I was reporting on the anti-Semitic riots in that city.
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All right, here's today's podcast.
Tonight, an anti-Semitic riot in Amsterdam.
It's November 11th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you censorious f**k.
Trouble in the Wind00:03:05
It's November 11th, which is Remembrance Day, and normally I'm in the studio on Remembrance Day, and I read the poem by Rudyard Kipling called Tommy Atkins.
It's one of my favorite poems by one of my favorite poets.
It's written over 100 years ago, actually, before the Great War, certainly before the Second World War.
But it shows, I think, one of the characteristics of the West, which is we treat our veterans poorly and we rely on them.
They save us during wartime, but when it's peacetime, we don't treat them properly or they're widows.
Here's a little bit of a snippet of me reading that poem by Tommy Atkins last year.
I went into a public house to get a pint of beer.
The public canny up and says, we serve no red coats here.
The girls behind the bar, they laughed and giggled fit to die.
I outs into the street again and to myself, says I, oh, it's Tommy this and Tommy that and Tommy, go away.
But it's thank you, Mr. Atkins, when the band begins to play.
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play.
It's thank you, Mr. Atkins, when the band begins to play.
I went into a theater as sober as could be.
They gave a drunk civilian room, but hadn't none for me.
They sent me to the gallery around the music halls.
But when it comes to fighting, Lord, they'll shove me in the stalls.
For it's Tommy this and Tommy that and Tommy wait outside.
But it's special train for Atkins when the trooper's on the tide.
The troop ship's on the tide, my boys, the troop ship's on the tide.
Oh, it's a special train for Atkins when the trooper's on the tide.
Yes, making mocking uniforms that guard you while you sleep is cheaper than them uniforms and they're starvation cheap.
And hustling drunken soldiers when they're going large a bit is five times better business than parading in full kit.
Then it's Tommy this and Tommy that and Tommy, how's your soul?
But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.
The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll.
Oh, it's thin red lines of heroes when the drums begin to roll.
We aren't no thin red heroes, nor we aren't no blaggards too.
But single men in barracks, most remarkable like you.
And if sometimes our conduct isn't all your fancy paints, why single men in barracks don't grow into plaster saints?
Well, it's Tommy this and Tommy that, and Tommy fall behind.
But it's pleased to walk in front, sir, when there's trouble in the wind.
There's trouble in the wind, my boys.
There's trouble in the wind.
Oh, it's pleased to walk in front, sir, when there's trouble in the wind.
You talk of better food for us and schools and fires and all.
We'll wait for extra rations if you treat us rational.
Don't mess about the cookroom slops, but prove it to our face.
The widow's uniform is not the soldier man's disgrace.
Where it's Tommy this and Tommy that and chuck him out, the brute.
But it's savior of his country when the guns begin to shoot.
And it's Tommy this and Tommy that and anything you please.
And Tommy ain't a blooming fool, you bet that Tommy sees.
Solitary Confinement Crisis00:03:52
Well, this year we're in Amsterdam and I'm here for a number of reasons.
Yesterday I was in the United Kingdom where I went to visit Tommy Robinson in prison.
Tommy Robinson, of course, has nothing to do with Remembrance Day.
He's in prison because of a contempt of court sentence that was given by a British judge because he published an investigative documentary film contrary to a judge's order.
That's not a crime.
It's a civil offense.
But it's a jailable offense nonetheless.
So he's a civil prisoner.
He's being kept in solitary confinement, though, for his own safety.
And it's true, it has given him physical safety from a prison that's 37% Muslim, but it's also put him in a psychological duress.
You can't be in solitary confinement 23 and a half hours a day without it doing damage to your mind.
Here's a little bit of a video I filmed yesterday when I was driving home from my one-hour prison visit.
I'll just play a couple of minutes of it, but you can watch the whole thing at savetommy.com.
Tommy, I think, is being fair-minded about it.
He says, look, the prison, HMP Woodhill, was given him, likely unsuspectingly, that Tsami was sent to Belmarsh and then Belmarsh sort of got rid of him and sent him to Woodhill and they're trying to figure out what to do.
So he himself seems to be patient with them as they try and figure things out, but he says his patience is running out.
He has been, today was his 15th day in custody.
So he's hoping that this week provides some alteration.
I can tell you from my personal involvement that a prison law firm has been retained and has written a very detailed and footnoted letter to the prison governor addressing the impropriety of keeping Tommy in these current conditions in general, even if he was a criminal prisoner to be treated this way.
You don't put people in solitary confinement for nine months.
You don't do that.
That's a form of torture.
And that's if he were a criminal prisoner.
He is not.
He's a civil prisoner.
And we'll hope that there's a positive response from the prison.
Tommy says that other civil prisoners in his situation are allowed into the community, allowed to go home, allowed to work, and that he would obviously like to do that.
And it's not just something he would like to do, it's his right.
We also talked about the Terrorism Act case against him, a bogus case where police admitted that he was no terrorist, but were simply using the law as a way to compel him to answer questions.
Unlike a regular arrest when you're arrested under the Terrorism Act, you have no right to remain silent.
And that was their way for demanding access to his cell phone, even though his cell phone contains privileged information, both legally and journalistically.
Anyways, I'll leave my report there.
And I guess if I had to report in general, I would say he's 15 days in.
So of course he's not going to be falling apart.
Physically and mentally, he's still sharp.
He was cracking jokes.
He was energetic.
He was talking about having another mass rally when he's out.
He was giving his thoughts on the legal case of the Terrorism Act.
So he's doing fine 15 days in.
But he would not be doing fine because no man can do fine if you're in solitary confinement for an extended period of time.
Well, I was rushing home from the prison, not rushing home, rushing to the airport to come here to Amsterdam, where I am today, because on Thursday night, there were anti-Semitic riots.
Anti-Semitic Riots in Amsterdam00:15:27
I think you could even call them a pogrom on the streets of Amsterdam.
The football team, that's what they call soccer over here, Ajax, was hosting the football team from Israel called Maccabee.
And the thing about the Ajax team is it's got some Jewish characteristics.
Some of their fans, who are not Jewish, by the way, fly Israeli flags, sing the Jewish song Habane Gila for a variety of historical reasons.
It would sort of be like the Cleveland Indians and, you know, the Tomahawk Chop or the Atlanta Braves.
Believe it or not, the Dutch sports teams have a Jewish character, like those sports teams have a Native American character.
But when you had the combination of the Ajax team and the Maccabee team, where thousands of fans came over from Israel, well, you had a situation where the local Islamist immigrants here in Amsterdam, well, they couldn't resist a bit of a pogrom.
Here, take a look at some of the insane footage of foreign and in some cases, Dutch-born Islamist extremists beating Jews senseless, beating some unconscious, driving over some in Caudis.
I'm going to play a couple of minutes of found footage.
Much of this recorded by the pro-Hamas activists documenting their crimes in a manner similar to what happened in Gaza, attacking southern Israel on October 7th, 2023.
So I wanted to keep my appointments in the UK because it was difficult for me to get my hearing with Tommy Robinson.
So I didn't come straight to Amsterdam.
I went to the prison to visit Tommy first, and then I came to Amsterdam.
Now, obviously, by the time I arrived in the city, the riot had been cleaned up.
