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Inside Rebel Media: How Ezra Levant built an extreme media juggernaut. This is a story about a hypothetical made real. It’s a thought exercise — about limits and lines and what happens when those warp and disappear.
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Picture this: a man careens through the fringes of public life. He chafes against boundaries. He sues and gets sued.
He has talent and drive but lacks, something — a filter maybe, or just someone to tell him when enough’s enough. So he offends. He gets things wrong. He burns bridges and loses gigs. He never quite edges into the mainstream. You’ve seen him, I’m sure, over the years, red- faced and quivering, his whole body twisting to a point.
He jabs the air with practiced hands. He builds a rant from the bottom up, quietly, then not. Watch The Final Cut Online The Final Cut Full Movie Online. Eventually, inevitably, he goes too far.
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Now picture that man in a world where limits don’t exist, where there are no editors to spike his columns, or executives to demand he retract. A world where he can say what he wants, when he wants, to more people than he ever has before. Given that chance, what would that man do? What would he say? How far would he go? On Aug. 3 — nine days before a crisis plunged his empire into chaos — Ezra Levant bobbed in place before a green screen in his Toronto studio.
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He wore a dark blazer over a blue shirt and striped tie — the same outfit, more or less, that he’s worn his entire adult life. He addressed the camera directly. He spoke of three stories, from three countries that all, he told his audience, shared a common theme.
Levant has been ever present on the edges of conservative life in this country for more than 2. A Calgary native, he came of age with Preston Manning’s Reform Party. Before he was 3. 0 years old, he had burst into and bombed out of mainstream politics. In the years since, he has woven a career between activism and media, forever preaching in both against liberals, environmentalists, and socialist hordes. But in recent years, especially since the founding of his far- right news site, The Rebel Media, he has been possessed of a more singular obsession. The stories he presented that day did not seem at the outset to be connected. They included a synagogue construction permit in Australia, a video of British soldiers singing the Pakistani national anthem and a plan for a women’s only music festival in Sweden.
What do these stories have in common?” Levant asked his audience. Well, the most obvious similarity is Islam.”The synagogue couldn’t open, Levant claimed, because of Muslim terrorists.
The soldiers were singing as a sop to a Muslim instructor. The music festival, well, that was just a feminist overreaction to a problem “not with all men,” Levant said, “not with most men” but with “Muslim migrants, who have turned Sweden into the rape capital of the world.”Levant, who is 4. The Rebel Media from the ashes of Sun News Network in 2. In the two- plus years since, he has built it from a tiny niche website operating out of his home into a global brand with correspondents on three continents and a footprint in major controversies around the world. The site is a natural climax for Levant’s checkered career. It presents a seamless mix of far- right activism and commentary, the same two- feet- in- two- ponds balance Levant has managed himself for decades.
But The Rebel is also something decidedly new. It represents an evolutionary leap for Levant. Free from the limits of broadcasters, of publishers and parties, his already unfettered id is now truly boundless. Levant can say whatever he wants, to whomever he wants, in whatever way he decides. He has the freedom to deride climate science, to embrace Donald Trump, to attack George Soros. He can indulge any conspiracy. Attack any foe. And the foe he’s chosen, as much as any other, is Islam. A screenshot of an Aug.
The Rebel. Under Levant, The Rebel has become a global platform for an extreme anti- Muslim ideology known as counter- jihad. It’s a far- right fringe theory founded on the belief that Muslims are deliberately invading the West, biding their time, then overtaking communities and imposing Shariah Law. Levant says he has never used the term counter- jihad himself. He also denies that The Rebel has a fixation with Islam or Muslims. It is news,” he responded in an email. From migrants to terrorism to the separation of mosque and state, it is a pervasive issue.”But The Rebel has posted regular interviews with many of the seminal figures of counter- jihad, people who have gone far beyond just covering the news. The company’s U. K.
Tommy Robinson, founded the explicitly anti- Islam English Defence League. There is significant evidence to suggest that a frequent Rebel contributor — the author of hundreds of Rebel posts — is also the writer behind Canada’s most prominent, and one of the world’s better known, counter- jihadi blogs. None of this is hidden. The Rebel and its main stars preach this message openly.
Faith Goldy, until Thursday a top Rebel host, presented a broadcast this spring titled “More Muslims equals more violence.” Robinson just published a book titled “Mohammed’s Koran: Why Muslims Kill for Islam.”On Thursday, Ezra Levant fired Faith Goldy. Faith Goldy/Instagram)“If any media outlet spoke about blacks or the Jewish community the way Rebel Media talks about Muslims,” said Amarnath Amarasingam a senior research fellow at The George Washington University’s program on extremism, “they wouldn’t survive more than a week.”But The Rebel hasn’t just survived.
Until this past week, it had thrived. And then everything changed. On Aug. 1. 2, Goldy was broadcasting live from an alt- right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, when a car plowed into a crowd of counter- protesters behind her, killing one and wounding 1. In the lead up to the attack, Goldy had spoken sympathetically of a rising “white racial consciousness” and dispassionately about the “JQ” or Jewish question, a longtime obsession of white nationalists. The rally and Goldy’s coverage of it sparked the worst week in The Rebel’s history. One cofounder quit. Goldy was fired. A host of contributors backed away. By week’s end, Levant looked to be barely holding on, his mini- empire dissolving from the edges in.
But nothing The Rebel has done in the past week is fundamentally different from what it has always been. And those who are backing away — including some with ties to the highest reaches of the Conservative Party — will eventually have to answer the question, why now?