Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Can Geert Wilders overcome the 'globalist elite' to form government？

00:00:00.000 What an amazing show today. I'm so proud of this. I'm coming to you from the Netherlands where I've

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00:00:30.800 All right, here's today's show.

00:00:45.740 I'm in Amsterdam for the first foreign interview given by Geert Wilders, the winner of the Dutch

00:00:52.280 Parliamentary Elections. It's November 29th and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:00.060 Shame on you, you censorious thug. 0.81

00:01:13.900 Ezra Levant here for Rebel News. I just flew in overnight from Toronto, landed in Amsterdam 0.96

00:01:20.360 in the Netherlands and then drove for an hour south to the capital of the Netherlands called

00:01:26.080 The Hague. I am now on the beach, I guess it is. It's an amazing place. It looks gorgeous.

00:01:32.700 If only it weren't two degrees Celsius out. The Hague is just, it's really a suburb of

00:01:40.140 Rotterdam. And looking out over the beach, you can see hundreds of wind turbines offshore,

00:01:46.620 not a single one of them spinning. And you're reminded of the greatness of the Dutch Empire.

00:01:52.340 It's hard to believe that such a tiny country once had an empire around the world. The Dutch 1.00

00:01:56.580 East India Company in Indonesia. It was an amazing country. It's still an amazing country today.

00:02:03.340 But it has a real existential crisis. Does it melt away into the European Union?

00:02:09.900 And does it demographically yield to enormous numbers of migrants directed here by the European

00:02:19.360 Union? And in many cases, Muslim migrants who do not assimilate. And I mention that because 1.00

00:02:25.220 a week ago in the Dutch elections, there was a shock victory by Geert Wilders, the leader of the

00:02:32.520 Party for Freedom Party. And for 15 or 20 years, Wilders has been in the wilderness, as his name

00:02:40.480 might imply. People mocked him as a fringe candidate, as an extremist. They denounced him. And of course,

00:02:47.240 they said he didn't have a chance. Well, last week, he shocked the establishment winning by far the most

00:02:54.500 seats in the Dutch parliament, almost double the next place party. It's not enough to form a majority

00:03:01.280 in this country where coalitions are the norm. And interestingly, over the last week, other parties

00:03:06.460 have been resistant to forming a coalition. The losers are ganging up on the winner and are going

00:03:12.560 to try and frustrate the will of the electorate, even though polls show that the voters behind other

00:03:19.800 parties want them to form a coalition with Wilders. I don't know if you remember, but a few years ago,

00:03:26.060 I flew to the Netherlands to interview Wilders. I want to give you a little bit of a sample 1.00

00:03:33.000 of what I asked him and what he said, especially about the prickly issues of Islam, because Geert

00:03:39.320 Wilders is one of the few politicians anywhere, let alone in progressive Europe, that was willing to

00:03:45.460 describe Islam as a political threat, not just a religious movement. Take a look at this excerpt from

00:03:54.080 my one-on-one with Geert Wilders a few years ago. I think that the greatest challenge to both Brexit

00:04:00.200 and Donald Trump were not politicians, was not Hillary Clinton, but rather the media establishment,

00:04:06.320 the political establishment, even the legal establishment. What is it like in the Netherlands?

00:04:12.760 Are there any establishment forces, any media that are supportive of you, or are they all critical

00:04:19.560 or overwhelmingly critical? Well, of course, there are few exceptions, but 98% is very strong against,

00:04:27.840 and the elite, as I call them, is not indeed only the politicians. It's the media, it's also the top,

00:04:35.400 the representatives of the Catholic churches or other churches, it's the intellectuals, it's all the

00:04:43.460 people who are really lost any touch with the common people, and fear for their own position, are based and

00:04:51.740 driven only by multiculturalism, and don't see that if we continue by, for instance, the Islamization of

00:05:00.560 our society, that they will pay the first price, you know? I mean, this is what is at stake today. It's our

00:05:06.980 mere existence that is at stake. It's not like we are facing an economical crisis that you can beat if

00:05:13.140 you have a good policy like small government or lower taxes. No, it's the existential problem.