However, shocking news, here it is, as tweeted by Kirt Wilders, not a single rioter was arrested by police.
Not one.
They, in many cases, walked right by police.
Police were right there.
They tweeted or filmed their own activities.
Not a single one was arrested.
How does that happen?
How do you have a mass riot with hundreds of Islamist rioters and police don't take a single one?
I find it incredible.
We're still early days here.
It's still morning.
And we just came to the Jewish Museum in Amsterdam.
It was very strange, though, when they saw the rebel name on my shirt and our mic flash, they told us we're forbidden from going in.
And I said, well, we're happy to leave our camera and our microphone out just to take in the museum to learn a little bit about the Jewish history and maybe to talk to people inside the museum about where to go in the city to learn more about this story.
I found it very weird that because we were with rebel news and they specifically talked about rebel, they banned us from going in.
I think they were panicky or something.
It was very strange.
But I want to point out something a little quirky.
This Jewish neighborhood that we're in here, it used to be a Jewish neighborhood, and there are some Jews in the Jewish quarter still here.
But the Jews on this street were killed.
They were deported and shipped away to death camps.
And there's little copper bricks in the sidewalk.
Most of the sidewalk is just brick, but you can see there's little copper name plates with the names of individual Jews who were taken away and where they died in the death camp.
So you can see that shocking history around here.
But I want to criticize the museum, and it's not just because they're banning rebel news from going in.
I've come to Amsterdam because there was a real live medieval style anti-Semitic riot, except for instead of being perpetrated by the local community, it was perpetrated by the colonizing community of Islamists.
I should say that the king of the Netherlands specifically said that the country failed the Jews in a manner that it hadn't done since the Holocaust.
I thought that was actually a touching thing to hear from the king.
So it's on my mind, the pogrom.
Please turn around.
We want to check, so we want to film it.
What's your name?
I don't care.
You don't care what your name is?
Here, let's come closer here.
What's your name?
Don't touch me.
That's assault.
I'll call the police on you.
If you touch me again, I'll call the police.
So I came to Amsterdam because of this pogrom, because of this crisis.
And I want to learn more about it.
I want to learn about the, is the Jewish community here vulnerable?
I've done this in other cities in Europe.
For example, when I was in Hungary, I went to the great synagogue, and I was delighted to learn the Jews in Hungary and Budapest are very safe.
You might recall I talked to some young men in front of the synagogue who said it's easy to be Jewish in Hungary.
And in fact, Hungary was voted, Budapest in particular, one of the cities in which is the best place to be Jewish in Europe.
And that's a very short list, I can tell you.
I want to criticize this museum just for one second.
As you can see, like many museums, they have occasional exhibits that are on for a few months.
And the exhibit that is starting here in a couple weeks is a sex exhibit.
The Jewish Museum sex Jewish positions.
And I can't help but think of two things.
First of all, how irrelevant that is to the Jewish story of the Netherlands.
Jews came here en masse when they were expelled from Spain in the Inquisition about more than 500 years ago.
So there's this incredible historical story to tell of the Jews being kicked out of Spain, coming to the Netherlands, becoming involved in Holland's life and the life of Amsterdam, being important traders and actually giving a real boost to the Netherlands as a global power.
You may forget the Netherlands actually was a global empire and the Jews had an important role to play there.
And then the horrific story of the occupation of the Netherlands.
Hitler was in the Netherlands for five years and many of the Jews were extinguished.
Anne Frank was a Dutch story.
So you have all these real important stories of Jews in the Netherlands and a Jewish museum chooses to have a lascivious exhibit about sex.
It shows a disconnect not only from the past, but from the present.
How about do a museum exhibit about the place and the status of Jews in the face of mass immigration from people who want to do what the Nazis did last time?
But there's a second thing, and I was talking to some friends in the UK about this yesterday.
I was asked the question, why do some people hate Jews?
That's a tough one to ask.
And my response was, I'm not the mayor of the Jews.
I can't answer for everyone and for everything, but I have a few ideas.
There's some historical reasons.
There's some theological reasons.
The Jews rejected Jesus' claims and, in fact, tried him for blasphemy.
So there's theological, there's historical reasons.
There's some atrocious reasons.
I think these days, Iran and Qatar fund anti-Semitism in very subtle ways, including on social media.
But the answer that I gave to my friend in the UK who asked me about anti-Semitism was, one of the things I think that revs up anti-Semitism is when there are countercultural or anti-cultural things in society that are being led by someone who is ostentatiously Jewish.
And I think of the terrible case of Rabbi Shmuley, who is a caricature of a Jew in terms of how he looks and how he sounds.
And he just says so many offensive and atrocious things, including about sexuality, and he's doing so with the word rabbi attached to his name.
And every time I see Rabbi Shmuley on TV, I just wish he would shut up because every minute he talks, he creates another hundred anti-Semites.
And I have to say, that's how I felt coming here to see that the Jewish Museum of Amsterdam, what's their big focus?
It's been a year since the horrific attacks on southern Israel from Hamas.
It's been days since the pogrom in this city.
And what's their focus?
What do they want to tell the world about?
Jewish sex positions.
I got to tell you, there is no such thing as a Jewish sex position.
But this goes to my answer to my friend in the UK yesterday.
One of the reasons why anti-Semitism puts roots in the ground is because individuals who pursue countercultural ideas do so in an ostentatiously Jewish way.
There is no reason whatsoever why a Jewish museum should be having a sex show.
And it's not interesting.
This is Amsterdam.
There's plenty of sex shows around.
It's a very permissive and progressive society.
Amsterdam's famous for its red light district of prostitutes.
Drugs were legalized here decades before they were in North America.
The Jews don't need to get in on the pornographic or drug use story.
But the fact that in 2024, that's what the Amsterdam Jewish community cares about is deeply depressing to me.
How about tell the story of how the Jews helped build Holland?
How about tell a story about how the Jews in 2024 are at risk?
To them, being liberal is more important than being Jewish.
Step aside because we don't want to, we don't.
This thing here is for the visitation.
For the visitation?
I don't understand.
So why can't I go in there?
Is it your colleague says it's because I'm with Rebel News?
Is that right?
Can I go?
Will you let me in there?
No, coma, sir.
No comment?
I don't understand.
It says open for everyone.
So why can't we go in?
No, coma, sorry.
I'm a block over at the famous Portuguese synagogue.
And again, why would it be called the Portuguese Synagogue if it's in Amsterdam?
And the reason is because so many Jews who fled the Spanish Inquisition, fled to Portugal, eventually made their way to the Netherlands about 500 years ago.
And it's a mighty and massive building, but it's just so weird.
I mean, I'm a friend of the Jews.
I'm Jewish myself.
Our rebel news outfit is, in fact, accused sometimes of being too partisan on Jewish matters.
We're a Zionist in a time when that's sometimes considered a dirty word.
So it's really weird that I don't know if it's just the security guards or who it is who are demanding that we, and here's some police coming up right now, hopefully they're not going to interfere, demanding that we not enter the Portuguese synagogue.
Hey to him, boss.
I'm not sure if they're here for other reasons or here for us, but I find it very weird.
I was talking to our videographer and head of video, Efron Monsanto, about this, and I just saw the exit polls from the U.S. presidential election.
