‘Take out the quiet Jew’: Jewish reporter SLAMS Canadian cops who arrested him at Hamas rally



The founder of Rebel News, Ezra Levant, was recently arrested in his Jewish neighborhood in Toronto, Canada, for “inciting a breach of the peace” by standing next to a group of anti-Israel, pro-Hamas protesters.

In a video captured during the protest, Levant tells the camera mid-arrest that he was “being arrested because I’m standing on the sidewalk in my city. I’m a Jew who lives in this neighborhood, and I’m being arrested because the police say that’s the path of least resistance.”

“I wasn’t doing anything unlawful,” Levant tells Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program.” “I was actually just debating with those cops because I wanted to film. You called it a pro-Palestinian rally; it sort of was. But I think it was more than that. It was pro-Hamas.”

Levant explains that the protesters were “re-enacting the final moments of Yahya Sinwar,” who is the now-deceased head of Hamas. “Nothing to do with the war overseas. They were putting on this sort of re-enactment of their hero, the head of Hamas. And I thought this was so astonishing, I just wanted to film it.”


While the cop had accused Levant, who was silently filming, of breaching the peace, Levant believes the “pro-Hamas thugs” were the ones actually breaching the peace.

“They essentially vetoed me being on my own sidewalk. This is public property. I wasn’t in some private place to be trespassed or something. And the cops arrested me, the path of least resistance,” he explains, adding, “There [were] about 20 of them, and there was one of me. And instead of upholding the law, they said, ‘We’ll just take Ezra out because we know he’s not going to riot, he’s not going to get violent. Take out the quiet Jew.’”

However, Levant wasn’t going down easy.

“I showed up on Sunday morning, and 100 people were there, and I led them across the street,” He explains, adding, “and we stood there, and I think the police sized us up and thought, ‘There’s 100 of them, we really can’t arrest 100 of them.’ It was no longer the path of least resistance, so we took back the streets.”

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Journalist thrown in jail after reporting on pro-Hamas rally in Canada: 'Because I'm a Jew'



Canadian police arrested a Jewish journalist Sunday after pro-Hamas radicals made clear that his presence would not be tolerated in a public space.

Ezra Levant, the conservative publisher of Rebel News — one of the few media outfits in Canada that does not receive funding from the Trudeau government — was reporting on a pro-Hamas demonstration near Bathurst Street and Sheppard Avenue, a historically Jewish neighborhood in Toronto. Levant was keen to capture some of the radicals' comments and costumes on film, including one demonstrator who dressed up as Yahya Al-Sinwar, the terrorist leader of Hamas whom Israeli forces killed in October.

Pro-Hamas radicals at the rally also held signs featuring the inverted red triangle, a symbol used by Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades to identify Israeli military targets.

In footage from the pro-Hamas rally, which took place opposite a pro-Israel counter-demonstration, radicals can be heard condemning Israel as well as celebrating Hezbollah, even though, like Hamas, the group is currently listed by the Canadian government as a terrorist entity.

Although Levant was lawfully exercising his rights in a public space, police swooped in to remove him when it became clear he had prickled the mob with his efforts to peacefully chronicle the event.

"Police arrested me for 'causing a disturbance' when I was silently filming a pro-Hamas protest in a Jewish neighborhood in Toronto," Levant told Blaze News. "The cops said that my mere presence was causing a disturbance because the pro-Hamas people didn't want me there."

'I am the law.'

Officers swarmed Levant then forcefully carted him away while pro-Hamas radicals yelled, "Get him out! Get him out!" and "Go home!"

"Since when do foreign provocateurs, promoting a banned terrorist organization, get to veto who can and can't walk on a sidewalk?" Levant told Blaze News. "Outrageous."

Blaze News reached out to the Toronto Police Services for comment but did not receive a response by deadline. When asked for comment, the City of Toronto referred Blaze News to the TPS.

In the lead-up to his arrest, Levant can be seen in one video discussing the absurdity of his removal with an officer who told him, "Look around you. They're not happy that you're here."

"You know you're a disgrace," Levant told the officer. "You're a coward also. You'll do what they say because it's the path of least resistance."

When instructed to leave the area, Levant, a former lawyer, told the officer, "You're violating my Charter rights."

