The BNP: "Jewish Bolsheviks to blame for Holocaust"

[Anarcho-Socialist]

Stop Press: Jewish Bolsheviks to blame for Holocaust

(With thanks to Nothing British About the BNP)

When Lee John Barnes, legal officer of the British National Party, proclaims on his blog, “WW2 – Time To tell The Truth” you wonder if at long last the BNP leadership is simply going to tell its followers that Nazism was a uniquely hideous ideology; and that its innumerable crimes against humanity were epitomised by the Holocaust. But then you read the article, (penned as a response to Leo McKinstry in the Daily Express) and once again the grim reality of the BNP hits you between the eyes: because this is a poisonous and revealing article that depicts the Holocaust as a defensive action against “Jewish Bolsheviks”.

“…The Holocaust was the price ordinary Jews of Europe paid for the actions of the Bolshevik Jews in Russia after the Russian Revolution.

(snip)

"The fact that Bolshevik scum like Rosa Luxemberg have statues erected in their honour in todays Germany shows how sick and degenerate Germany has become.

She would have turned Germany into a death camp like the Soviet Union, a charnel house of horror and murder with gulags filled with Germans, Jews, democrats and nationalists.

It was the actions of Bolshevik filth like Rosa Luxemberg in Germany during the Spartacist Uprising that allowed Hitler to equate Jews and Bolshevism – and thereby prepare the way for the Holocaust."

Blah, Blah, Blah etc.

More: http://thecst.org.uk/blog/?p=470 (Community Support Trust)

The BNP kept a bit quiet about the Jooos for a few years as it was harming their image. Nick Griffin praised Israeli foreign policy on the doctrine of "the enemy of my enemy" as BNP found votes to be had in Islamophobia.

The BNP grassroots of anti-Semites were never happy with this, and there were always breaches from the Party line. The recent open anti-Semitism from the party leadership is no accident.

According to "Nothing British About the BNP" (http://www.nothingbritish.com/10/bnp-march-on-london-just-weeks-before-2010-election/), the BNP have now reverted to an anti-war stance now that middle England has lost appetite for the wars in the Middle East. BNP are now calling them wars for the "benefit of Zion."

I always wondered how long the BNP's tactical but uncomfortable pro-Israel position would last. I now have my answer.

[T_i_B]

1. While we are on the subject

here are a couple of photo's to show what we can all guess about links between the EDL and the BNP.

http://pa.photoshelter.com/gallery/G0000_GBoLgz_f30

(hat tip to Tim Ireland for this)

[Anarcho-Socialist]

7. Thanks for the post

I really don't know why even the broadcast media doesn't expose the links between them. The EDL is a badly-contrived front group for the BNP.

[LeftishBrit]

10. Thanks.

Proof of the obvious perhaps; but it's very interesting that the media don't point it out.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Wow, Lee John Barnes is a real scumbag, looking at what he writes

Yeah, it looks looks like the strain of hiding their anti-semitism has finally become too much for the BNP. Shame it wasn't so obvious to some of the voters in the Euro elections - obvious anti-semitism might have got a few more opposing them.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

8. Agreed

But I suspect like you that tactical considerations were involved.

It's interesting that wherever and whenever there is an economic downturn, anti-Semites go on the offensive and anti-Semitism goes on the increase. Perhaps there is a susceptible demographic for anti-Semitic propaganda that didn't exist prior to the beginning of the recession in 2007.

[oldironside]

3. Germany is sick and degenerate?

The Holocaust was a (in the unspoken subtext of this article, justified) reaction against Jewish Bolsehvism? What f***ing planet are these arseholes living on? I look forward to their next election poster with Churchill on it. Maybe they can include a few choice quotes from him regarding their favourite German.
"The whole world is against Hitler and Hitlerism. Men of every race and clime feel that this monstrous apparition stands between them and the forward move they feel is their due... "

The modern German state is one to be proud of and it´s record on civil rights, equality and social justice stand comparison with any state in the world.

Speaking as a bloody immigrant myself I´d just like to say how happy I am my adopted country puts the BNP´s collective blood pressure up.

[Hopeless Romantic]

4. Why do people keep paying attention to and giving airtime and printing ink

to these vile people?

Better surely to ignore them for the irrelevancies that they are.

[salvorhardin]

5. You can't ignore phenomena like the BNP

That's what we did in the U.S. with the religious right and the far right, despite scads of people telling us what they were trying to accomplish. Look where that got us. I used to argue that Limbaugh was irrelevant too, until he started popping up on the Sunday morning talking head shows and treated as if his opinions were part of the legitimate debate.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

6. I agree with salvorhardin

I wish we could ignore them but it's a luxury anti-fascists cannot afford.

It is shocking the amount of people in everyday life I have met who are repeating rumours and nonsense put about by the BNP. Often these are people who wouldn't consider themselves racist, nor who I would consider stupid. The right-wing populist tabloids make the matters worse by often reinforcing the BNP message (even though the Mail et al publicly reject the BNP, trying to have the best of both worlds).

If anti-fascist campaigners aren't ready to counter the Nazi message, the BNP falsehoods are allowed to spread into popular urban legends.

[LeftishBrit]

9. I fully agree with both you and Salvorhardin

In addition, people like the BNP matter because the main parties, especially but not exclusively the Tories, get tempted to pander to the far-right in order to take their votes away from the BNP.

[salvorhardin]

11. It's not just that they pander to the far right

It's that they court the far right and echo their positions in order to move the Overton Window farther along. And whether or not we consider the idea of the Overton Window to be based in pseudoscience, it is a useful folk method for moving public opinion to the extremes and it has at least worked for the Republicans for 17 years. It's a strategy they used over and over again in the U.S. Pretty soon what used to sound crazy is merely politically unfeasible, and what used to be politically unfeasible is now sane and sensible. Suddenly the right has another one of their policies enacted.