‘We announce tonight that Richard Spencer, of the American National Policy Institute, has this week been banned from the UK for life…” So ran a statement on Facebook by the Traditional Britain Group, which brings together Nazis and far right Tories. The 9 July statement said the ban had been announced by the then home […]
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The Greek debt, a European tragedy
This video (which is subtitled in English) was sent to us by the Greek Solidarity Campaign to which Searchlight is affiliated. The GSC is an independent, non-party political campaign established to organise solidarity with the people resisting “austerity” in Greece. It is supported by the TUC and has a number of affiliated groups and individual […]
Far-Right blamed as entrance to mosque in Germany bricked up
Muslims living in a small town in northern Germany were shocked to find someone had bricked up the entrance to their mosque during the night, Justin Huggler reported in The Daily Telegraph on 30 August. Those gathering for prayers last Friday in the town of Parchim found the door to the mosque jammed with concrete […]
Hungary blocks more than 20 websites for Holocaust denial
The World Jewish Congress has reported a statement by the Budapest chief prosecutor that a Budapest court has ordered the temporary shutdown of nearly two dozen websites that carry content denying the Holocaust. The websites sell the Hungarian edition of a Swedish author’s book that denies the Holocaust and other crimes committed by the Nazi […]
Hungarian extremist sentenced to 13 years in prison for terrorism
A far-right extremist, whose group sadistically assaulted and nearly killed a media personality, bombed gay clubs in Budapest and attacked the homes of Socialist and liberal politicians using Molotov cocktails, received a 13-year prison sentence on Tuesday in the Budapest Capital Regional Court, Hungarian Free Press reports on 30 August 2016. Between 2007 and 2009, […]
Argentinian pupils wearing Nazi armbands attack Jewish students in ‘Mengele village’
Children from a German school in Buenos Aires wearing swastika armbands and fake Hitler moustaches attacked pupils from a Jewish school in a resort where several Nazi war criminals lived for decades after the Second World War, including Dr Josef Mengele, Auschwitz’s “Angel of Death”, The Sunday Telegraph reported on 28 August 2016. The incident […]