Ezra Levant recounts Dublin’s October 22 protests after a 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a migrant from North Africa, who had been in Ireland six years despite rejected asylum and ignored deportation orders. He describes the City West Hotel—a $250M taxpayer-funded "pleasure palace" for 2,000 migrants—as evidence of systemic favoritism while locals face homelessness. Police deployed riot shields and pepper spray against protesters, including fireworks and horseback attacks, leaving Levant injured. Framing Ireland’s immigration crisis as a warning for Canada’s future, he highlights media bias, cultural clashes, and economic strain, concluding that suppression risks undemocratic backlash while vowing to return despite threats. [Automatically generated summary]
Oh, what a day it was in Dublin between the pepper spray and being assaulted.
I had quite a time, but of course, the main reason for going there was the crisis underneath it, the horrific crime of the rape of a 10-year-old girl, but it all blends together in a general resistance towards mass immigration, and that is our show today.
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Watching a protest turn violent, watching protesters fire fireworks at police, watching police fight back with pepper spray and riot shields.
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Back in Canada after a momentous day in Dublin.
Holy smokes, that was madness.
It's October 22nd, and this is the Esther Levant show.
Shame on you, you sensorious bug.
Oh, hi, everybody.
It's great to be back in Canada.
I love my trips to Ireland, though.
But last night, whew, I have to say, was one of the most unusual days in my entire career as a journalist.
And I've been to some exotic places.
Dublin isn't particularly exotic, but it is the front line in an enormous battle over mass immigration.
We have that issue in Canada, too, but somehow it feels more acute in Ireland, which is a small country, small in many ways.
It's only got about 5 million souls.
You can drive across the country in a day.
It's not like the vast expanses we have here in Canada.
And it's ethnically homogeneous, at least outside of Dublin.
And so mass immigration has come as a shock.
It also is a moral shock.
It's not just changing Ireland as we know it.
Irish are saying, why?
Why has our tiny place become the world's refugee camp?
Why are people coming here so obviously false refugee claimants?
Like I say, somebody walk across the border from Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom, or come from some other intermediary country.
That means they're not a refugee.
If you're in the United Kingdom already, if you're in France already, you're not in danger anymore.
You can't just shop around for who's got the best goodies.
And as I saw when I was in Dublin yesterday, oh my God, who on earth wouldn't want to live in that gorgeous urban refugee camp?
But they're not refugees.
I shouldn't even use that term because that implies they really are fearing for their lives back in Northern Ireland or France.
It's a luxury hotel.
Not just a hotel.
It's like the size of a campus.
It's got tree-lined lanes.
It's got, I think it had a golf course in it.
I have to check my videos.
Absolutely gorgeous.
The kind of place that you save up all year and you take the family for, you know, spring break or something.
That's where these migrants are.
Luxury accommodations, luxury meals three times a day, spending money, cell phones.
Who wouldn't lie and cheat to get from some third world basket case country to the heart of Ireland?
I mean, I don't know how much goodwill any one country can have, but the thing is goodwill ought to be put towards people of goodwill, not cheaters and bogus refugees.
Anyways, it was extraordinary to go there yesterday.
I saw the news that one former resident of this city west migrant camp with 2,000 people in it was accused of raping a 10-year-old girl.
And it became crazier the more facts became known.
She was part of Tusla, which is the Irish Child and Family Services Agency.
So she was a ward of the state.
She was in the care of the government.
And somehow this 10-year-old, how did it happen that she was trafficked to this migrant center?
We went there physically, and it was actually, it's not part of the heart of Dublin.
So who trafficked her?
Who took her there?
It was super gross that this government agency put out some sort of press statement saying that this girl was sort of a bad girl.
You're not a bad girl when you're 10.
If you have some challenges, well, that's what Tusla is about.
I suppose everyone in CARE is a bad girl if you look at it this way.
That was an astonishing defamation of the victim of rape.
Have you ever heard of such a thing before?
But put aside the grotesque conduct of the child welfare agency, of course, the worst conduct is the rapist himself, who was only in Ireland because he refused to heed a deportation order months ago.
And the government didn't enforce it.
The government just sort of thought that someone would leave the country on their own and stop getting all these goodies for free.
They're so foolish.
Anyways, I knew immediately that this would be the front line in a major battle, not just a physical battle, but a political battle.
