Ezra Levant attended Cork’s June 9 anti-mass immigration protest, where 50,000+ nationalist rally-goers faced pro-Hamas, Antifa, and left-wing counter-protesters waving Palestinian flags. Organizers Derek Blythe and Malachi Steenson blamed corporate-EU policies for crime, housing shortages, and cultural displacement, warning Irish natives could become a minority in 15–20 years. Levant noted Ireland’s media hostility, his own legal battles (like false imprisonment over contempt of court), and parallels to Tommy Robinson’s treatment, while urging Canada’s Conservatives to adopt stricter immigration stances. His return to Cork revealed a society under demographic pressure, with grassroots resistance clashing against state-backed narratives. [Automatically generated summary]
Tonight, I spent the day in Cork, the rebel county of Ireland.
They had a big march against mass immigration.
It's June 9th, and this is the Ezra Levant show.
shame on you you sensorious bug oh hi everybody I go to Ireland, first of all, because it's beautiful.
Second of all, because it's friendly.
But third of all, most importantly, it is a battleground between equal but opposite forces on the mass immigration battle.
On the one side of that are all the political parties in the parliament, all the media, and 33,000 NGOs pushing mass immigration on the small country.
That is a mighty power.
But there is a mighty power on the other hand, an army of Davids taking on Goliath.
Maybe one David couldn't do it, but what if he had tens of thousands of people?
That's why I call it a battle between both sides.
The populist side, the nationalist side, the grassroots side has almost no institutional or establishment support, but yet they have enormous rallies.
And I think there's a real grassroots uprising.
We saw it about five weeks ago in Dublin, the capital, when more than 50,000 people marched.
I say again, no mainstream political parties, no mainstream media were there.
It was just the people.
50,000?
Take a look.
Irish people can't get homes.
They can't get hostel beds.
This has come to an end.
Nationalism is not racism.
Hilda's island belonged to him.
Well, here I am in Cork.
That's the second city of Ireland.
And I'm told it's a little bit more woke, a little bit more left-wing, more anti-Fud, more pro-Hamas activists.
And I believe it.
In fact, I saw it when we went down for today's rally in Cork.
We first encountered the Palestinian side.
I tried to talk to some people there, but the marshals knew who we were.
And anytime we were speaking with someone, these marshals came in and pushed them out of the way, or in one case, told a woman she was not allowed to talk to me, even though she really, really wanted to.
Here, take a look.
Well done before actually reporting on this because this is disgusting what happens in Ireland.
Absolutely disgusting.
Well, tell me your point of view.
So are you from Cork?
Could you not?
No, I have.
No, no, don't.
You're only going to misrepresent you, you know?
No, these are good people.
What's your name?
I don't agree.
No, sorry, Let's.
I'm not going to comment on that.
Why are you interrupting us?
Why are you mansplaining?
Why are you mansplaining to her who she can talk to?
Are you her boss?
Do you think she should wear a burqa?
No, that's.
Sorry, that's.
Excuse me.
Why would you come over and interrupt a woman?
Seriously, why would you do that?
I'm not going to comment on anything.
I'm sorry, Let's.
He's gone dumb now.
Well, what were you saying before you were so rudely interrupted by that mansplainer?
Do you see what happens?
Do you see you're not allowed to talk to nobody?
No.
This whole country is so corrupt.
So corrupt.
You got the Palestinian flag and the pride flag.
Are they compatible, do you think?
Who do you want to be filming or talk to?
Sorry.
This is a public rally, though, that you came to, right?
I can choose who I want to talk to.
There's a little guy.
He's pretty cute.
How little is he?
He's got a little watermelon pin on him.
Is that sort of a baby Hamas supporter?
What's that mean?
It means that you're not strong unless you're together.
You know, the pro-Hamas side is extremely invasive.
They don't want any of their people to talk at all.
That's the second time I've seen a Hamas marshal shoo someone away when all I was doing was asking what this sign was.
There's an authoritarian impulse there that's disappointing but not too surprising.
Come change what he says.
Yeah, you're great.
You know, I want to be honest with you, though.
Asking the antifah people what they think of things, it's fun because they say stupid things.
But most of the time, if I ever do have an opportunity to ask questions of these professional protesters, they really don't know what to say.
And that's proven, I think, by their signs.
Here, take a look.
I was in sort of a no man's land between the anti-Fah and Hamas protesters and the pro-Ireland protesters.
And the signs included global warming and transgender flags.
And here, just take a look for yourself.
It was, you know, I'm showing up for my weekly protest.
Hand me the sign.
Tell me a chant or two.
And I'm just a warm body.
Take a look.
I'm standing in a barrier, a DMZ, a demilitarized zone between the pro-Hamas protesters on that side and the pro-Ireland protesters on this side.