And I've seen two different numbers.
I've seen that 67% of Jews voted for Harris, and I saw another exit poll that says 78% did.
I'm not sure what to believe or how accurate they are, but I find it deeply depressing that, not because I want Jews to be right-wing or that I want Trump to have the moral support on a personal basis, but Trump is so evidently a pro-Israel candidate.
But more than that, for the last year, Jews in America have seen anti-Semitism run wild in the streets of America.
I'm not talking about Israel anymore.
I'm talking about New York City and Harvard.
And if you saw these, basically this anti-Semitic crime wave that we've been experiencing in Canada, it happened in America too.
How can you be a Jewish American, see what the left is permitting, see what mass immigration is permitting, and vote for the party that abides that?
How?
Is there some self-loathing, self-hating gene in the Jewish community?
And I say this partly because one of the security guards specifically mentioned that it was because we were with rebel that we're not allowed into the Jewish museums here.
And I said we would leave our microphone and camera back.
I just wanted to see them with my own eyes.
I don't understand what's going on there.
And maybe it was just a misunderstanding.
But it can be no misunderstanding that 60, 70, 78% of American Jews voted for Kamala Harris and the party of Ilhan Omar.
I just don't get that.
And as a Jew, it's a perplexing thing.
I want the Jewish community to thrive.
I want it to be safe both in Israel and in the diaspora.
I consider myself to be a Canadian first.
Canada is my homeland.
My country is Canada.
My family has lived in Canada for more than 120 years.
I seek to go nowhere else.
And I'm actually more worried about the safety of Jews in Canada than I am in Israel.
I think Israel can generally take care of itself.
Things are very extreme here in Europe where ancient Jewish communities centuries old are being driven out.
And instead of fighting back, the Jews of Amsterdam are putting on sex exhibits at their museum and keeping out right-wing journalists from synagogues.
It's really embarrassing.
Are you filming?
Yeah.
Can you stop filming?
You're interacting with us.
We have to strong for our safety.
For safety, we are police.
We are free for your safety.
I don't feel very safe right now because you have a lot of weapons.
And I'm a journalist, and so I'm afraid now.
We're going to call you are flying with a drone.
Is that correct?
I don't have a drone.
Are you have a drone?
I was flying the drone.
Sorry?
I was flying the drone.
Okay.
Do you have any identity papers?
Is that a requirement to show them to you?
Yeah.
It is required by lawyers.
Who cares?
Why They Called the Cops00:04:17
And can I ask you one more question?
Thank you.
How come there were no arrests for the rioters two nights ago?
Kirit Builder says not a single rioter was arrested.
I don't answer your questions.
If I was a rioter, would you let me go?
You hear what I say?
I don't answer your questions.
Okay, but I can still ask them because it's a free country, right?
Of course you can ask them, but only communication can answer your questions.
Okay.
So if you want an answer from the police, then yeah, thank you.
So you need to contact communications, okay?
Okay.
I wish that you guys had been there when there was the riot, the anti-Semitic riot, because maybe the Jews would have been protected.
But you're focusing on journalists instead.
They actually called the cops on us, which is sort of crazy.
As I said to one of them, if I was a Moroccan rioter, would they let me go?
And I actually sort of know the answer to that question because they didn't arrest a single rioter, not one.
It was a massive citywide melee, and the cops sort of let them go, but they're a little braver in the daytime when it's journalists they're after.
I don't get that.
I mean, maybe they're political.
These guys seem like really normal cops.
Maybe they're just following some instruction.
I don't understand.
At least the police here in the Netherlands have firearms.
In the UK, they typically don't.
That's a good thing when you're fighting against rioters.
It's not a good thing when you're fighting against journalists, though.
I'd rather have the British bobbies.
What are you waiting for?
For an answer.
To what question?
They're checking if it's allowed to fly with a drone in Amsterdam without a permit.
So they're checking it now with the Department of Aviation, if you need a permit or not.
You don't even know.
You don't know it.
I'm not from the air traffic police, I'm from the...
In Canada you have the Royal Mounted Police, right?
That's right.
That's right.
They're experts with pepper spray.
Really?
The horses.
Yeah, the horses.
Yeah.
Have you ever been to Canada?
No, I haven't.
But I heard it's very beautiful.
Thank you.
It's very beautiful.
When we're done here, we were going to go to the National War Memorial for the Canadians that helped liberate the Netherlands after the Second World War.
It's not allowed to use a drone here in Amsterdam.
Even a toy drone that's under 250 grams?
No drone.
Even toys?
Are you sure?
I can't fly with something in Amsterdam.
Okay, thank you for your cooperation.
Okay.
Thank you for being so cordial.
All right, good luck.
Keep the streets safe, gentlemen.
Keep us safe.
Well, they were pleasant after all.
And I wasn't particularly grouchy, but I couldn't help but say I wish that they had arrested someone on the riots.
But they did let us go.
I happen to know a little bit about drone law.
Believe it or not, you might find this hard to believe.
I'm a licensed drone operator back in Canada.
I took the exam.
It's very easy to do.
I recommend you do it too.
So one of the things you study when you become a licensed drone operator is rules about safety.
And drone manufacturers around the world have a cutoff.
I think it's 250 grams.
I'd have to check that.
Anything under that is considered a toy.
And you don't need a drone license to operate.
Anything above that, you do.
And so when we operate a drone at Rebel News, we use the toy version.
And the reason it's not regulated is it's so light that even if it bumped into you or dropped on you, it wouldn't hurt.
It wouldn't do any damage.
I think that's why there's a, if you're operating a heavier drone, it makes sense to have those licenses because that could do damage to a person or property.
Anyways, I think those cops were set on us by the museum folks.
It's very weird what's going on.
I would have lights up gone into the Jewish Museum and to the Portuguese Jewish synagogue, not to do streeters, not even to film things, although I don't think there's any problem taking pictures.
Jews and Revolution00:03:42
Ordinary people do that on their cell phones all the time, but just to learn a little bit more about the history of the Jews in Amsterdam.
And maybe if anyone seemed friendly, ask them for advice of where to go to cover the story.
I just find it closed-minded that the security here saw Rebel News and talked to us about Rebel and said that because of the word rebel, that we wouldn't be allowed in.
And they gave us a bunch of weird excuses.
I think they Googled us.
And, you know, like I said, Amsterdam is a very left-wing city.
And the Jews of Amsterdam appear to be very left-wing.
And they would rather stop us from learning about the Jewish community than assisting rebel news in any way.
We're not even here to do a story on the Jewish community.
It was sort of the context and the background to it.
I don't want to overemphasize the point, but it is part of that suicide gene that Jews around the world have, that they support the parties of the left, even as they're devoured by them.
One of the grave mistakes that Jews in Russia made about 100 years ago was to think that the communist revolution would somehow free them.
I think one of the reasons why so many Russian Jews became communists is because Jews in Russia had a tough time.
There were always pogroms.
There was violence against Jews.
It was commonplace.
Anti-Semitism, the protocols of the elders of Zion was a forgery in Russia designed to make the Jews look terrible.
So when someone came along and said, we're going to have this utopian future where religion is abolished and we're all equal, I think that appealed to Jews, or to some Jews who said, finally, we won't be persecuted anymore for being Jewish.