The officer responded by insinuating Levant was inciting the mob, then informed the journalist, "I am the law."

Another officer chimed in, asking Levant, "So you're refusing to leave? ... Why?"

"Because I'm a Jew, I'm a citizen, and I'm your boss," said the journalist.

"You know what?" responded the officer. "In the interest of keeping peace here, public safety, you're under arrest for breach of the peace."

Pro-Hamas demonstrators cheered while police handcuffed Levant and carted him away.

Levant, appearing somewhat shaken by the turn of events, told his cameraman, "I'm being arrested because I'm standing on a sidewalk in my city. I'm a Jew who lives in this neighborhood, and I'm being arrested because the police say that that's the path of least resistance."

Levant told Blaze News, "Police handcuffed, searched and jailed me for a few hours, but in the end they declined to press charges. It was obviously 'the path of least resistance.' They knew I’d be compliant, whereas the pro-Hamas thugs have been on a rioting rampage in Canada recently (e.g. in Montreal)."

Pro-Hamas and anti-NATO radicals backed by over 25 leftist groups took to the streets of Montreal Friday, launching incendiary devices, torching vehicles, attacking first responders, and vandalizing storefronts while Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — whose electoral district, or riding, is in the city — was busy dancing at the Taylor Swift concert in Toronto.

David Menzies, a reporter at Levant's Rebel News, was similarly arrested earlier this year on multiple occasions for daring to cover pro-Hamas rallies, including one at Toronto City Hall.

'It's a public place!'

Thousands of people, including Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, gathered for an event on April 7 focused on demands for the release of the remaining Israeli captives taken hostage by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023. Anti-Israel demonstrators tried to crash the event.

"Incredibly, there was a protest of a few dozen people — the pro-Hamas types — which was particularly gross because to me this was like crashing a funeral," Menzies told Blaze News following his release. "They're spouting their rhetoric, which by the way includes calls for genocide like, 'from the river to the sea,' and 'intifada.'"

Menzies attempted to interview elements of the mob outside of city hall but was allegedly assaulted. Police intervened — not to help but to arrest the reporter.

"It's a public place!" Menzies told one of the arresting officers in an apparent state of disbelief. "This is literally the public square."

Menzies later told Blaze News he was charged for alleged breach of the peace and trespassing.

Menzies, like Levant, is accustomed to abuse by the state. After all, he was allegedly assaulted by Trudeau's bodyguards in 2021; roughed up by an RCMP officer, then carted away by York Regional Police after asking Trudeau's deputy minister questions in January; and arrested both on Nov. 11 and in March for asking pro-Hamas protesters questions.

Canada is hardly the only Western nation where the sensitivities of pro-Hamas activists and other radicals are given priority over other citizens' rights.

Blaze News reported earlier this year that London's Metropolitan Police threatened to arrest Gideon Falter, the head of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, if he remained in an area of the city where pro-Hamas demonstrators were marching.

'Sir, you are quite openly Jewish.'

Footage of the confrontation showed Falter, wearing a kippah, ask a police sergeant, "So basically, because I'm Jewish, I can't cross the road today?"

"Because of the march," said the sergeant.

Falter pressed the issue, saying, "Yes, because I am Jewish?"

"That is part of — unfortunately part of the fact," said the sergeant.

The sergeant, who ultimately threatened to arrest Falter for breach of the peace, made a point of noting, "At the moment, sir, you are quite openly Jewish."

Last week, Barbara Slowik, Berlin's chief of police, admitted to the German newspaper Berline Zeitung that "there are areas — and we have to be honest here — where I would advise people who wear a kippah or are openly gay or lesbian to be more alert."

Slowik said she wouldn't "defame any groups of people here" but acknowledged that "there are certain neighborhoods where the majority of people liv[ing there] are of Arab descent, who also have sympathies for terrorist groups."

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Dystopian nightmare: Canadian police threaten journalist with jail time over bogus 'hate crime'



Ezra Levant has many different titles — lawyer, journalist, author, political activist, and founder of Rebel News, “which is a lot like Blaze News in some ways,” says Glenn Beck.

He’s also a target for the authoritarian Canadian government.

Levant and his Rebel News team have been “outspoken” when it comes to Canada’s crusade against free speech (and just freedom in general), and it’s made him an enemy of the state.