And there's about a 15-foot gap in between them.
When I came up the Grand Parade, when I arrived in Cork, I saw the Palestinian side first.
You can find them like that because there's very few Irish flags amongst them.
I see a couple over there and one there, but they're outnumbered five to one by Palestinian flags.
There's public sector labor union flags.
There's some transgender flags.
And there's lots of kefirs and little watermelon triangles, which is the triangle, the red triangle, is the Hamas symbol for a kill shot.
And I have to say, I am somewhat surprised by the size of the pro-Hamas crowd.
When I was in Dublin, they had a much smaller pro-Hamas counter-protest in reaction to the nationalist protests, which I came here actually to cover.
I guess Cork is a more left-leaning town.
A couple of people here who recognized me came up to me to tell me it's actually a pretty woke place, and I believe it.
You know, Ireland's political class is very anti-Israel.
In fact, I would go so far as to say that the political establishment in Ireland actually is anti-Semitic.
Now, I want to be crystal clear.
I do not believe that the people of Ireland are.
I would never paint with a broad brush like that.
But there are many people here who I think would meet that definition, which is sort of odd because there are so few Jews in Ireland.
In a country of 5 million people, there's maybe 2,000 Jews and most of them are professionals or professors in Dublin.
I don't quite understand it.
I think maybe they think we were rebels, rebels, sorry, we were rebelling against the British and the Palestinians are rebelling against Israel.
Maybe they're trying to find common cause there.
I don't think the analogy works though, because the Irish are the Indigenous people of Ireland, and the Jews, going back to biblical time, are the Indigenous people of Israel.
So I don't think that analogy works.
I've attended probably half a dozen marches and protests against mass immigration to Ireland and I have not seen any anti-Semitism and the only flag I've seen is the Irish flag.
And I have to believe in my heart that that is the majority of Ireland.
But just to look at this crowd here, I mean, there's a lot of people here who just would go to any protest.
I don't think they would have a deep knowledge about anything.
Many of them just hold a flag they were given or hold a sign they were given.
The rich love it when you blame refugees.
Well, actually, I disagree with that.
The rich in Ireland get rich off of refugees by getting massive government contracts to build these urban, oh, you can hear them chanting free, free Palestine, which is such a crazy thing to hear in Ireland.
No to discrimination, yes to climate justice.
I guess she had that sign left over from the last one: stop pretending your racism is patriotism, and then Ireland for all.
You know what?
It's so ironic.
I was walking with a lady who said that she is pro-Irish.
She hated being called anti-Semitic, especially when these were the ones looking to kill the Jews.
Ireland isn't full.
You're full of shit.
Well, if you've ever talked to some young person in Ireland trying to find a home, you will realize that if Ireland itself is in full, all the homes in Ireland are full.
It's a similar situation to what we have in Canada.
When you bring in mass immigration, you drive down wages and you drive up the cost of housing.
Looks like the police are deploying a bit of a human wall.
I don't think it's particularly necessary, but then again, I'm not a cop who has all the intel.
I'm just reading some of the signs, always anti-fascist.
That goes to my point that these are sort of garden variety antifa.
Oh, here's one that talks about housing.
163,000 vacant properties, 15,000 homeless, 34% of government TDs, that's what they call MPs here, are landlords.
The housing crisis is a political choice.
I'd say that there's a little bit of truth to that, but you can't bring in hundreds of thousands of people to this small country without sopping up the properties.
When properties go on the market, there are lineups, there are bidding wars, and Indigenous Irish often can't afford it, whereas migrants, and frankly, most of the refugee claimants are fake.
They get government subsidies, so there's an unfairness built into it.
Everyone's competing in the same housing market, but the foreign refugees get government funding, whereas the Indigenous Irish have to, you know, compete against hundreds of thousands of other migrants.
Let's keep reading the signs.
Cork says no to racism.
Well, I agree with that.
Refugees welcome.
I wonder if he welcomes any of them in his own home.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess he doesn't.
Let's just read a few more of these signs here.
Cork community unity against austerity and division.
So, you know, like I say, there are some professional NGs.
Oh, there you go.
You know what?
There are some friendly folks here who've been calling out to me all day.
He robs all his life in care of Tufts nice and famous.
Okay, well, you know what?
I'm with Rebel News, and this is the Rebel County, so we have something in common.
Let's just read a few more signs.
I won't get in the way, officer.
Lots of keffias I see.
I think that's sort of it for the signs.
Bella Chow is one sign.
I don't really know what that means.
The difference between this crowd and, let's say, a pro-Hamas crowd in Toronto is the ethnic mix.
In Toronto, it's about 90 or 95% migrants themselves.
Here, it's sort of Irish leftists cosplaying.
