Former EDL leader Tommy Robinson holds secret meeting with Manchester Jews

JLM members had been left “outraged” after learning of the event.

Members of Manchester’s Jewish community held a secret meeting with Tommy Robinson, the former leader of the far-right English Defence League.
The controversial meeting, which took place in Prestwich last week, was billed as a charity fundraiser, but also saw Mr Robinson deliver a speech outlining his extreme views on Islam.
The JC spoke to one community member who confirmed her friends had organised the session, but said she would "take legal action" if her own name was linked to the event.
Another source confirmed the meeting with Mr Robinson, who is a former British National Party member, went on until “the early hours” of last Thursday morning. Around a dozen people attended.
Invitations to attend were extended to other community groups including the North West Friends of Israel – but its spokesman Anthony Dennison said the group had declined the invitation.
Mr Dennison said: "We find some of Tommy Robinson’s opinions abhorrent. Unfortunately in our community there are a small number of people who are attracted his policies.
“This is unacceptable, and something North West Friends of Israel will never be associated with.”
Jeremy Newmark, Jewish Labour Movement chairman, confirmed local activists from his organisation had been left “outraged” after learning of the event.
Mr Newmark told the JC: "No ifs, no buts, Tommy Robinson is an enemy of our community. He is part of the same political tradition as the National Front and the BNP.”
Mr Robinson has long attempted to court British Jews and has travelled to Israel, proclaiming himself to be a “Zionist”.
In a video posted on the right-wing Youtube outlet Rebel Media on June 30, Mr Robinson is filmed introducing lawyer Robert Festenstein, a director of the Jewish Human Rights Watch group, in a feature about a Sunderland shopkeeper who was told to remove an anti-terrorism sign from the front of her shop.
Mr Festenstein told the JC: "I was interviewed by Mr Robinson in connection with a matter where I am instructed by a client who has a potential dispute with Sunderland City Council. Mr Robinson is not my client and I have no association with him.
"As far as any meeting in Manchester with Mr Robinson was concerned, I was not invited, nor did I attend such a meeting."
In a statement, the Board of Deputies condemned last week’s meeting saying: “Tommy Robinson’s record of anti-Muslim provocation means that he could never be a partner of a respectable or mainstream Jewish organisation.”
A spokesman for the left-wing Jewish Voice group said: “Tommy Robinson has been attempting to co-opt the Jewish community, trying to play on antisemitism among the Muslim community to cause tension between the two communities.”
Mr Robinson confirmed on Twitter that the meeting took place.
“This was from the talk I gave to Manchester Jewish community. Thank you guys for the donations,” he wrote.
In a further post today, Mr Robinson added: "People actually think I'm a Jew. I've gone full 360 over last 8 yrs. From people thinking I hate Jews to people thinking I am a Jew."
The event raised £400 for the AmeliaMae Foundation – a charity raising funds for people affected by the neuroblastoma condition.
Mark Gardner, director of communications at the Community Security Trust said: “CST and our partner groups firmly oppose any such meeting between Jews and the likes of Tommy Robinson.
"We should be clear, however, that a gathering of 12 people does not change the Jewish community’s overwhelming rejection of dead-end politics that only divide and damage British society.” 
https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/former-edl-leader-tommy-robinson-holds-secret-meeting-with-manchester-jews-1.440940

 What a surprise ?.......................

Former EDL leader Tommy Robinson vows to help police track down 'racists' within the organisation and says he's sorry for scaring British Muslims

• Tommy Robinson, 30, who quit EDL this week after founding it four years ago, says he will work with police to investigate racism in the organisation
• Also apologised for creating an 'us versus them' culture in Britain and causing fear among British Muslims
• He will now work with Maajid Nawaz, who heads the deradicalisation thinktank, The Quilliam Foundation

Tommy Robinson, who dramatically quit the English Defence League this week, has vowed to help police tackle racism within the organsation and has apologised for causing fear among British Muslims.Mr Robinson, 30, said he would work with police to help them investigate racism in the organisation - known for its thuggish street protests and extremist followers.
Mr Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, also said he was sorry for creating a 'us and them' culture and for causing fear among British Muslims.
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Standing down: English Defence League (EDL) leader Tommy Robinson, pictured as he announced he was leaving the EDL, has apologised for creating fear among British Muslims

Extremist group: M rRobinson, 30, pictured while at an EDL protest, has said he will also help police investigate racism in the organisation

 

As he quits as leader, Former EDL chief says he's not a racist

Mr Robinson, who co-founded the group four years ago with Kevin Carroll who also left the group this week, said: 'I apologise for [creating] that fear.'
When asked about his claim that 'every single Muslim' was to blame for 'getting away' with the July 7 bombings, he also said 'I'm sorry'.

 

Mr Robinson said that his past inflammatory statements had often been fuelled by alcohol and the adrenaline rush of 'leading the biggest street protest movement in Europe.'
Giving reason for his decision to leave the group, Mr Robinson said he had been sobered by his 18-week stint in prison and by the experience of being shunned by parents when picking up his children at school.

Different direction: Robinson will now work with Maajid Nawaz, Chairman and co-founder of the Quilliam Foundation (right) and Usama Hasan, also of the group (left)

He will now work with Maajid Nawaz, a former prominent member of the radical Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir and who heads the deradicalisation thinktank, the Quilliam Foundation.
Mr Nawaz, who is also a prospective Lib Dem MP, said he had refused to sit with Robinson after being approached during the filming of a BBC documentary last week.
'I shook his hand and said "I'm sorry, I'm not going to sit with you ... until you're ready to talk about leaving the EDL. I can't give legitimacy to the EDL."'
In an interview with the Guardian, Mr Nawaz said that Mr Robinson indicated that he was willing to leave after filming finished and so the paid began a series of conversations.

TOMMY ROBINSON'S MOST NOTORIOUS OUTBURSTS

'If something was set fire and someone wrote "David Cameron" on the side of it, does it mean he did it?' - EDL leader defends his organisation after an Islamic Centre in north London is set on fire and 'EDL' is found written at the scene.
'Our tactics are completely questionable, yes, and I understand people who say you are going about it the wrong way' - Mr Robinson admits he understands why the EDL are criticised.
'This is a day of respect for our Armed Forces. They've had their Arab Spring. This is time for the English Spring' - offensive outburst after Drummer Lee Rigby was killed in Woolwich.
‘I class everyone in my community as everyone who is non-Islamic’ - The offensive words of Tommy Robinson who today said he is not anti-Muslim.
'Complimentary lunch, manager's a top lad, couldn't be more apologetic' - EDL leader Tweets his delight after Selfridges offer him a free lunch after previously refusing to serve him.
'You obviously haven't read the article properly - there is nothing in common with what you have to say' - Mr Robinson is slapped down by Tony Blair's office after he Tweets in support of an article the former Prime Minister wrote.