“The Canadian government has been after [Levant and his team] for a long time,” says Glenn, adding that Levant is “now having to fight the censorship bill” that Canada passed last year.

“It looks like he may be facing prison time because of ‘hate speech,”’ which we know is just a catchall phrase for anything the government doesn’t want said.

“Toronto, Canada, where I live, is the site of a pro Hamas encampment,” Levant tells Glenn. “There's screaming, mask-wearing thugs marching through the city every week ... besetting synagogues and residential areas. There was a Jewish school that was shot up a few weeks ago. ... It's an anti-Semitic crime wave.”

However, when Rebel News “drove [its] jumbo tron truck around the city, showing some of the scenes of Hamas thugs threatening to kill people, blocking the downtown streets, [and] having a mass prayer gridlocking the city ... the police chief made an announcement on Twitter that he was investigating [the team] for a hate crime.”

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“The fact that we showed those things [meant] we were conducting a hate crime, and [the police chief] announced his investigation in advance, declaring it an Islamophobic hate crime,” Levant explains.

“If [he and his team are] convicted ... under this provision of the Canadian criminal code, it's a two-year prison sentence.”

“The very next day,” following the announcement of the investigation, “I got in the jumbo tron truck, and I drove it, and I parked it right outside the headquarters of the police chief,” Levant recounts, “and I walked into the main police police station in Toronto, and I said, ‘I'm here to see the chief.'”

Unsurprisingly, “He wouldn't come down, and he wouldn't send anyone else down, so I eventually left.”

However, despite the looming threat, Levant and Rebel News refuse to cower in fear.

“We've been driving the truck with those same images for a few days now, and I don't know what's going to happen next,” he says.

To help Ezra and the staff at Rebel News fight this absurd and unlawful attack on free speech, go to https://savethetruck.com/.

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'This is Canada, not Gaza': Cops drag away conservative reporter for supposedly 'trespassing' in Toronto's public square



A Canadian reporter for one of the northern nation's only conservative media outfits was arrested Sunday and carted away for doing his job faithfully on public property.

Rebel News reporter David Menzies, who local and federal officials appear keen to shut up and lock away, confirmed to Blaze News that he was charged for alleged breach of the peace and trespassing for daring to pose questions to anti-Israel protesters outside Toronto City Hall.

Menzies indicated that he will be suing the Toronto Police Service over this incident just as he is suing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for a similarly rough arrest earlier this year.

Background

Thousands of people gathered outside Toronto City Hall on Sunday for "6 Months in Hell," an event centered around demands for the release of those remaining Israeli captives who have suffered at the hands of Islamic terrorists since Hamas waged its unprovoked Oct. 7 attacks on the Jewish nation.

Footage of the event outside Toronto City Hall shows a peaceful crowd waving Canadian and Israeli flags at Nathan Phillips Square while various speakers take the stage, including Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre.

Poilievre, the parliamentarian poised to steamroll Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the 2025 federal election, called on "friends of humanity — Jews, gentiles, people of all backgrounds, Canadians, all people of decency — to stand against the homicidal, genocidal death cult that is Hamas, a death cult that must be destroyed so that we can free the hostages and restore peace for all."

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Anti-Israel demonstrators flocked to the scene in an apparent effort to counter the anti-terrorist sentiment expressed by Poilievre and others.

Menzies told Blaze News he ventured over "as a journalist in the public square doing public service journalism ... to find out why these people were there trying to crash this event."

"Incredibly, there was a protest of a few dozen people — the pro-Hamas types — which was particularly gross because to me this was like crashing a funeral," Menzies told Blaze News. "They're spouting their rhetoric, which by the way includes calls for genocide like, 'from the river to the sea,' and 'intifada.'"

Footage shows a number of the anti-Israel protesters crowding Menzies outside Toronto City Hall as he attempts to conduct impromptu interviews with his phone and microphone in hand. The mob presses the reporter up against a wall, shoving him with flag poles and sneaking in jabs. Other protesters can be seen attempting to block the view of Menzies' cameraman with flags and placards.

Menzies indicated that police looked on as protesters not only assaulted him but illegally used amplifying devices to push their vitriol and drown out calls for the hostages' releases.