When I landed in Dublin, I checked the newspaper stand at the airport, and only one newspaper out of all the Irish newspapers had this rape story in it.
And I thought, that's telling.
Now, last night, there was a massive protest.
It started out with dozens.
It quickly became to hundreds.
And I think by the time the night was at its apex, there were thousands.
Even the state broadcaster said thousands.
Normally, they downplay the number of protesters against immigration.
For the first, oh, we got there very early.
We got there around 5.30.
The protest was supposed to start at 7.30.
So the first two hours, there really wasn't much to see.
There were some very early people showing up there.
I chatted with some police officers.
But things got going extremely quickly once a critical mass was there.
And you could tell that there were some, I'm going to call them seasoned protesters, and they protest differently in Ireland.
They protest, and there is a use of force on both sides.
You know, I was at an Irish protest about a year ago, and I heard a politician talk about it's not the time for violence yet.
And I was shocked to hear that, but you remember Ireland is a country that fought, that had a violent rebellion to leave the British Empire.
It used to be called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
And the whole of the island of Ireland was part of the UK.
No, through an armed rebellion, they broke free.
And the troubles, as it was called, continued on until just a couple of decades ago.
So the idea of using force to solve a political problem is not alien to Irish politics.
Here in Canada, we would find it shocking.
That is just a generation ago, the Troubles, as it was called, and just a century ago, the rebellion.
And so the protesters, not all of them, I'd say maybe 10 out of 2,000, started hurling projectiles at the police, bringing fireworks and shooting them.
Things that I suppose would be dangerous, but these police were head to toe in their riot gear.
I think it was more for the sound and fury of it.
The protesters had three ponies that galloped through at one point, but then the police locked in with their batons and their pepper spray.
Protest Violence and Mindsets00:09:24
I myself got a face full.
Some people asked me if I thought that I was targeted because I was a reporter.
It could be.
Of course, I didn't have a wide shot of where I was, but it could be the police targeted me because they saw me and my cameraman, Lincoln Jay, but I don't think so.
I think we were just close to the police line, and they were pepper spraying everyone.
Pepper spray, I've never had it before.
It's what you think it would feel like.
Imagine pouring drops of Tabasco sauce right in your eyeball.
Oh, it hurts.
And the pain is one thing.
You can bear the pain, but it makes you blind.
You cannot see, and you don't want to open your eye any wider because more pepper spray will get in it.
So when I was pepper sprayed, a big dose went in my eye and my ear.
And that hurt surprisingly, too.
Imagine if someone poured Tabasco sauce in your ear.
So the effect of that was I had to put my hand on the shoulder of my colleague, Lincoln Jay, to sort of walk me around until I was able to pour water on it.
And I actually took off my hoodie, turned it inside out, and used the clean inside of my, like the outside of my hoodie.
Obviously, I had pepper spray on it.
I had to find something to wipe my face with.
Anyway, it was sort of dramatic.
We were certainly at the center of the action.
But then another funny thing happened.
I was standing near the end, and I was jumped.
Someone with a mask jumped me and hit me, and I went down, and I got up, and they had run away.
I have no idea who it was.
I see online that that Littler Hitler that I may have, that I had an interaction with last year, he was at first sort of coyily saying, well, I know who it was.
Remember Littler Hitler?
His name is Justin Barrett.
He's this Nazi guy in Ireland who I bumped into, and we went back and forth a bit on Nazis and Jews.
Remember this?
What did the cops say?
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.
What's wrong with National Socialism?
Oh, my God.
Socialism knew how to deal with people like you.
Yeah, I haven't given a minute's thought to that again, but I think he's been stewing over our interaction for a year because last night after, I mean, I was hit from behind in a cowardly way.
I didn't see it coming.
No one came up to me and said, hey, you, Levant, I got a bone to pick with you.
Like, it was just someone cowardly jumped me from behind.
I mean, I'm a 53-year-old overweight man, not particularly known for my fitness or my fighting skills.
Imagine being so cowardly that you wouldn't face me, that you would sort of sneak attack me, sucker punch me from behind.
So I fell down hard, and I got up pretty quick and dusted myself off.
And as you can see, I'm okay.
I have a little bit of tenderness over here, but I'm not particularly hard done by.
But it was shocking.