He said: 'We spent the weekend talking over the phone, and then he came in [to the foundation] all day Monday and all day Tuesday.'
On Tuesday, Quilliam held a press conference where Mr Robinson announced his departure.
Speaking at the time, Mr Robinson said he could no longer control members of the group.
He told the BBC: ‘When some moron lifts up his top and he’s got the picture of a mosque saying “boom”, and it’s all over the national newspapers, it’s me – it’s when I pick up my kids from school, the parents are looking at me – judging me on that.’
He added: ‘I have been considering this move for a long time. Whilst I want to lead a revolution against Islamist ideology, I don’t want to lead a revolution against Muslims.
‘I believe that the revolution needs to come from within the Islamic community and they need to stand up.’
Mr Robinson said the move would be a ‘massive problem’. He added: ‘Do I feel English Defence League members are going to plant bombs and target my family? No I don’t. [But] I feel there will be a backlash.’
In the Guardian interview, he said he now aims to ‘counter Islamist ideology . . . not with violence but with better, democratic ideas’.
Mr Robinson said his future work would involve taking on radicalism on all fronts, although he could not support anti-fascist groups because they also subscribed to 'communism' or were 'anarchists'.
Prompted by Mr Nawaz, Mr Robinson appeared to agree with a vision of multiculturalism inclusive of a variety of ethnic and religious groups in Britain.
He added that he did not want to see some groups receiving 'special treatment.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2455642/Former-EDL-leader-Tommy-Robinson-help-police-track-racists.html#ixzz2hVwa2pfn

NWN: I believe they call these types of people 'Touts' in Ulster. Quite soon, we will get confirmation that 'Tommy' is working for the Police in this country. Usually Special Branch or MI5.

All 'nationalist' groups have been targetted for 'entryism' by the establishments prostitutes, the police, in this country. 

 

Who said this only happens in totalitarian states ?

EDL Leader Tommy Robinson with Former Islamist Majid Nawaz (FIRST PHOTO)

Robinson (c) with former radical muslim Majid Nawaz (l) PIC: @nbenotman

This is EDL leader Tommy Robinson with the former Muslim extremist who helped him quit the English Defence League (EDL).
Robinson is seen with EDL deputy leader Kevin Carroll alongside Majid Nawaz, a man who used to belong to fundamentalist hate group, Hizb ut-Tahrir.
The radical group has faced calls for it to be banned for preaching violent ideology which calls for the Queen and parliament to be overthrown.
In the image, Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon, and Nawaz are pressing the button on a computer mouse with Carroll.
Wearing smart attire, the image could capture the occasion when Robinson and Carroll quit the EDL.
Nawaz used to belong to Hizb ut-Tahrir, which calls for the government in Britain to be replaced by an Islamic State governed by fundamentalist Shariah law.
He was jailed in 2002 for being a member of the group while in Egypt. In prison he developed contacts with the Muslim Brotherhood, which was outlawed in Egypt under the rule of dictator Hosni Mubarak.
After being released from captivity, Nawaz had "serious doubts" about his ideology which led him to eventually quit the group seven years ago, in 2007.
Married father-of-one Nawaz co-founded the Quilliam Foundation a year later, which is taking credit for helping Robinson extricate himself from the EDL. Quilliam;s role in helping Robinson leave the EDL ranks as one of its biggest scoops.
Robinson and Carroll announced their dramatic decision to quit the controversial group was because of the danger posed by extreme-right elements in the organisation.
Robinson said: "I have been considering this move for a long time because I recognise that, though street demonstrations have brought us to this point, they are no longer productive.
"I acknowledge the dangers of far-right extremism and the ongoing need to counter Islamist ideology not with violence but with better, democratic ideas."
Robinson hinted that leaving the English Defence League was not easy by saying he had been suffering with "insomnia," on Twitter.
READ MORE:
EDL's Tommy Robinson 'Will Definitely Form New Group' After Quitting
EDL's Tommy Robinson Quits over 'Dangerous Far-Right Extremists'

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/512234/20131008/edl-tommy-robinson-majid-nawaz-hizb-ut.htm

Ex-EDL leaders will not face court over alleged obstruction of police

CPS drops charges against Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll over ban on marching to scene of Lee Rigby murder via mosque

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Tommy Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) arrives at Westminster magistrates' court, where he discovered the case had been discontinued. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA

Two former English Defence League leaders will not have to answer a charge of obstructing police after prosecutors deemed there was insufficient evidence against them.
Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, and his second cousin Kevin Carroll were accused of trying to defy a ban on marching to the scene of the murder of soldier Lee Rigby passed a mosque.
The pair each denied a charge of obstructing police outside Aldgate East Tube station, east London, on 29 June.
When Yaxley-Lennon arrived at Westminster magistrates' court to stand trial on Wednesday morning, he discovered the case had been discontinued. The Crown Prosecution Service said there was insufficient evidence to bring the case.
The pair were attempting to stage what they claimed was a charity walk to Woolwich Barracks, in south-east London, via the East London Mosque, with a plan to lay flowers in memory of Fusilier Rigby in Woolwich on Armed Forces Day.
Police said they offered two alternative routes that avoided Tower Hamlets, home to the East London Mosque, and warned that anyone who tried to march to Woolwich would face arrest.
A CPS spokeswoman said: "Both defendants were charged by police with obstructing a police officer in the execution of her duty, contrary to s89(2) Police Act 1996. The file was then passed to CPS London to prepare the prosecution case.
"When this case was reviewed, the lawyer concluded that there was insufficient evidence to prove that the actions of the suspects amounted to the offence of obstructing a police officer in the execution of her duty, contrary to s89(2) Police Act 1996. We therefore discontinued the case."
The pair, who set up the EDL in 2009, disclosed their withdrawal from the group this month.
Yaxley-Lennon will appear at the same court later on Wednesday to answer two further public order charges relating to an EDL demonstration in east London on 7 September.
He is accused as a public assembly organiser of failing to comply with the condition of limiting speeches at the rally to 30 minutes. He is also alleged to have incited others to breach the condition. He has indicated that he will plead not guilty to the charges.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/16/edl-tommy-robinson-carroll-cps-drop-charges

NWN: Well who would have thought it ? Fancy that.

English Defence League prepares to storm local elections

English Defence League to enter electoral politics after signing pact with British Freedom Party


Stephen Yaxley-Lennon aka Tommy Robinson is arrested at an EDL counter-demonstration .
The English Defence League plans to field candidates for the first time in local elections after an alliance is finalised between the far-right group and the British Freedom Party, which was set up by disgruntled members of the British National Party.

Senior figures said that the EDL, which has become known for its protests in English towns with Muslim populations, needed to "detoxify" its name by moving into politics with an existing party. Their new partners hope to capitalise on the EDL's ability to mobilise a large number of supporters.

Both groups will retain a measure of independence but will support each other. EDL members will be invited to join the newly affiliated political wing and stand as candidates under its name. "There is a gentleman's agreement in place, we are looking at the EDL becoming political early next year," said Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, the leader of the far-right group. Mr Yaxley-Lennon, who also goes by the name Tommy Robinson, confirmed he had met the British Freedom Party leader Paul Weston and that discussions were at an advanced stage.

Mr Weston confirmed the plans and revealed he would offer Mr Yaxley-Lennon a place on the party's executive committee. He added: "We are going to say we support the principles of the EDL. We will get a lot of people who can stand in local constituencies and they will get a genuine political party in return."

