Ezra Levant arrives in London to expose Tommy Robinson’s solitary confinement at HMP Belmarsh—UK’s "Guantanamo Bay"—after an 18-month sentence for publishing Silenced, a film critiquing judicial censorship, despite no criminal conviction. Police froze his bank account, forcing crowdfunding for lawyer Sasha Wass KC, while ignoring pro-Hamas marches chanting genocide against Jews. In Toronto, Islam Chai reports on pro-Israel protests clashing with unchecked anti-Semitic chants like "genocide from the river to the sea," with police accused of bias and inaction. Survivors like Carol (Holocaust survivor’s daughter) and Renat (stylist organizing pro-Israel shoots) demand accountability, linking UK-style authoritarianism to global democratic erosion. Levant warns: silence against such tactics risks normalizing extremism and pushing dissenters toward radicalization. [Automatically generated summary]
It's October 28th, and this is the Ezra Levant show.
Shame on you, you sensorism bug.
Hi there, I am in downtown London.
I've been in this city for about three days for some very interesting events touching on freedom of speech and two-tier justice.
As I always say when I come to the United Kingdom, it's like getting a dystopian time machine.
What happens in the UK today often happens in Canada tomorrow, not even five years into the future.
Let me tell you what I'm about to show you.
I'm coming to you on Monday night, but I first arrived here on Saturday morning.
Tommy Robinson was having a huge rally in the center of the city against two-tier justice.
Except for Tommy himself was not there.
He had been arrested by police.
Let me show you the course of my day in central London at Tommy Robinson's protest without Tommy Robinson.
It's in the backpack.
It's a computer.
The computer allows us to live stream some of the pictures.
So are you doing some facial recognition?
I haven't heard of any of that.
Really?
Well, then what are you live streaming?
what's going on to have one standard of justice, not two standards of justice.
And what I've seen in the United Kingdom is not the UK I learned about in law school in Canada.
When we studied the law, when we looked to the roots of it, the rule of law, we looked to the British cases, and it meant that no one was above the law.
Ezra Levant here, I just touched down at Heathrow Airport in London.
I'm going to make my way downtown to Parliament Square, where later today, Tommy Robinson's team will have a mass, peaceful political rally in support of one-tier justice, as opposed to the two-tier justice that now rules in the United Kingdom.
Now, the major detail of this story is that Tommy Robinson himself will not be there.
He was arrested yesterday by police on a trumped up charge.
In fact, I would call it an abuse of process.
Under the Terrorism Act here in the UK, there's sort of a ticking time bomb provision where if you catch a terrorist mastermind and there's only a matter of minutes before some bomb is going to explode, you can interrogate that terrorist without him having the right to remain silent.
You can search his stuff, including his cell phone, without a warrant.
And that only applies to terrorists, of course, but they use that law against Tommy Robinson.
They said, show us all your phone details.
He said, no.
So they arrested him because he wouldn't give them the password to his phone, his phone where he has journalistic stories, legal matters.
The fact that this is just uneventful in the United Kingdom, that the entire media isn't shocked by this.
I mean, Tommy Robinson is a citizen journalist.
Imagine if a journalist of the BBC or at the Daily Mail had their cell phone seized by police and was told, give us your password or we'll arrest you.
The country would be up in arms.
But like I say, two-tier justice.
Tommy is arrested.
Actual terrorists rule the streets in the UK.
I've been to marches in this city, close to 100,000 pro-Hamas activists.
I think the fact that he has a hearing on Monday where he could be sent to prison for up to two years or even possibly more because he published a film about censorship.
That's what it is.
He's not being charged with a crime.
He's being charged with contempt of court because a judge said, don't you publish that film?
And Tommy did anyways.
So he'll likely be going to jail.
The silence of the establishment is damning.
I mean, you can judge what Tommy's doing as wise or unwise, but what it's actually doing is unmasking the true nature of justice in the United Kingdom.
To arrest a peaceful political activist on the eve of his rally, silence from the establishment, to have a hearing about sending him to prison for up to two years or frankly more because he made a film about censorship.
Welcome to the UK.
I would blame Labour's government and Kier Starmer, the new authoritarian prime minister, but let's be candid, this was going on under the Tories before them.
I'll be here all day.
And in fact, I'm going to stay on a few days.
I'm going to be here on Monday for Tommy's court hearing.
I'll be live tweeting from the courtroom because I don't trust the regime media in the UK.
Do you?
Tommy asked me to give a quick speech at the rally today.
I'll do that as well.
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I just flew in on an economy class air ticket.
I'm staying at an economy hotel, but odds are the costs will come up to about $1,500.
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I'm making my way towards Parliament Square in London where Tommy Robinson's rally is taking place without Tommy Robinson he He himself has been arrested.
Police decided to take him off the streets to interfere with his peaceful protest tonight.
The reason I'm stopping here is to show you the riot police on riot horses.
There's no need for those police.
As you can see, I'm several blocks away from Parliament Hill.
Actually, none of Tommy's people are here.
It looks like just a regular crowd.
But there's police cars and police riot horses.
Behind me, don't know if you can see it, is the Millennium Eye, as it's called, Huge Ferris Wheel, Real Major Tourist Attraction.
Let me spin around.
And behind me now is the New Scotland Yard.
These are the folks, sort of the FBI of the UK.
Press reports going back years say there are 43,000 suspected jihadists walking the streets of the UK.
43,000.
It's impossible to attract 43,000 people around the clock.
I suppose it would be easier to boot them out of the country, but that's not how the UK rolls these days.
I wonder what, I mean, you can see these cops are just sort of guarding Scotland Yard.
I don't think they're actual Scotland Yard detectives.
But I wonder what they think about all this, about jailing indigenous working class Brits while emptying the prisons of actual violent criminals to make room in the prisons.
And of course, not laying a hand on the pro-Hamas Islamist extremists that have flooded this country over the last decade.
I just discovered the most astonishing thing.
As you can see, I'm making my way to Parliament Square hidden is Big Ben right there.