A masked Toronto Police Service officer can finally be seen swooping in, grabbing Menzies, and separating him from the crowd.

Menzies tells the officer, "They can chant genocide in the street, and I can't cover that? Obey your oath. Officer, obey your oath."

The TPS officer can be seen grabbing Menzies' wrist and tossing his camera onto the ground. Additional cops crew around as the officer handcuffs the reporter, then carts him away.

The arresting officer announces Menzies was "under arrest for refusing to leave [the] premises."

"It's a public place!" responds Menzies in an apparent state of disbelief. "This is literally the public square."

The officer begins to explain his actions, but Menzies interrupts, noting, "They assaulted me and you did nothing."

The police drag him over to a van, ostensibly banging Menzies' head against the rear door before tossing him inside.

Rebel News subsequently indicated that Menzies suffered a cut on his head from when the officers "roughly threw David into the back of a police truck, knocking his head against the roof. They also tightly forced his shoulders back, deeply aggravating a previous injury."

Menzies told Blaze News that "in the department of perverse irony," he was ultimately held at TPS 52 Division, one block away from the Art Gallery of Ontario where "pro-Hamas" protesters shut down a reception between Trudeau and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

The reporter found some dark humor in the notion that whereas he sat in holding for asking questions on public property, the radicals "got away with shutting that down."

BREAKING: David Menzies has been arrested for reporting on the anti-Israel counter protest against the rally for the remaining hostages detained by Hamas on October 7th. \n\nhttps://t.co/VGU2262Brn to help his legal fight. Updates to follow.
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When speaking to Menzies hours after his release, Ezra Levant, the publisher of Rebel News, surmised the police had gone after the reporter because it would have alternatively required more effort to deal with the actual aggressors.

"They took the coward's way out, which is, 'If we try and arrest this mob of Hamas hate marchers, they're going to get handsy with us. But we know Menzies won't, so let's take him out,'" said Levant.

Menzies told Blaze News, "Bottom line, right now in Toronto — and I would argue in other cities around the world, Western democracies — law enforcement is now about, not enforcing the law, but keeping the peace. Keeping the peace means bending the knee to the violent mob. 'If keeping the peace means arresting an independent journalist for potentially asking insensitive questions to the mob, then so be it.'"

The Canadian reporter suggested that this style of policing is prompting the mob to become "more and more emboldened," noting that among the anti-Israel radicals proudly demonstrating Sunday was a woman who allegedly speared a police horse last month but was evidently spared jail time.

Levant suggested that the TPS has a "personal vendetta" against Menzies.

After all, Menzies has repeatedly been targeted for abuse while working for Rebel News, one of the few media outfits in Canada that does not receive funding from the Trudeau government.

He was allegedly assaulted by Trudeau's bodyguards in 2021; roughed up by an RCMP officer, then carted away by York Regional Police after asking Trudeau's deputy minister questions in January; and arrested by Toronto Police officers last month for asking questions of pro-Palestinian protesters nearby an event featuring Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

How bad is it in Canada?\n\nRebel News reporter David Menzies (@TheMenzoid) was "arrested for assault" for asking Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland questions.\n\nYou can clearly see David did not "assault" Freeland. It's arguable that never even made physical contact.\n\nWorse yet, Justin\u2026
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Blaze News previously reported that the apparent antipathy for the conservative outlet is shared by more than just city officials. Trudeau and his Liberal Party have denied Rebel News accreditation to cover political debates; accused its reporters of spreading vaccine misinformation; and suggested it was increasing polarization in the country amid draconian COVID lockdowns.

"That's Toronto police showing total cowardice towards actual criminal gangs but abusing and punishing a peaceful journalist," wrote the publisher. "I'm sick of it. We're going to defend against the bogus charges today. But when those charges are thrown out, we're not done."

When vowing to sue the Toronto Police, Levant indicated his aim would be "to teach them that they just aren't allowed to beat up Canadian journalists. This is Canada, not Gaza."

Menzies indicated they also filed a lawsuit last month over the Freeland incident, which they will use as the "template" for two suits against the TPS, one for the incident last month and another for the arrest Sunday.

Blaze News reached out to the Toronto Police Service and Pierre Poilievre for comment but did not receive replies by deadline.

