Austin Harney explains how the right uses social media to spread poisonous lies about asylum-seekers and specifically how this tactic led to recent events in Dublin This article was first published in the Winter 2023/24 issue of Searchlight magazine The end of November saw the Irish far right organise a dangerous riot in Dublin after […]
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Populist PVV take most seats in Dutch elections – Charles Fox analyses the results
Geert Wilders’ anti-immigration party gained the most seats in November’s elections, but forming a government in the Netherlands in never simple. Charles Fox sees parallels with past events This article originally appeared in the Winter 2023/24 issue of Searchlight magazine Even by the standards of the often higgledy-piggledy world of Dutch politics, the results of the […]
Don’t underestimate Vox – warns David Karvala
Since the elections, the ultra-right Vox party has been busy mobilising street protests, but has failed to have a great impact. David Karvala warns, however, it is too early to relax This article originally appeared in Winter 2023/24 issue of Searchlight magazine In our Autumn issue we carried an analysis of the biggest Spanish far right […]
Watch out for the MAGA moms
Working the crowd (clockwise from top left): Moms for Liberty founders, Tina Descovich and Tiffany Justice, presidential contenders Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley and Donald Trump; to round off the organisation’s 2023 summit in Philadelphia singer Mary Millben belted out God Bless America. First published in Winter 2023/24 Searchlight magazine A ‘conservative’ organisation that spread to […]
Ukraine and Gaza inflict four-way split on UK far right
The far right is seriously divided over current international events, leading to a peculiar mix and match of ideas. Paul Gale offers a guide to the resulting factions Which corner? In the Pro-Putin Zionist camp, Tommy Robinson (top left) and Paul Golding (top centre); in the pro-Putin anti-Zionist camp, Nick Griffin (above, right) during a […]
Good riddance to the UK far right’s favourite revisionist
It’s boo-hoo time over at Heritage and Destiny, that vile little neo-Nazi umbrella outfit who have been campaigning more stridently than most on the far right on behalf of French nazi-loving revisionist Vincent Renouard. Renouard has been banged up in Scotland for over a year facing an extradition request from France so that he can […]
Patriotic Alternative’s US ally torn apart by internal feud writes Mark Scholl
A couple of months ago the American National Justice Party, one of the new political entities to emerge in 2020, appeared to be moving along at a reasonable pace with a series of local and regional supporters’ groups, several supporting podcasts hosted by leading personalities within the party, and a number of demonstrations held around […]
Le Pen’s UK rep and the man who believed synagogue bombing was “well intentioned”
So, if Marine Le Pen and her Rassemblement National have rejected antisemitism and now stand with Jewish people, how do they explain this? Her UK representative, Max Begon, recently addressing the conference of a party led by a man who once wrote that synagogue bombing was “well-intentioned”. As Searchlight has reported on other occasions, Andrew […]
Spain’s Vox in flux with fascists calling the shots reports David Karvala
Former leading lights in Vox Macarena Olona, pictured above right with party General Secretary Ignacio Garriga, and Iván Espinosa de los Monteros (left) Before the parliamentary elections in July many people in the Spain feared a right-wing victory, and the formation of a coalition government between the main conservative party, Partido Popular […]
The Spartans: the fascists return to the Greek Parliament reports Panagiotis Sotiris
Ilias Kasidiaris Credit DTRocks The failure of neo-nazi Golden Dawn to pass the electoral threshold of 3% in the 2019 Greek general election, along with the disintegration of its organisational network and the conviction of its leadership in October 2020 on charges of forming a criminal organisation at the end of a five-year long trial, gave […]
A beacon of intolerance – Dr Siobhan Hyland reports
Global ambitions AfD co-leader Alice Weidel Pic credit: Alice Weidel/Facebook At the beginning of September, municipal elections were held in Nordhausen, in the state of Thuringia. This is not the first time that Searchlight has discussed this eastern German state – over the past few years it has become a hotbed for Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) activity. […]
Trump indictments point to early trials – Leonard Zeskind reports
Lawbreaker A billboard in Times Square, New York, scrolling through the list of Trump’s felony charges. It was displayed in September as part of the Republican Accountability Project campaign to highlight Trump’s contempt for the law Pic credit Elvert Barnes Photography Former President Donald Trump has been indicted for crimes in four different courts, and future […]
Britain First leader abandons Remembrance weekend for Polish junket – then gets banged up at airport
Paul Golding (2nd from right) and Ashlea Simon (2nd from left) with MEP Dominic Tarczynsi (3rd from left) Having told his followers to avoid the Cenotaph at the weekend, Britain First leader Paul Golding was free to hop off on a fascist junket to Poland. So much more congenial for him and Ashlea if not […]
1985-1991: the Searchlight War Crimes Campaign
Amassing evidence on Nazis who fled to the UK – Siobhan Hyland reflects on Searchlight’s investigations into Nazi war crimes more than 30 years ago, as part of a campaign to seek justice for victims and their families Anton Gecas on the August 1987 cover of Searchlight, with articles inside on his war crimes and the […]
Anti- Holocaust Memorial campaigner faces extradition
Vincent Reynouard ONE OF THE key figures in the anti-Semitic campaign against a UK Holocaust Memorial, nazi and Holocaust denier Vincent Reynouard (pictured above), was arrested last November while hiding out in a coastal resort near St Andrews, in Scotland, and now faces extradition to France. The decision in his extradition case is not expected […]
No mea culpa, as Bishop Williamson re‑emerges from the shadows
He kept a relatively low profile during the pandemic, but is now back on the extremist circuit, peddling anti-Semitism, conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial, as Richard Pembroke explains Bishop Richard Williamson, the notorious traditional Catholic anti-Semite and Holocaust denier, has a tendency to disappear from public view for a few years and then re-emerge, unable […]
‘No’ to a street named after an antifascist. The decision by Lucca’s town council makes headlines in Italy by Alfio Bernabei
Sandro Petrini, antifascist The town council of Lucca, one of Tuscany’s most treasured artistic places and favoured destination for tourists from all over the world, has rejected a motion in favour of naming a street after a leading figure of antifascism. Traditionally a stronghold of the left, the council came under the control of the […]
UK far right splits over Hamas
The British far right has been predictably opportunistic and shameless, but also confused and divided, in response to the recent Hamas attack on southern Israel. A broad swathe of extremists, ranging from Nigel Farage to EDL founder ‘Tommy Robinson’, have tried to exploit the situation to promote Islamophobia. At the opposite pole are some of […]
Searchlight Exclusive: Well-heeled nazis in plot to obstruct UK’s planned Holocaust Memorial
EXCLUSIVE By Tony Peters Wealthy Holocaust revisionists across the world are planning a campaign against the establishment of a Holocaust Memorial in London. Plans for the memorial, intended both as a monument to all victims of the Holocaust and as a learning centre, have been advancing since 2015, but are now attracting the hostility of […]
From the archive: 40 years ago – when we first exposed NF links with fugitive Italian terrorists
It was 40 years ago…when Searchlight first exposed connections between Italian fascist fugitive Roberto Fiore and UK nazis like Nick Griffin. And all in connection with London tourist guides.
