between Aston Villa and Tel Aviv, you're probably cool with the game between Aston Villa and Tel Aviv, where you wouldn't be here to see it.
00:13:15.040I think the number one thing I was picking up from Aston Villa fans, including the ones who didn't want to talk to me online, were, this is just football.
00:13:22.800What are you doing dragging it into an international incident?
00:17:23.820They want to get a chicken burger over here.
00:17:51.820They want to get a chicken burger over here.
00:18:01.820They want to get a chicken burger over here.
00:18:07.820They want to get a chicken burger over here.
00:18:17.820They want to get a chicken burger over here.
00:18:27.820They want to get a chicken burger over here.
00:18:37.820Well, while I was with the Jewish dissidents, there were, I'd say a couple of thousand pro-Hamas protesters and they were just sort of shouting at everybody.
00:18:47.820They weren't really any, they weren't inside the stadium.
00:19:03.820The people inside the stadium obviously paid for a ticket and they wanted to see the soccer match.
00:19:08.820But those outside, well, they started shouting Allah Akbar and the like.
00:19:48.820One of the heartening things for me was to see the Aston Villa fans shouting back at these Palestinians who I can assure you, do not go to the soccer matches.
00:19:56.820It's actually a very interesting cultural segment of the UK that goes to soccer matches, football matches.
00:20:05.820It's really the last bastion of indigenous white British culture.
00:20:10.820I mean, UK culture in 2025 is so varied.
00:20:14.820There's, you know, a whole school of rap.
00:20:17.820There's, you know, many different multicultural mixes, but football or soccer, as we would call it, remains sort of the indigenous British thing.
00:20:29.820Take a look at some of the back and forth between the pro-Palestine, pro-Hamas protesters and just some regular salt of the earth Brits going back and forth.
00:20:38.820You know, there were a couple of arrests today.
00:29:15.180I mean, these British football teams really are outstanding and the Israelis play with some passion.
00:29:20.180They're not going to likely beat a team of the caliber of Aston Villa.
00:29:25.180I did manage to talk to a couple of actual Brits about football.
00:29:30.180And I have to say, it was a bit of a relief.
00:29:32.180And I can see why they were so angry about the politicization of their sport.
00:29:37.180I mean, sport is supposed to be a harmonious thing that we can all agree on,
00:29:41.180even if we have political differences, religious differences, linguistic differences.
00:29:45.180Like, that's one of the ideas of the Olympics, isn't it?
00:29:48.180It's sort of like music. It can appeal to people of different backgrounds.
00:29:52.180And that's precisely why it's being hijacked by the Palestinian, pro-Palestinian extremists in this town,
00:29:58.180because they don't want harmony or amity with Israel.
00:30:03.180And they want Palestine injected in every damn thing.
00:30:08.180It's interesting, the flag wars in the UK, you saw in that advertisement, these masked Hamas supporters putting up their Palestine flags everywhere.
00:30:19.180Those have never been condemned by the prime minister or any authorities that I know of.
00:30:24.180But the British resistance, and there's really an awakening of the indigenous British people in the last six months,
00:30:30.180putting up either the Union Jack or the Cross of St. George, which is the flag of England within Great Britain.
00:30:37.180It's sort of a counter-revolution through flags.
00:30:40.180And what's incredible to me is so many city councils take down the British flag, the Union Jack, the English flag across the St. George,
00:31:02.180Today, I saw a group of extremists break into a private function and violently assault some Israelis.
00:31:12.180I don't even know what the event was for, but these are pro-Palestine extremists.
00:31:16.180Now, most of them are actually Canadian, not new immigrants from Muslim countries,
00:31:22.180which shows you the double problem that Canada has.
00:31:24.180You have these extreme woke leftists in an alliance with radical Islam, it's actually scary.
00:31:30.180Jonathan, Jonathan, Jonathan, Jonathan, Jonathan, Jonathan, stop, stop, stop, stop, get out of here, get out, get out, get off this property, get out.