And online, this little Nazi was sort of taking a bit of credit for it.
And I don't know.
It's like I say, we don't have violence in our political system in Canada other than Antifa.
In Ireland, they've got both Antifa on the left.
Those are the international socialists.
And they've got this national socialist on the right.
It's pretty weird.
But I don't want that to detract from the heart of the story.
I mean, it was an interesting moment in my day, but it was a very brief moment.
And it was not the center of the day.
The center of the day was the 10-year-old girl who was violently raped by a 26-year-old man who, when he was in court yesterday morning, needed an Arabic translator.
Now, the government will not publish the name of this accused rapist, but the fact that we know he was a refugee claimant from Africa who needed an Arabic translator, I think that tells us a fair bit about him right there.
The fact that his refugee application was dismissed and was still in the country tells you more about him.
He's a liar and a criminal, and now perhaps a rapist.
We'll see what the courts say.
To me, that's the center of the day.
And that should have been the focus rather than some little Nazi trying to get vengeance on me.
But I'm certainly not going to let that deter me from visiting Ireland again.
Other than that one incident, I felt an enormous warmth and welcome in Ireland.
And the reason is obvious, and the reason is simple.
Because the regime media is even more pronounced and more biased in Ireland than it is here in Canada.
And you may find that hard to believe, but I tell you it's true.
I said when I landed at the airport in Dublin, only one newspaper of all the newspapers put the rape of the girl on the front page or covered it at all.
Today, after last night's protest, which turned violent, every single newspaper had the violence on the front page because they care more about branding any objection to mass immigration as violence and thuggish and racist.
That served the narrative of the newspapers today, every single one of them.
But the violation of a 10-year-old girl, yeah, they didn't care about that.
Wrong perpetrator, you see.
That's why Rebel News was there.
You know, when I filmed a little scene setter video at the Toronto Pearson airport, like it was just quick retelling of the facts of the story, and we put that online.
Half a million people watched that on YouTube alone.
Astonishing numbers.
In fact, people at the protest said they only heard about the protest from my video.
This is people in Dublin.
And last night at midnight, I did a video sort of summing things up.
I'll play it for you tonight.
And today at the airport, I flew in, I flew home this morning, and I said in my video last night at midnight, while I'm going home on the first plane to Toronto, someone at the airport who works maintenance saw that video and came up to greet me.
It was really fun as I was flying back to Canada.
I mean, there were people, the taxi drivers said, oh, I saw your video.
Like, it was, it's amazing how widely viewed rebel news is in Ireland.
And it's simply because we tell the other side of the story.
You know me.
I like to learn.
I like to know things.
But I'm an amateur when it comes to Ireland.
I had never set foot in the country until about a year and a half ago.
I've been there six times now.
Every time I try a little bit, learn a little bit more.
There's certain subjects I just are too complex for me, and I'm not going to put the time in to master them.
There are ethnic and sectarian differences and political differences, but that's not of interest to me.
I'm going there to focus on one thing, which is their public and grassroots authentic resistance to the political cartel which forces mass immigration on them.
And they're so grateful for that.
They watch it by the millions.
So it really feels like we are filling an unmet need.
There are some other citizen journalists in Ireland, but very few.
One of them, Philip Dwyer, who we've interviewed before, today the police just seized his camera gear, just took it.
They said, oh, you have evidence of a crime.
They use that.
Can you imagine taking away the camera gear of a journalist on the eve of a protest and saying, oh, we think you have bad evidence in there?
Where's your search warrant, guys?
So citizen journalism in Ireland today is where citizen journalism in the UK was five years ago.
Remember, I used to cover Tommy Robinson's cases in London, and I would be the only journalist there.
And I would go outside the court and I'd be the only guy yapping in his cell phone.
Now there's like 20 citizen journalists in the UK, and I think it's making a huge difference.
Ireland is not that far progressed in terms of alternative media.
So believe it or not, it falls to Rebel News in Canada to fill the gap, however unlikely that may be.
I love the Irish people.
Of course, I love the language.
I love the art.
I mean, when you stop and think about how many musicians and singers and bands are from Ireland, you say, holy smokes, that is an artistic people.
And maybe it comes from the pain and the history and the stories.
I mean, Sinead O'Connor, a very troubled artist, you know, the singer, she would talk about the famine.