And there was a disproportionate number of Jews that got involved in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Some of them had very senior positions like Leon Trotsky.
Of course, most of them, in the end, were assassinated.
Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico City.
There was a great purge, and many of the Jews who helped Lenin seize power and hold power themselves were murdered.
And soon enough, the Soviet Union became a major persecutor of Jews.
And far from being a post-religious utopia, in the Soviet Union, Jews on their passports were indicated as Jews.
And they had their career and other life prospects limited.
You might know that in the 70s and 80s, there were a number of Jewish Soviet dissidents called Refusniks.
And it was a subject of negotiation between Jimmy Carter and Brezhnev in the 70s during a period called Détente, where a number of thousands of Soviet Jews and some others were let out of the Soviet Union because they were being persecuted and they were sort of freedom activists.
And, You know, Sharansky is a name of a Soviet dissident who was put in the gulag.
He was Jewish, he was a scientist, and he was an opponent of the Soviets.
There's a terrible thing, I think, Jews coping with being a minority, with being the other, sometimes say, well, we can be part of a revolution to change the world.
And I don't know, there's no such thing as utopia.
If you actually look at the Greek definition of the word utopia, it means no place.
You'll never get to a perfect utopia on earth.
That's reserved for heaven.
So these Jews who buy into progressive politics do so at their own peril and they doom the rest of us.
Right here is Olivia Chow's dream.
Dutch Jews and Riots00:17:47
Look at that.
Happy Dutch people on their bikes.
No cars.
Well, there's some parked cars, but no car traffic.
An electric tram.
Every progressive politician in North America who comes to the Netherlands and Denmark is the same.
They say, why can't we have this?
We have low-rise buildings.
We have lots of bike paths.
And here's a guy going by on a scooter right now.
I think one of the answers is because in Canada, it's snowy six months of the year.
And you can't bicycle in the snow.
Another reason is, take for example, the atrocious megalopolis we call Toronto.
Six and a half million people in the greater Toronto area.
You can't have a happy little bike if you're going from Brampton to downtown Toronto.
It just doesn't work.
I think the Netherlands works for the Netherlands and Copenhagen works for Copenhagen.
It's a combination of how the city evolved historically too.
Many of the roads in Europe are so narrow that you simply couldn't drive a full-size vehicle down them and bicycles are the way.
Some of their emergency vehicles like ambulances are clearly narrower to get through some of these ancient streets.
Anyways, I just saw that little swarm of bikes go by and it made me think of the dream that socialist politicians want to impose on the car-loving America and Canada.
And I say this, it'll never happen.
Amsterdam is such a beautiful city and one of its features are the canals.
Just gorgeous.
Of course, Netherlands became a seagoing, mighty superpower with an empire around the world.
To this day, you see remnants of it in the Holland-America line cruise ship industry.
But one of the features of these canals is it's very cold out and the water is extremely cold.
You would not want to fall in.
We just talked to a shopkeeper a moment ago who told us about one of the things that happened in the pogrom on the streets here two days ago.
Is that Moroccan rioters cornered Israeli football fans on the street and said, say free Palestine or we throw you in the water.
Now, that sounds like, you know, I mean, it's bullying, of course, at the very least.
And it sounds like it could be like a silly prank.
But when it is very cold, it's single digits degrees right now.
My hands, I can barely feel them.
It's so cold.
Say free Palestine, here we go.
Good.
Come here up, bitch.
To throw someone in the water, not only could they drown, obviously, especially if they were wearing coats and whatnot, but you could drown, you could freeze.
And there's video clips of that, of these anti-Semitic rioters catching Jews and saying, say, Free Palestine, or we kill you, or we attack you.
And obviously robbing them as well.
Just absolutely astonishing.
And we just heard that story told to us by a shopkeeper a minute ago.
It's Sunday at around noon.
The riots were on Thursday night.
So by now, obviously, things have calmed down.
There still is quite a police presence.
We're at a central plaza, which is really full of tourists.
But you can see riot police deployed.
You know they're riot police because they have those very long batons suitable for cracking people over the head.
There's a lot of police vans, including you can see they have those smash-proof screens over their windshields.
And one of them has what I think is a facial recognition camera on the roof.
So although it is completely peaceful now, and many of these people are tourists, we spoke to some tourists from Yorkshire who didn't know any of the politics.
They're just here in Amsterdam having fun.
But obviously the political authorities are on standby.
And part of that is because the king of the Netherlands himself weighed in and said that the Jews were let down by the country in a way that they hadn't been since the Second World War, he said.
And I think when the king would weigh in on a matter like that above partisanship, other authorities like the police would pay attention.
So you can see a lot of police vehicles, a lot of police with their batons.
But of course it's daytime in a tourist area.
The Israelis have long since gone home.
So you're not going to see any riots today.
Well, the folks here at Anne Frankhouse are a lot friendlier than the museum staff at the Jewish Museum.
And I think this is an outstanding museum.
It's actually the third busiest museum in all of the Netherlands, the first, of course, being the Rembrandt Museum, and then the second is the National Museum.
This is actually the place where Anne Frank, the teenage Jewish girl, hid in an attic from the Nazis.
And she was finally revealed where she was and she was shipped off to her death.
Her diary, of course, is a heartbreaking tale of a Jewish girl who is suddenly an alien in her own land and invaders coming to kill her merely because she was Jewish.
The Netherlands have a deep Jewish history.
We talked earlier about how many Jews came to the Netherlands when they were expelled from the Spanish Inquisition.
There are many things about the city that are associated with Jews.
Even the local football team, one of their nicknames is the Jews.
And it's quite the same way in North America.
We have different Indian bands as the icon of our sports teams.
But I can't help but think the Jewish history of the Netherlands, it was not completely extinguished by the invaders in 1940.
Hitler did not destroy every vestige of the Jews.
And the Netherlands kept within their heart a sense of loyalty to the Jews even after Hitler had killed so many of them.
But here we are in 2024 and I think the Jewish history of the Netherlands is finally being erased by another kind of invasion, an invasion that the Dutch are rolling out the red carpet for.
I'm talking about allowing mass immigration into the Netherlands by people from endemically anti-Semitic countries.
You can't bring in hundreds of thousands or even millions of people into a country who come from a place, a history, a nation, a culture, a religion that's deeply anti-Semitic without one day that manifesting itself.
And we see that in North America with these pro-Hamas hate encampments.
And I think here in the Netherlands where they've had mass immigration for longer than we have in Canada, I think it's harder to deal with it.
It's harder to weed out.
The roots are more deeply planted.
The riots in Amsterdam two days ago against the Jewish football fans who had come from Israel to watch a game of their local team against the Dutch, I think that may be a turning point for many Dutch Jews just to get out.
And I think we've passed that point in France as well.
France used to have one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe.
Now it's last one out, turn off the lights.
I think that the demographics of France is the reason for that.
There's just simply so many people from French North Africa who are Muslim Arabs who despise Jews, not all of them, of course, but enough of them that they're starting to sway the nation.
One of the reasons why Emmanuel Macron sided with Hamas so deeply is because of the demographic reality in France.
I don't believe that Emmanuel Macron has an anti-Semitic bone in his body.
I think what he's doing is he's reflecting the modern invasion of France by millions of people who hate Jews.