00:05:18.180 When I go to America or Canada, I always tell my friends there, listen, and you are bordering,

00:05:23.780 at least the United States is bordering Mexico, we are bordering, our continent that is bordering Europe is

00:05:29.620 Africa, it's the Middle East, and the African inhabitants, the African people will explode in this century. 1.00

00:05:38.820 You know, they have one billion people living in Africa today. According to the United Nations,

00:05:44.340 at the end of the century, it will be quadrupled to four billion people, where at the same time,

00:05:49.460 the European amount of people will diminish. So four billion people, one third of them, even today,

00:05:55.860 is planning to emigrate to Europe, which means that what we saw happening with the asylum crisis,

00:06:03.300 with people from Syria and Libya and coming to Europe, that we haven't seen anything yet. One

00:06:08.980 billion people, mostly from Islamic backgrounds, will come to Europe in this century, which means

00:06:16.420 that Islam, once again, is not there to assimilate or to integrate. That is the biggest mistake we made, 1.00

00:06:22.740 open borders, and no demands on new immigrants to assimilate and to integrate, we will cease to exist. 0.98

00:06:28.740 And the whole elite is not willing or capable, because they invented the concept of multiculturalism

00:06:35.140 and open border policy. So they are fighting it, but they are fighting against our mere existence.

00:06:41.540 And the people are finally waking up, because they saw in the last few years, both with the European 0.96

00:06:46.180 Union and with the asylum crisis, that we only import more terrorism, more intolerance, more violence, 0.94

00:06:54.980 and that it should stop. I should tell you that my meeting with Wilders was almost cancelled, 0.99

00:06:59.780 because there was a security threat. He has bodyguards all the time, because he is under constant

00:07:05.860 threat of assassination and fatwas. Years ago, I actually went on a short speaking tour with Wilders 1.00

00:07:11.780 in Canada, and he had a larger entourage of security with him than anyone I had ever seen before,

00:07:17.220 other than a Prime Minister of Canada. And he really has lived a lonely, threatened life, dominated by

00:07:26.100 protecting Holland from what they call asylum seekers out here. Anyways, we're here because I understand that 1.00

00:07:34.020 tonight, at this restaurant called Pavarotti, Geert Wilders is going to have a meeting with local

00:07:41.700 Dutch who are against a plan to bring thousands of migrants to this neighborhood. And so we want to 0.99

00:07:48.100 report on the event, even though it will be conducted in Dutch, we'll do our best to understand it,

00:07:52.740 and we'll probably interview some people in the meeting. But really, I want to catch up with Geert Wilders,

00:07:59.300 having not seen him since before his stunning victory. So that's my plan. And I'm only here

00:08:06.820 for a day. I landed this morning with our head of video, Efron Monsanto. We drove down to the Hague.

00:08:13.380 We freshened up after a night flight. We're going to do some streeters in another neighborhood. That is

00:08:18.260 just man on the street interviews, what they think about Geert Wilders, and what they think of his

00:08:22.500 trouble forming in government. And then we're going to come back to this Pavarotti restaurant,

00:08:26.340 it's called, where Wilders is expected to be at 7 p.m. And what's interesting is I haven't seen

00:08:32.420 any mainstream media interview Wilders since his huge victory. I've seen nasty sniping pundits

00:08:40.900 about him. I've seen little clips where people denounce him. But I haven't seen any Western media,

00:08:47.060 that is Canadian, American, British, talking to him about his ideas and his plans.

00:08:52.740 And I think there's a reason for that. I think first of all, the mainstream media in the West

00:08:58.660 has largely ignored Wilders. Or if they've discussed him, they've called him a racist and

00:09:04.180 an extremist and a fringe party. So how do you go from ignoring a man for years or denouncing a man

00:09:11.940 as fringed to then introducing him to your viewers as, well, this guy just won the Dutch elections with

00:09:17.940 an overwhelming majority. And he may well be the next prime minister. Your viewers are going to say,

00:09:22.020 hang on, I missed the first few chapters of this book. Why didn't you tell me about him?