And I think that has shaped the mindset of the people there.
Their history is unique.
And I don't know.
My heart goes out to them.
There's only 5 million Irish in Ireland.
They say there's 30 million Irish descendants in America and a proportionate 3 million in Canada.
And I believe it.
We all know Irish Canadians and Irish Americans.
But Boston is not home for the Irish.
Montreal is not home.
I mean, I'm sure it's home for the Irish Americans and Irish Canadians, but there is only one Ireland.
And it's a small place.
And the fact that it has been turned into the world's refugee camp is something that baffles me.
It would baffle me even if there was no violence involved.
But I tell you that there is an enormous streak of violence.
We're all talking about a 10-year-old girl who was just raped.
But just the other day, there was a young Somali and a young Ukrainian in a youth refugee center.
And the Somali chopped to bits the Ukrainian.
And I read in the paper today it was because he was cooking bacon or something.
Like just insane medieval style, third world style violence brought into the heart of Ireland.
It makes no sense.
You know, there is another independent journalist outfit in Ireland.
It's called Gripped.
And you know, we've interviewed Ben Scallon and Fatima Gunning from there before.
They're outstanding, and they were there last night too.
And Ben Scallon had a very pithy and poignant tweet today.
He said, why would you need to engage in violence when you can simply go to the polls and vote these problems away with a candidate that supports you?
Why Engage in Violence?00:11:44
And I'm not reading verbatim.
I'm going from memory.
And he's referring to the fact that actually the presidential vote, which is coming up in Ireland, was completely rigged.
And I'm not saying that as an accusation or as a hyperbole.
It's a complex system of rules that the existing parties said we're not going to allow outsiders like Conor McGregor or even more moderate Conservatives to run.
So they really rigged the rules so only political insiders could be nominated.
It's not an open ballot or an open primary.
You have to have the endorsement of a certain number of counselors or certain numbers of MPs.
Like it's really a clubby gatekeeping exercise.
And as Ben points out, it's a club, but you're not in it.
And that's what's heartbreaking.
You know me, I traveled to other places.
I've been in the UK and there's Nigel Farage fighting for re-migration.
Donald Trump is showing how it's done.
Other governments like Viktor Orbán are saying we're not going to get into that mess in the first place in Hungary.
There's different political parties across the West.
There's Vox in Spain.
There's Marine Le Pen in France.
But there is no analogous anti-immigration party of any size or with any representation in the Irish Parliament.
Anyways, these are all the thoughts on my mind, but I'm back in Toronto now.
And I want to give a big thanks to my cameraman, Lincoln Jay, who wasn't just a great videographer.
He actually helped me when I was pepper sprayed.
I hung on to his shoulder and he sort of walked me away as I was blind.
It was quite an exciting night.
and he came on short notice so i'm grateful to him so without further ado let me play for you lincoln jay's edit of last night we showed you some stuff that we had tweeted and whatnot in the moment It was quite kind of rushed.
But this is what Lincoln's been working on all day.
Here, take a look at the battle of City West.
We're still almost 90 minutes away from when the protest against this massive urban refugee camp gets underway.
But already you can see the police have set up cones and the police are called the Garda here in Ireland.
Any car that's signaling to come into the refugee camp, they're grilling them, asking them questions, turning them away.
They put some barriers up down there.
They shooed us out of the way.
Just ask him where to go, boss.
I just thought I'd ask you where journalists should go to cover the protest.
You're on private property here.
You're on private property.
I'm leaving you.
What are you so agitated about?
Because you're on private property.
You don't need to be agitated about it.
What if I'm seeking asylum?
You don't know I'm not seeking asylum.
Well, you need to go to Burke in the city if you're seeking asylum.
What's that?
Burke in the city.
All right, I'm going to seek asylum.
It's lovely here.
I want to seek asylum.
Come ask us.
Get three square meals a day in a luxury accommodation.
I'll be back as a resident before you know it.
It's not a large police force right here.
It's sort of a light touch out here, but there's plenty more police and police fans in the compound, the campus, this massive, sprawling, quarter billion dollar pleasure palace for 2,000 migrants while Irish go homeless.
It's interesting that they're inspecting every car going in, but not inspecting every car going out.
And one of the people who came and gone from this place was a 26-year-old migrant from North Africa, speaks Arabic, who allegedly raped a 10-year-old Irish girl.
