{"id":209586,"date":"2020-06-30T07:07:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T07:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=209586"},"modified":"2020-07-02T07:06:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T07:06:30","slug":"jewish-groups-and-mps-condemn-nigel-farage-over-antisemitic-dog-whistles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=209586","title":{"rendered":"Jewish groups and MPs condemn Nigel Farage over antisemitic ‘dog whistles’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our commentary follows.<\/em><\/h3>\n

Peter Walker \u2013 The Guardian June 28, 2020<\/h1>\n
\"\"<\/a>

Nigel Farage leads a march during the Brexit campaign. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Nigel Farage has been condemned by the UK\u2019s main Jewish groups and MPs for repeatedly using language and themes associated with far-right antisemitic conspiracy theories, something for which he has been previously criticised.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Board of Deputies of British Jews said Farage\u2019s airing of claims about plots to undermine national governments, and his references to Goldman Sachs and the financier George Soros<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, showed he was seeking to \u201ctrade in dog whistles\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Brexit party<\/strong><\/span><\/a> leader, who has been criticised for agreeing to interviews with openly antisemitic US media personalities, was also condemned by the MPs who co-chair the all-party group against antisemitism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Much of Farage\u2019s most recent use of such themes has been connected to the Black Lives Matter protests, and his belief that dissenting voices are being silenced.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a tweeted video message<\/a><\/strong><\/span> this month, Farage said the UK faced \u201ccultural Marxism\u201d, a term originating<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in a conspiracy theory based on a supposed plot against national governments, which is closely linked to the far right and antisemitism.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the same message, Farage said companies who pulled TV adverts from rightwing TV shows were being pressured by \u201cSoros-funded organisations\u201d. George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist and campaigner, is a regular target for antisemitic conspiracy theories<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. Farage had made the same claim about Soros three days earlier in an interview with the far-right news website Breitbart.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a recent opinion piece<\/strong><\/span><\/a> for the Newsweek website, Farage talked about \u201cunelected globalists shaping the public\u2019s lives based on secret recommendations from the big banks\u201d. Goldman Sachs was the only bank he mentioned by name, echoing another common theme from far-right antisemitism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Writing in a separate Newsweek colum<\/strong>n<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, Farage said Black Lives Matter was made up of radical socialists trying to destroy nationalism, \u201coftentimes funded by globalists\u201d, another term linked to such ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Amanda Bowman, vice-president of the Board of Deputies, said: \u201cIf Nigel Farage continues to trade in dog whistles and tropes about George Soros and Goldman Sachs, his decline into obscurity will continue apace. Mr Farage would do well to remember that this proud country has always rejected this sort of prejudice and fought wars to defeat it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Community Security Trust, a charity that works for the safety of Jewish people in the UK, said in a statement: \u201cThis is not the first time that Nigel Farage has used language that evokes antisemitic conspiracy codewords, but the deeper problem is that this search for scapegoats will keep requiring new enemies and new excuses, moving the national debate into more polarising and dangerous places.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Andrew Percy, the Conservative MP who co-chairs the all-party group on antisemitism, said Farage\u2019s tendency of \u201csimplifying everything into a grand conspiracy theory\u201d risked spilling into racism.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese conspiracy theories have real world and dangerous consequences and are without question antisemitic,\u201d he said. \u201cSo now he is being put on notice. Farage needs to cut it out before he causes further harm by providing further fuel to racist antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Labour MP Catherine McKinnell, the group\u2019s other co-chair, said Farage was \u201clike a bad salesman, peddling distrust and fear that someone is out to get us\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

She said: \u201cTalk of shadow cabals, Soros conspiracies and other nonsense has repeatedly been proven to find its roots in anti-Jewish racism. His choice of language, which echoes some of that circulating amongst the far-right online, is worrying and getting worse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Farage\u2019s representatives and the Brexit party were contacted for comment. A spokesman for Farage has condemned previous criticism of his language by Jewish groups and others as \u201cpathetic\u201d and \u201ca manufactured story\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Farage has previously aired beliefs associated with antisemitism in a series of interviews<\/a><\/strong><\/span> with the far-right US conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones, and has called Soros<\/a><\/strong><\/span> \u201cthe biggest danger to the entire western world\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