They're dressing up in Kafias.
They probably don't really know what it means.
They're waving Palestinian flags.
They probably would never wave an Irish flag, so they'll wave anything else put in their hands.
It's very different and very weird to see the kefia being worn by indigenous white Irish.
But that's their country.
And that's the clash here.
It's almost like I'm standing in the middle where Moses parted to see on this side the anti-mass immigration rally that I came to attend.
And on this side, the counter protest by the Antifa and Hamas side.
Anyways, I'm grateful to the police for allowing me to walk in this DMZ.
I'm going to slowly make my way back there and we'll see how it goes.
Well, it was a huge rally.
It's winding down now.
I had a chance to speak one-on-one with two of the key organizers, Malachi Steenson and Derek Blythe.
There's some very interesting grassroots people.
Derek Lai, a bricklayer who came very close to winning his seat in the European Parliament.
Now he's hosting rallies with thousands.
But I just want to show you something across the river.
That is a government union office, and they have a massive billboard that says, enact the occupied territories bill now.
I have not read the occupied territories bill.
I assume it's referring to Israel and denouncing or sanctioning Israel.
The Irish government is obsessed with Israel, even though it's so far away from the Middle East.
There's no historical connection, no ethnic connection, no religious connection.
And as I mentioned before, there's almost no Jews in Ireland.
2,000 out of a country of 5 million.
And I've been thinking about that because the pro-Hamas rally, the counter-protest to today's nationalist anti-immigration rally, was basically a Hamas rally.
There were some Antifa people there, some environmentalist people there, some Marxist people there, some labor unions there.
But mainly it was a Hamas rally.
And I was thinking, why are some Irish obsessed with Israel?
Not these folks.
These folks I saw, they had hundreds of Irish tri-colors, as their flag is called.
I saw some county flags, and I saw one American flag and one Israeli flag.
But basically, these people on this side, they fly the flag that represents their heart, which is Irish.
The anti-march, the counter-protest, which was much smaller, hardly any Irish flags, mainly Palestinian flags, some transgender flags.
And my point is, I think it's filling a void.
I think it's a kind of misdirection.
If you are looking for a cause, if you're looking to heal the world, to save the world, you can do that right in your own home, right in your own city, right in your own neighborhood.
Starts with helping an Irish person who's homeless or unemployed.
But that's actually hard work.
That actually means doing something.
It's much easier to virtue signal, to let the world know just how exquisitely moral you are about something happening on the other side of the world that you really have nothing to do with.
I'm picking up a conversation that I left off on the street level because I couldn't finish my reports.
Every couple of minutes, either someone came by to say hello or someone came by to heckle free Palestine.
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It was really weird in the Palestine thing.
And I think it's actually more persuasive, pervasive than I had thought.
And again, it's not the nationalist anti-immigration movement.
It's everything else.
It's the wokeness.
A bunch of kids, by kids, I mean late teens and early 20s, just accosted me and wanted to start talking about how Israel doesn't have a right to exist.
These were not people who were at either rally, frankly.
These were just kids.
And I said, where did you learn this?
And they basically said at school, it was the dumbest conversation I've ever held.
Here, let me show you just a moment of it.
But it actually scared me because these kids are not political, but the default in this country, I think, seeping through the NGOs, seeping through the schools, seeping through the left-wing politics, and even the graffiti, it's anti-Semitic.
And it's so weird to me because there's no Jews for a million miles in this place, but it fills that void for the left.
I don't know.
Here's just a taste of these five kids.
They say I'm a moral person.
I'm a charitable person.
I care about people.
What's your name?
Oh, dude, my name is Levi Levi Ackerman.
I don't believe that.
Levi Ackerman, I'm 18 years old.
I love people.
I love cigarettes.
And I love dope.
Yeah, yeah.
That I do believe.
The Crusades also invaded the Love and which is the whole Christian.
Well, who was there first?
The Christians or the Muslims?
Well, it depends.
It depends.
The Muslim.
Do you know which religion?
It's modern Arabs, but not Muslims.
Muslims came.
The Arabs were Christian.
You know the Arabs were Christian.
Not before Christianity.
Thank you.
Really cool.
See, there's an honest man.
You just said you don't know where Palestine is.
I believe you.
Palestine.
And then there was some gal who I don't know.
She just came up and interrupted me and said, Free Palestine.
I ran up to her and asked what her name was and what she had to say.
And then she banned.
Free Palestine.
Hey, what's your name?
Come back.
Have a chat.
What's your name?
What's your name?
I don't want to participate in this.
Well, you just did participate in.
In fact, you interrupted what I was doing.
So why are you running away?
I'm not really comfortable too.
Empire, Americans, Mark.
I'm not an American.
I'm a Canadian.