If only the police would check the people coming in to Ireland as carefully as they're checking the Irish going in to this refugee camp.
If you're guarding the migrants from the Irish, who's guarding the Irish from the migrants?
In the UK where I've been to some migrant hotels, there's a lot of police, but always to protect the foreign asylum seekers from the indigenous British.
Same thing here.
These police are not protecting the Irish from these interlopers.
If only they would.
Maybe that girl would not have been raped yesterday.
They're here to protect this four-star luxury.
It's not even a hotel, it's a campus.
It's parks and fields and buildings and restaurants.
You know, the number one thing it reminds me of is a small elite university.
When I see elite, it is gorgeous.
It has been bought by the government of Ireland for a quarter of a billion dollars, Canadian, 158 million euros, and turned into a luxury housing facility, housing and food and recreation, for foreign migrants who come to Ireland.
Now, here's the thing.
There are no refugees who come to Ireland because the rule about refugees is you have to seek asylum in the first country you get to, the first safe country you get to.
There's no one who was flying to Ireland from Somalia, from Syria, from Pakistan.
They've all come through a second or third or fourth country, the UK or France or something like that.
So, Ab initio, from the beginning, every single person in here is an immigration fraud.
In fact, 80% of them lose their documents on their way over.
They're fraudulent, and yet they're allowed to be housed at taxpayers' expense for years.
The accused rapist, a 26-year-old man from North Africa, who is alleged to have raped a 10-year-old girl yesterday, he had six years in this country before his asylum claim was finally ruled on, and it was rejected, and still they didn't deport him.
He had a deportation order, but he didn't leave.
I actually feel a little bit emotional.
I actually have a one-year-old.
He's one tomorrow.
And we only live around the corner.
And I just never thought that Ireland would be a place that I would be scared to raise my children in.
I just think the government is to blame.
I know some of the anger is being directed where maybe it shouldn't be.
But I think there's a big change.
And only we can make that change, you know.
And I think the parties that are being voted in need to go.
They've had their time and look what they've done.
And it will take a long time.
This isn't going to be an overnight change.
It will take 10, 20 years to see a real change.
But I think we really need to change here in Ireland.
Big time.
This is an enormous facility.
It's like a university campus.
And it goes back even further when you go in.
I've never actually been in there myself.
And when I went in, like there's so many buildings.
It's like summer camp for foreign nationals who sneak into Ireland.
Yeah, undocumented, illegal, you know.
This is the thing.
It's not about people that are genuinely trying to seek asylum.
And the thing is, I'd say it's a hard time for them in Ireland now, you know, because, like I said, people are directing their anger to places they shouldn't.
And I'd say just to be here and be a foreign national is difficult.
But Ireland is barely 1% of the population of all of Europe.
What are you doing taking in a million souls?
This is the thing about the government.
Again, I don't know how they're getting in time after time after time.
All right.
Well, I have a theory.
And one of them, I mean, I have a number of theories.
One is...
I love to hear a theory.
Well, one is anyone who disagrees with them they call racist.
Oh, big time.
And no one wants to be called racist.
That's the worst thing in the world.
Apparently, it's worse to be called a racist than to stop a rapist.
Oh, that's the thing, and that's the fear.
And I think maybe that's the problem and why we don't have someone running that we're not looking for a racist.
We're looking for someone who's going to streamline the procedures and get, you know, as much as getting them in, there needs to be a lot more.
Like this man was told to self-deportise in March.
There is a blind woman and her child who were trying to get in there and the police turned them away because this refugee camp's on lockdown now because some Irish are having a protest.
They're literally being sent blocks away because the Gardee have decided that protecting the refugees is the most important thing in Ireland tonight.
It's so upside down.
This is after a migrant allegedly raped a 10-year-old girl.
So they're sending a blind mum down the road a few blocks.
you know, security and all that.
Well, I'll tell you one thing about the Irish.
They're not shy about protesting.
They're not shy about expressing themselves.
And once a critical mass of protesters formed, they decided to march down the road.
This is where police shoot us away about an hour ago.
But now there's, I'd say, about 50 people, a bunch arrived all at once.
And they protest a bit differently here.
We'll keep the camera rolling.
We'll see what the police do in response.