And I don't know the statistics in the Netherlands, if it's in the millions yet, or just the hundreds of thousands, but this history here and the fact that it's memorialized in this museum, that's great.
But the job of extirpating the Jews from the Netherlands, it's been picked up by a new generation of invaders who were welcomed here in the name of diversity and multiculturalism.
You know that my number one issue is mass immigration.
In Canada, I believe that that affects every other issue there is, from crime to housing to driving down wages.
But the cultural factor to me is the most important.
We've imported an ancient hatred into our country.
And one of the great ironies about the anti-Semitism of mass immigration is that to this day, the Jewish community seems dedicated to the very mass immigration that will, if left unchecked, finish Hitler's job.
Oh, you do.
What did you hear about the riots a couple of nights ago from the Maccabee football team and is it IACS?
Is that how you say the group?
So what did you hear?
What happened?
I heard that a few Jewish people were attacked from other people here in Amsterdam.
But I also heard that Jewish people attacked them first.
So yeah, like some people from Israel took down Palestinian flags all over the city, attacked a taxi driver because he was Arab.
So yeah.
Right now young people are really not racist and anti-Semitism.
I don't know.
And I don't know.
No, I don't think young people are.
I heard there was no arrest made.
Did you hear that also?
I don't know about that, yeah.
So what are your thoughts on it?
So you think that the Israelis might have started things?
I think so, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think the media is doing a very bad job at saying that it was all day like the Palestinian people who attacked the Israeli people.
But I think that also Israel started first.
I saw a video of an Israeli taking down a Palestinian flag and that's wrong to steal the mischief.
But I also heard that Israelis were beaten unconscious, unconscious, which seems a little more serious to me.
I also heard that some Israeli people beat up an Arab taxi driver though.
So I don't know about that.
I think both sides were wrong at this case and I think the media is just portraying a different image saying that only the other people who attacked Israel people were wrong.
But I think that both of them were wrong.
And in general, do you think that the Dutch media is pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian?
I think the Dutch media is pro-Israel, like most of the medias in Europe at least.
I think most of the media in Europe is pro-Israel.
Yeah, definitely.
What media do you follow?
Do you follow any particular websites or TV stations?
No, I follow, I look everywhere, you know, yeah.
Well, we're back at the central plaza of Amsterdam.
When we were here a few hours ago, we counted a half a dozen police fans and police in small groups.
I presumed that the excitement was over, but in fact, today a pro-Hamas protest is happening.
As you can see, there are now dozens of police vehicles and riot police with those batons, shields, helmets, and visors.
They're forming a line to block additional people from joining the pro-Hamas protest.
You can't see them, but you can hear them.
It's a small group that is meeting, they say, in defiance of the government.
Because of the riots two days ago, and I think because of, frankly, the shock by the entire establishment from the king on down, they did not give a permit to the pro-Hamas protesters that they normally do.
Nonetheless, they chose to rally in defiance of that legal, lack of legal sanction.
Police evidently seem to be allowing the protest to continue, but have formed literally a human wall stopping new people from joining.
I should say, I would call it peaceful, even though it's heavily armed batons, shields, helmets, etc.
I see no fisty cuffs.
There's no opposing force.
The Israeli football fans who were here on Thursday have obviously long since gone home.
A statement by the pro-Hamas side said they're not going to allow the weaponization of anti-Semitism, they say.
In other words, the fact that there was an anti-Semitic pogrom on Thursday won't stop the pro-Hamas folks from protesting.
Anti-Israeli.
Well, what's the difference?
There's a big difference.
And what is the difference?
Israel is a state that creates extremely aggressivity and violence and genocide.
Well, Jewish people, as me, does not do it.
And the Israeli claim that Judaism, which is not true, there's a lot of Jewish people who's looking for peace.
Well, looking for peace, I agree with you that there's a lot of Israelis who are looking for peace, but you can't.
I'm Jewish and I'm ex-Israeli and I totally don't agree that it's the same thing.
Well, that would be like saying, I love French people, I just hate France.
I love Italian people, I hate Italy.
Manipulate what I said.
There's a lot of Jewish people who don't recognize themselves in Israel.
Well, they're self-hating Jews, and you seem like one of them.
I'm putting Shabbat every day, and I go to the synagogue.
I'm not so faithful to Jews, I love Jewish so much that it's really...
How can you be a Jew without Zionism?
Zionism is the core of Judaism.
No, Zionists support other things except Judaism.
Judaism exists everywhere.
Zionism exists in Israel, not in our name.
Yeah.
I'm good to talk to you.
You're so manipulative.
You came up to me to speak to me, so I think you do want to talk.
I'm going to talk now.
Rebel.
Two weeks newspaper do you talk?
I don't even know what a newspaper is.
I'm not of your vintage.
No, sorry.
Okay, see you later.
I think it's, I think it's very interesting.
The wall of police to stop people from joining.
I haven't seen that move before.
But they're very intimidating looking.
They've got the body armor on their legs.
They've got the helmet.
They've got the batons and the shields.
You would not mess around with there.
And indeed, no one is messing around.
You can hear in the background, I don't know if you can hear it through the microphone, there is some drumming and hollering from whatever protesters are in the center of the largest swarm of police, I frankly ever been in since the trucker convoy in 2022.
There's no messing around here with these folks.
I haven't counted, I would estimate there are at least 100 police with shields, batons, helmets.
These folks are prepared for absolutely anything.
I see a female riot squad officer there.
Can I join those journalists there?
Yeah, do you have your trespass on you?
Thank you.
Well, because we're pressed, we're being granted access to, I suppose, the inner circle of the protests.
That was fairly easy.
This, I presume, is the closest we'll be able to get.
I have to say, if I were to attempt to count, I would say the total number of protesters is measured maybe in the dozens.
It's a very small group, but there's one fellow with a megaphone.
They're chanting, fuck the police, abolish the police.
They're absolutely hemmed in by police.
I've never seen this before.
I've heard of kettling.
I mean the kettle is quite small here I see some indigenous Dutch people but also yeah it's mainly Dutch nationals I don't see a lot of foreign-born activists here.
The kefir, of course, being the ultimate fashion accessory for the Western liberal.
These are pretty gentle Dutchmen.
I don't see any migrants.
I think the migrants were here on Thursday night for the riot, this is the sympathy reaction by rich Amsterdam kids, I think.
So I see some signs in various languages, Justice for Palestine, obviously in English.
Dutch Tolerance on Display00:04:23
And then I see a sign there written in Hebrew, I believe.
The Dutch police seem to have a light touch.
Now, as I criticized the cops who talked to us earlier, perhaps too light a touch.
They seem to allow the riots to happen two days ago without any arrests.
The thugs on Thursday who beat people unconscious, who went on the pogrom, they were not Dutch liberals.
They were foreign migrants, many of them with foreign nationality.
This crew here that's meeting in solidarity with them are fancy, luxury, indigenous Dutch who would tell you that they're not for violence, who would tell you that they're very thoughtful about it, and they have an economic theory or a political theory.
I met one self-hating Jew who said you can be a Jew and not a Zionist.
I don't think that's possible, actually.
It would be like a Frenchman who's saying they don't believe in France or an Italian who doesn't believe in Italy.