Why are you so profane?
Why are you so rude?
Why are you running away?
So you're following me, Sarah.
He's following me.
Yeah, I'm not arresting you at all.
You came, you interrupted my work, and you just swore at me.
She was comfortable interrupting my video recording, but not talking.
And I didn't understand.
Well, was that just a random thing?
Is that what you do when you see someone doing a TV interview?
You run in and say Free Palestine.
Or did she know that Rebel News was pro-Israel?
I think that actually in this town, the cool thing, the fashionable thing is to be pro-Palestine.
I say again, I saw several instances of pro-Palestine graffiti.
You're in Cork.
You're in Ireland.
It's not, this is not the front line of that battle, but it's a placebo.
You get to pretend that you've been doing meaningful moral work.
I don't know.
I found that a little depressing.
But again, I refuse to ascribe that to the Irish people as a whole.
That's the left.
That's the global left.
That's the migrant left.
That's the anti-filif.
That's the NGO left.
That's the education left.
That is not the right.
In fact, probably the number one thing I heard today were people coming up to me and apologizing to me for when I bumped into that Nazi a month ago named Justin Barrett.
Remember when I bumped into the guy I nicknamed Littler Hidler?
What did the cops say?
I don't talk to the Jews.
You don't talk to the Jews?
Well, most of our viewers are non-Jewish.
Well, you are, so I don't talk to Jews.
Okay, well, talk through me to my Christian viewers.
I'm not talking to Jews.
Well, you're a disgrace.
It's national socialism.
Oh, my God.
Socialism knew how to deal with people like you.
Yes, so many people here came up to me and said, that's not Ireland.
I said, I know that's not Ireland.
But it's actually becoming the woke left young people in Ireland, which is sort of sad, but that's a completely different subject.
Anyway, back to the matter at hand, mass immigration.
So far, this movement is largely amateur.
There's a couple of minor elected positions like Malachi Steenson and Derek Blythe, the bricklayer, who organized the whole event.
He talked to us about five minutes.
I thought it was very instructive.
Derek Bly.
We stand here to tell the government enough with your fear housing policy.
Enough!
Rich Lafayette housed policy!
Enough!
Rich Laffey's immigration policy!
The man of the hour is Derek Bly.
He's the organizer here.
I only have five minutes with him because he's surrounded by well-wishers.
Thanks for taking five minutes.
Your people love you.
Tell our viewers a little bit more about yourself.
Yeah, you know what, Ezra?
All I am is an ordinary man.
I'm a bricklayer, right?
I'm a husband, a father, and I love my country.
I lived in Canada for 10 years and I came back to Ireland and I went, whoa, what is after happening?
Walkness mass immigration had absolutely changed my country completely.
Ireland used to be a conservative country.
It used to be a safe country.
It used to have high trust.
Now the streets are dangerous.
Children can't walk the streets.
Women can't walk the streets.
This used to be a country where you would leave your car open.
You would leave your front door open at night.
You could leave your children in a pram at the front of a shop.
You cannot do that anymore.
There are stabbings, there are rapes.
You know, young people can't find housing.
They're leaving the country in their droves.
Ireland has changed massively.
And all I'm trying to do is raise awareness, rally the troops, and make a change and hopefully try to make a difference.
Well, this was a huge rally today.
Do you have any estimate of the crowd size or any other anecdotes about how big it was?
I couldn't even see the end of the crowd, Ezra.
We had a drawn up.
I'm going to look at the footage later.
But we had over 50,000 in Dublin.
Oh, we were there.
You were there.
This is Cork, the second city.
So even if we got, you know, 10,000 people in Cork, that would be immense.
I said it on the stage today.
We had about 600 people three years ago, and that was with a national call out.
The numbers we got today were unprecedented.
And it shows that the mindset is changing and people are tired of what's going on and they're not afraid to get wet and they're going to show up on the street.
Derek, there's so much grassroots energy in Ireland.
I've studied mass migration in many countries and I've never seen this spirit of rebellion elsewhere.
I think it's part of the Irish nature to be rebellious.
They call this the rebel county.
Our media is called Rebel News, by the way, so we have a kinship.
How do you go from this kind of populist nationalist energy to actually getting into positions where you can make changes because the major political parties are all on the other side of these issues?
For 100 years, Fina Fall and Fina Gael have dominated the political scene.
No Sinn Féin, they used to present themselves as the working man's alternative, but people know that they're only fraudsters.
They know they're fraudsters.
So for the last three to four years, five years even, myself and a few others have focused on bringing the public the truth while also running for elections.
My first round of European elections, I amassed in total 38,000 votes.
Like I was not far from a seat for a bricklayer who has no political background.
That is a major launching pad.
Next time round, what's going to happen?