Ah, here comes more paid PSNOs.
What's interesting today is that the Foreign Minister Simon Harris, when he talked about it, he went through a performative statement about how sorry he was about everything, but he gave no inkling whatsoever that he realized things were wrong.
My immediate thoughts though, of course, are with the young child.
Just that that young child and what that young child must be going through right now.
And that's where my thoughts are in there.
But as a public representative, as a government leader, in establishing the facts so that we can work out what happened in this case and what must happen.
Bringing in illegal migrants to Ireland is big business.
Billions of dollars.
And you think Simon Harris is going to let one rape stop that?
This is our national flag protected by our constitution.
We have a sovereign right to display it on all public buildings, polls, and houses owned by the Irish people.
It's a very interesting comment because in Ireland, and I've seen it in the UK as well, when people put up their national flags, governments sometimes take down those national flags.
And here in Ireland, senior politicians have even said that the flag is somehow un-Irish and it's a symbol, believe it or not, of racists.
That's what politicians like Mihail Martin and Simon Harris, that's the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister, have said.
I find it inspiring when countries celebrate their own flag.
It's the essence of the nation.
African Somalians, we don't know what type of people you have in this country coming in here.
No passports, not even a penny in the pocket.
And they're coming over and they're bleeding, killing our kids.
They're raping our kids.
They're taking over the trying to take over the country.
The Irish government won't put out an under knows what happens around her.
Nobody knows what happens around her.
Every single day.
There's fucking mad stuff happening.
Why is there not a single media company of any size?
Why is your name?
The government a part of the problem as well.
The Irish government are all gangsters as well.
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They're all gangsters.
The police, the guard of Shaykh Connor, gangsters.
The media, gangsters.
Raping kids, robbing houses, stabbing the guard to get away with everything.
Holy 10 years.
There's the only one way to get the fucking out.
At the end of the day, there's poor babies, poor children, innocent people getting raped by these fuckers that meant to be doctors, engineers, and whatsoever.
And they're dirty, pedophiled rapists, basses, that raise beautiful.
And that's all I have to say.
Get them out.
The rest run and leave.
Incredible moment
as two Irish patriots on horses come trotting down the street.
The crowd parts as if it's the Red Sea.
They go straight to the front amidst cheers.
And now they're back there.
A dramatic show of Irish culture and Irish determination.
They did not breach the gates, but they certainly got cheers all along.
The protest
turned, not peaceful.
Riot Brigade Deployment00:13:26
Horses stormed in.
Firecrackers were shot in response.
The police have deployed their riot brigades.
I've been hit with pepper spray.
I'm not opening my right eye because my face has pepper spray on it.
I would estimate 100 riot police in response.
They charged everyone, pepper spraying everyone, including journalists like myself, indiscriminately.
There are women and children in this protest.
They were pepper sprayed as well.
I've never been pepper sprayed before.
It's quite painful.
And more than that, it's disabling.
You can't see, and so you can't really react.
I'm being guided around by my videographer, Lincoln Jay.
Thank you, Lincoln.
An incredible show of force by the Irish police defending the migrants against Irish citizens.
Many of the protesters here would wonder when the Gardaí will protect Irish citizens from the refugees.
All right, so I got pepper sprayed to the face.
I'll stop being such a big baby.
I want to let you know I'm crying from the pepper, not from sorrow.
But it's quite a violent response from the Gardee.
Now, in fairness to them, there were some protesters who threw some projectiles at them.
And there were three men on horses that stomped on some pylons.
But holy smokes, did the police respond with overwhelming force.
Like I say, probably 100 police in full riot gear.
They had attack dogs, pepper spraying everyone in the face indiscriminately.
You can see helicopters overhead.
I don't know if there's even a way out.
I've got a fair bit of pain from the pepper.
I do not know where the front line is.
My goal is just to sort of rinse my eyes.
There's no political party in the Irish Parliament or the Senate that represents these people.
There's no mainstream media organization that represents these people.
Well, last night at around midnight, when I finished up and finally made it back to the hotel, I made a video and it's gone viral too.
I tell you, the Irish are so thirsty to know what's going on in their own country that they rely on a Canadian news channel.
It's very unusual, but I'm happy to fill the role.
One of the reasons I also did this video last night at midnight is to show that whoever sent the thugs to beat me up, they didn't succeed.