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This will blow your mind – Canada just introduced the most draconian 'hate-crime' bill 'in the history of ANY democratic country'



Under the tyranny of Justin Trudeau, Canada has continued to slip farther away from freedom into what can only be described as Hitler-esque authoritarianism.

“I’ve got bad news, Glenn,” Rebel News founder Ezra Levant tells Glenn Beck. “Canada just introduced the most draconian, anti-free speech censorship bill in our history and in the history of any democratic country.”

Trudeau’s bill is called Bill C-63, and it’s a “hate crime bill” that primarily affects “social media” and essentially “criminalizes a human emotion.”

“If you have quote ‘fear of hate’ ... you can get a judge to issue a kind of restraining order against your enemy before he does anything, before he says anything, and that restraining order can include house arrest, giving up any lawful firearms, limiting who he can talk to directly or indirectly, limiting the places he can go, and requiring him to to take urine and blood tests – just because you are quote ‘afraid’ he might in the future say some hate speech,” he explains, adding that the so-called perpetrator “doesn't have to have done anything in the past” to be required to go through the process, making it “a pre-crime bill.”

But that’s just the beginning of Trudeau’s oppressive legislation.

The bill also proposes “that anyone in Canada, even noncitizens, can file hate speech complaints against anyone, and if they're successful, they get $20,000 from the target, and the target has to pay a fine of up to $50,000,” Ezra adds.

Because the bill primarily impacts social media, “if there's anyone who has a YouTube video, a Tweet, a Facebook comment that you think creates hate, you can go to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal and complain about it. You don't have to hire a lawyer, you don't have to spend any money; the government will have the hearing, and if your complaint is upheld, you get 20 grand.”

“Wait, wait, wait. Who gets the remaining 30?” asks Glenn.

“20 goes to the complainant, and an additional 50 goes to the government, so you’re on the hook for 70 grand,” Ezra says, adding that the bill also “applies to all of your historical work that's online – so long as it is still online and you control it. “

“They can go back through your history five years, ten years … and complain about literally every tweet you [made], literally every YouTube video,” he says, adding that “this will bankrupt any critic of the regime.”

And yet somehow, it gets even worse.

“You can make a complaint in secret, and the target of your complaint never gets to know your identity,” says Ezra. “This is all in Bill C-63, and when you take it all together, this is the most draconian, anti-free speech bill anywhere in the world, other than I suppose Iran and China who just do this stuff naturally.”

And to top it off, “they've created a stand-alone hate crime law” that could result in “life in prison.”

To learn what this bill means for Canadian conservatives like Ezra and Jordan Peterson and how likely it is to pass in Parliament, watch the clip below.


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Journalist attending Davos summit says THESE are his biggest takeaways



Our overlords are at their annual Davos meeting planning our future together, and “misinformation” has consistently been brought up as their greatest concern.

Glenn Beck is well aware this focus on misinformation will become a focus on censoring voices like his.

“They’re trying to get all the global leaders to come together on this and make sure that voices, quite honestly, like mine and TheBlaze and people like Ezra Levant from Rebel News up in Canada, are silenced,” Glenn explains.

Levant is currently on the ground at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and he’s already pulled some disturbing takeaways.

There’s a small private airfield close to the elites' annual meeting, where 150 private jets per day land — just for Davos.

“They say that one week basically pays for the entire year,” Levant tells Beck, noting that they’re doing this despite being the ones “telling us to reduce our carbon footprint” and “not to fly as much.”

Levant was able to question meeting-goers about their private jets, like John Kerry and the president of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — who did not have any answers.

“It’s a crazy place where the masters of the universe get together to make the rules for the rest of us, and there’s only about half a dozen citizens and journalists here,” Levant says.

The elites claim their theme this year is “rebuilding trust,” since they know they’ve “shattered trust with ordinary people over the last few years.”

“But at the same time,” Levant continues, “they believe in censorship.”

The two emphases Levant has gathered from his time at Davos are censorship of “misinformation” and artificial intelligence.

“You combine those two things, and I tell you, you’re in a brave new world right there,” he warns.


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Whoopi Goldberg’s latest Trump tirade is, well, embarrassing



“The View’s” Whoopi Goldberg should’ve stuck to acting and left the political commentary to those with common sense.

