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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

525. The War on Speech—and Those Who Dare to Fight It | Ezra Levant

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Education, Science, Society & Culture

4.634.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Support Tommy Robinson’s Give Send Go: https://www.givesendgo.com/Tommy-Robinsons-children Jordan Peterson sits down with human rights activist, political writer, and founder of Rebel News, Ezra Levant. They discuss Ezra’s first hand experience with the World Economic Forum, the antithetical turn toward authoritarianism in the United Kingdom, and Tommy Robinson’s ongoing and wrongful imprisonment. #FreeTommyRobinson Ezra Levant is a Canadian human rights activist, political writer, and father, Ezra Levant is the host of the Ezra Levant show and founder of Rebel News – the largest online independent news network in Canada. Ezra’s great grandfather emigrated to Canada in 1903 from Russia, establishing a homestead near Drumheller, Alberta. Ezra spent his early life growing up in a suburb of Calgary, where he attended a Jewish day school before making the switch to public school. This episode was filmed on February 8th, 2025. | Links | For Ezra Levant: On X https://x.com/ezralevant?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Website https://ezralevant.com/?_sm_vck=6Dk0T7k5R2NWQTwwtTqs55WtJ754DTN27JZwMqFF2tff7QM4tJDs Rebel News on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@RebelNewsOnline Rebel News website https://www.rebelnews.com/

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0:00.0

There's a battle between Tommy Robinson and the government of the United Kingdom over what is true.

0:04.0

They've got Tommy in isolation. That's their strategy. Do you know how he's doing?

0:08.0

He's deteriorating. That's another thing about being in jail I've learned from Tommy Robinson,

0:12.0

is you are at the mercy of these guards.

0:14.0

How would you describe the World Economic Forum?

0:16.0

When I go to the UK, I see what our future will be five years down the road if we don't change course.

0:20.0

Let me tell you what's terrifying about that.

0:37.4

Hello everybody. I'm sitting here in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada today, and my guest is Ezra Levant,

0:44.2

and Ezra Levant is the perpetrator of Rebel News, which was an early adopter of social media

0:51.9

technology on the news front, one of Canada's earliest adopters,

0:56.3

and really one of the earliest adopters in the world. And he's been rabble-rousing for, like,

1:00.9

a good, depends on how you counted, but 10 to 15 years. And we first came to each other's attention

1:09.3

when I was participating in a free speech debacle at the

1:14.4

University of Toronto just after my comments about Canada's infamous Bill C-16.

1:19.8

My well-reasoned comments, I might add, came to wide public attention and caused a furor that

1:26.3

never ended.

1:28.0

And Rebel News backed me in that enterprise and helped publicize what was happening

1:34.7

and supported my research financially for a year or so at the University of Toronto

1:40.4

when the federal government decided that I wasn't worth supporting anymore,

1:44.1

despite my

1:44.8

stellar research background and unbroken history of previous funding.

1:49.5

Anyways, I got a chance to talk to Ezra, and so we did a bit of walking down memory lane

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