The move is likely to meet with some resistance from those EDL members who want to see the group remain a "street movement". Mr Yaxley-Lennon acknowledged the issue, saying he will consult the leaders of the group's local divisions.

Dr Matthew Goodwin, a specialist on far-right politics, thought the move would receive significant support within the EDL "simply because Mr Yaxley-Lennon is the main face of the movement". He said: "It's difficult to tell at this point as the EDL has a very fluid membership structure. It is not the case, for example, that you ever really join the EDL. There are no official entrance mechanisms."

Babs Davis, an EDL member, backed the move if the leadership thought it was in the best interests of the group. "A lot of people have said that we should go political but the movement never really wanted to do it," she said.

"If that is what Tommy Robinson thinks is the right thing to do, then I agree with him. I think he has done a brilliant job. The whole point of being in the EDL is to follow what the leadership says."

Dr Goodwin, who is a professor at the University of Nottingham, said: "Since the widespread defeat for the BNP in last year's general election, the far right-wing landscape of British politics has seen the emergence of several small political parties and movements, all attempting to fill the gaps left by Nick Griffin's party and exploit wider public concerns about immigration."

He said at least 45 per cent of voters refused to back any of the main parties on immigration, leaving "clear potential" for a far-right group.

Dr Goodwin added: "Having passed through its embryonic stage, the EDL is now very much at a crossroads: it can either remain as a confrontational streets-based social movement, or it can attempt to transform itself into a radical right-wing political party. This shift will require members and money.

"It has also developed links with far more successful radical right parties in other European states, that may pass on successful strategies and tips."

The former BNP member is the founder and leader of the EDL. He has recently forged a strong relationship with British Freedom Party leader Paul Weston.

He is known for wearing a St George's Cross mask when making public appearances and was one of two EDL members who protested on the roof of FIFA's Zurich offices about the attempt by world football's governing body to ban England players from wearing poppies during a recent match. Earlier this month he received a 12-week sentence for assault, suspended for a year, at Preston magistrates' court.

Paul Weston

A former electoral candidate for UKIP, Mr Weston is described by Mr Yaxley-Lennon as a "charismatic public-schoolboy type".

He took over the chairmanship of the British Freedom Party two weeks ago. Like many of the party's founders, he is said to be an experienced political campaigner. He is thought to want to keep his party free from the "historical baggage associated with parties such as the BNP".

The EDL by numbers

2,000 The number of people thought to have attended an EDL march in Blackburn, at which leader Tommy Robinson head-butted a fellow member.

26,000 The number of people who "Like" the EDL on Facebook.

172 The number of EDL members arrested at the group's last march, on Whitehall in London.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/english-defence-league-prepares-to-storm-local-elections-6267740.html

NWN: Well from this we can see that the concerted attempt by zionists to take over the so called 'far right' is almost complete. With the above story, plus the fact that Nick Griffin has turned the BNP into a zionist sell- out shambles. The 'design' we saw years ago has come to fruition.

Shame on all those that supported Griffin over the last 8-10 years, and who the hell are these 'nationalists' in the 'British Freedom Party'?

Unless we 'get a grip', the name 'nationalist' will become toxic, just like Griffin has now made the BNP. Toxic and unelectable. That is why the zionists have infiltrated us, to control us, and destroy us, when they have no need of their agents and dupes.

That is why Griffin and Harrington followed the orders from New York Rabbi Meyer Schiller and have done since the late 1980s.

Rabbi Schiller is probably still a member of the Trafalgar club, Griffins own private slush fund.

Alarm bells should be ringing within the radical nationalist community here in the UK.

Nick Griffin screws up yet again - pleads for help from EDL

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BNP Banned From March In Woolwich, But Nick Griffin Says He Will Go Anyway, And Invites EDL's Tommy Robinson

Concerns over violent disorder at a planned BNP march in Woolwich have left police with no choice but to ban marchers from the area.
Nick Griffin's party had initially applied to hold a march and rally from Woolwich Barracks to the Lewisham Islamic Centre.
But concerns over the number of possible counter protests have prompted Scotland Yard to act.

British National Party leader Nick Griffin arrives to lay flowers close to the scene where Drummer Lee Rigby was killed Griffin has called on his party's supporters to defy the ban and march through Woolwich, even reaching out to the English Defence League's Tommy Robinson to join.

@nickgriffinmep
Nick Griffin MEP

Personal appeal to Tommy Robinson: throw off shackles of Zionist 'advisors' & come get nicked with me opposing Islamism AND neo-con wars.

May 30, 2013 8:27 pm via Twitter for Android Reply Retweet Favorite

Unite Against Facism have previously said they would form a human shield to stop BNP marchers getting close to Lewisham Islamic Centre.

@uaf
UAF

Nick Griffin is openly defying the police ban on Bnp Woolwich march, UAF Woolwich demo IS going ahead...No ban on Uaf demo.

May 30, 2013 7:01 pm via Facebook Reply Retweet Favorite

Conditions have been imposed under the Public Order Act, meaning the BNP march and rally must take place between 1pm and 4pm on Saturday, and can only be held between Old Palace Yard and the Cenotaph in Whitehall.
Police said the information available to them meant "it was necessary to impose the conditions to prevent the demonstration from resulting in serious disorder, serious damage to property, and/or serious disruption to the life of the community".
Police said they had tried to negotiate with the BNP about the precise details of the rally, but were forced to turn to legislation when talks broke down.
Commander Simon Letchford said he was not involved in the discussions so could not comment on them, but said there were "some real concerns" in the community about the rally passing through Woolwich.
Police also said the tight controls were imposed based on "current community tensions, the current intelligence picture about Saturday and recent marches and protests held by similar groups".
Letchford said: "Intelligence was telling us that if this (rally) took place against the backdrop of this tragedy - there were some real concerns.
"I would not say that anywhere is 'off-limits', it's a set of circumstances that if they (the BNP) had conducted their rally in Greenwich at this time, we had a real fear that it could lead to violence and disorder. There's a real risk of it turning ugly.
"Our responsibility is to keep crime off the streets."
The Met said they believed in free speech, and that the action was "proportionate".
Letchford said police would deal with each incident "on its own merits" if any splinter groups decided to march in Woolwich.
He said: "I think our message is if you want to protest, we would ask that you do so peacefully and work with the police to enable that to go ahead."
The ban came as Nick Clegg warned against "knee-jerk" reactions to the murder of Drummer Rigby as he restated his opposition to the so-called "snooper's charter" and stated he does not believe the BNP and Islamists like Anjem Choudary should be banned from TV screens.
The Deputy Prime Minister said measures in the Communications Data Bill were "disproportionate" and "unworkable", despite claims from Cabinet colleagues that the legislation was necessary to ensure public safety.
He also warned that any measures to ban radicals such as the Islam4UK leader from TV screens would make them heroes to extremist groups.
The brutal murder prompted calls from Home Secretary Theresa May and Defence Secretary Philip Hammond for Communications Data Bill legislation to be resurrected.
The controversial legislation would require internet companies to retain records of emails and social media messages for a year and allow police and security agencies to access the data, but not the content of messages.
But speaking on his regular phone-in show on LBC 97.3 today, Clegg said: "We have got to react in a calm way but also a forensic way in deciding exactly what we can do to stop that kind of radicalisation, extremism taking root in individuals and communities."
He insisted he was not seeking to limit powers available to the police and security services.
"I have never suggested that the very considerable powers that our security services and the police have - far in excess, by the way, of many other forces in other parts of the world - should in any way be rolled back."
Clegg said mainstream Muslim groups were "furious" that Anjem Choudary, former leader of banned Islamic group Al Muhajiroun, was given airtime in the wake of the murder.
The Deputy Prime Minister said the signal had to go out to young Muslim men "who might be susceptible to some of these vile, perverted ideologies" that such views were "not an acceptable or recognised understanding of their faith of Islam, it's a total perversion and corruption of it".
But he said it was "not for politicians to tell broadcasters who they can invite on their programmes".
He added: "If you were to say the Government are going to go after this guy, we are going to stop him appearing on British television shows, guess what would happen in my view? He would become a hero in his own community.
"Far from actually discrediting his appalling ideology you would actually turn him into a figurehead. Is that smart? I don't think it's smart."
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/30/bnp-banned-from-march-in-woolwich_n_3361845.html?utm_hp_ref=uk 