And so I saw a big screen and I heard some sounds and I thought, oh, that's Tommy Robinson's group.
No, it's the counter protest by the Socialist Workers' Party.
And their sign, as you can see, says, smash fascism and racism by any means necessary.
Well, that includes, that obviously includes violence.
I mean, their symbol is a fist.
So you can call for the smashing of people if you're talking about Tommy Robinson and his friends and their families.
You can call for the smashing of people in the streets.
We know that because 100,000 pro-Hamas extremists marched this same street.
No one's allowed through this way.
We're going to have to go across along South Bank.
I'm so sorry.
Let me be fair.
I just spoke to those cops there.
They have absolutely sealed off the road.
There will be no socialist workers' party types who make contact with Tommy's teams.
I want to show you one sign.
It's right behind me here.
RIP Peter Lynch.
And Peter Lynch was a senior citizen who was thrown in prison for, I think it was two years for, I don't know, gesturing or some social media post, nothing violent.
Let me just show that there.
It's the other side of the sign.
He was thrown in prison and really to his death, because you put a 60-something year old pro-Tommy Robinson guy in prison that's dominated by Islamic gangs.
He's going to die one way or another.
And a lot of people here and a lot of people in this movement believe that to be sentenced to prison for a anti-immigration or pro-Britain point of view is tantamount to a death sentence.
That's what that was about.
So I made my way closer to the front, just absolutely surrounded by patriotic flags.
I see Scottish flags, British flags, the English Cross of St. George, flags saying Jesus is king.
I think that's the Welsh flag there.
I see another star thing.
I can tell you from frequenting London city center, you don't usually see patriotic flags.
What's happening up front now is the straining of Tommy's new movie called Lawfare.
Although I'm going to join the crowd and watching it.
They are punishing the people who speak out in defense of the children of the poor.
There is fucking nothing that compares to rape.
The only thing that compares to rape is torture.
You're not going to have the BBC News doing this.
You're not going to have ITV, TB, anyone.
This is real citizen journalism.
We're bringing you content no one else will.
Ladies and gents, Ezra Levan!
Thanks.
It's great to see everybody.
If I had to sum up British law in two words, it would be the Latin phrase stare decisis, which means let the precedent stand.
Another way of saying that is what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Another way of saying that is you have to have one standard of justice, not two standards of justice.
And what I've seen in the United Kingdom is not the UK I learned about in law school in Canada.
When we studied the law, when we looked to the roots of it, the rule of law, we looked to the British cases, and it meant that no one was above the law.
No one was too powerful or too fancy to be held to account, but it also meant no one was beneath the law.
And I believe that that second part is a problem in the United Kingdom today.
Look at the treatment of thousands of young girls in this country, like in Rotherham.
They were beneath the law.
The law didn't give a damn about them because they were indigenous white British women, and that was just too politically incorrect.
Look at how this event is being policed today.
Riot police with their riot gear.
I saw one cop filming everyone's face.
He told me it wasn't for facial recognition.
I was in London for the 100,000 person pro-Hamas march where they chanted for Intifada.
That's a violent riot against the Jews, where they called for genocide.
No riot police nearby there.
No one filming the faces there.
I'm worried that the United Kingdom's core character of the rule of law is falling apart.
And the fact that they are trying to intimidate you and not have you gather is part of that.
Tommy Robinson was arrested last night under the Terrorism Acts, a version of the American Patriot Act, because he wouldn't give them the cell phone password to get into his phone.
That's a law for terrorists, not for journalists.
Do you think they applied that law to the organizers of the pro-Hamas rallies in this city week after week?
They did not.
The police were not even visible in those rallies.
They were hidden away lest they give offense.
I think it's incredibly important that you stand up here, not just for Tommy Robinson and not just for yourselves, but for the great legacy that you have inherited from generations that came before you.
So many lives were lost over so many centuries to give Britain a legal system that everyone could trust and love.
And let me close with one last point before I give the microphone back.
There are some people who would drive Tommy Robinson out of the establishment, out of the mainstream, who would ban him from having rallies.
But Tommy Robinson, in my view, is necessary to keep hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people involved in the system.
If he is kept out, people will give up on the system.
They'll give up on the freedom.
Keep standing for freedom.
Keep fighting for freedom.
Thank you, everybody.
I know I mentioned it, but I just got to mention it one more time.
Today, Tommy debuted his new documentary, and you can see sort of a movie-style poster behind me.
Tommy Robinson presents Law Fair, a totalitarian state, in association with UrbanScoop.news.
That's his news organization.
So he rolled out his new documentary on that huge screen behind me there.
And let me just say the name again, the subtitle, A Totalitarian State.
And literally 20 feet away is that totalitarian state.
Why are they in a line with their riot here?
Tommy Robinson's Contempt Case00:15:17
Why are they having their combat helmets in their hands?
There was a helicopter.
I don't see it now.
Why?
Now, granted, they can't be seen by that crowd, but these are riot cops elsewhere.
There's moms and dads and grandmas and grandmas and kids and pets and wheelchairs.
It's the most peaceful civilian group you'll ever meet.
I showed you the flags.
They're flags of national patriotism.
The Union Jack or Union flag as it's called.
And the different flags of the different countries in the UK, England, Wales, Scotland.
I don't know what the Northern Irish flag looks like, but it may be near too.
I saw some stars of David.
Homemade signs, very, very peaceful.
So you look at this authoritarian response that was not there for the Socialist Workers' Party, where they said smash fascists.
They don't get this sort of scare tactic.
But of course, the main abuse was invoking the Terrorism Act to sweep Tommy Robinson off the streets today.
And the more I think about it, what irks me is that unless I missed it, and I may have because I'm based in Canada, but unless I missed it, there was no question and question period about it.
There's been no statement by any political activist that I know of.
There's been no statement by a media or journalism group or a civil liberties group about Tommy Robinson, citizen journalist, being arrested because he won't give his cell phone pin to police.
Tommy Robinson's not a terrorist.
The law was inappropriately applied to him.