It sort of doesn't make sense.
These people here would tell you they're tolerance.
They would tell you they're progressive.
They would tell you that this is an intellectual exercise.
But make no mistake about it.
They are here in solidarity and in support and as an extension of the rioters and the pogrom beaters of Thursday night.
These are the people who whitewash the violence.
These are the people who justify the violence.
It's that Islamist progressive alliance that we've seen in places like Columbia University or the University of Toronto or the streets of Montreal.
These people try and put an intellectual gloss on the raw medieval violence, not only that was committed three nights ago here in the Netherlands, but that happened on October 7th in southern Israel.
A lot of trucks.
Some are black, some are white.
Some have cameras on the roof for facial recognition.
Many have a screen, a smash-proof screen over them.
But my favorite truck at this event is that one there.
The hot dogs and burgers truck.
It appears to be open for business.
Now that's a protest I can get behind.
You know, the Dutch people are wonderful people.
Canada and the Netherlands have a long history.
You might recall that during the Second World War, there was a birth in the royal family.
And the Dutch, of course, the royal family had been driven out of the Netherlands when the Nazis invaded and they actually moved to Canada.
And the birth of the princess, who grew up to be the queen, if my history is right, happened in Canada, but that hospital room in which the baby was born was deemed Netherlands soil.
So it could be said that the princess was born in the Netherlands.
That was one connection.
Also, Canadian forces helped liberate the Netherlands after the nearly five-year-long occupation, which is why to this day, the Dutch people send to Parliament Hill tens of thousands of tulips, which is associated with the Netherlands, almost like their official flower.
Every year, the Netherlands plants tulips on Parliament Hill as a way of saying thank you to Canada, not just for providing refuge for the royal family, but for helping to liberate the Netherlands from the Nazis as well.
I wonder what that generation of Dutchmen would think about this, of the anti-Semitism that has reared its head again.
I wonder what they would think of the whitewashing of Nazi-style propaganda and indeed Nazi-style pogroms on the very streets where the Nazis hounded people like Anne Frank.
Anti-Semitism Resurfaces00:15:33
Well, they're back now and not just the thugs, but those who would justify the thugs.
I don't know if you saw it, but that megaphone that that lady is using has the Antifa flag on it.
These are garden variety communists.
They're Dutch ethnically, as you can see.
During the Cold War, they would have been on the side of the Soviet Union, looking to weaken the West from within.
Well, the Soviet Union is gone.
What's the new existential challenge to the Free West?
Why?
It's radical Islam.
So someone who would have been against the West for the Soviet Union 40 years ago is now against the West for Islamic terrorism.
These people are out having a lark, these Dutch protesters.
You know, they go out for a coffee and pancakes, says it's the Dutch way.
And then they go for a good holler, some chants in English and in Dutch.
Feel the frisson of being a bad boy.
None of them will get arrested, but they'll come close and they'll tell that story for weeks to come.
It's a luxury view, a luxury feeling.
But you know what?
It's the same old anti-Semitism and it's ugly.
Police are clearing people away.
They're using their batons to push them onto the bus.
They're doing some pushing.
The batons are out.
There's some people resisting, but not very much.
A vehicle is coming up.
We don't want to get any closer.
This is about as close as you can get without being pushed by a baton.
In fact, I think we're the only journalists left on the scene.
It's very interesting to see the back of his shield.
This is kettling.
This is what they call kettling.
There's one young woman who's decided to sit down.
I don't want to get any closer lest they mistake me for a protester.
But you can see they're physically pushing the protesters onto the bus.
Overhead, not only a drone, but a helicopter.
I'm most sure that's a police helicopter.
That could be a news helicopter.
And same with the drone.
I do not know.
There's some clowning around, some dancing around.
Some shouting, some poking with the stick.
So I'm hitting, hitting in the legs with the baton.
Some people sitting down to make it more difficult.
A police vehicle pushing from behind to close the space.
Pushing everyone onto the buses.
This is amazing access for rebel news on the scene in Amsterdam.
I'm going to film with a second camera.
I'm pulling back so I don't get trampled on or hit by accident.
Some people being grabbed.
Some people lying down.
I'm pulling back down.
I'm pulling back down.
A form of passive resistance.
But in the main, they are now being pushed on the bus.
I'd say there's about 15 people who have resisted.
Looks like they're about to depart.
I believe all the protesters at this point are now on the buses.
A little bit of fisty cups, but nothing.
I think it would rise to the level of an injury.
Some pushing and shoving.
Very interesting to see the back of these riot shields.
They're made of some woven wicker or something.
I would have thought they'd be plastic or metal, but they're, it looks like they're almost a medieval style of woven branches.
Police are on the bus.
I'm sure they're about to depart for where I don't quite know.
My guess is that they'll be held for a number of hours and then released without charge.
They're jumping up and down in the bus.
I think the bus suspension can handle it, but it's, you know, I guess that's the leftist bouncy castle.
All the protesters are on the buses.
They're banging on the windows.
They are being escorted by police on the buses.
There are plenty of police and now a number of the police vans.
One, two, three, four, there's too many to count.
They're all departing at once.
There are some cheers and chants outside of the big church.
Police giving us a little friendly beep so we're not run over.
And with that, the square is nearly empty.
There are some, I think, sympathetic protest supporters in front of the church there, but I don't expect them to take a second round of things as the organizers themselves were deported.
Looks like there's a smaller secondary protest near some of these shops.
Some very high-end shops, Swarobski, Crystal, considered a luxury brand.
Police vehicles absolutely blocking any access, pulling out one activist now.
Looks like they're going to put him in a vehicle.
And there he is, and he's away.
As you can see up there, shopkeepers from this is H ⁇ M.
This is an absolute tourist heartland of Amsterdam that's being turned into a protest zone.
I have no idea if this goes on on a weekly basis as it does in cities like London, Toronto, and Montreal.
But it seems unusual to me that it's outside of a shopping, like a retail store.
I have experience with police in half a dozen jurisdictions, including Canada, the United States, Australia, UK, Switzerland, etc.
And I have to say that the policing touch here in the Netherlands is very light touch when it comes to journalists.
They are allowing us so much access.
If we were any closer, we would be in the midst of these arrests.
I contrast that to the heavy-handed policing in my own country of Canada.
But where we're standing now, believe it or not, is cordoned off by the police because of these protests that have been ruled by the courts illegal.
I'm not one for banning political protests, but there was a violent pogrom several days ago.
And I think the courts were concerned that there would be violent riots again.
There were packs of foreign nationals from Morocco and other Muslim countries that were hunting down Jews and Israelis in the street, beating them unconscious, riding over them in cars.
And I think it so shocked the nation that the court denied this protest its legal permit.
Nonetheless, as you can see, the protest is proceeding.
Police have just put a big cordon around the whole center.
Frankly, these are the first people who look like foreign nationals being escorted away.
I don't know if they are foreign nationals.
I see a foreign passport.
So they do look, I see passports out.
Those look like foreign men being escorted out.
Those foreign men with foreign passports were the ones who reportedly were committing the pogroms.
It's not a surprise to me that the police immediately escorted the foreigners.
They had to catch a flight.
They had to catch a flight, he said.
Isn't that the truth?
You know what?