NWN: Griffin wrecked the BNP, so why has he 'organised' a march by all the BNPs
 six  members ?

They should allow the march , and make Griffin publically 'show his backside' to the public by showing them just how low the BNP have been reduced to under Griffins 'leadership' .

A once great movement wrecked by a traitor. 

Before Griffin hijacked the BNP, the BNP could turn out 1,000+ for a march in London.

Express Group now openly promoting the English Defence League

The promotion (see the Daily Star report below) which the billionaire Zionist Jew Richard Desmond is giving to the English Defence League via the Express Group component of his ever-growing media empire would seem to challenge the ‘official’ position of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and its Community Security Trust that Zionist-Jewry in Britain is firmly opposed to the EDL and its ‘Islamophobic’ policies.

Desmond has always been a bit of a maverick. He built his fortune on pornography before selling up to raise the capital to buy the Express Group, which includes the Daily Express, the Sunday Express and the Daily Star. Last year he bought Channel 5 TV. Recently he withdrew his publications from the Press Complaints Commission, to which all major national and small local newspaper groups belong.

But his backing of the EDL should not be seen a genuine split within the Jewry.

Throughout history, wherever they have settled, the Jews have always played both ends against the middle. They are not bothered by the concept of a principled, unified and consistent approach to any issue — except one: the survival and advancement of the Jews. In all other matters they are are entirely morally pragmatic and often deliberately contradictory.

Their policies and tactics guided by one question only: What, for the moment, is good for the Jews?

Thus it is that they want to promote immigration and race-mixing among the goyim (non-Jews) in Britain — and indeed among all white European peoples and nations — but also want to make Britain an uncomfortable place for Muslims, except those who are willing both to accommodate themselves to the Jewish domination of Britain’s ‘Establishment’ and abandon the Palestinians to Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing.

So they operate a ‘Good Cop, Bad Cop’ routine which confuses the Goyim, be they indigenous Anglo-Saxon-Celtic British, or any one of several hundred varieties of ethnic aliens who have been encouraged (by the Jews) to invade and settle in our homeland since WW2.

This is just one aspect of the topic....

“Jewry’s Race Policy: ‘Racism for US — Multi-Racialism for YOU’.”

....which I will be exploring during my address to the next meeting of the New Right association to be held in London from 1.00pm next Saturday, 12th February.


Martin Webster.

P.S.: In connection with Jewish backing of the EDF, you might care to go to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLiBP7F07hc&feature=player_embedded

This is a short clip from the speech given by the EDL’s religious advisor, Rabbi Nachum Shiffren. In this, during a ‘Freudian slip’, he blurts out the truth concerning Jewish racism. I think he gave this speech at the EDL’s pro-Israel rally held last year outside the Israeli Embassy in Kensington, London.

A week before that rally the EDL held an anti-Muslim rally in Leicester and the “anti-fascist” rabble led by Searchlight mobilised against it. For some reason Searchlight did not mobilise its supporters against the EDL’s pro-Zionist, pro-Jewish rally outside the Israeli Embassy. I e-mailed Searchlight via its web site to ask why. Guess what? I didn’t get a reply!

I am grateful to Sean Hadley of GriffinWatch ( ) for drawing my attention to Rabbi Shiffren’s inadvertent outburst of honesty.

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From:
Date: Wednesday, 9 February 2011 11:55
To: Martin Webster
Subject: EDL To Go Political

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/175956/EDL-TO-GO-POLITICAL/
Daily Star – Wednesday 9th February 2011 - 9:2:2011

EDL To Go Political
by Steve Hughes & Emily Hall

THE English Defence League is set to break into mainstream politics with a bid to get MPs in Parliament.

It wants to field official EDL candidates in national and council elections.

The move is an attempt to increase the organisation’s political influence, just like the BNP under Nick Griffin.

The party’s boss Tommy Robinson said: “We aren’t ruling it out. I think this country needs a party that’s not afraid to say things some would consider unpopular.

“My hope is still that the Tories will take a tougher stance.

“We are a single issue group and at the moment we would rather have a dialogue with the other political parties – but that could change.”

Mr Robinson, 28, real name Stephen Lennon, whose group now has 74,000 Facebook followers, predicted the EDL would have more online supporters than the Tories, Labour and the Lib-Dems by the end of the year.

He said the organisation’s main aim was to outlaw the Koran then adapt it to fit in with British society.

He said the only way to do this would be to force Muslims to realise the words of their holy scriptures are outdated.

He said: “They have got a responsibility to sort out their religion. They have to reform their religion so it fits in.”

Mr Robinson also revealed that he wants to appear on BBC1’s Question Time. And the EDL boss said that, unlike bumbling BNP leader Nick Griffin, 51, he would be a surefire hit on the show.

The BBC was blasted for allowing Mr Griffin on to the panel in 2009 and thousands of people protested outside the studios.

But Mr Robinson claimed the EDL was now so popular he would get supporters outside the venue if he appeared.

He said: “Nick Griffin got two million votes and he’s an MEP but he didn’t have anyone supporting him when he went on Question Time.

“Get me on Question Time. I’ll have 10,000 people turn up to support me.” Meanwhile a row was brewing last night over the EDL’s latest planned march, which officials claimed would cost £1million to police.

The protest is planned for March 19 in Birmingham after two Muslim councillors refused to stand up in honour of a war hero at a ceremony.

MPs have called for Home Secretary Theresa May, 54, to ban the event, which falls on the same day Wolverhampton Wanderers play Aston Villa.

In the Daily Star phone poll yesterday, 98% of readers said they agreed with the EDL’s policies.