He didn't give the password because he has confidential material on his phone, including confidential journalistic material, confidential legal material.
And for the police to simply demand his phone and the password.
They took his phone by force.
He wouldn't give the password.
So they arrested him for that.
And everyone here is just cool with that.
Would they be cool with it if it happened to a regime journalist at the BBC or the Times of London?
Of course not.
And that's the problem because the rule of law means no one's above the law and no one's below the law.
And just like fancy banslering, you know, high-ranking politicians must answer to justice.
No one's above the law.
No one should be beneath the law.
And Tommy Robinson is being treated beneath the law and his thousands of supporters have been too.
That's the main story today: that civil liberties were violated, and the establishment doesn't care.
The media doesn't care.
Only the people on the street here care.
And I don't know if that's enough.
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Thanks.
Well, that was my day in London on Saturday, October 26th, with Tommy Robinson's rally, a peaceful rally, lots of patriotic flags.
I don't think we have rallies like that in Canada.
At least I can't really think of any.
We have rallies around political candidates, but do we have rallies for abstract ideas like freedom?
I mean, obviously they're not very abstract.
They affect us every day.
But would people come out to a non-partisan march or rally or protest for freedom?
I don't quite know.
I was touched when I was in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and 200,000 people showed up for freedom of speech.
Pretty incredible.
Anyways, that was Saturday.
Then there was Sunday, and today, Monday, what a day.
Tommy Robinson was on trial.
He was arrested and presented at court in Woolwich Crown Court.
Here's how that went today.
As a Levant here for Rebel News, I'm in East London in front of Woolwich Crown Court.
This is the court in which Tommy Robinson will find his fate for the accusation of contempt of court.
And if he is found in contempt, well, just a few hundred feet that way is the most serious prison in all the United Kingdom.
called HMP Belmarsh.
It's really the Guantanamo Bay of the United Kingdom.
The fact that they chose this court to try him, which has, I understand, an underground tunnel connecting it to the prison, tells me that could be his fate.
Contempt of court is a funny animal.
It's not a criminal prosecution in this case.
What it is is the judge wants Tommy Robinson to submit to the judge's authority.
And the subject matter over which they're quarreling is that a Syrian migrant sued Tommy for defamation and he won.
Tommy made a film about facts that he thought the judge didn't consider and published that film on Twitter, 55 million views.
He also showed it to tens of thousands of people in central London at a rally.
So you have a showdown here between a judge and a community activist, both of whom are, I suppose, stubborn in their own way.
At the end of the day, though, the judge is the one with the power.
And it'll be interesting to see how this ends.
It is not standard for people to be jailed for contempt.
In fact, I read dozens of cases the last time Tommy was brought up on contempt charges.
And in every case, the judge is happy for the accused person to sort of express regret and to come back to the law.
But Tommy, one of the reasons he's popular and successful, and one of the reasons he's inspirational to his followers is precisely that he does not bend the knee.
So I'm afraid what we have here is a rock in a hard place or an irresistible force and an immovable object.
And other than Tommy Robinson himself, I don't think a journalist has been imprisoned in the UK for contempt since I think the 1940s.
It's really an astonishing thing.
That same prison is where Julian Assange was kept in jail, not on contempt charges, on other matters.
And I think the United Kingdom is losing some of its reputation as a place for freedom of the press.
The UK is really the place that invented freedom of the press.
John Milton, in his classic book, Areopagitica, about the reasons for free speech, was really an inspiration for freedom around the world, including in the United States of America and obviously in Canada and other Commonwealth countries.
I'm worried that there's more and more censorship.
And under the labor government of Kirst Starmer, people have been jailed just for making insulting tweets.
We don't want to be insulting in life.
It's not the best way to be, but the punishment of jailing people for politically incorrect tweets seems astonishing to me.
And they're just getting started.
I can't put this all on the head of the labor government, of course.
This was going on for the 14 years previous when the Tories were in power.
Anyways, that's a very long scene setter.
I wanted to tell you what I was doing here.
And I wanted to show you the gathered press pack here.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Over a dozen journalists.
I don't recognize many of them.
And this is just the camera crew side.
Obviously, we won't be able to take cameras into the court.
That's not the British tradition.
So this is obviously a very, very major media event.
The reason I came in from Canada to the UK was, first of all, Tommy asked me to say a few words at his rally on Saturday, which I did.
But what I'm worried about is what I'm always worried about here in the UK is that the mainstream media, or as I sometimes call them, the regime media, are so driven by their hatred of Tommy Robinson, either for ideological reasons or class reasons, or simply because their bosses tell them we're against Tommy Robinson.
I'm worried that despite this massive attendance by the press, they're not going to be accurate reporters of it.
So I'm going to be live tweeting the proceedings on Twitter or X as it's now called.
And you can follow all my tweets there.
I'm also going to compile them and do little video updates like this on a special website we've set up called TommyTrial.com.
I should tell you one more thing.
About a week before today, the hearing today, Tommy had not yet instructed legal counsel.
And I was astonished to hear that.
And he explained that his bank, which is called TIDE.
T-I-D-E Bank in the UK, seized his bank account and froze the funds that had been raised specifically the purpose of hiring a lawyer.
Can you imagine that outrageous interference in a judicial process to deny a man a lawyer?
Even terrorists, and that prison's full of them, even terrorists in the UK get a lawyer, often paid for by the taxpayer.
So we crowdfunded, we set up an emergency crowdfunding campaign for Tommy.
And I'm pleased to say we were able to put together enough money to hire a really senior barrister, as they're called here in the UK.
Her name is Sasha Wass KC, King's Counsel.
She's very senior.
She's actually a part-time judge, as well as a lawyer.
I'm not quite sure how that works, but they do that here in the UK.
She's very famous for defending the Sun tabloid newspaper against Johnny Depp when he sued them in defamation, and she won.
So she's no stranger to high-profile and even controversial cases.
And from what I can tell about her, she's a winner.
But I say again, the central fact of today's hearing will be, does Tommy Robinson submit to the authority of the judge?