00:09:26.900 And I think there's sort of a wishing in the mainstream media that this will all go away.

00:09:32.340 This was all an anomaly and it won't happen. And you're not going to see the Dutch version 1.00

00:09:37.860 of Brexit. And if we just close our eyes and hope we can hope our way through this. And by the way,

00:09:42.820 so far that seems to be working if none of the other political parties enter in a coalition with

00:09:46.740 Wilders. But I think that Kurt Wilders needs to be listened to, if not necessarily agreed to on

00:09:54.100 everything, because he represents an enormous swath of voters, not just in the Netherlands,

00:09:59.220 but in other European countries, who feel that mass migration is not in the national interest of

00:10:05.140 Holland. And by the way, I was just in the United Kingdom a few days ago where hundreds of thousands

00:10:10.100 of pro-Hamas supporters take to the streets, chanting various versions of death to the Jews. 0.96

00:10:15.460 Sometimes it's phrased as from the river to the sea, which means the extermination of all Jews 0.99

00:10:20.180 in Israel. Sometimes they say intifada revolution. Intifada is basically an Arabic word for 0.96

00:10:25.300 anti-Semitic pogrom. So I think that what's happening in the Netherlands was probably exacerbated

00:10:32.740 by this worldwide movement of Muslim migrants chanting their support for Hamas. I think that 0.99

00:10:39.060 this was the first place where elections captured the new mood. But if Geert Wilders becomes prime

00:10:46.660 minister of the Netherlands, you may see other countries go the same path. You might see Marine

00:10:52.740 Le Pen in France who had a strong showing last time. You might see the alternative for Deutschland,

00:11:01.620 the alternative for Germany, punch through in Germany. You might see other countries, 0.65

00:11:06.420 you've already seen Georgia Maloney in Italy. My point is, if Geert Wilders is allowed to take

00:11:12.580 root in the Netherlands, it will prove to other Europeans that they don't have to embrace open

00:11:18.180 borders migration, that they too can separate from the European Union, and that they can ignore the 0.96

00:11:24.500 mainstream media which has told them otherwise. Anyways, I'm going to go put some gloves and a

00:11:30.660 hat on because it's pretty chilly even though we're in a very lovely place. And we're going to go do some

00:11:35.460 streeters now and then we'll come back to this Pavarotti restaurant where we hope to connect with

00:11:40.100 builders himself. For all of my reports in this very interesting place, go to the truthaboutwilders.com

00:11:47.300 and that's spelt with a w, the truth about wilders is how it would be spelled. And I'll have my old

00:11:53.860 interview with him from a few years ago and I'll have all my reporting from this whistle stop tour.

00:11:59.540 So come back to see more updates at the truthaboutwilders.com I'm standing in the heart of the Hague,

00:12:18.420 the capital city of the Netherlands. And a week ago, the election sent a shockwave through the country

00:12:24.900 and indeed through Europe when Geert Wilders, the head of the party for freedom, had a massive victory,

00:12:31.140 almost double the support of the nearest party. Wilders for years has been a campaigner against

00:12:37.300 mass immigration, especially Islamic immigration. He's also a supporter of a Dutch Brexit. They're

00:12:43.780 calling it Nexit after the Netherlands. We stopped people on their way in and out of the train station

00:12:48.820 asking them what they thought about Wilders and the election. We'll see what happens.

00:12:53.780 Well, the public have voted this. Who do you think is going to be the next prime minister of the

00:12:59.140 Netherlands? Probably Wilders. Who would be the coalition that might unite around Geert Wilders?

00:13:07.140 No one. It's not going to happen. It's not possible. I like it. It's better when Wilders now

00:13:15.300 for president. I like that. What do you like about it? He does something on the immigration,

00:13:21.780 too much people here. And he does something for the normal people, for the working people.

00:13:29.220 And that's good. We forget our people. And do you think that Geert Wilders will be the next

00:13:35.700 prime minister? Do you think he'll be able to form a coalition? Oh, I don't know. But something in my

00:13:41.140 gut says no. We're here from Canada to talk about the election, including the results of Geert Wilders.