Twitter permanently bans Alex Jones, Infowars, citing abuse

NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter permanently banned right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars show for abusive behavior, a day after CEO Jack Dorsey testified before Congress about alleged bias against conservatives on the platform.
The company said Jones won’t be able to create new accounts on Twitter or take over any existing ones. In a tweet, it said it would continue to monitor reports about other accounts potentially associated with Jones or Infowars, and will “take action” if it finds any attempts to circumvent the ban.
Twitter said Jones posted a video on Wednesday that violates the company’s policy against “abusive behavior.” That video showed Jones berating CNN journalist Oliver Darcy for some 10 minutes in between two congressional hearings on social media. Dorsey testified at both hearings, but did not appear to witness the confrontation.
Jones had about 900,000 followers on Twitter. Infowars had about 430,000. Jones did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
New Jersey Democratic Rep. Frank Pallone praised Twitter’s action in a tweet. “Glad Twitter is taking steps to put an end to the abusive behavior from Alex Jones & Infowars,” the tweet stated. “Tweets designed to threaten, belittle, demean and silence individuals have no place on this platform.”

Radio host Alex Jones showed up before a Senate hearing on social media to blast the Democratic party, the leading tech companies and others, claiming they are working together to silence conservative voices ahead of the midterm elections. (Sept. 5)

Twitter had previously suspended Jones for a week. But until now it had resisted muzzling Jones further. Other tech companies have limited Jones by suspending him for longer periods, as Facebook did, and by taking down his pages and radio stations.
Jones heckled Darcy in a Capitol Hill hallway where reporters were waiting to enter the House committee room. He criticized the journalist’s reporting and appearance, referencing his “skinny jeans” and repeatedly saying, “just look at this guy’s eyes” and “look at that smile.”
At one point, he said Darcy was “smiling like a possum that crawled out of the rear end of a dead cow. That’s what you look like. You look like a possum that got caught doing some really nasty stuff — in my view. You’re a public figure too.”
Darcy has aggressively questioned social media companies about the forbearance they showed Jones, asking why they have allowed him to remain on their platforms for as long as they have.
Jones is currently active on Facebook; his personal suspension there recently expired. Apple, YouTube and Spotify also permanently removed material Jones had published. Facebook did not immediately respond to a message asking whether it would also ban Jones.
Dorsey originally defended his company’s decision not to ban Jones, tweeting that Jones “hasn’t violated our rules” but if he does “we’ll enforce.”
“We’re going to hold Jones to the same standard we hold to every account, not taking one-off actions to make us feel good in the short term, and adding fuel to new conspiracy theories,” Dorsey tweeted on Aug. 7 , after the other companies took action against Jones.
But a week later Twitter joined the other tech companies in muzzling Jones, even if it was only for a week. It was a significant move for a company one of its executives once called the “free speech wing of the free speech party.”
But critics warn there is another side to high-profile cases such as this one.
“We should be extremely careful before rushing to embrace an internet that is moderated by private companies by default,” said David Greene, civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in an email last month. While high-profile cases of highly offensive content being taken down gets a lot of attention, he added, content moderation “continues to silence” the voices of people around the world struggling to be heard.
https://apnews.com/2521ccbe3b5a43d68d66c21c030a7f2d/Twitter-permanently-bans-Alex-Jones,-Infowars-citing-abuse

NWN: OK this feller is a shill..................................like 'Tommy Robinson'. But we, real nationalists, need to swim within this torrent. We are on our arses due to this 'populism'.  Get a bloody grip and recruit !

Blackburn council given £200k to tackle extremism


BLACKBURN will be given a six-figure windfall to help the area deal with right wing extremism.

The council has been chosen to lead the way with tackling community integration issues following its response to the English Defence League protest last April.

Council leader Kate Hollern welcomed the funding boost to tackle ‘the menace’ of the EDL and far-right organisations.

The high-profile 2011 demo was Lancashire Police’s biggest ever operation, but passed off without major incident.

EDL leader Tommy Robinson was later convicted of headbutting one of his own group during a flashpoint, but violence between rival protesters was minimal, as was damage to the town.

Along with Luton, which has a strong far-right presence, Blackburn with Darwen Council has been allocated more than £200,000 to counter community divisions.

The cash, from the Government’s Department for Communities and Local Government, will be spent on community projects to encourage integration.

It will build on work done by the council, police and partners around the EDL demo, which included events to keep teenagers out of the town centre and involved in positive activity. Community groups looking to start up cohesion projects will be able to bid for money.
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The rise in prominence of far right extremist groups such as the EDL has increased tensions in East Lancashire towns with strong Muslim communities.

It has led to officers running the ground-breaking counter-terrorism programme Channel to redraft guidance to take into account the growing threat.

Parents, teachers, community leaders and police officers are now referring children and young adults who they feel may be at risk of being radicalised by groups such as the English Defence League.

Coun Hollern said: “We are delighted that the Government has asked BwD to lead a national special interest group of councils on integration and cohesion, working closely with Luton Borough Council.

“In particular this reflects our hard work with local people and local partners on tackling the continuing menace of the EDL and other extreme far right groups.

“The country faces many risks on extremism and this project recognises these risks are not just from one community, and that BwD is a leading council in providing solutions on the ground.”

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/blackburndarwenhyndburnribble/9544276.Blackburn_council_given___200k_to_tackle_extremism/


NWN: So the money is not really to fight extremism. But it is to attack any fight back from white British people, who resent the huge influx of foreigners and the enforced and failed multi racial experiment.

Once upon a time, radical right groups and parties were at the forefront of opposition to the Government, but the likes of Nick Griffin and others have ensured the right has been smashed into insignificance.

 NWN has been talking to a top English Defence League official .

Don't even think that we at NWN follows that 'Tommy Robinson' bloke, or his agenda. 

‘UK Freedom March’ rally in Belfast sparks anti-fascist protests

About 100 far-right demonstrators urge UK government to get a move on with Brexit

The 100 or so people who took part in the “UK Freedom March” rally in Belfast were met with a counter-demonstration by anti-fascint groups. Photograph: Amanda Ferguson

Amanda Ferguson

Updated: Sat, Jun 23, 2018, 16:09

Several hundred anti-fascist activists have gathered outside Belfast City Hall to counter-protest a “UK Freedom March” rally marking the second anniversary of the EU membership referendum vote.

On Saturday, people chanting “Nazi scum off our streets”, “the people united will never be defeated”, and “refugees are welcome here” waved anti-racism banners and placards emblazoned with messages such as “No to hate” and “Respect existence or expect resistance”.

Many of the 100 or so people on the UK Freedom March side, chanted “Oh Tommy Robinson”, a reference to the pseudonym of the former English Defence League leader Stephen Yaxley Lennon, a high profile British far-right figure who was jailed for 13 months in England recently for contempt of court.

Others declined to speak to the “biased media” on their arrival outside City Hall following a parade from the Sandy Row area of south Belfast.

Several attempts by the The Irish Times to speak to protesters carrying union, Irish, Israeli, football and far-right Generation Identity flags were thwarted by stewards wearing high visibility vests at the event.

Scores of riot police and PSNI armoured vehicles were positioned between the opposing sides, who were behind metal crowd barriers.

Speakers on the UK Freedom March side called for the British government to get a move on with Brexit and criticised the anti-fascists for attacking them with smoke bombs.

