On Tuesday this week a group of nazis and conspiracy theorists tried to insult the memory of Adolf Hitler’s victims by staging a Holocaust denial conference coinciding with Holocaust Memorial Day. They failed, because for once an internet service provider refused to do business with nazis and cancelled their account. Thankfully not every online business […]
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Kent ‘flagger’ convicted of violent disorder
A prominent Kent ‘flagger’, anti-migrant activist and boxer has been convicted of violent disorder but spared a prison sentence despite multiple previous convictions for violence. Fred Ketteringham, resident in Herne Bay, was convicted at Canterbury Crown Court following a vicious New Year’s Eve brawl at the Herne Bay Angling Club in 2022. Permanent damage During […]
Minneapolis stands firm against Trump’s brownshirts
Minnesota is an upper Midwestern state with a history of welcoming immigrants and refugees. In the 1890s, 40% of the state’s population was foreign-born. Today, it’s just over 6%, well below the national average. It has, however, become the epicenter of the Trump Administration’s war for racial purity. In recent weeks, as thousands on the […]
Swale council meeting again stopped by far-right disruption
Swale Borough Council was targeted for organised far-right disruption again last night as a Reform UK-backed motion on a supposed “border emergency” triggered chaos at a full council meeting. The scenes were an ugly sequel to December’s notorious meeting, when anti-migrant protesters barracked councillors, hurled abuse, and caused around £10,000 worth of damage to Swale […]
Danny Tommo – a timetable of betrayal
Well, we do seem to have upset Danny Tommo. He’s ranting all over social media, accusing us of lying about him abandoning his auditor mates in France. But he can’t escape the facts. Here’s a rough timeline: It’s quite clear what happened. Tommo called out his troops for a pretend ‘invasion’ of France, raised a […]
Australian police investigate neo-nazi threat to PM
Australian police are investigating a kidnap threat against Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, uncovered in a private far‑right chatroom. Members of a closed neo-nazi Telegram group discussed abducting the Prime Minister, and talked of hiring a van and raising several thousand dollars to carry out the plan. Albanese later acknowledged he had been briefed about it, […]
Tommy Robinson’s London ‘white’ lie
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon -the activist who performs as “Tommy Robinson” – is lying again. In a recent post, he presented grainy footage of a 1970s Tube station as supposed proof of a monochrome past. “London was always white,” his narrative implies. But history, the deep and documented truth of our capital city, says something profoundly different. […]
Trade union tribute to Gerry Gable
The RMT trade union has just published this tribute to Searchlight’s founder, publisher and editor emeritus, Gerry Gable.
Reform councillors aim to fire up anti-migrant tension in Kent
Reform UK councillors are trying to stir unrest in north Kent, making common cause with far-right street activists ahead of a critical debate tonight at Swale Borough Council. They have put forward a motion, framed as a response to a so-called “Border Emergency,” which claims migration is overwhelming local public services. This is a lie, […]
Tommo panics over claims he abandoned arrested activists
Our article earlier today about arrested Operation Overlord activists being abandoned by Danny Tommo has thrown Tommo into a panic. This morning we reported that friends and family of ‘auditor’ Reece Grant and the other arrested far-right activist were complaining on Grant’s YouTube channel that Tommo was not responding to appeals for help after the […]
Danny Tommo ‘abandons’ arrested activists
The two right-wing activists arrested in France for their part in the weekend’s anti-migrant event are Reece Grant and a friend of his from Devon. Their family and friends are accusing Danny Tommo of abandoning them. French police announced on Sunday night that two men, aged 35 and 53 had been detained while broadcasting live […]
Tommo’s French invasion – all whimper, no bang
The long-trumpeted “Operation Overlord” invasion of France finally landed on the beaches of Normandy yesterday. Or rather, it washed up gently, in the form of about a dozen blokes standing on the sand near Calais, waving flags at the sea while Danny Tommo yelled into the wind. No mass mobilisation. No flotilla-stopping heroics. Just a […]
French authorities ban Tommo’s French invasion
French authorities have imposed a sweeping ban on gatherings linked to the British far-right anti-migrant groups, aiming to block a planned mobilisation along the Channel coast this weekend. Key key activists have already been barred from entering the country. The decision comes after months of escalating activity by far-right activists along the northern coast of […]
From Searchlight 20 years ago – Nazi prisoner’s death plot exposes security failure
In the early 2000’s Searchlight publisher Gerry Gable was heavily involved in dealing with the problems of fascist activity in prisons. The article reproduced here, written by him in January 2006, typified the work that led him to engage with the prison service during this period to help bring about change. Nazi prisoner’s death plot […]
UKIP Whitechapel march banned as party ditches its rule book
The latest attempt by UKIP to stage a provocative march through Whitechapel has been banned by the Metropolitan Police. Claiming that the event, on 31 January, was to be apolitical and merely a “March for Christ” to reaffirm the UK’s Christian heritage, Tenconi was plainly trying from the outset to provoke a ban or a […]
German nazis on trial for plotting state overthrow
Eight young men stand trial in Dresden this week, accused of belonging to a banned neo-nazi group calling itself the “Saxon Separatists” and of planning an armed overthrow of the German state. The Saxon Separatists emerged in 2020 in Brandis, a small town near Leipzig in the eastern state of Saxony. According to federal prosecutors, […]
Israeli government hosts fascism’s heirs on Holocaust Memorial Day
This month’s second International Conference on Combating Antisemitism in Jerusalem will again provide a platform for far-right activists from racist organisations – some with a history of antisemitism. Last year’s conference proved a watershed moment exposing a deep divide between the man behind the conference – Amichai Chikli, Israeli Minister for Diaspora Affairs – and […]
Is Tommo setting up his followers for arrest?
Danny Tommo has announced plans to close down the port of Dover on Saturday, as well as sending teams of volunteers to France for an unspecified anti-migrant action. In another online video, Tommo (real name Daniel Thomas) claimed that his “Operation Overlord 2” volunteers will be travelling to France from different ports and by different […]
Kent ‘flaggers’ look to turn up the heat on county council
Barely a month after Searchlight reported on the jailing of Sam Turner, the prominent Medway flagger and serial offender is back on the streets, and back among familiar company. Turner, notorious locally for a long catalogue of offences that includes the farcical burglary of Gillingham Football Club, has been released from prison after serving just […]
Falkirk anti-migrant group quits amid rising far-right violence in Scotland
An anti-immigration protest group in Falkirk has announced it is disbanding after members of fascist and neo-Nazi groups repeatedly attended demonstrations it organised, amid wider concerns about an escalation in far-right activity across Scotland. The campaign group Save Our Future and Our Kids Future (SOF) had staged regular protests for more than a year outside […]