That's what we're getting ready for now.
Last question, then I'll let you get back to your people.
Can you comment on the role of independent citizen journalists?
I saw a lot of people in the audience with sort of cell phone broadcasting.
That's sort of our style too.
Is the independent media in Ireland strong?
Is it getting stronger?
Because I know that the state media is very hostile to you for all of history.
Okay, governments are those that rule the land.
They also control the media.
Okay, with the onset of smartphone technology, right, and access to the internet.
Okay, people on the streets are now bringing the truth.
We can contact people around the world in seconds where we used to have to rely on state-funded forms of communication.
And people in Ireland are really, really good at it.
It was how I rose to fame here a few years ago.
And as you saw here today, it's growing.
It's growing by the day.
I can't even keep up with it.
So it's major in this country.
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Well, congratulations on today.
Thanks for the hospitality.
And we'll let you go back to your people now.
Thanks for coming over, Ezra.
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I mentioned earlier that Malachi Stevenson talked to us.
We've spoken to him at several of these rallies.
He's on the City Council of Dublin, and I think he may be headed for higher office.
As I look across the crowd from the ground, you can't actually see how big it is.
But from here, you can.
And look at the sale of Tricolours.
I think it's a great day for Cork.
We've obviously traveled down from the other end of the country, from Dublin.
There's people here from all over.
Good crowd for Cork.
And it's shown that right around this country, people are opposed to what the government is doing.
And, you know, for instance, we had the Taoiseach, Michal Martin, saying that the Irish were mongrels.
Why did he say that?
Well, why did he say that?
Because he actually believes that.
He believes that the Irish people are less than anybody else.
He believes in the destruction of this country.
And we have come here to his home county of Cork.
Is this where he's from?
Where he's from.
To send a message, a very clear message to him that we're not mongrels.
We're turbred.
Well, you are the indigenous people of this island.
And no other, he would be, he would not be that disrespectful to any other indigenous culture in the world.
No, and I mean, even the political class here in this country and the NGOs and all of them feel it's okay to demonize and ridicule anything to do with the Irish nation.
And they put that every other culture that's in this country now ahead of our culture and that those cultures are supposed to be more important than our own culture.
And we reject that.
I don't want to take up too much of your time.
I know the march has moved forward, but I just have one last question for you.
And it was about the counter-protests today, a little bit larger than we saw in Dublin, which surprised me because Dublin's the capital.
But there's a lot of NGOs and I tried to get a read on them.
There was pro-Hamas.
There was Antifa.
There were government labor unions.
It seemed like a hodgepodge.
I even saw some global warming activists there.
Who were those counter-protesters?
Well, they're the usual protesters who are out every Saturday.
And, you know, it's what will be protest about today.
And in order to get the size of the crowd they had, they had to call it a Palestinian rally.
That's how you see so many there.
But it's all run by NGOs.
It's all run by people who are paid by the state in one form or another.
They got a real awakening after our last rally in April when they saw the 50,000 people that we had on the streets.
It was amazing.
The huge amount of tricolours.
And you look at our rally today, it's all tricolours, a few county flags in there.
If you look at their rally, they are now starting to try and take back the tricolour, but it's too late.
I counted like maybe three Irish flags amongst the protesters.
There were dozens of Palestinian flags.
Let's go catch up to the march.
Thanks for talking with us.
We're back out on the 22nd of June.
It's a Sunday in Dublin for a much bigger rally than the last one.
All right.
Well, we love covering it.
There he is.
Malachi Steenson, city councillor in Dublin.
I don't know how many people showed up.
I asked the police officer.
He said 3,000 were in the march.
I would estimate there were 200 people in the counter-march.
So that was overwhelming.
There may have been many more in the march.
There may be 5,000.
Sometimes police have a little bit of a political dispute with Dick Lemberg.
But it was an impressive march for, again, a group with no media backing, no political mainstream backing, really no money.
And I think something is cooking in Ireland.
And that's why I come out here, because when was the last time you saw a rally of normal people against mass immigration in Canada?
I never have.
And to have rallies and movements and marches pretty much every week in Ireland, that goes to the Irish character of rebellion and not taking things lying down.
There is a rebellious spirit to the Irish.
What's so strange to me is that the left doesn't feel that instinct when they see hundreds of thousands of fake migrants coming into the country.
I had an interesting conversation with one man who said that this country opened its arms to Ukrainian refugees, which is true.
He took about 100,000, which fortunately can't take the immediate.
But using the goodwill of Ukrainian refugees, they brought in hundreds of thousands of other fake refugees too.
Here's what he had to say.
Tell me that again.
I said, put them in your house, you bunch of bums.
And you mean the refugees?
Absolutely.
No, them.
The Irish communists, right, that think Ireland, right, should just take in everybody, right?