And I've known Tommy for a long enough time to think that the man will not bend the knee.
So I'm afraid that if things go as I think they will, Tommy Robinson will be found in contempt of court.
And I think the location of this courthouse is a premonition of what will happen to him.
He has asked me, if he is jailed, to check up on him from time to time to ensure his prison treatment is acceptable.
As you know, that in previous incarcerations, Tommy was put in prisons with a very high Muslim population where Muslim gangs sort of ruled the place.
And of course, Tommy Robinson is considered an enemy by radical Islam, and he would be in physical jeopardy.
In other prisons, he was made to go into solitary confinement, into the hole for his own safety.
At Belmarsh Prison, there is sort of a special handling unit where he'll be able to be safe, where he will come into contact with no other prisoners.
He'll get a daily visit from the prison warden or governor, as they're called here, a daily visit from the prison doctor or nurse.
But it will actually be a very solitary existence if you have a brief meeting with two prison staff once a day and have some exercise time, but you're literally in contact with no one else.
I think you could go mad a little bit.
I think solitary confinement is a kind of torture.
And you could see what that did to the mental health of Julian Assange.
So this is a very interesting case and a very troubling one.
And I regret to say I'm not optimistic that the press pack that's gathered here will be fair in their coverage.
In fact, I think some of them will be diabolical in their hatred.
You've heard of Trump derangement syndrome.
A lot of journalists have it.
They just loathe Trump with every essence of their being.
I think there's a Tommy derangement syndrome, TDS, and I think a lot of journalists have it.
But anyways, we're here a little bit early, as a lot of people are.
I'm going to be live tweeting from inside the court to stay in touch with all of my stories on this.
Follow me on Twitter at Ezra Levant or go to TommyTrial.com.
Now, I flew into the UK on an economy class ticket from Canada and I'm staying in a teeny tiny hotel in London, but it's still expensive.
If you can chip in to help me crowdfund the cost of my journey, I'd be grateful you can do that at TommyTrial.com as well.
All right, I'll keep you posted.
Ezra Levant here, it's just after noon in London.
We're in the east side of London at the Woolwich Crown Court, which abuts Belmarsh, the highest security prison in the land.
Tommy Robinson was found to be in contempt of court.
He was given a sentence of 18 months, less three days, of which half will be served.
Let me do the math for you.
Just under nine months, Tommy will serve in the Guantanamo Bay of the UK, the harshest prison, the prison with the terrorists, the prison with the murderers.
Tommy Robinson will spend nine months there because he published the film Silenced, taking on the judiciary and censorship.
It's so ironic.
It is not a criminal conviction.
Let me be crystal clear.
Tommy Robinson was accused of no crime.
He did not profit in any way.
There was no subterfuge.
He simply was motivated to tell his side of the story about an atrocious case of injustice.
And because he did so counter to a judge's order, he will now spend nine months in prison with murderers and terrorists in isolation to be kept safe from the Islamic gangs that run the prisons in the UK.
Tommy will be sent to Belmarsh in the special handling unit.
Right there is an atrocious condemnation of the state of affairs in the UK.
They have lost control of their own prisons, so they have to put a journalist in solitary confinement to protect him.
And just turn the camera over there.
Look at all those cops who are here.
Look at all the cops here and look at all the cops there.
This is the two-tier justice that Tommy Robinson has been railing against.
A journalist sent to prison nine months hard time in Belmarsh.
You probably have 50 cops here.
For what?
Did they think that there was gonna be a riot of indigenous British people?
What exactly?
They arrested Tommy under the Terrorism Act.
Did they think he's a terrorist?
I think the United Kingdom has an embarrassment on its hand, but it doesn't know to be embarrassed.
I put it to you, there won't be a single mainstream media journalist who finds any of this upsetting.
And I know that because not a single one of them were upset when Tommy was arrested, had his phone taken by police, and was jailed because he didn't give them the password.
I believe that England, which used to be the crucible of freedom of speech, it was the role model for Commonwealth countries around the world.
It is now losing its freedom of speech.
You know, the other day, Elon Musk remarked that he didn't want to come to the United Kingdom because he was worried he might be arrested for his tweets.
Today's nine-month prison term for Tommy Robinson suggests that Elon Musk is right about that.
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To see all my reports on this outrageous subject, go to tommytrial.com.
And let me say one last thing.
I made a promise to Tommy that I would visit him in Belmarsh prison on a regular basis to ensure that his treatment is satisfactory.
Now, you cannot have any satisfactory treatment in solitary confinement, but I did promise him that I would fly over and visit him, and I intend to keep that promise.
We also, as you know, crowdfunded his lawyers, and any surplus, I don't know if there will be one, any surplus will go to his kids.
I'm outraged by what's going on, but I intend to continue to cover it as long as I'm allowed to.
I should tell you that when the judge, I was live tweeting from the court all day, but when the judge finally uttered his remarks, a security guard came in and told me to close my computer and that I would be in trouble if I continued to live tweet.
What the hell was that?
At the apex of the day, I had been tweeting in there for two hours.
At the apex of the day, some little security guard orders me to close my laptop or I'll be in trouble.
Welcome to the United Kingdom in 2024.
Oh, I meant to say 1984.
Go to TommyTrial.com for all my coverage.
Ezra Levant here with Rebel News, a gentleman who I've been following online and I finally met today, Niak Gorbani, who's been a very courageous person on the streets and on Twitter.
He defies the pro-Hamas terrorists with his sign.
Niak, what a pleasure to meet you in person.
Thank you so much.
You hold up a sign that says Hamas is terrorist, and every time the cops go after you instead of the Hamas people.
Yeah, actually, I'm not feeling really safe after this court.
You know, you're living in this country.
You feel you are in free country, but you are not.
You know, I'm just telling to myself in court, just because showing the truth, I'm doing that same, you know?
You're clearly shocked by this.
I was delighted to meet you, and so I was upbeat for a moment, but you're obviously still digesting what we just heard in there.
Tommy Robinson's sentence to 18 years, less three days.
It'll be cut in half.