I mean, they knocked me down and it did hurt.
I have a slight bruise over there, but yeah, that's not going to stop me.
As you know, Rebel News hires bodyguards for our reporters.
We've hired them for David.
We've hired them for Drea.
We've hired them for Sheila.
We've hired them for Alexa.
And when I go to Ireland again, I'll most probably have bodyguards.
And it's unfortunate.
It's not a great way to look at the world as a potentially violent place.
And it's a big expense, of course.
But we are not going to be deterred.
We're not going to be deterred.
I'm not blaming the police for pepper spraying me.
I don't think it was on purpose.
And even if it was, I was fairly close to a riot, so I'm not going to complain.
But the thug that they sent to beat me up, yeah, that's not going to stop me.
I don't know who is scared by these things, but Rebel News has made a name for ourselves standing up to thugs, whether they're international socialists or national socialists.
We bring people the truth.
And by the way, when the question is asked in 20 years, where were you in this battle against the rape of Ireland?
I know what I'll say.
I'll say I was providing journalism that gave a hearing to the people of Ireland who had no other voice.
And whatever thug thought that their big contribution was to send someone to hit me because I'm Jewish, well, that's a pitiful man right there, and not much of an Irishman, I must say.
All right, here's my final clip that I recorded last night.
As for Levant for Rebel News, it's after midnight, finally back at our hotel here in Dublin, and we're taking the first flight back to Toronto tomorrow morning.
We came with one purpose only, and that was to take the pulse of the people of Dublin after a shocking crime happened in their city.
Allegedly, a 26-year-old migrant who had been staying at Ireland's largest refugee camp, a 2,000-person swanky hotel turned into a migrant facility, has been accused of raping a 10-year-old girl.
He was in court this morning.
By the way, he's been in Ireland for six years.
He had his refugee claim rejected.
Still, he refused to go.
He was given a deportation order.
Still, he refused to go.
And by the way, at his trial, he required an Arabic language translator.
Sounds like he didn't even bother to even try to learn the language.
It's shocking.
And this is the latest in a pattern of crimes by foreign migrants who are overwhelming Ireland.
I don't understand why this country is so dead set on, I don't know, setting some sort of record for the most migrants.
And many of them are so obviously bogus.
They've come here, many of them walking across from the United Kingdom, from Northern Ireland into Ireland.
Clearly, they're not in any danger.
If you're coming from the UK or France, you're not in danger.
You're not a refugee anymore.
It's a scam.
You know, we had a taxi driver today who was talking about how hard it is for him to get ahead and to buy a house, whereas all these migrants get free, luxurious accommodations either in a hotel or in a house, including three square meals a day.
And it's an economic issue, it's a cultural issue, and it's a women's rights issue because so many of these migrants come from places where women are treated as second-class citizens, and rape culture is a real thing.
We went to the City West Hotel during the day to take a look at it, and we went back at night when hundreds of Dubliners were there to protest.
The protests turned violent, and both sides absolutely lashed out at the other.
I suppose on the side of the Dubliners, there was, I'd say, half a dozen people who were using fireworks to shoot at the police.
I don't think there would be more than that.
There were three Irish lads on horseback that sort of stomped on police pylons.
So that was the sum total of the violence from the protesters' side.
I would say 10 or less people.
But on the police side, once they had that provocation, they responded overwhelmingly.
I would say at least 100 Irish guardees, they're called, including the riot squad.
I thought I heard attack dogs, but they were never deployed.
But what was deployed was pepper spray, and I got a pepper spray in the eye and the ear.
I tell you, that's an experience you won't forget quickly.
You know, I'm not much for that kind of protest.
I think where I come from, Canada has a more passive style than Ireland.
There's a phrase, the fighting Irish.
And I think the Irish have a rebellious streak in them, which is one of the reasons they're such an interesting and powerful people.
And I'm sort of hoping that the Irish streak of rebellion will help free the country from this crazy mass immigration cult.
And I think that's the thing that I take away from me tonight, is that the hundreds of people there, some of whom are violent, most of them are, all of whom are desperate.
No one's hearing their voice.
No one's being their voice.
No one's listening to them.
All the major political parties believe in mass immigration.
And if you oppose it, they call you racist.
All the major media do the same thing.
Who do these people turn to?