They go on about toxic masculinity, and yet they want the country to be destroyed and sink under the weight of financial strain.
And, you know what I mean?
And then have people come in here that aren't fed at a whole lot.
They're a bunch of lunatics.
Where did you come in from?
Are you from, Cork?
Sorry, we came up from Dublin.
We came down from Dublin to support court because there's been lots of protests up in Dublin over the years and all the other counties have always showed up for Dublin.
So we always try our best and, you know, help all the other counties out because all the counties in Orel are all under attack.
This is a plantation that's happening in Ireland.
It's engineered.
It's not organic.
They use the Ukraine war.
You go back to the start of the Ukraine war.
And for the first few months, then, they started increasing massively the amounts of other people coming in.
So on the back of the compassion for the Ukrainian people, they started bringing everybody else in.
So it's completely engineered.
It's a fabrication.
They're doing it.
They want Orlando to be planted.
They want the Irish people to become a minority.
So the corporations will gain all, the corporations will gain all the resources.
I enjoyed my comments and my chit-chats with some of the people in the crowd.
Here's a few more of them.
It's Canadian news.
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What's your name?
Canadian.
What do you reckon is going on here?
I'm trying to figure it out.
What do you think is going on?
Did you come down for one of the protests?
Have one look at these mad cunts and then have one look at the Republicans and then you'll be able to make out your mark.
Which side are you on?
Republican.
And what do you think of mass immigration to Ireland?
Were you born here or do you come here from Ireland?
I just want to come here.
They can pay a hefty tax so they can off.
All right, nice meeting you.
There you go.
Another point of view here in the Grand Parade Of Cork.
I'll have more reports at Migrantreports.com.
I was born in this town.
My father was a merchant here.
He'd many friends, Jewish friends, who are merchants and he would turn in his grave if he saw the town today with that.
Uh, the Palestinian marches every day and the Hamas flag they're flying.
There is no Palestinian state.
Hamas rules Gaza, you know, and the Jews are absolutely shocked in America about what's going on.
I think it's an absolute disgrace and i'm ashamed of my own people today.
Well, don't be ashamed of your own people, because every Irish person is their own individual.
And I, i'm Jewish, as you may know, and I have had nothing but love and in fact I bumped into sort of a little Nazi guy named Justin Um Barrett and he said some shocking things to me.
A hundred people here sort of apologize to me for him and I I know that's not all of Ireland.
I mean listen, I come from Toronto.
There's Anti-semitism there.
They take over the streets every saturday I don't like that either and ruin merchants, you know businesses.
Yeah, let's get up to see them.
I'm just kind of fairly sad.
I'm 74 years of age.
I've i've worked in all the Jewish hospitals in New York, Montefiori Albert, Einstein's and um I.
The Jewish doctors are just tremendous.
They contributed the American, the American Jews in America, made the 20th century in America.
Well, I thank you for your friendly words and and I will show your words to the world because I do not want Ireland to be labeled as anti-semitic.
There are some people the activists we've been talking about who are, but I think the ordinary Irish person just wants to have an independent country that they love and I I just well, you know, i'm not sure about today, but I remember when I came to Market in 1977 right, I was recruiters and I worked in Montefiori Hospital in the Bronx all the doctors were Jewish.
It was a Jewish hospital and the first thing they said to me was, we're going to Dublin next week, we're meeting mayor Briscoe, who was Jewish, and uh, and and Goldberg was already gone in Cork.
And they said uh, they went to Ireland, there's a big conference, a urology conference, on in Dublin.
They all went, loads of uh, Jewish doctors all together, and they had a fabulous time.
They were received in the Mayor's Mansion and the Arris and everything like that.
And now today, that would never happen.
We're we're redressing and we're reaching.
I would say, like what what?
Uh, the Jews went through, i'd say, in the 1939.
Well, god forbid, it won't go any further.
Right, he just called me Nazi scum in front of the garden.
Right, I said, you, you want to kill all the Jews and you're calling me a Nazi?
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No, but the thing is the thing about all these people here in Ireland.
In Ireland uh, we can say nothing, but these people here can say what they want, they can sing and dance and make and and our Taoisia can, can call us mongrels.
Yeah, that was really weird.
The prime minister of Ireland was disparaging Ethnic Irish.
The Prime Minister of Ireland is not only a mongrel, he's an imbecile.
And people to say, Teenage, come out, actually come out here today and confront the people of Ireland and to say what he said to insult the Irish nation.
Glad to be here.
Where did you come in from?
County, what does that say?
County Wiglow.
County Wiglow.
I'm a Dublin man myself, but my girlfriend's from Wicklow.
So we're down here representing Wicklow.
Supporting the people of Cork, you know.