He'll serve nine months.
That's an astonishing sentence for the non-crime.
It wasn't a criminal offense of journalism.
You seem a little bit rocked by this.
Exactly.
I'm a journalist.
I'm an activist.
Same as, you know, Tommy.
You know, it's really, really, I don't understand how it's possible in this country, in the United Kingdom, how it's possible.
They made someone guilty just because they want.
Now, you're from Iran originally.
Compare the treatment of journalists in Iran with the treatment of journalists in the United Kingdom.
Same as here.
Exactly.
I'm feeling live in Islamic Republic.
Sad.
Is it totally sad?
I can see your sorrow.
I can see it in your face.
I suppose I have pre-digested this outcome because I've been talking to Tommy frequently over the last week or two.
So I think I've already gone through the process.
You are.
It's actually quite moving to see you.
I was looking down from the public gallery.
You were in the courtroom.
The judge seemed to me like he had pre-written this ruling.
Like we just went through this very lengthy and detailed presentation, and he starts reading from his computer a verdict without, there wasn't even a one-minute break.
He had pre-written certain things.
At least that's how it looked to me.
Absolutely.
Everyone who was in court and seeing the judge, that was pre-assessment.
He just breathed, he just read.
The order.
He read the order that was on his computer, and I could see his fingers that he was scrolling down as he was reading it.
Immediately after hearing an enormous amount of detailed argument from the lawyers, that's very fishy.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's as I'm saying, here, judge, come and read the order.
That's it.
Nothing else.
Thank you so much.
Niak, keep fighting for freedom on the streets.
I salute your courage and I feel your sorrow today.
And if I'm to beat, well, it's just because I'm meeting you, actually.
And I've been weighing these weighty matters for some time now.
Thank you for standing by Tommy here today.
My pleasure.
We are not stop.
We are fighting.
Fight, fight, fight.
As Tommy said, Donald Trump said, we are fighting for our freedom.
We should be.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, Niak Gorbani, a man who loves the freedom of the United Kingdom.
And you can see the sorrow in his face with Tommy Robinson's sentence today.
Ezra LeMan, I'm standing outside Woolwich Crown Court, which is adjacent to the Guantanamo Bay of UK prisons.
It's called His Majesty's Prison, Belmarsh.
It's where all the terrorists and murderers go.
And now, a journalist, Tommy Robinson, will serve a nine-month sentence here.
The judge said he wanted to give Tommy the maximum sentence possible.
They started it two years, but there's various mathematical reasons why it'll be cut down to nine months.
But think about it: nine months of hard time served in the worst prison in the UK in solitary confinement, nine months of solitary confinement.
That's a form of torture.
Solitary confinement is not meant to be used other than on a very episodic basis to punish some prison fight or something.
Tommy Robinson will be put to prison nine months in solitary for what?
He was convicted of no crime today.
What happened today was not a crime.
Tommy Robinson simply produced and published a movie that a judge told him not to.
It was a quarrel about what a Syrian teenage refugee did or didn't do at a school.
The refugee says he was bullied.
Other people at the school said that he was the bully.
There was a dispute.
Tommy says the truth is that the Syrian kid was roughing up other kids, and he interviewed other people at the school and he showed documents from the school to prove it.
But a judge said that is not true.
That's disinformation.
I'm not sure if that's the exact word the judge used.
But he said to Tommy, you may not repeat those facts.
Well, Tommy did because he was motivated by journalism.
He was motivated by the public interest, as his lawyer Sasha West said today.
The judge wasn't having any of it.
The judge said it was one of the most serious cases, deserving of the worst punishment he could mete out.
Nine months in prison for journalism.
Even the courtroom itself was bizarre, how they kept out Tommy's supporters, even though there were empty seats.
And bizarrely, I was allowed to live tweet the proceedings until the judge started to speak, at which point a security guard was dispatched to tell me to stop.
Just absolutely bizarre.
Just the bureaucracy and the red tape of this place is numbing and frustrating.
It's the banality of authoritarianism.
You know, George Orwell wrote the book 1984 more than 70 years ago.
And the idea that someone would be put in prison for nine months for journalism, I don't think would have occurred to him.
I don't think it did.
The crazy thing that here in the United Kingdom, the new Labor Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has released hundreds of violent criminals to make way for political criminals.
You may have seen the news reports that in recent months, dozens of Indigenous white working-class Brits have been jailed, not for violence, but for tweeting insults or tweeting mean tweets about racial issues, racial crime, race riots.
So Keir Starmer, the Labour Prime Minister in the UK, has emptied the prisons of actual violent men to make way for these political prisoners.
And in fact, that's exactly what's happened to Tommy.
He will be in the highest security prison in the entire country, a place where murderers and terrorists are, that's who's there.
But they've had to make room for him, haven't they?
Have they released a murderer or a terrorist to make room for Tommy Robinson?
Another outrageous act was Tommy was not allowed to attend his rally in London a couple of days ago because he was arrested by police for the sin of not giving the password to his cell phone.
Police seized his cell phone, demanded the password to it.
When Tommy said, get a warrant, they jailed him.
And the only reason that they could do that to him is they approached him under the Terrorism Act.
There's a ticking time provision where you can do warrantless searches and seizures, but only to terrorists.
So we're in the UK where journalists are treated like terrorists, where journalists are jailed like murderers, and actual violent criminals are set free.
I'm very sad about what's happening to the United Kingdom.
Let me say one last thing.
I mean, Tommy Robinson is a divisive figure.
We know that.
But in democracy, that's how you resolve questions.
You call the question yay or nay.
It's called taking a division of the House.
And there are very challenging issues afoot in the United Kingdom and Canada around the world about immigration, about Islamification of the public square, about crime, about taxes, about freedom, about censorship.
There are difficult questions that we need to call for a division.
Not everything can be glossed over.
You can't split the difference on a number of things.
And it's my belief that Tommy Robinson keeps hundreds of thousands or even millions of people integrated into the political system.
He keeps them believing enough in the courts that they respect the outcomes.