00:13:47.860 Do you have any opinion on politics? I do. I do, of course. About Geert Wilders, especially.

00:13:55.220 Personally, me, I agree with everything he says. I would personally vote for him. However, I cannot

00:14:01.300 really, I don't have a right to vote yet. But I would vote for him if I would have a right.

00:14:07.060 I'm not happy with the results. And who would you have preferred to have, what would you have preferred?

00:14:13.460 Tim Ammons. And is he the Green Party? No, Socialist Party. Oh, Socialist Party. Thank you.

00:14:19.380 I think it's pretty surprising. I didn't really expect it, to be honest.

00:14:24.180 Yeah, it was very, yeah. I think the people kind of wanted something to hold on to. And I think that's

00:14:32.100 what we were kind of missing. And yeah, it was a very unexpected shift for me, personally,

00:14:38.020 with people around me. But I think a lot of people more outside of the city really liked his idea. So,

00:14:45.940 yeah. When you say people want something to hold on to, what do you mean by that?

00:14:50.260 Well, he has some statements that are very, you know, I don't know how to say this, but it's like

00:14:57.300 he says things that people want to hear. Because there's very much a struggle with housing and with

00:15:04.820 just money problems. The groceries are getting more expensive. And he just gives some easy solutions

00:15:10.980 so that we can fix the problem, which may be not that achievable, but people believe him. So I think

00:15:17.780 that's what people like about his ideas. Are you from Morocco as well? Yeah, but I'm born in Netherlands,

00:15:22.420 so yeah. And what do you, Geert Wilders has talked about sending people from Morocco back home. I don't

00:15:28.980 know if he would send you home. No, he can't. He needs to change the law, but that's going to take

00:15:34.580 some time. And I'm born here. Technically, I am a Dutch, so he just can't send me. But him, I don't know.

00:15:42.420 Are you worried? Are you seriously worried? Or do you think it'll be fine? I think it will be fine.

00:15:46.900 I think he won't do anything. It's a free ticket to Morocco. It's a free ticket to Morocco too, so yeah.

00:15:52.420 And so what do you think the number one reason he got so many seats was? What do you think motivated

00:15:56.660 people to vote for him? Because people, I think they are unhappy at this time. Unhappy about what?

00:16:02.660 Unhappy about what's going on in the Netherlands. So I think that that is the decision that they made.

00:16:10.820 Unfortunately, it seems to be the mood of the people. It's not the coalition I would favor, but.

00:16:17.140 So I think that the most two and a half million people are chose Wilders. I think when they don't want

00:16:29.140 to make a coalition with Wilders, then the people are angry. I think that. And how do you feel about

00:16:35.380 Wilders wanting to stop immigration? What do you think about that?

00:16:39.620 Yeah, it sounds a bit extreme to me. I think it's, I think it's also not possible just to,

00:16:46.260 to, to, to isolate the Netherlands like that. But yeah, there's jobs need to be done as well.

00:16:53.060 Students coming and I don't think it's possible. And what is it about him that would make you vote

00:16:57.780 for him? Oh, I think that Europe has been letting too many immigrants recently. And I'm not talking just 1.00

00:17:06.420 about Netherlands. I'm talking about, um, entire European Union. We're not talking about Poland or

00:17:12.340 Eastern Europe, but I think people needed a change and, uh, things had to, had to get changed because

00:17:18.740 it just, it, it cannot, it cannot go forever. Europe is not made from rubber. It cannot stretch. And

00:17:24.340 I think, I think that immigration should be, uh, limited and, uh, and more, and more secure. I 1.00

00:17:34.500 don't know how to. Now someone, a critic, someone criticizing you would say, hang on,

00:17:39.940 you're an immigrant. What would you say about that? Uh, I'm from Europe.