There's a lot of counter-protesters, more than I thought.
Is that the nature of Cork?
Pretty much, yeah.
Pretty much.
This is like a home base for them down here.
So look, they're all soulless people.
They need something to hold on to together.
So that's why they're fucking all marching down here together.
You have nothing else to believe in.
I think you're right.
I mean, the choice of flags tells a lot.
I mean, they have more Palestinian flags and more union flags and like labor union and more transgender flags than they have Irish flags.
It's mentally good.
This protest was organized to counter protest all the government policies and stuff like that.
And then these bastards show up here to counter protest us.
But yeah, they're against government policies as well.
So why don't they stand out here with us as well, you know?
It doesn't make sense.
It's just all about division and all.
It's stupid people, as I said, soulless people.
They need something to hold on to.
So that's all it is.
What's happening, the pure lunacy that's happening in the country?
It's absolutely crazy.
Why is it happening?
Money.
Money and the EU forcing us forward into the Atlantic, just sinking us the whole time.
I saw a strange thing the other day.
Your Prime Minister sort of agreed with the statement that Irish are mongrels, which is a very harsh word and it suggests that you're not a true Indigenous people.
And I'm trying to wrap my head around that.
Why would he denigrate the Irish ethnicity?
My take is on it that they're trying to put, get the men of Ireland, the men and women of Ireland, that will speak up to get them to actually fight back.
And smoke about and like have a provocation?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Entice and trying to provoke us.
I think he's trying to demoralize the country.
When you say something like the Irish are mongrels, that's something an anti-Irish person would say.
I don't understand why the boss would say that.
Why can he?
He's not the boss.
The Prime Minister, I shouldn't say the boss.
He thinks he's a boss.
Yeah, yeah.
He was never voted in.
Right, they have some deal there.
Give me a word on Connor McGregor.
Is he for real?
That's a big debate.
He's done something for us in America.
Where is he since?
What has he done?
I don't know.
You see, that's the problem.
That is the problem.
What people think is his own problem's gone on.
It's a pity that that was going on in his life at the same time.
He could have been a man for Ireland if that wasn't going on.
And what do you make of today?
There's two opposing camps.
Well, I'm with the Irish.
I can tell you're holding an Irish flag.
Yeah.
The other side, very few Irish flags on the other side.
Why is that?
Lesbians.
And maybe even some foreign lesbians.
Well, wait a minute.
Jordan flag, our man.
Which flag is this?
Oh, the Trump flag.
Who's the Trump of Ireland?
What do you think of Conor McGregor?
Connor McGregor is very good, but the government tried to frame him.
Well, do you think he'll actually run?
Is it possible that he will?
For our Canadian viewers, tell me what that means.
It means up the Irish Republic.
And what would that side say to that, Chan?
We don't care, really.
We don't really care what they say.
They're all Irish people, all right?
And they're fighting, they're waving flags of a country that they have no association with.
Why do they do that?
I have no idea.
Like, you can criticise Ireland, but still love it, if you understand what I mean.
You can be a loyal opposition.
I have no problem with Palestine.
No, no, I'm saying you can be an Irish person criticising Ireland, but still wave the Irish flag.
Why don't they do that?
I don't know.
Why don't you go over and ask them?
Well, they won't talk to me.
Because we're over here, right?
And we're representing our country from a mass immigration, right?
And there's illegal immigrants coming in, ripping up their passports, yeah?
And you're getting into our country.
We're only here to just defend our country.
What's the end game?
How...
How long will it go on for?
What we are here is we're here is for our own people that are living on the streets, all right?
And they're saying Nazi scum.
We're not Nazis.
Those people are also not thinking about what it's going to be like in 20 or 30 years.
They're only thinking about the no.
What's it going to be like in 30 years?
Is anyone thinking of the future?
It's important, like.
For Kerry.
And what brings you out today?
Well, these people over here, they're talking about bringing all these people into the country, but none of them are putting them up.
Do you know what I mean?
So who has to deal with it, us?
Just because they say so.
It's not right.
It's not fair.
Like, I've 27 still living at home, can't find a place to rent.
Like, where are we going to put these people?
A real disgrace.
I don't have enough words to put into what's wrong with this country at the moment.
What's very, very wrong.
I'm trying to get a measure of how many people are here.
Do you think that it's larger than the media give credit for?
100%, because we all know that live TV cannot count.
They all need to go back to school and count properly.
Michael Lee, Irish Freedom Party Chairman.
I'm very much.
Thanks very much.
And I have to apologise for the way you were treated by Mr. Don't say another word about it.
You know what?
Thank you for saying that.
It didn't hurt my feelings.
I was more startled than anything.
I've met hundreds of Irish people and I know what they're like.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I feel very welcome here.