He keeps them believing enough in democracy that they go to vote.
And if Tommy is imprisoned and bankrupted and his reputation destroyed and his friends marginalized, what will that do other than make people remove themselves from the system?
And that's what I'm afraid of.
If people feel so rejected and cut off from the UK establishment that they cannot solve their grievances in a democratic, peaceful way, and they result to other ways.
I saw in the recent race riots in the north of England, there was some polling that a number of people believed that the riots were a legitimate expression of opinion.
And why would they say that?
I think it's because, go ahead, pass through.
I think it's because people believe that parliament no longer works and the media no longer works and the judiciary no longer works.
So if all of the systems that have been created to handle and arbitrate grievances are foreclosed to people like Tommy, there will be people who resort to violent ways.
And I don't support that.
I don't want that to happen.
But that's what happens when you cast people out, when you exile them to Belmarsh prison because they have a different point of view than you or because they have a different understanding of the facts than a judge.
I'm worried about the marginalization of Tommy Robinson, not just for him because I'm affectionate towards him as a friend, but I'm worried about the millions of Brits who look up to him and what this will mean to them.
I'll give you some more thoughts later, but you can see all my videos at TommyTrial.com.
Is this a Halloween costume you're wearing?
They don't support Canada, and as far as I'm concerned, if you don't support Canada, you're not proud to be Canadian.
Get out!
Leave!
Go back to where you came from.
I'm a member of the media, so I can be on a public...
You're here trying to provoke us.
Why don't you just walk away?
Oh, sir, can you tell me what's going on here?
Stay back.
Huh?
Stay back.
Please don't touch me.
Stay back.
When Justin Trudeau leaves this office, things are going to change.
And we need to see change today.
Don't touch the mic.
Buck that mic out of my face.
Don't touch it.
You fuck that mic in my face.
Get that mic out of my face.
Stop it.
Why?
Because I want to keep the peace here.
Why don't you uphold your oath, officer?
I'm practicing journalism on a public street.
Cooler minds can sit down and work this thing out that's been around for so long.
I hope to God, God help us, I'm Islam Chai, that everyone sit down and work this out.
It'll take a couple of generations because hate doesn't disappear overnight.
David Menzies for Rebel News here in North Toronto and folks I'm standing at the corner of Bathurst and Shepherd and there's a couple of things you should know about this intersection.
For more than a year now there has been a pro-Israel, pro-Jewish demonstration at the Metro Plaza and another thing you should know there is a sizable Jewish minority in this neck of the woods in Toronto and that brings me to the crux of the matter.
Pro-Demonstrations Clash00:03:09
In the department of how low can you go?
Well, when it comes to the pro-Hamas crowd, they have invaded this area.
They came here last weekend and they're back again this weekend.
Now, there are thousands of intersections where the Hamasholes can assemble, but no, they want to come here.
And it reminds me of that Bruce Springsteen lyric, wearing trouble on their shirts.
And I think really that's what they want.
They want a confrontation.
They want violence.
And really, can you blame them?
The police, for more than a year now, have turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to chants for genocide, to violence, to vandalism, firebombing.
And it's inexplicable.
In fact, they've gone one step further, haven't they?
On cold days, the Toronto Police Service rank and file reimagine themselves as Uber East drivers delivering coffee and tin bids to the thugs here.
In terms of a response to what occurred here last Sunday, the Jewish community has come out.
They're on the other side of the street.
I would say the demonstrators, the pro-Hamas Hitler youth types, they're probably outnumbered at least 100 to 1.
But they're here anyways and they're doing their du regurg tactics of trying to cause trouble.
I see a sign here where the word Nazis is being used to equate Jews, which is absolutely shocking given recent world history.
And again, folks, it's all about pushing the envelope.
They know that the police are super hesitant to charge them.
The police like to go after peaceful counter-demonstrators.
The police like to go after members of the independent media.
Oh, and if you want video evidence, do you remember when my cameraman Efren Wonsanto and I were at the King Eddy Hotel in March and then Nathan Phillips Square in April?
And what happened?
Well, yours truly got arrested for, well, God knows what.
Check it out.
By the way, we defeated those two bogus charges in court.
The first one was obstruct police and the second one was trespass.
That's right.
The police trespassed a journalist in the public square doing journalism.
Incredible.
In any event, we're going to see how this day plays out.
We're going to see what kind of shenanigans ensue.
There is a considerable police presence.
Anyways, we're going to see how this plays out today.
And I can tell you, as per usual, there are some things you notice about the two dueling demonstrations.
Father's Concern00:04:23
The pro-Israel camp, they do not chant for genocide or death.
The pro-Israel camp has Canadian flags on their sign.
You won't see one single Canadian flag here, for who knows why.
And also, you will see so many people like this gentleman in front of me who has completely concealed his identity.
Now, why would that be?
In any event, let's wade into the mob and try to make sense of it all.
Well, folks, I'm with Esther, and she is wearing this signage.
Tal Shoham, he's a kidnapped victim from October 7th of last year.
And Esser, you have a personal connection with this kidnapped victim, don't you?
Yes, I do.
This is a very, very sad story.
Tal was on vacation in Beri when the attack occurred.
All his family from Beri were kidnapped, and him and his family, who were visiting there, a number of them were killed, including his father.
There were about three or four from the family that were killed.
The rest of them were kidnapped.
They've all been returned, including Tal's wife and children.
They were part of the exchange last time.
Tal is the only family member that's still in Gaza.
We don't know how he's doing because we just don't know.
So I'm a Lebanese person and I stand with Israel.
I want the world to know that not all Lebanese people are with Palestine.
And I want people to know that the Palestinians and the Syrians have massacred Lebanese people in Lebanon.
Cowards that don't show their faces, that aren't Canadian, they want to destroy all of our values.
Well, folks, I'm with Carol, and Carol told me off camera her father is a Holocaust survivor.
He's going to turn 95 on Thursday.
You know, Carol, what does your father say about this?
I mean, we're not even a century removed from the Holocaust.