Where do they look for help?
It's not shocking to me that some of them use fireworks against the police.
I don't recommend that, of course.
I don't praise the violence, but it's understandable, even if it's not acceptable.
I think that we're going to see another round of these protesters being denounced as racist.
But it doesn't change the fact that these mass immigration refugee camps are a danger.
And even if they're not a danger of violence, which they are, they're changing Ireland.
They're making it a different place.
I was in the town of Dundrum last year, 200 people, and suddenly 240 migrants were put into a town of 200 people.
Instantly, the Irish became a minority in their own town.
There's terrible things going on here in Ireland being done to the people, but there's also some hopefulness, the people fighting back.
One of the roles that rebel news plays is that we tell the other side of the story.
I love coming to Ireland to show the Irish what is happening because they can't get that information often from their regime media.
And being from North America, we love to tell the story to North Americans.
I call my trips to Ireland and the UK and to France and Netherlands.
I say they're a dystopian time machine where I see what life will be like in Canada five years from now if we don't change course.
I love being there tonight.
So many Irish people stopped me to say hello.
There was one person who didn't like me much.
I was sneaked up on behind in sucker punch.
That was first for me as well.
But, you know, nothing's going to deter me from continuing my journalism.
I have to say that two years ago, I'd never been to Ireland in my life.
I really didn't know any Irish people other than Irish Canadians.
But now I love the place.
I love coming over and our videographers do.
I think this is our sixth trip over here.
And I want to know how the story ends.
I want it to be a happy ending.
I want the Irish to take back their country.
And I want the madness of the NGOs and the mass immigration to stop.
I want that to be done peacefully.
And I'm not sure if the powers that be will allow that to be done peacefully.
We'll be there every step of the way to document it.
I remain a friend of Ireland and I wish the country very well.
I'll be back very soon.
If you've enjoyed my reports today, and we'll have some more over the days ahead, we're still editing so many videotapes.
Please do me a favor and help chip in for our economy class airfare to get over here.
My videographer Lincoln and myself, we don't take any money from the government, unlike RTE.
We just rely on the support of our viewers.
So if you like our journalism and value it, do me a favor and go to migrantreports.com and chip in a few Euros or a few dollars if you can.
Thanks, Ireland.
We'll see you soon.
Well, that's what I said last night around midnight, and then I got on the plane this morning, and I'm home now.
Hey, we do have a couple of letters.
Let me read those to you now.
Paul Schofield says, judging by the shouts of the Irish Patriots outside of the City West Hotel, the men and women know what needs to be done.
The question is whether they will eventually proceed to that point.
Well, like I say, they do have a fairly recent history of using force in Irish politics.
And I'm not used to that.
I don't think Canadians are used to that.
But in Ireland, if they don't resolve things democratically, that's why it's so heartbreaking that the Parliament is doing its best to shut out alternative political vehicles.
And the media is doing its best to silence and shame dissidents.
Don't they know that they are causing the conditions for people to use force?
And I don't say that as an advocacy for force.
I don't say that happily.
When you shut people out of the political system, they are going to seek remedies outside of the political system.
That's why it's so important that Nigel Farage remain viable and they don't try and lawfare him out of there like they did to Donald Trump.
And he is all that's left keeping millions of Brits in the system.
And I'm worried that Irish people are, if they simply do not see anyone in the establishment listening to their concerns.
Let me Winks 369 says, I'm so sorry you were assaulted, Ezra.
As an Irishman, I'm deeply embarrassed.
Well, thank you for that, but don't be embarrassed.
This is not on Ireland.
I mean, if I got hit in Toronto, I wouldn't blame every Torontonian.
I understand.
It wasn't every Torontonian.
In fact, it was the opposite.
I felt so much warm welcome.
You know, I probably stopped for 20 selfies and I shook 50 hands.
And, you know, there's an Irish phrase they use in the UK, too, fair play on you, sir, for coming out.
Fair play.
Like, I got a lot of encouragement for being there.
And when people learned that we flew in that morning just to cover that protest, they were grateful.
And I love Ireland.
I love the Irish people.
And believe you me, I understand that these few folks who are violent towards me, they do not represent Ireland.
Of course they don't.
And I'm going to keep coming to Ireland.
You bet I will.
Well, that's our show for today.
Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.