One man, who did not want to be identified, said he was at the march to protest against immigration.

A woman, who declined to give her name said, she was at the rally to “support Brexit and the democratic vote” and because she wanted “our streets free of paedos and immigrants”.

On June 23rd, 2016, the UK voted by 52 to 48 per cent to leave the EU.

Northern Ireland voted 56 to 44 per cent to remain.

‘EU scum’

Independent unionist Cllr Jolene Bunting, formerly a TUV councillor, gave a number of speeches at the rally where she referenced “EU scum” and told her supporters to “ignore the filth” protesting against them.

Cllr Bunting said the march was organised “to make sure Brexit happens”.

People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll, a steward at the “Unite Against Racism” protest said he and others were “taking a stand against people intent on whipping up racism and division in our city”.

“There are those with a track record in fascists organisations involved, core people around Britain First and Generation Identity, who are fundamentally fascist organisations,” he said.

Mr Carroll also criticised Cllr Bunting. “She claims to represent everyone in the city yet she is talking part in rallies and supporting groups sticking the boot into minorities,” he said.

Salwa al-Sharabi, an asylum seeker from Yemen living in Belfast for the last 14 months, said there was a growing problem with racism in society. He said the media and others were anti-Muslim and against immigrants.

There were no arrests.

Chief Inspector Kelly Moore said: “Today’s parade and protest passed off with a few incidents of minor disorder.

“A proportionate policing operation was put in place by police to ensure the safety of everyone involved.

“An Evidence Gathering Team was on duty and police will now review all evidence gathered by them and if any offences or breaches of the Parades Commission determinations are detected, a police investigation will be carried out.” 

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/uk-freedom-march-rally-in-belfast-sparks-anti-fascist-protests-1.3541744?mode=amp 

NWN:  Looks to be 'polarising' over in NI these days on the old lines. Apparently, quite a few IRA 'faces' were seen with the 'reds'/antifa'  communist banners. No surprises there then ?

Police provoke trouble in Manchester at demonstration ?
 Manchester - March against hate - 12/6/2017


We are not especially supportive of  'Tommy Robinson' and the EDL. But this video is a shocking indictment of the way the police act .

Greater Manchester Police have actually used this same tactic for well over 40 years.

They deliberately put opposing factions together and then feign innocence. The police deliberately instigate this violence so that a) the public have instilled in their mind that NF,BNP or EDL means violence, and b) arrests then 'prove' that the NF,BNP, and EDL are violent . Their 'criminalisation' campaign bears fruit for their masters the political establishment. A win win situation for them. There is never any trouble at gatherings if the left do not organise violence. The compliant mass media never blame the left for organising their violent campaigns.

For example, in 1979, they placed several hundred Anti Nazi League (ANAL) protestors right next to about 150 National Front supporters who were going into an Election meeting at Rochdale Town Hall in 1979 for that years General Election.

They placed no barriers or even Police officers in between. Then when it 'kicked off', they arrested a National Front member. They had scores of Police waiting inside the town hall ready for when the trouble broke out.

We can see one NF member being singled out for arrest in the middle picture even though many of the Labour party/communists were being aggresive. No Labour party/communists were arrested.

The last picture shows some of the police who were waiting inside Rochdale town hall for when the trouble broke out. They are pushing back the communist mob who had worked themselves into a violent frenzy. No police were used nor needed to push back the National Front members.

Later that evening hundreds of police were needed to control the disorder from the left wing mob. A report of the rioting outside Rochdale town hall was the main national headlines for the TV news on that night, including by the newsreader Angela Rippon.

As another point of Police bias . At that election meeting, the police insisted that half the hall must be filled by the NF's opponents. Who kept up a barrage of shouting, chanting and footstamping and who were allowed by the police to behave like that.

Even more sinister was that an Asian male who attempted to get into the election meeting was searched and a machete was found on his person. Rather than be arrested by the police, he had the machete taken from him by them and then allowed to enter the meeting to join the Labour/communist mob inside to disturb the meeting.

Tommy Robinson and the power behind their 'campaign' -  Hasbara, what's that ?

Have a read of this link and let's hear what you think ? 

https://dailystormer.name/goy-rebellion-in-tommyland-jews-shaken/ 

Martin Webster on European nationalist parties being friendly to Zionists/Jews

Subject: Marine Le Pen’s Front National “not racist ... definitely anti-Zionist”

  I am grateful to an independent British nationalist observer of Jewry who has forwarded to me three items (see below) written by “anti-racist” and, I judge, left wing Jews holding, respectively, British, American and Israeli nationalities and published in Jewish or pro-Jewish publications from 2010 to 2012.

They all deal with the issue of the effort which “right wing” / “racist” / “nationalist” parties in Europe have been making to ingratiate themselves with Jewry in the hope of gaining better media coverage, an enhanced (less “extremist”) voter-friendly image and perhaps financial backing.

These particular Jewish commentators and Jewish ‘defence’ organisations which they quote, such as Searchlight magazine and the Community Security Trust, all seem to think that this ‘love-bombing’ of the Jewish community is entirely cynical and opportunistic which, so far from being encouraged and rewarded, should be dismissed with scorn.

However, the three commentators seem to be ignorant of the way in which ‘right wing’ Zionist-Jews set out to cultivate and recruit European and American nationalists to the Zionist cause in recent years.

I myself was the target of just such an (unsuccessful!) overture by Rabbi Meier Schiller of New York about 25 years ago. I have already rehearsed that encounter in correspondence with you which you duly circulated to Shamireaders, so I will not repeat it here. I will only remark that this “opportunistic” cultivation has not been a one-way street in recent times, any more than it was before and during the Second World War.

We have seen a vivid example of the success of ‘right wing’ Zionist cultivation of European nationalist movements just recently with the mobilisation this February of sundry Ukrainian “neo-Nazi” groups to fight and kill fellow Ukrainians in order to facilitate the USA-backed Jewish Oligarchs’ coup against that country’s elected government.

The less violent but equally venal leaders of Austria’s, Holland’s and other western European nationalist parties have been traipsing to-and-fro to Israel, the USA and Canada (all expenses paid) to attend public and private meetings organised for them by Zionist ultras.

During the previous decade I chronicled how the BNP’s leader Nick Griffin made desperate efforts to try and suck on the same row of teats after encouragement from Jewish and gentile Zionists such as Barbara Amiel (a personal friend at Binyamin Netanyahu) and Michael Gove, a winner of the Zionist Federation’s Jerusalem Prize and now a member of H.M. Government.

The efforts by various European nationalist party leaders to cultivate the Jews may indeed be “opportunistic”, but the cultivation is mutual and is far from insincere.

If the European nationalists harbour at the back of their minds the notion that they will be able, somehow, to outwit the Jews, then they have another think coming. The Jews have been playing this game for centuries. They are best kept at arm’s length. No matter how long and how hard the road, the Enemy must be studied and fought, not cultivated and accommodated.

Sincerely,

Martin Webster.