00:17:44.340 So you're saying, you're talking about Muslim immigration or, uh, immigration from Asia or

00:17:48.740 Africa? I'm talking about illegal immigration. I'm not talking about specifically Muslim immigration. 0.54

00:17:53.380 I'm not talking about, uh, Turkey or whatever. I'm talking about, uh, not legal immigration. I'm 0.73

00:17:59.300 talking about immigrants who are not working and who are basically not providing country economically. 0.99

00:18:04.660 And yeah, I think this should touch everyone, not just Muslim people because, um, Muslim people are

00:18:11.220 not the only people who are not working and, uh, doing criminal and whatever. It's, it's not about

00:18:17.620 Muslim people. It's about everyone who just, um, who, who, who's unemployed, you know? 1.00

00:18:24.180 I mean, one of the things he talks about is he's worried that people who are Muslim are not

00:18:28.740 integrating with the Netherlands. Do you think that people who are Muslim are becoming

00:18:33.380 Netherlanders in their heart? What do you think? Yeah, also my friend here is, uh, from the,

00:18:38.020 originally from the Netherlands. So, uh, we're, I'm a Muslim and, uh, yeah, I think we can make

00:18:43.380 great friends. It's just, some people are just different. Yeah, it doesn't always have to be. And,

00:18:47.460 and do Netherlanders get, uh, get along with each other if they're Muslim or Christian or Jewish?

00:18:52.500 Do they get along? I think it doesn't matter, but some people are just childish. So, uh, yeah. 0.76

00:18:57.540 Yes. And, and would you say that, that you're a Netherlander first or a Moroccan first? Or, or both?

00:19:05.620 I think both. Um, I just, I don't have an opinion on one of them. What do you dislike about Wilders?

00:19:12.100 Uh, I stand, uh, I feel about immigration. Are you yourself from outside the Netherlands?

00:19:19.860 No, I'm not. I'm native. And, um, why do you think Wilders is wrong? Um, I don't care what, uh, what

00:19:28.180 belief you have. The old people, and where you live, I, uh, uh, all people want the same. 0.78

00:19:34.340 Get, get married, get, uh, get children, get, be happy. Now, Wilders might say, uh, Islam has a 0.96

00:19:40.820 different philosophy, different values than the Netherlands in regards to the treatment of men and

00:19:45.380 women, of minorities and democracy. Do you disagree with them? No, Islam, they, they do have, uh, 0.93

00:19:52.820 other values than, than us. But, uh, that's, uh, something we can talk about. If we go, uh, 500

00:19:58.740 years back, uh, in Holland, we have the same values. We have the same values 500 years back. And we changed,

00:20:07.300 so they can change as well. His ideas are, I don't think it's very attainable. Uh, he obviously has some

00:20:14.900 very, um, uh, right-wing ideas about immigration. And, um, yeah, it's not very easy for him to just,

00:20:23.940 stop immigration just like that, because of course we have rules considering the EU as well.

00:20:28.820 Do you think that the, the other parties will form a coalition with Wilders? Or do you think

00:20:32.340 they'll sort of gang up to stop him? Actually, I, I hope they will do. Um, I didn't vote for him,

00:20:40.180 but because he has, uh, the most people voted for him, then he should be there.

00:20:47.780 There's lots of protests around Europe and even in America about Palestine and Israel. And a lot

00:20:54.500 of these protests are Muslim. Do you think that made some Netherlanders vote for Wilders because

00:21:00.500 they were nervous about some of the protests? Um, I don't think that was the dominant factor, no.

00:21:07.860 Do you think the farmers were a factor, the farmers' rebellion?

00:21:11.060 No, I, I, I think the election was more about the, the, the fear of, of too much immigration 0.79

00:21:16.340 coming to the Netherlands. And, and, um, so in the sense that, that the upheaval in the, in the Middle

00:21:21.700 East would cause perhaps more and more refugees, that, that could be, be a rule. But I think even 1.00

00:21:26.820 without that, with all the, all the, um, people coming through through, uh, from, from other

00:21:32.180 countries to Europe, I think that that's the, the, the, the main reason people voted for this.

00:21:37.540 One of the things Wilders talks about is Islam. Um, do you think that more needs to be done to

00:21:43.460 integrate Muslims into Dutch society? Um, I don't, I don't, I'm not so sure about that, actually.