And I would imagine people living in a country like Canada, they would never have dreamed to see chance for the genocide of the Jewish people.
But here we are.
What does your father say about this?
It's unbelievable.
It's totally unbelievable for his kids and grandchild as well because we've heard all the horrible stories.
He was in four concentration camps.
was started out in Birkenau and actually he was in um he was actually chosen to go into the gas chamber by Mengele And he, I saw a miracle.
He was in the gas chamber undressed.
And it was on Yem Kippor.
The door opened and the Germans needed 13 men to work.
And my father was one of them.
He spoke Yiddish, so he understood the German.
It was a miracle.
So he survived four death camps and the death march.
Well, folks, I'm with Renat, and she is the person who has rented this Jumbotron-equipped truck, similar to ours.
And so, Renaud, what I guess motivated you to bring this truck to this demonstration today?
Okay, thank you so much for having us on with you guys.
And my girlfriends are here with me.
I've got a lot of crew with me.
We're in the fashion business, and we felt after October the 7th that people were not speaking out in the industry.
I myself am a stylist.
I took it into my professional hands to do a photo shoot.
I had my family come in from Israel.
They stood with us.
The photos are with them.
They're with a diverse group of people.
Confrontation On The Streets00:12:26
So what I'm trying to explain to the public and what I'm trying to explain to our community is it's not just about the Jewish people.
I'm with Aaron Adida and Aaron, try to make sense of this for me.
Once again, we see about, I don't know, a dozen police officers interrogating somebody who was on the pro-Israel side across the street.
That crowd is chanting genocide, but nothing to see here, folks.
Move on.
What do you make of it?
Well, we've been coming here for over 55 weeks peacefully, without incident, without issues.
They decided that they were going to come and disrupt that to do exactly this, to look for any opportunity to have somebody arrested or detained or questioned or whatever.
This is what they came to do.
And we're not having it because nobody on this side has done anything in over 55 weeks.
Why would they start today?
Sir, can you tell me why they've arrested you?
Well, see, I'm not in the way of the police car, officer.
Well, I am back.
Can you tell me why he's been arrested?
Are you the man under arrest?
No, I can't.
Okay.
No, I can't.
Okay.
Well, that's very helpful.
Let me ask you this then.
Why are you turning a blind eye to people chanting genocide across the street, officer?
Got to speak to CorpCom about that.
Have a nice day.
Speak to who?
CorpCom.
CorpCom.
It'd be nice if they returned my emails.
They don't.
Why are they allowed to wear masks?
While committing crimes.
What's your answer to that question, officer?
They're all committing indictable offenses.
It's illegal for them to wear a mask.
That's the whole point here, Big Day.
They're anti-Jews.
All of them are anti-Jews.
All of them.
Well, folks, I'm with the man's wife, Michelle Goldkind.
Michelle, why is your husband cuffed in the back of this police SUV?
Well, we really don't know much.
All we know is that he has been arrested for threatening, I don't know, violence or something.
But they haven't told us what exactly.
They haven't shown us any videos.
The other side has been chanting death to Israel, death to Canada, death to Jews, all kinds of threatening violence slogans.
And my husband is being taken away in cuffs by six policemen.
But they won't tell me exactly why, what the allegations are.
Michelle, this sounds to me the very definition of two-tier policing.
No, it's totally, totally two-tiered.
It's a total double standard, complete double standard.
Why is that, sir?
Why do you want me on the other side?
Because they're keeping us separated.
Okay?
I don't have a dog in the hunt.
I'm just covering the news.
That's what the police is doing.
That's what the police is doing.
Do you advise the police, sir?
What?
Advise the police.
I don't want to talk to you right now.
I don't want to have this interview.
You're telling the police to remove me to the other side.
Yeah, well, I think we're under Canadian law, not Sharia law.
Grab a pin.
No, thank you.
Grab a pin.
Show your support for Palestine, sir.
Do you have a Remembrance Day poppy card for Palestine?
Why would I do that?
Because you're a human being and you have humanity inside you.
You don't condone killing and murdering.
Do you have any poppies there?
I'd like to buy a poppy.
This is a good one for you.
Jews against genocide.
No, first of all, I'm not Jewish.
Poppy Day is November 11th, sir.
You're too soon.
Okay, then.
You don't even know when it is.
Oh, I see.
Will you be wearing a poppy on Remembrance Day?
I did.
I always go to City Hall.
Yeah, I go to City Hall.
Yeah, okay, then.
I'm here to protect you.
That's okay.
They're joining the court.
Look at them.
Hey, I should have hit you with that stick.
Oh, I'm used to it.
So.
Hi, sir.
Why have you disguised yourself?
You don't know?
I said, be careful.
Free, free, Valentine!
Is this a Halloween costume you're wearing?
I think you're four days early.
Can you say anything other than that?
Free, free, Valestine!
Stop, stop and go on the other side.
Leave us alone.
I'm on a public street, sir.
I'm a member of the media, so I can be on a public.
You're here trying to provoke us.
Why don't you just walk away?
Okay, just don't talk to us.
Don't talk to us.
You walk away.
You speak for everybody here?
No one here wants to talk to you.
No one here wants to talk to you.
I thought we were under Canadian law, not Sharia law.
Canadian law.
That's the Canadian law.
The police officers are asking everybody to be separated.
You haven't asked me, sir.
Well, not yet.
Not yet.
Not yet.
But get that mic out of my face.
Just walk away.
No, I'm standing on my ground.
Get that mic out of my face.
Don't touch the mic.
Buck that mic out of my face.
Don't touch it.
You buck that mic in my face.
Get that mic out of my face.
Hey.
Get that mic out of my face.
That's assault.
Did you get that?
Officer, why don't you?
Why don't we?
Officer, are we under Canadian law or Sharia law right now?
You saw.
Hey, that's the second assault today.
That's the second assault.
No.
Go now.
Why?
Am I not allowed to practice journalism?
So because they don't want me here, you bend the knee to them?
I need my mic flash.
Do you have it?
Why are you taking orders from these thugs, officer?
