Welcome back to the Searchlight website. After we posted several reports that exposed the increasing violence of the British extreme right and their international links, we were bombarded with attacks. As we were planning a relaunch of Searchlight later in the year, we temporarily suspended the website, but of course carried on with our work […]
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Seventeen Jewish graves desecrated in Belfast cemetery
Seventeen Jewish graves have been destroyed and vandalised in what appears to have been an organised attack inside a Belfast cemetery, The Guardian reported on 28 August. Up to eight youths, some using hammers, attacked the graves in west Belfast on Friday evening, according to a member of the Northern Ireland assembly. The Police Service […]
Extreme right awareness workshop
Northampton University is putting on a one-day workshop led by Dr Paul Jackson, an academic expert in the dynamics of the British far and extreme right. The workshop on Friday 16 September will draw on the latest academic research, material from the extreme right itself, and intelligence from Searchlight to offer the latest analysis of […]