00:21:52.980 I think it's more like a, uh, social economic problem that they're more poor. So it, it, it,

00:21:59.060 and it's not blamed on Islam, but I think it's more like, uh, having no money parts, you know,

00:22:03.060 that is the problem. Yeah. I mean, if you're ethnically Dutch and you're friends with these 0.73

00:22:08.180 guys from Morocco, do you think that it's possible to have harmony? Yes, I think it's actually possible 1.00

00:22:15.300 because, uh, in my school, there are a lot of people that are not originated, uh, from the Netherlands.

00:22:21.140 So, and, uh, I think, uh, some of us are getting along very well, but then again, you see a lot of

00:22:27.460 Moroccans sticking together and then you have people who are originally from the Netherlands also

00:22:32.260 sticking together a lot and not really, uh, interacting with each other. But there are some

00:22:37.460 cases, uh, especially here where that's not, uh, the case. So, so it sounds like you're hopeful.

00:22:44.900 Yeah, I am. What do you think of going from Mark Rutte to Geert Wilders? That's quite a change.

00:22:50.660 Yeah. Um, not, not my favorite candidate.

00:22:54.980 Well, hello. I have moved. I'm now in the Amsterdam airport, making our way back home to Canada.

00:23:14.020 We've really only been on the ground for just over 24 hours running around. This was the first time I

00:23:20.180 have a chance to reconnect since we were actually in the Hague. So let me tell you what I want to

00:23:25.380 show you next. Um, we did some streeters, some man on the street interviews, uh, in the Hague.

00:23:31.140 And it was very interesting. And I should tell you one observation I have is that Geert Wilders,

00:23:36.180 who is called a radical, called a racist, called all these things by the liberal media and the

00:23:41.140 Western media, not a single person we met with on the street. And these were random people coming in

00:23:47.700 and out of a train station. This was not cherry picking people. This was not in a business area.

00:23:53.540 This was not in a, uh, a conservative area. I mean, it was right outside of university.

00:23:58.660 It was in the heart of the train station and not a single, but we talked to visible minorities.

00:24:04.020 We talked to new immigrants. We talked to, uh, a range of people. Not one had vinegar or acid

00:24:12.820 towards Geert Wilders. Some made it clear they don't agree with them, but you saw that one lady

00:24:17.140 who said, well, I didn't vote for him, but he did win fair and square and he should get it. So I think

00:24:22.980 the Geert Wilders is much more in sync with the norm of Dutch people than certainly the Western media

00:24:28.900 who demonize him and hate him. Uh, and, and it wasn't the divisiveness you sometimes see say with

00:24:34.660 Donald Trump. People love him or hate him. In the case of Geert Wilders, I actually didn't see any

00:24:40.260 hate and I was bracing for it. Um, we went back to our hotel, um, near the seaside in the Hague

00:24:48.820 because, uh, we had stayed at that hotel because Geert Wilders was coming to a town hall for people

00:24:55.540 objecting to, uh, asylum seekers being, uh, located in the town. But what I didn't quite realize

00:25:02.980 is that they were being housed in the very hotel we were staying at. And when I first, and I'm just

00:25:08.180 telling you this now, cause I've only learned this now, when we saw all these security in the

00:25:13.140 hotel, I assumed it was cause Geert Wilders was coming. No, it's because they had so many migrants 1.00

00:25:19.860 or asylum seekers, as they call them here in that same hotel. Now I should tell you that I had a

00:25:24.260 video out front of myself. We didn't even actually see any of these migrants. Maybe we saw one fellow.

00:25:29.300 We didn't know who he was, but, um, the security were there for that. Isn't that funny? We were staying

00:25:34.020 literally at the same hotel, uh, as the migrants who were causing the ruckus. Anyways, we went to 1.00

00:25:40.020 this town hall meeting where I thought Geert Wilders was going to come and attend the town hall

00:25:45.300 and talk with everybody. But no, he was just coming for sort of a whistle stop tour to show his support,

00:25:52.020 take some selfies and tell them to stand firm. And then he went right back to work because remember

00:25:56.420 the guy just won the national parliamentary elections. He doesn't have an hour or two to go over a,

00:26:02.260 really a local matter. He just wanted to come and show his support. Anyways, uh, as you know,

00:26:06.420 we had come to the Netherlands on spec. We saw that tweet where Geert Wilders said where he would be.