“Play a scene from ‘Sister Act,’” Jaco Booyens tells Sara Gonzales. “That was her best moment, and then it went downhill from there.”

But Sara thinks Goldberg’s latest Trump tirade is worth watching (even if only for giggles).

On a recent episode of “The View,” which Jaco says was “written by the Democratic Party,” Goldberg went on an embarrassing tirade about all the horrible things Donald Trump — “the dictator” — would inevitably do should he win the 2024 election.

“People's faith in the country is waning; that's the thing that's pissing me off,” she began, ignorantly adding that Joe Biden is “running for democracy,” which is “really what's at stake.”

However, “if the other guy becomes president,” she continued in reference to Donald Trump, people will have to worry about being put in “some camp somewhere.”

“That's his promise to us — he's going to force people to do his bidding. That’s what he said; ‘I’m gonna be good on day one, and then I’m gonna turn into some other person.”’

Of course, her words are ludicrous, as Trump has never uttered such a ridiculous statement.

But Goldberg wasn’t finished. She also had some things to say about our immigration problem.

Illegal immigrants are “coming here for a reason because they're living in a place that's not good for their families. If you're okay with that and you understand that, then fight for us to find a better way to make immigration work ... Don't fight for keeping everybody out because then we all have to leave,” she ranted.

To clarify, Biden is pro-democracy, Trump is going to put people he doesn’t like in camps, and if we don’t support open borders, then we’re all going to be forced to leave America.

“She’s talking about rounding people up in camps,” laughs Sara. “Your guy is the guy who's weaponized the entire FBI and DOJ against half of the country. You've got the FBI ... putting families at gunpoint because a pro-life ...You're throwing people in prison for decades because they waved an American flag in the capital and walked out and left non-violently.”

To watch Goldberg’s cringe-worthy Trump tirade, watch the clip below.


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Eyewitness reveals the REAL reason for the riots in France



France has gone up in flames yet again — this time for protests and riots related to a police shooting of a 17-year-old boy on June 27.

This incident sparked nearly a week of violence, looting, and mass turmoil in many French cities.

Ezra Levant, Rebel News Founder, is currently visiting Marseilles, France, and he phones in to "The Glenn Beck Program” to share his findings.

His news isn’t encouraging.

Levant doesn’t think the upheaval in France is due exclusively to a single, police-related incident, however. He believes there’s a much deeper issue at play–an issue revolving around the ever-growing ethnic divide in France.

Levant reports that in Marseilles, half the city isn’t faring well, particularly the Muslim half of the city, which Levant describes as “a slum with many migrants” from Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Iraq, and Turkey.

In this sector of the city, there isn’t much French being spoken. Commerce looks very different than one would expect to see in France’s oldest and second largest city. There are almost no women present, and the few who do roam the streets wear traditional abayas, even though France has banned face-covering veils.

But what Levant finds most unsettling is the fact that many of the immigrants who call Marseilles home openly identify with their country of origin over their new residence in France.

Levant spoke with several individuals and families about this issue.

“The French don’t respect us” and “the French don’t treat us equally” were among the common answers Levant received when he asked how they liked their new lives in France.

“In your heart, are you a French person first or an Algerian first?” he asked several of them.

“Most of them, without hesitating, said, 'Algerian,'” Levant reports.

“How can you be upset that the French don’t welcome you fully as an equal Frenchman when you yourself refuse to give up where you were?” he asks.

Between France’s declining birth rate and continued mass immigration, Levant thinks it’s only a matter of time before Marseilles becomes “more like a Moroccan city than a French city.”

Glenn agrees with Levant and expresses his growing concern about the rejection of assimilation going on not only in France but in other European countries and the United States as well.

Let’s be clear, though, Glenn has a deep appreciation for American immigrants. “They’re the ones who chose America,” he says.

“I want immigrants” who “want to be Americans.”

“I don’t want an Italian coming in and saying, ‘I want an Italian community, and we’re going to have our own rules and our own ways,'” he explains. “No. [Bring] your culture with you but become an American.”

Perhaps the violence and chaos in France has more to do with pent-up frustration related to ethnic tension rather than an isolated injustice.

Listen to Ezra and Glenn’s full conversation here.


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