00:31:49.480Jonathan, call 911, call 911, call Jonathan, call 911, get out, get out, get out, get out, this is private property, get off this property,
00:32:19.460our property and i think it's been allowed to happen in canada in a similar way to it being
00:32:38.100allowed to happen in birmingham what i'm saying is by giving the bigots an inch they proceed to take
00:32:43.860a mile i think that's what what's happened in canada over the last few years and it's what's
00:32:48.180been happening in the uk over the last 20 to be honest i asked some uh members of the jewish
00:32:54.020community in that little cage we were in if they've gotten over their love for immigration i
00:32:59.460think jews typically are liberal or have been and even now even as israel is being banned and the
00:33:05.780jews are being driven out of birmingham and maybe one day driven out of all of england some of these
00:33:10.820liberal jews just could not bring themselves to say no we shouldn't have immigration from places
00:33:16.660that hate jews i mean there's some sort of a suicidal gene of suicidal altruism that jewish
00:33:23.460liberals still have i don't know i find it very very depressing as a jew myself anyways i'm glad i
00:33:29.860came out here i uh i wonder if i should have gone out and about to where the pro hamas protesters met
00:33:38.660the brits part of me would have loved that especially with my new stab jacket on and my five bodyguards
00:33:44.500but actually i i really wanted to see what jews in a declining population look like and sound like
00:33:54.180when they're under attack and frankly it was extremely sad it made me nostalgic for a britain i
00:33:59.860never knew but i knew existed my own grandmother was born in the uk and i could only imagine how safe and
00:34:05.940tolerant and happy it was for her and uh how different it is now i um i don't think there's
00:34:15.140any lessons to be learned from what i would sort of call a pitiful gathering i think the answer lies
00:34:22.420with the more muscular approach taken by my friend tommy robinson which is why i came out to the uk this
00:34:27.940week in the first place as you know on tuesday he got the sentence back um he was the verdict he was
00:34:34.340acquitted in the bizarre terrorism act i don't know if you followed that but tommy robinson was charged
00:34:39.060under the terrorism act because he wouldn't give police his cell phone password without a search
00:34:43.220warrant so he had a whole trial under the terrorism act for that he won but these people who were
00:34:48.740screaming ala akbar today and throwing things at aston villa fans none of them i can assure you none of
00:34:56.180them will be charged under the terrorist act the terrorism act or likely with anything else
00:35:01.300anyways i'm back to canada first thing in the morning and i'm looking forward to being there
00:35:06.260and i'm actually going to go straight out to the ostrich farm where drea is the bad news as you may have
00:35:12.260heard is the supreme court has refused to hear an application for a final appeal they just will not hear
00:35:19.060the appeal and so the stay of execution is over and that means the canadian government canadian food
00:35:27.620inspection agency with the backing of the rcmp is going to massacre i'm sorry that's the word it's
00:35:34.100going to massacre 400 birds they're not sick they're not a threat to anyone in fact as robert f kennedy jr
00:35:42.100points out they're medically useful it could be important for medical research because these birds
00:35:48.580were sick about a year ago then they got better they have herd immunity now and there's things to be
00:35:54.180learned from that imagine and he actually wrote two letters to that effect of the canadian government
00:35:59.460they proceeded to ignore him so i'm i'm very sorry that that happened um because there's no it's it's
00:36:07.380not a good thing to without purpose take any life even animal life it's just it's wasteful and cruel there
00:36:16.580is no reason to kill those healthy animals there's no reason to seize that private property there's no
00:36:22.740reason to trespass upon a private farm there's no reason to demonize the farmers and to have a 50 police
00:36:30.180operation for that it's just so many things wrong with it um dre is out there doing absolutely top
00:36:37.940notch reporting if you want to follow her work go to save the ostriches.com all right i gotta go uh
00:36:44.820catch a few hours sleep and then i'm gonna go from birmingham to london in the morning and then i'll
00:36:49.700be home in canada thanks for your support for these things i come to the uk because the crises they're
00:36:55.300facing here whether it's a crisis of censorship or a crisis of muslim extremists building a no-go zone
00:37:02.340for jews don't for a second think that that ain't coming to canada my friends i tell you it is for
00:37:08.900rebel news i'm ezra levant good night and keep fighting for freedom
00:46:08.680And there's other things that are happening behind the scene that I can't discuss right at this time of what's happened out there to our disadvantage.
00:46:16.480This is extreme disappointment, not for Canadians, but for people all across the world that have fell in love with these animals as beacons of hope that there still was good in the world.
00:46:29.500Our government has made a decision that we'll never, ever come back from.
00:46:35.600This is the worst mistake in Canadian history.
00:46:38.560This has been a fight for 11 months and a fight for 11 months for life versus death.
00:46:43.380This has not been about breaking laws or setting a dangerous precedent.
00:46:48.760Canadian Food Inspection Agency has set the most dangerous precedence today and that is that our voices don't matter.
00:47:03.180But I promise you, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has just given us so much more, more, more fight, more fight, fight for every farmer out there.
00:47:14.340Because under our watch, we will never, ever let another farmer go through this.