00:26:13.300 And so we got on a plane with only that. I had some contact with him in his office, but

00:26:18.180 I wasn't able to pin things down. We took a fly. We took a risk. We said, let's just go and meet him.

00:26:24.340 And indeed we did. And like I say, it was just a quick whistle stop, but I managed

00:26:28.500 to get a couple of questions in. There was such a pack of journalists. It was so extremely cold,

00:26:33.540 but we were all, uh, so squished together. It was actually warm. Anyhow, let me show you what the

00:26:38.020 scrum was like. Uh, by the way, have you ever seen this many police? There were dozens of police,

00:26:43.860 at least half a dozen police vehicles and trucks, including something that I thought was like an

00:26:47.940 infrared scanner. I'll just show you what it was like. It was sort of amazing. What's your message to

00:26:52.580 supporters in Canada, the United States and places like that? Do you have encouraging words for them?

00:26:58.100 Yes, of course. We had a fantastic result of the elections. We were by far the biggest winner and

00:27:04.260 party in the Netherlands today, which proves that, um, it is possible. You know, we know each other for

00:27:10.260 quite some time and, um, it is a tough fight. It is a long fight. You need to have some perseverance and,

00:27:16.980 um, and everybody tries to work against you in a way, but at the end of the day,

00:27:21.700 um, if you keep on trying and, and, and talking about the right issues like asylum, immigration,

00:27:28.340 national sovereignty, and people will respond to it. So that's, that's actually the, the, the positive

00:27:43.620 message I have today. It's possible. Everything is possible. Have you received support from leaders

00:27:48.660 in other countries? Yes, of course I did from many countries, uh, uh, leaders from parliament and

00:27:55.380 ministers and even some presidents. Um, so, so I got some, uh, some support and people were very happy,

00:28:02.020 sometimes surprised. Um, it, it was a shock, not only in Holland, but certainly in the rest of the

00:28:06.820 European union as well. And I think that's good. You know, it's not the elite who decides everything

00:28:12.340 and all the way until the end of time. We can change reality. We can, we can fight for freedom

00:28:18.580 and we can, we can win. This is the message. We can win. And I hope, um, I, I gave some, some,

00:28:23.780 some incentives to others to continue to struggle because everybody can do it as long as you keep

00:28:27.940 on trying. Thank you for your time. It's my pleasure. As you know, we don't get any money from the

00:28:31.700 government. We don't get any money from YouTube. They demonetize us. So we're crowdfunding this journey.

00:28:36.900 Uh, Efron Monsanto, our videographer and myself flew economy class on the way over and on the way

00:28:43.140 back. I think our plane tickets all together are about, I don't know, $2,800 or something. Plus,

00:28:49.860 we stayed at that same migrant hotel and, uh, we had a couple of meals. So all in the costs are,

00:28:56.580 I don't know, about $3,500 if I had to guess. If you can help chip in at the truth about builders.com,

00:29:02.180 I'd be grateful. We have some more journeys like this ahead. I don't want to let the cat out of the

00:29:08.020 bag. Listen, of course, the most important things to us are happening back home in Canada. Absolutely.

00:29:14.020 But the opportunity to sit down with a new world leader, someone who deals with issues that are

00:29:18.660 important to Canada. Absolutely. I'm going to take that. And from time to time, we'll go around the

00:29:22.980 world covering stories of freedom and censorship. Well, that's it. That's the end of our long

00:29:29.540 journey. It was seven hours on the way over here and we have to hop, skip and jump our way home.

00:29:34.340 It's going to be about, I don't know, 12 hours to get back. And I got to be in the office tomorrow.

00:29:38.580 There's so much going on, but thank you for your support. And on behalf of us here in Amsterdam,

00:29:45.460 back home in Canada and all around the world, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:29:59.540 Thank you.

00:30:05.140 Thank you.

00:30:05.220 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - November 30, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Can Geert Wilders overcome the 'globalist elite' to form government？

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