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Zionist funding of UK far right riots revealed

Police officers and demonstrators clash during an anti-immigration protest in Liverpool, UK, on August 3, 2024. (Photo by Reuters)

The UK is still reeling from the worst far-right fascist insurgency to engulf the country in decades, with mobs attacking mosques, attempting to torch hotels housing migrants and hurling bricks at police officers.

The rioting was triggered by social media users claiming the suspect in the murders of three little girls in the Northwest English seaside town of Southport was a Muslim asylum seeker.

With the riots appearing to have stopped, questions are being asked about their root cause.

Racial justice advocacy groups, such as the Islamic Human Rights Commission, trace it to far-right politicians such as reform MP Nigel Farage and commentators dripping racist poison into the well of Britain's public discourse as well as the Zionist bank-rolling of the leader of the riots, Tommy Robinson.

This was laid out in a letter that the IHRC wrote to the Home Secretary.

Financing is not the only thing. We've seen him travel to Israel. We've seen him wearing the shirt of IDF.

We have seen him standing with machine gun on top of the tank and saying he will fight for Israel against the Palestinians, he will fight for illegal occupation. He will fight for apartheid. He will fight for genocide and we are concerned about this issue.

Massoud Shajareh, Islamic Human Rights Commission

That drew a rebuke in a counter letter published in the right-wing daily The Times, from Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and a member of the House of Lords, who called the IHRC's contention "anti-Semitic"

The minute you question anything about Israel, you're anti-Semitic because they haven't got anything else to say.

I mean, for God's sake, if I'm anti-Semitic, then the Times of Israel is anti-Semitic because they reported it many years ago.

The issue is that is not what the nature is. The issue is the validity of the documentation that is available and it needs to be addressed.

Massoud Shajareh, Islamic Human Rights Commission

One such document is a lengthy expose of the finances of Tommy Robinson, also published in The Times.

The only allusion made to the Zionists backing him was the mention of donations from conservative US think tanks, almost all of whom are pro Israel groups.

The fascist far right and the new Liberal Zionists have much in common, for instance, both use lies to vilify their targets.

The IHRC have demanded an apology from the signatories of that counter letter and have suggested that they redirect their ire to "those actually stoking hatred, rather than those of us trying to combat it."


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