I'm still trying to figure out these Dutch police.
I'm trying to figure them out.
Hamas is part of the people, so you cannot destroy Hamas because it's part of the people.
So you support Hamas?
I support, I support, you know what?
The Dutch has been occupied for four years here by the Germans.
Almost five, yeah.
Yeah, almost five, let's say five years.
When we would not have been freed and the occupation would have stayed on for 70 years or more, then we also would have to fight against the Germans.
So the Jews are like the Nazis, is what you're saying in your analogy.
I'm not saying the Jews, I'm saying the Hamas are a freedom organization.
So the Hamas.
So you're saying Hamas are like the Jews and Israel is like the Nazis?
No, that's what I'm not saying.
I'm saying Hamas is a liberation movement.
And how about a woman like you who's uncovered?
Would you be liberated if you were in Gaza?
How are women treated?
How are gays treated?
That has nothing to do with this war.
You said they were a liberation movement.
Yes, it has nothing to do with your religion.
How about gay people?
What's it like being gay in Gaza?
Is it easy?
Gay in Gaza?
I don't know.
I think you do know.
You just won't say it.
No, I don't know.
I mean, there are lots of people, it's a religious thing.
So people who are religious, there are some people who are following very fundamental religions.
They murder gays.
Can you bring yourself to say that?
Christians are against gays.
Do they murder gays?
Christians are against gays.
In Africa and Christian countries, gays are murdered.
Like which countries?
I think perhaps I don't know.
No, Israel is not.
You're making things up again, aren't you?
Free free, free batteries, gays!
Free free, free power is gay!
Free free, free battle is gay!
Do you love the Netherlands or do you hate the Netherlands?
I love the Netherlands.
My grandfather brought Jews to Switzerland in the Second World War.
Sounds like an outstanding man.
Sounds like a great man.
And my other grandfather, he was with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
Wow, so he was an ally of the Nazis.
In the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War.
On which side?
What do you think?
On the Muslim side.
On the right side of humanity.
So you have both a Jew lover on one side of your family and a Jew hater.
I'm a German, Indonesian, Dutch, and Egyptian.
Well, that's an interesting mix because one of your grandfathers was saving Jews and one of your grandfathers was killing Jews.
Yes.
That's incredible.
You're a mix.
But both of them, both of them live in you.
Yes?
And both of them were rebelling for humanity because every human being is against the loss of innocent civilian life.
It doesn't matter if they're Jewish or if they're Palestinian or if they're Lebanese or if they're Arab or if they're Muslim or if they're Jewish, doesn't matter.
It's also nothing to do with anti-Semitism because anti-Semitism is something very different than what happened here in Amsterdam in this last week.
Because we defended our city against rebellion hooligans who were destroying our city, who were beating a cab driver.
And in Amsterdam, we don't take this.
If you hit a cab driver, we will organize the whole of Amsterdam and we will get you.
Tell me a country where gays are killed other than a place with Islamic Sharia law.
Tell me one country that kills.
Uganda kills?
Oh yes.
Oh yes.
You found one.
I don't dispute that.
Congo too?
They kill geyser.
So let me get back to your point about Hamas being the good guys.
No, I don't say Hamas are the good guys.
You said they were a national liberation movement.
Really?
Yeah, a liberation movement, of course.
And between 2005 and a year ago, there was not a single Jew in all of Gaza.
There was not a single Israeli soldier.
There was not a single Israeli settlement.
It was occupied.
The whole border was one Israeli military camp.
Well, you know it borders Egypt.
You know that Gaza borders Egypt.
Sorry.
You know that Gaza borders Egypt, right?
Are you aware of that?
The Gaza border is also part of Israel.
But you just said it was surrounded by...
A small part is Egypt.
The rest is all Israel.
You said the word we.
Were you part of that pushback?
I'm part of the rebellion.
So were you on the streets on Thursday night?
I was not on the streets.
Okay, so when you say we, that's a little bit of stolen valor there.
You were sort of self-aggrandizing.
I have connections.
My friends were out on the streets.
So when you say we, it wasn't really you.
My friends were out on the street.
I was out on the street.
You were.
I was, but I'm not hitting anybody.
Good for you.
Because I'm a pacifist.
I don't believe that.
Well, that's what you think.
I don't believe Israelis are pacifists either.
I don't think they would say they are either.
I think it's very wrong if you kill 17,000 children and think that the 7th or 8th of October happened in a vacuum.
No, it didn't.
Because there's a 75 years of occupation and apartheid system.
Apartheid system which was founded by the Dutch people in South Africa, by the way.
And South Africa.
Africa and Indonesia, former colonies of the Dutch.
They are the only ones who do not declare the state of Israel a state.
Are you a student?
Are you working or are you a university?
I am working for the labor union.
Well, that explains a few things.
But I tell you, you're very charismatic, and your eyes are a wonderful color, and your story of your lineage is fascinating.
I know.
I can even tell you about everything, you know, about Afghanistan.
Well, we don't have time for that, but I really appreciate you coming over to talk to me.
I disagree with most of what you have to say, but you were an interesting man.
Well, I hope it spreads across the globe.
Amsterdam is such a beautiful city.
I mean, I would put it up there with the likes of Paris and Vienna.
Maybe not quite as grandiose as those cities, but absolutely gorgeous and so pleasant for tourism.
Walkable streets, the canals, coffee shops, pancake houses, and glorious.
The buildings that survived the Second World War are beautiful.
And generally, the city's being rebuilt in a very pleasant way too.
Amsterdam's Sad Progression00:11:36
So how odious it is to see pogroms in the street as they were on Thursday when a Jewish soccer team was in town and foreign nationals, most of whom were Islamic, had a pogrom, beat people unconscious.
It was really gross.
And what's interesting was we just finished reporting on an echo to that pogrom, which was the intellectual justification of that pogrom.
The riot, the pogrom is the old Russian word for an anti-Semitic riot.
I suppose the new way of saying that would be intifada.
That's the Arabic way of saying an anti-Semitic riot.
That happened on Thursday night, the riot, but today, Sunday, was the intellectual justification of that anti-Semitic riot by not foreign nationals, but rather Dutch leftists who were ethnically Dutch.
I don't think I saw a single foreign national in the protest.
In fact, the police were much more racially diverse.
It was basically old Dutch leftists, or many young Dutch leftists too, actually, wearing kefirs not as an ethnic identity, but as a political identity.
They're not Palestinian, they're not Muslim, they're not Arab.
They're just, that's the latest fashion accoutrement.
If you are a leftist in Europe, in the 1970s and 80s, you would be a disarmament leftist, an anti-America leftist, because you would be siding with the Soviet Union because you hate your own culture.
Who is the greatest civilizational existential challenge to the West?
Why?
It was the Soviet Union until 1989.
And what is it now?
Well, it's Islamic extremism.
And so the same self-loathing amongst the domestic left has caused them to ally with foreign nationals who bring more medieval anti-Semitism with them from Arab and Muslim countries.
So on the streets on Thursday, people attacked anyone.
These foreign nationals beat anyone who was Jewish or looked Jewish or was Israeli or and they were demanding to see ID from people to make an ethnic assessment based on their ID and what name they were.