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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/mar/27/far-right-philozionism-racism
Guardian ‘Comment is Free’ - Tuesday 27th March 2012

Don’t be fooled.
Europe’s far-right racists are not discerning
Opportunistic words of love for Jews and Israel cannot
disguise the European far right’s toxic rhetoric of hatred
by Anne Karpf <http://www.theguardian.com/profile/annekarpf>

On Saturday, in the Danish city of Aarhus, a Europe-wide rally organised by the English Defence League <http://www.theguardian.com/uk/english-defence-league>  will try to set up a European anti-Muslim movement. For Europe's far-right parties the rally, coming so soon after the murders in south-west France by a self-professed al-Qaida-following Muslim, marks a moment rich with potential political capital.

Yet it's also a delicate one, especially for Marine Le Pen. Well before the killings, Le Pen was assiduously courting Jews, even while her father and founder of the National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen, was last month convicted of contesting crimes against humanity <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/16/jean-marie-le-pen-convicted>  for saying that the Nazi occupation of France "wasn't particularly inhumane". Marine must disassociate herself from such sentiments without repudiating her father personally or alienating his supporters. To do so she's laced her oft-expressed Islamophobia (parts of France, she's said, are suffering a kind of Muslim "occupation") with a newfound "philozionism" (love of Zionism), which has extended even to hobnobbing with Israel's UN ambassador.

Almost all European far-right parties have come up with the same toxic cocktail. The Dutch MP Geert Wilders, leader of the anti-immigrant Freedom party, has compared the Qur'an to Mein Kampf. In Tel Aviv in 2010, he declared that <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLcHeDSh5d4&feature=related> "Islam threatens not only Israel, Islam threatens the whole world. If Jerusalem falls today, Athens and Rome, Amsterdam and Paris will fall tomorrow."

Meanwhile Filip Dewinter, leader of Belgium's Vlaams Belang party, which grew out of the Vlaams Blok Flemish nationalist party, many of whose members collaborated with the Nazis during the second world war, has proposed a quota on the number of young Belgian-born Muslims allowed in public swimming pools. Dewinter calls Judaism "a pillar of European society", yet associates with antisemites, while claiming that <http://www.filipdewinter.be/%E2%80%9Cislamophobia-is-a-duty-for-everyone%E2%80%9D-gazet-van-antwerpen>  "multi-culture ... like Aids weakens the resistance of the European body", and "Islamophobia is a duty".

But the most rabidly Islamophobic European philozionist is Heinz-Christian Strache, head of the Austrian Freedom party, who compared foreigners to harmful insects and consorts with neo-Nazis. And yet where do we find Strache in December 2010? In Jerusalem alongside Dewinter, supporting Israel's right to defend itself.

In Scandinavia the anti-immigrant Danish People's party is a vocal supporter of Israel. And Siv Jensen, leader of the Norwegian Progress party and staunch supporter of Israel <http://www.theguardian.com/world/israel> , has warned of the stealthy Islamicisation of Norway.

In Britain EDL leader Tommy Robinson, in his first public speech, sported a star of David. At anti-immigrant rallies, EDL banners read: "There is no place for Fascist Islamic Jew Haters in England".

So has the Jew, that fabled rootless cosmopolitan, now suddenly become the embodiment of European culture, the "us" against which the Muslim can be cast as "them"? It's not so simple. For a start, "traditional" antisemitism hasn't exactly evaporated. Look at Hungary, whose ultra-nationalist Jobbik party is unapologetically Holocaust-denying, or Lithuania, where revisionist MPs claim that the Jews were as responsible as the Nazis for the second world war.

What's more, the "philosemite", who professes to love Jews and attributes superior intelligence and culture to them, is often (though not always) another incarnation of the antisemite, who projects negative qualities on to them: both see "the Jew" as a unified racial category. Beneath the admiring surface, philozionism isn't really an appreciation of Jewish culture but rather the opportunistic endorsement of Israeli nationalism and power.

Indeed you can blithely sign up to both antisemitism and philozionism. Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik described himself as "pro-Zionist" while claiming that Europe <http://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news>  has a "considerable Jewish problem"; he saw himself as simultaneously anti-Nazi and pro-monoculturalism. The British National party's Nick Griffin once called the Holocaust the "Holohoax", subsequently supported Israel in its war "against the terrorists", but the day after the Oslo murders tweeted disparagingly that Breivik was a "Zionist".

Most Jews, apart from the Israeli right wing, aren't fooled. They see the whole iconography of Nazism – vermin and foreign bodies, infectious diseases and alien values – pressed into service once again, but this time directed at Muslims. They understand that "my enemy's enemy" can easily mutate into "with friends like these ...".

The philozionism of European nationalist parties has been scrutinised most closely by Adar Primor, the foreign editor of Haaretz newspaper, who insists that <http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/the-unholy-alliance-between-israel-s-right-and-europe-s-anti-semites-1.330132> "they have not genuinely cast off their spiritual DNA, and ... aren't looking for anything except for Jewish absolution that will bring them closer to political power."

Similarly Dave Rich, spokesman of the Community Security Trust (CST), which monitors antisemitic incidents in Britain, told me that far-right philosemites "must think we're pretty stupid if they think we'll get taken in by that. The moment their perceived political gain disappears they revert to type. We completely reject their idea that they hate Muslims so they like Jews. What targets one community at one time can very easily move on to target another community if the climate changes."

Rich's words, spoken before the murder of Jews in Toulouse <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/toulouse-shootings> , now sound chillingly prescient. The president of the French Jewish community, Richard Pasquier, judges Marine Le Pen more dangerous than her father.

French Muslim leaders rallied round Jewish communities <http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/23/toulouse-shootings-united-france> last week. Next week sees the start of Passover, a festival celebrating the liberation of Jews from slavery in Egypt, when Jews often think about modern examples of oppression. Let's hope that French Jewish leaders use the occasion to rally round Muslim communities, and to remember that ultimately, racism is indiscriminate.

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http://www.irehr.org/issue-areas/international-dimensions/item/410-the-vote-for-marine-le-pen-an-american-anti-racist-view
Institute for Research and Education in Human Rights (IREHR) - Monday 30th April 2012  18:19

The vote for Marine Le Pen:
an American anti-racist view
by Leonard Zeskind* <http://www.irehr.org/issue-areas/international-dimensions/itemlist/user/56-leonardzeskind>

It was May 1, 1988 in Paris, and I watched as Jean-Marie Le Pen, a young girl dressed as Joan d'Arc, a line of sash-wearing dignitaries, and 40,000 Front National supporters marched through the streets in a May Day parade. It was the moment that the Front National's racist nationalism broke into the middle of French politics, after years (decades) on the margins. Le Pen won 4.4 million votes, about 14.7% of the total, in the first round of the presidential elections that year. At the time, I was used to monitoring Klan rallies in the American South, which never approximated the size and power of the rally that day. The Front National's fortunes have waxed and waned over the next two-plus decades since. Now, with a stunning six million votes (17.9% of the total) in the in the first round of the French presidential elections, Marine Le Pen has re-established the Front National as a leading voice for racist, anti-immigrant politics in Continental Europe.