When I was there, I got pushed by the sergeant.
So now this guy has to be over there.
So immediately.
I'm not a member of the demonstration.
Stop putting that mic on my face.
Stop putting that mic on my face.
Stop putting that mic in my face.
Why?
Because I want to keep the peace here.
So you need to come back to me.
I need my mic flash.
That's fine.
Why don't you uphold your oath, officer?
I'm practicing journalism on a public street.
I'm not giving an interview.
I just want to keep the peace.
I want to keep you safe.
Keep me safe.
You're armed.
You can, you know.
Unbelievable.
Again, folks, they are bending the knee to the mob.
You can see my mic was damaged when he reached out to it.
I'm still waiting for my mic flash.
do you know where it is so folks to prove the point of two-tier policing we were once again assaulted My microphone was damaged.
And to compound things, one of the members of the Hitler youth movement stole my mic flash.
So we have assault, we have property damage, we have theft.
And the response by the police is for me to get across the street.
Why are you taking orders from these thugs, officers?
When I was there, I got pushed by the sergeant.
So now this guy has to be over there.
I'm not a member of the demonstration.
Stop putting that mic on my face.
Stop putting that mic in my face.
Stop putting that mic in my face.
Why?
Because I'm here.
I'm in a public place right there.
I'm practicing public journalism in the public interest.
But clearly, the city of my birth in the Dominion of Canada, we are under Sharia law, not Canadian law anymore.
We've got the members of the Toronto Police Service acting like the Gestapo in some Islamic republic.
The rally that's going on is in solidarity, but the protest behind us on the other side is about hate.
And we need to stop hate.
We need to stop anti-Semitism in the city of Toronto.
The mayor has to do something.
The government has to do something.
And our people have to stand up for our rights.
Media and the leftist universities have been hijacked by the leftists.
And we need to take back civil society and the ability to think clearly and critically and know what is evil and what is good and justice.
Rebel News is on the forefront of doing that and many other media that are similar to Rebel.
I support you 100%.
I really think that the people across the street are made up of all kinds of people from all kinds of backgrounds.
And there are those amongst those demonstrators who know what we're going through, but they've been so brainwashed that they don't understand and they don't get it.
But I thoroughly believe that there are people on quote-quote the other side that want peace with us, that would die.
They would love it.
You know, it's a matter of talking.
It's a matter of sitting down and talking because they're being led by some, I don't know, people who're worse than animals, you know, and that's what they see all the time.
They can't help but puppet it.
But cooler minds can sit down and work this thing out that's been around for so long.
I hope to God, God help us, Amislaim Chai, that everyone sit down and work this out.
It'll take a couple of generations because hate doesn't disappear overnight.
It'll take generations, but we have to start somewhere.
They came for a confrontation.
They come for violence.
The pro-Hamas crowd are chanting genocide from the river to the sea, all their rhetoric, all their BS.
And at the end of the day, we know who they are.
We know exactly why they're here.
And unfortunately, you know, the police, I guess, are trying to do the best they can, but they should not have allowed them to come at all.
They should not be here whatsoever.
What do you have to say?
If you had the ear of Mayor Olivia Chow, of Police Chief Myron DemQ, what would you tell them?
Where were you on October 7th to memorialize the 1,200 Jews, including Canadians, that were killed?
Why is it you're able to show up for a Halloween costume party for kids, but you can't show up to support the Jewish people of Canada?
Canada has lost its senses.
We had COVID and now we have a mental disease called anti-Semitism.
And the bottom line is it's not fashionable to be anti-Semitic.
I just want to thank Rebel News and all that you do for us.
We really need a voice against all of these disgusting monsters who have nothing better to do than to make a country better.
We're only 2% of the world population.
It's unbelievable.
Thank you for all the work that you do for us.
Is not the Canada that we grew up in, nor is it the Canada that we want to stay in.
And this is, there's no future in a Canada with two-tier policing and unfairness.
And it's just, it's ridiculous.
They want death not just to Jews, Jews to Canadians, Jews to Americans.
Anybody that's not part of their anti-fatah and part of Islam, they want dead.
They're going to destroy our country and the world if we don't take action together.
What did you make of them, ma'am, of Mayor Chow snubbing the one-year vigil for the disgusting, disgusting, absolutely disgusting?
How does this play out?
How long is this going to go on for?
And how long are our politicians and our police force going to tolerate this?
When Justin Trudeau leaves this office, things are going to change.
Exposing The Hatred00:02:06
And we need to see change today.
And change is coming soon.
They don't support Canada.
And as far as I'm concerned, if you don't support Canada, you're not proud to be Canadian.
Get out.
Leave.
Go back to where you came from.
They're stepping on Israeli flags.
They're burning Canadian flags.
They're burning American flags.
How disrespectful is that?
If you live in this country, be proud to be Canadian.
We have lots of flags, Canadian flags, not just Israeli flags and American flags as well, because we are peace-loving people.
And really, the reality is they've covered their faces.
We don't know who they are.
And we have our faces exposed.
We are exposed.
We're saying to you, we are living here in Toronto.
Aside from what's going on in Israel right now, we must stand here and fight anti-Semitism in Toronto, in New York, in Chicago, in Montreal, global.
And that's what has to happen.
Oh, and folks, I should add, we're not here just to report the news.
We brought along our beautiful Rebel News truck.
Behind me, it is showing the message, bring them home.
That would be the kidnap victims of October 7th, 2023.
And if I can make an appeal to you, can you go to standwithisrael.com?
That's standwithisrael.com.
And if you're able to, kindly make a donation so that we can keep our beautiful truck on the road.
Well, it's Monday night and Tommy Robinson is in Belmarsh Prison, the toughest prison in all the United Kingdom.
And he'll be there for nine months.
They're trying to break him and try to break his movement.
Nine months in that prison, solitary confinement, would be enough to break many men.
Tommy's done it before, not quite nine months in solitary.
That's too much.
That's practically torture.
But I'm sure with the support of people and many visitors and friends, he'll get through it.