Now, what we felt, what's happening in Ireland now is we feel our population is being replaced with mass migration.
And there's no question of doubt about that.
There always has been a strain in the Irish establishment of disdain for Irish culture.
I think you're witnessing that again in our present government where the Taoiseach was at a conference there last week where Irish people were described as Mongols.
I just heard the other, you know, to denigrate your own people is so suicidal.
And instead of condemning that, he thought, well, the Irish people are always hybrid.
He more or less agreed with us.
So it's a process of demoralization of the people, of their history, their culture, their traditions, and their race.
And that's how the left will always operate.
I gave a speech there some time ago.
A man came up to me, Arabic in the beer, shook my hand, he said, I'm a Lebanese Christian.
And 50 years ago, we saw our people being annihilated and being exterminated.
Oh, yeah, Lebanon used to be a Christian country.
Centuries ago, Egypt was a Christian country.
That's right.
All of North Africa was Christian.
But in Lebanon in particular, I remember it happening.
We could see these people being wiped out and the world did nothing about it.
And we'd be very, very foolish in Western Europe not to think that the same thing will happen to us.
Because what is happening is the left, it has allied with radical Islam.
The left is deeply anti-Christian, and so is Radical Islam.
Well, demographics is destiny.
Yes, demographics is destiny.
Irish people can't afford to have children because they're paying high taxes to support immigrant populations.
It's absolutely ridiculous.
Emigrant populations are coming in here, they're getting freebies, they're getting free housing, and they're having five or six kids.
That's only going in one direction.
This is not a replacement theory.
This is an absolute mathematical certainty.
And it's going to happen within 15 to 20 years at the outside that we'll be a minority.
So that's what we're here to try to stop.
All right.
Well, just lots of interesting points of view.
You know, it's a different spirit here.
I mean, remember, this country had an armed revolution a century ago, which is not that long ago in the sweep of time.
And the troubles in Northern Ireland were only a generation ago.
So it's a peaceful multi-party democracy, it's true.
But there is that spirit of rebellion, and Cork is the rebel county, as they call themselves.
These are feisty people, which is why I think they've been the most energetic in pushing back against mass immigration.
I dared to challenge them this system, but they forgot one thing.
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They can jail me.
They can even try and silence Michelle Keen.
But they will never defeat the Irish people.
I have been doing very peaceful protests for the last two years against this EU migration pact of all these unvetted male migrants coming in to this country.
They're flooding our country and, you know, we want them out.
You know, I mean, they're invading our country.
Our crime rate has gone up and everything.
And I was myself, I ran in the general election and I was falsely and unlawfully imprisoned by the Irish state.
For something you posted online?
I posted online a conversation that my daughter had recorded in relation to a policewoman in Ireland.
And they then brought a case against me to the courts, a defamation case and everything.
But I then was given a ganging order and I obeyed that gagging order.
And then on election day, when you know, when I should be happy about, you know, going around my business when I was running for election, I got an email from a solicitor saying that they were going to jail me in two weeks' time.
For what?
Was it for contempt of court?
For contempt of court for a crime I didn't commit.
It sounds sort of like what happened to Tommy Robinson.
Yes, exactly.
But like Tommy Robinson, like myself, we're very similar.
We've told the truth, you know, and we've been imprisoned.
I was imprisoned, a mother of two, a week before Christmas.
I was the only one in the history of the Irish state to be sent to Limerick female prison in the country for contempt of court.
Well, I'm done.
It's time to head back to Canada.
We left Canada Friday night, flew all night, landed in London, switched planes, came here to Cork, and now we're going back to the airport.
We're not even spending the night in Cork.
We're flying to London and then home from London.
I'm going to Toronto Sid, our videographer is going to Calgary.
I always enjoy these for a number of reasons.
First of all, I admire the Irish people.
In fact, I sort of love them.
Second of all, I love the spirit of their rebellion against their tyrant masters.
Third of all, I feel like I'm learning about immigration crises around the world.
And fourth of all, maybe there's some things about how to counter protest that Canadians could pick up from Ireland.
I know it's a very interesting thing.
And one of the things that feels so good about it is how valued it appears to be by the Irish themselves.
I think that I must have had 200 hellos today and probably at least 50 selfies with people.
And it's not because of my scintillating personality or good looks.
It's because the work we do fills a gap left by the mainstream media, just like it does in Canada.
But it's even worse in Ireland because it's smaller.
And so it's a smaller clique and club in the media party.
So back to Canada I go and believe people will be covering immigration in Canada.
The Conservative Party of Canada is not bad on immigration, but I think they need to get a lot tougher.
And frankly, if they do, that may be the way they win the next election.
For rebel news in the second city of Ireland called Cork, the rebel county, I'm Eswal Levant.