00:47:20.500And I know that the world isn't going to either.
00:47:24.200Out there, we have over 300 lives, heartbeats that will never come back.
00:47:31.180We remember that Canadian Food Inspection Agency today is playing God and nobody has the right to play God.
00:47:40.860And that's what they've been doing for decades.
00:48:10.180They definitely deserve the right to be tested before they're eradicated and killed with inhumane actions like foaming and smothering and shutting off their airflow.
00:48:35.920And we need to remember that, that animals are being killed every day based off suspicion, off an agency that's gone rogue and has too much power.
00:48:43.240You know, shame on you, Heath MacDonald, our agricultural minister, for never reaching out to us, never setting foot on this farm.
00:48:50.320Shame on our government for not stepping up.
00:48:53.320Our true leaders, where are our true leadership in Canada?
00:49:02.740You cannot really see what's inside the farm right now, but what do you think is going to happen and when?
00:49:07.200It's going to happen, pain, traumatized animals, terrorizing animals, killing, it's murdering, murdering healthy animals that have been 35 years on this planet.
00:49:17.200They are prehistoric animals that have survived millions of years, but they won't survive the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
00:49:51.180This is a painful moment and I will make it my life's mission to make sure that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is not allowed to continue to operate in the way that they have been able to.
00:50:03.760Katie, given the support you've gotten from grassroots and politically here and internationally, what do you think this decision means not just for the farm but for the entire country?
00:50:14.140This means that when you speak up and you use your voice, you're punished.
00:50:19.220It means that when you stand up for what's right and you stand up for life, that bureaucracy pushes harder.
00:50:27.740That we don't, we're not heard and we don't, we're, when we can't stop our government from taking innocent life, what does that mean?
00:50:40.380Our country, this is a very sad day for our country, but this, like I said, this isn't just about our country.
00:50:46.780This is a sad day for the world because on an international level, the world is watching and the world is going to watch you, Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
00:50:54.460They're going to watch you take innocent life today if that's what happens.
00:50:58.340And you're never going to come back from this, so you've signed your, you've signed your finish line.
00:51:04.120And I hope that we see the fall of Canadian Food Inspection Agency today.
00:51:09.720Heath MacDonald, Paul McKinnon, Courtney Fotheringham, everybody needs to know your names and needs to know that you signed that kill order.
00:51:17.22041 minutes, 41 minutes after getting our test results back to a non-accredited lab.
00:51:22.88041 minutes, you signed livelihoods away, you signed research and opportunity away, you signed lives away, healthy lives.
00:51:33.220You signed that away by the stroke of your pen.
00:51:35.540You have no idea the ramifications that you guys are having on Canadian industry, on the future of Canadians, of our children and our grandchildren.
00:51:43.000You have no idea and all of your names will be known and I will make it my, and our family will make it our life's mission that everybody knows your name.
00:51:51.800When you walk into a grocery store to buy the groceries that we have bought as farmers to put on your plate, everybody will know your name.
00:51:58.560Today we had offered to beg the RCMP to be on the right side of history.
00:52:03.100Get out of it, you can still be the heroes, you can stop.
00:52:07.340Step up and protect your people, not the government.
00:52:32.460It looks like the black tents are sort of like ice fishing tents that you would see put up and those didn't go up until the order was in.
00:52:58.420At least not as many of them, so they're definitely, as to be expected, unrolling.
00:53:03.540We still don't know exactly who the company is that will be doing the cull.
00:53:10.380Katie, in rare cases, the CFIA has made exceptions to not cull.
00:53:16.960Stamping out is not the only way and it's not the only binary approach to dealing with an avian influenza.
00:53:24.280So, avian influenza, they've jumped to stamping out 41 minutes after our test results from a non-accredited lab in Abbotsford, British Columbia, which we were fighting.
00:53:33.460So, that is what got us into the trouble as we were fighting the December 31st cull date.
00:53:37.660The Canadian Food Inspection Agency completely denies the opportunity to listen to any reconsideration material, any material of the life of the animals 300 days after.
00:53:48.400These animals are a living laboratory of antibodies and a renewable source of hope for Canadians, for the world, for animals across the world, and for our industries.
00:55:48.100What does it mean that they can just flick a switch off because you use your voice on social media to do something good for Canadians and stand up?
00:55:57.080Our family and this farm is going to continue to fight for all Canadians and all of those that have been impacted on an international level from what has happened here.
00:56:07.080Have you been in touch with other farmers, maybe ones that have had their flocks called?
00:56:11.340And if so, what have you learned from their situation?