We even saw videos of them being published by the perpetrators, just like Hamas published videos on October 7th, demanding that the Jews say, I support Palestine, lest they be beaten if they don't say that.
The rioters on Thursday night did not hide the fact they were hunting Jews.
Today's intellectual Dutch leftists try to wrap themselves in intellectual pretzels to explain, no, it's not about Jews.
Please don't understand.
It's actually about Zionism.
I don't think there's any difference.
It would be like saying, I hate Italians.
Sorry, I love Italians.
I just don't believe Italy should exist.
Oh, I have nothing against Spaniards.
I just believe that the government of Spain should be dissolved.
It doesn't make intellectual sense, but they're trying their best to sew on a cloak of, I don't know, political gentility on top of a brutal medieval hatred.
And it's all happening under the shadow of this national monument to the dead.
The Netherlands was very quickly invaded by the Nazis in the Second World War.
And the Netherlands, it was almost five full years of occupation.
Now they did their best to fight.
They did their best to resist.
And they did their best to hide the Jews amongst them.
And I think to this day, the Dutch have had a fond affection for the Jews.
But there's been a second invasion of the Netherlands, this time voluntarily accepted by the Netherlands.
When the Nazis stormed in in the Blitzkrieg in 1940, the Netherlands did their best to fight.
This time, the invasion of the Jew haters doesn't come in panzer tanks and Stuka bombers, but comes on airplanes from places like Pakistan or Afghanistan or Jordan or Syria or Lebanon or Iran.
And it has the same effect, though.
There are street teens, street gangs in Amsterdam and other cities, Rotterdam now, that are akin to Hitler's brown shirts.
And every once in a while, they're going to have themselves a pogrom.
And it's very sad to me that the Jews who have had a half a millennium of experience living and breathing in this city and animating it in so many ways.
I believe the sun is setting on half a millennium of Jewish life in the Netherlands.
And what's rising, well, I don't care to say just what.
I wonder what the people who made this war memorial would think of that.
They fought and died to free Netherlands.
I don't think anyone is on guard now.
For Rebel News, I'm Angel Levant.
I'm here in Amsterdam reporting on the anti-Semitic riots.
Well, it's almost four o'clock.
The protest here that was banned by the court happened at around two.
They were bused away at around three.
You can see there's still some buses remaining.
I imagine they're here in case more people have to be shipped away by police.
There's still quite a large police presence, but the riot police have sort of moved away.
Although, frankly, I'm looking around and I see plenty of trucks around here and not a lot of civilian cars.
This remains, I tell you, a tourist district.
I mean, Madame Toussaud, you know, luxury boutiques.
And this is also a historic place.
The National Memorial, remember, the Netherlands was occupied by the Nazis for nearly five years.
Lots of influencers with their Instagram accounts and all the pigeons.
There's hundreds of them.
I thought it was an interesting protest, and I got into some debates.
I don't know, it's not very profitable to debate.
There really isn't a lot of middle ground, I don't think.
I find it weird when people ask me, are you a Jew?
Now, yes, I obviously am.
I mean, I don't hide it and I don't deny it.
But I don't think my argument hinges on that.
When I make arguments about Israel, I'm not coming from a religious point of view.
I suppose other than to say, if you believe in the Bible, Israel is the Holy Land.
Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
Mount Zion is the heart of it.
And saying that you can be pro-Israel, pro-Jewish without being a Zionist is like saying you're pro-Italian.
You just think Italy should be disbanded.
I don't know.
Putting that aside, I had a few debates, but it's not a profitable endeavor.
I think people are anti-Israel for deep-seated reasons.
Some of them are psychological, some of them are religious, some of them are political, some of them are financial.
Yeah, it was a little bit sad for a progressive country that was so hospitable to the Jews and that hid the Jews in such numbers is now, I think, partly due to demographics becoming anti-Semitic.
Now, I shouldn't judge the country by a handful of protesters.
I mean, Kirt Wilders, the leading politician in the Netherlands, is the most pro-Zionist person you'll ever meet.
He's been to Israel literally dozens of times.
He regularly tweets the Israeli flag.
So you shouldn't judge a country based on a fringe protest, which is paid.
As I mentioned earlier, you saw the Antifa logo on the loudspeaker.
That tells you a lot.
But look, demographics is destiny.
If you bring in 100,000 people or a quarter million people, I don't know what the number is in the Netherlands.
You bring in a quarter million people every year from countries that endemically hate the Jews.
Do not be surprised when suddenly the balance of the majority or the plurality of people in the Netherlands hate the Jews, or at least no longer object to people who do.
I think that the anti-Semitic coalition here is what it is in North America.
Left-wing woke anti-Western underminers and the stronghorse of the hour, which is Islam.
During the Cold War, it was the Soviets.
I'm glad I came here to the Netherlands.
I couldn't really find anyone to talk about the riots on Thursday night, mainly because the Israelis who were here with their soccer team went home.
You may know that the Israeli government sent several jets to help pick up Israelis to get them the heck out of here.
It's interesting today we were looking for members of the Jewish community to talk to, and we went to a kosher restaurant in Amsterdam, knowing that the people there would be Jewish.
But we talked, for example, to the owner of that facility, and he said, please, I don't want to be identified.
I don't want to attract attention.
When we were in there, when he heard this protest was going on, he literally locked the restaurant door and didn't allow anyone in.
He was so afraid.
Imagine that.
You're in Amsterdam, a city that is so progressive and liberal and has been a friend to Jews for half a millennium.
And you're afraid.
So afraid you don't want to appear on camera.
So afraid you lock the door of your restaurant because you know that pogroms happen on the street.
And I found that deeply sad.
In a modern Western country, a beautiful country, because of demographics and politics, anti-Semitism is on the rise.
And it's whitewashed.
I mean, the thugs who were marauding on Thursday night were largely foreign nationals.
But the people who were whitewashing it today in these protests were Dutch, ethnically Dutch leftists who were justifying.
And I saw an old Socialist Workers' Party type trying to justify it too.
I'm glad I came here.
We still have some hope that Hurt Wilders will make some time for us.
I didn't give him a lot of notice.
I'm trying to connect with him as we managed to do last time.
We were here in the Netherlands.
It would be great to have a comment from him directly.
He, of course, has been raging against this pogrom on social media.
I think that's my report for today.
I'm heading back to Canada.
I feel like I got a lot done this weekend.
I was in Toronto on Friday.
I did my show there.
Then I got on a plane, flew overnight, went to the United Kingdom, met with Tommy Robinson in prison, didn't even stay the night, flew to Amsterdam, which is where I am today.
I'm recording this on a Sunday.
And tomorrow morning, getting on a plane, I'll be back in Toronto on Monday afternoon.
If there's any more interesting things, I'll add them.
We'll have a few little videos on AmsterdamReports.com.
What do you think?
Was it worth jotting out here?
I didn't quite know what to expect.
I was worried that the pogroms, the street riots would still be happening.
But the Dutch police dispatched that.
And today it was very interesting to watch them deal with the protests.
They really tightly kettled them.
What was astonishing to me was how much press freedom there was that Rebel News was allowed to go literally feet away from police swinging batons, something that would never be allowed in Canada where our police are much more authoritarian.
Well, that's the show for today.
Until next time, on behalf of all of us at Rebel News, see you at home.