The most immediate consequence of Le Pen's showing, as others have noted, has been a sharp racist appeal by President Sarkozy to Le Pen's constituents in the second round of campaigning. Sarkozy, heretofore an establishment conservative from the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), has in effect become a bull horn for the Front National's anti-immigrant, Islamophobic politics. The received wisdom is that Sarkozy will fail, and Socialist Francois Hollande is expected to be elected France's next president on May 6.

In June, however, the Front National will likely win seats in the national assembly in two rounds of voting. And if the party maintains its current strength into the 2014 elections to the European Parliament, it is certain to increase its representation in that body. If that happens, the net effect will be an increase in the power of the racist far right, even as the soft-core socialist left holds on to the presidency. At the same time, the Left Bloc, an amalgamation of a Socialist Party breakaway faction, the Communist Party and other smaller parties, which captured 11.1% of the vote in the first round, has made its first significant showing after a number of years of decline for the hard left.

Marine Le Pen in the USA

Marine Le Pen, the daughter of FN founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, rose to the top of the Front National in 2011. In the process, she defeated a challenge from Bruno Golnisch on the farthest right-wing edge of the party, and promised a kinder, gentler racism and xenophobia, unencumbered by her father's ill-tempered anti-Semitism. Indeed, in order to improve her "mainstream" appeal, Marine Le Pen traveled to the United States last November, with many from the Francophone media in tow.

Declaring her affinity for Ron Paul's positions on central banks, she finally finagled a meeting with the Texas congressman after he spent days dodging her overtures. She had less difficulty securing a meeting with Rep. Joe Walsh (R.-ILL.), a freshman congressman elected with Tea Party support. While in D.C., she had breakfast with lobbyist Richard Hines, former editor of Southern Partisan magazine, according to Ed Sebesta, an expert on the neo-Confederates. During the New York leg of the trip, Le Pen made noises about meeting Occupy Wall Street protestors, but did not go to Zuccotti Park and did not apparently meet with any Occupy activists as she walked around southern Manhattan. In New York and D.C., her attempt to appear like a visiting dignitary basically failed.

Marine Le Pen had better luck in Florida. According to press reports, she met with William Diamond in Palm Beach. Diamond, active in Republican Party circles, was supporting the candidacy of Herman Cain at the time of Le Pen's visit. He also claims to be big-time donor to the American-Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC). Le Pen's visit with Diamond was obviously aimed at helping her wash off the stink from her father's anti-Semitism, and also to assist her effort to find support among French Jews for her Moslem-bashing campaign. She largely failed in that effort.

During her father's tenure, the Front National received continual and significantly favorable coverage from The Spotlight, the now defunct weekly tabloid published by the Liberty Lobby; founded and minutely managed by Willis Carto. (Carto, a long-time Holocaust denier, now publishes a different weekly tabloid with a smaller subscriber base, The American Free Press.) And Bruno Golnisch, Marine Le Pen's challenger for control of the party, has been an invited speaker to Jared Taylor's white nationalist American Renaissance conferences on multiple occasions, the most recent in February 2008. (Taylor, a Francophile, has repeatedly had speakers from France at his Renaissance gatherings and spoke this March to 700 racial nationalists at a conference held in Paris.)

Marine Le Pen's attempt to find American friends among the Republicans, rather than hard-core white nationalists, is part of her larger effort to "normalize" the Front National. According to an analysis written by French anti-fascists for the June 2011 edition of Searchlight magazine, much of the key activist base has now left the party (most going to organizations even further to the right). Nevertheless, "the FN is able to function better" with an influx of "thousands of inexperienced new members."

This change in the Front National does not alter the fact, that France has a solidly built and devoutly ideological racist and nationalist movement in its bowels. This is not a movement that gelled in opposition to President Sarkozy, but in opposition to the immigrants in its midst and the European Union that envelopes them. The anger that Front National voters feel towards Sarkozy has only served to accelerate the nationalism and racism that motivates them.

Finding a Response to the
Front National’s Racism

The left has had principally two different types of responses to this racist nationalist movement. The Socialist Party has virtually ignored the Front National's success, apparently hoping to build an alternative to the racists without directly confronting them. And anti-racist critics of the Socialist Party have for years noted that the organization SOS Racisme acts mainly as a campaign mechanism for the Socialist Party.

The Left Front, which won 11.1% of the vote, by contrast, decided to "organize a very front-on opposition to the Front National," according to Raquel Garrido, who quit the Socialist Party along with Jean Luc Melenchon, the Left Front's presidential candidate. Garrido said, "That's something no one will forget, that we were the ones that started the process of trying to strike back against the Front National...The Socialist Party doesn't do that. Even now, they are barely speaking about the Front's high score."

The Left Front obviously wants to both confront the Front National's entire program, as well as build an alternative to it. It is a lesson American anti-racists should not ignore.

*Leonard Zeskind is president of IREHR. For almost three decades, he has been a leading authority on white nationalist political and social movements. He is the author of Blood and Politics: The History of White Nationalism from the Margins to the Mainstream, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux in May 2009. more... <http://www.irehr.org/about-irehr/staff-a-board> ]

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http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/austrian-jews-chide-likud-mk-for-meeting-far-right-leader-1.332597
Haaretz – Friday 24th December 2010  2:27 AM

Austrian Jews chide Likud MK
for meeting far-right leader
President of Austria’s Jewish community complains to
Netanyahu, charging that the meeting is a ‘stab in the back’.
by Barak Ravid <http://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/barak-ravid-1.325>

Austria's Jewish community is furious at Deputy Minister Ayoob Kara for meeting in Vienna this week with Heinz-Christian Strache, head of the far-right FPO party, and heaping praise on him at a joint press conference.
       
In a letter sent to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, Ariel Muzicant, the president of Austria's Jewish community, charged that Kara's "visit and actions are stabbing us in the back."
       
Netanyahu's office said he had not yet read the letter and would comment only after doing so.
       
"I am writing you this letter to express my deep anger," Muzicant began, noting that not only did Kara come at the FPO's invitation, but "he has officially honored and praised individuals of this party as well as their political program."
       
Muzicant noted that the party was founded by former Austrian Nazis in 1948, including many who had served in the SS, and when it entered the Austrian government a few years ago under former leader Joerg Haider, Israel scaled back its diplomatic relations with Austria.
       
The FPO has "called for the abolishment of anti-Nazi legislation," and its representatives have "made anti-Semitic remarks and praised the Nazi regime, denied the Holocaust or invited and promoted notorious Holocaust deniers," he wrote. As a result, the Jewish community has fought the party - "which was and is one of our worst adversaries" - for years.
       
"We feel betrayed and are outraged about this behavior of Deputy Minister Kara," he concluded. "I consider this a shame for the State of Israel and a betrayal of the murdered 65,000 Austrian Jews and the 6 million martyrs of the Shoa."
       
Kara, a Likud MK, did not coordinate his visit with the Foreign Ministry or the embassy in Vienna. When the ambassador found out, he urged Kara to cancel the Strache meeting, as Israel's policy is to boycott the FPO. But Kara refused, calling Strache "a friend of Israel" in its war on terror.