He outlined similar themes in an interview with Revelation TV<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, a tiny UK evangelical Christian TV channel. He was also interviewed at least six times<\/strong><\/span><\/a> by Rick Wiles, a far-right, antisemitic US pastor who subsequently used his web radio show to claim Donald Trump\u2019s impeachment was a \u201cJew coup\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Farage remains leader of the Brexit party, which has largely halted its activities since December\u2019s general election, although it could re-emerge if Boris Johnson extends the Brexit transition period.<\/span><\/p>\n

His parallel career as a media personality suffered a blow this month when he lost his show<\/strong><\/span><\/a> on radio station LBC. Farage has recently sought to establish himself as a web-based media commentator, making videos about the arrival of migrants in boats across the Channel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Farage\u2019s representatives did not respond to a request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n

Commentary \u2013 June 29, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n
As far as the political establishment are concerned, Nigel Farage is a dangerous man. Against the odds he brought about Brexit, not as a prime minister or a leader of the opposition but as a man who had emerged as a rank outsider.<\/h5>\n
He\u2019s also definitely not controlled opposition. In recent years he\u2019s survived not one but two close shaves with death.<\/h5>\n
\"\"<\/a>

Nigel Farage survived a plane crash while campaigning in 2010.<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2010 the light plane in which Farage was travelling while campaigning to leave the EU crashed<\/span><\/a>.<\/h5>\n
Then in 2016 his car veered off the road near Dunkirk after the wheels on his car had apparently been tampered with.<\/h5>\n
Assassinations through apparent accidents are a ploy favoured by the powers that be, as happened with Princess Diana<\/span><\/a>.<\/h5>\n
Following the 2016 car crash Farage stood down as UKIP leader fearing his life might be in danger<\/a><\/span> but he didn\u2019t retire to the sidelines. Instead he remained politically active and outspoken.<\/h5>\n
As such he still remains a very real threat to the political establishment. That’s why, we suspect, he has been coming under fire recently from all sides of the political spectrum, including from the Board of Jewish Deputies.<\/h5>\n
This all suggests that Farage is again making the political establishment a little nervous.<\/h5>\n
Why else would the Guardian engage in a sustained character assassination in the piece above? The only problem is they have so little with which to smear Farage. So it\u2019s all by way of inference and association.<\/h5>\n
Rick Wiles, is the \u201cfar-right, anti-Semitic US pastor,\u201d the Guardian says who interviewed Farage. Of course Farage did not say anything remotely racist or anti-Semitic but the fact that he referred to ‘Goldman Sachs, George Soros and \u201cCultural marxism”‘ was enough.<\/h5>\n
This suggests that Farage is beginning to get an idea of what is really going on, and that seriously worries the powers that be.<\/h5>\n
Farage has a bit of a following and he could now start introducing them to ideas about “conspiracies”. This is a potentially incendiary mix. A popular politician who is not controlled by the elite is now talking about \u201cconspiracies”, bankers and “George Soros”.<\/h5>\n
The best response the Community Security Trust, a UK Jewish charity could come up with was that Farage was using \u201clanguage that evokes antisemitic conspiracy codewords”. In other words he used language that \u2018sounded’ anti-Semitic even though it wasn’t.<\/h5>\n
Obviously, elements in the establishment are desperate now to smear Farage but the best they can come up with is that he\u2019s using \u2026 \u201canti-Semitic dog whistles\u201d.<\/h5>\n
Few will be convinced by that.<\/h5>\n
Farage has also been talking with Alex Jones, who is hardly an “anti-Semite”. Apart from openly acknowledging his support for Israel Jones himself has been accused of being a Zionist shill<\/a><\/span>.<\/h5>\n
This adds another dangerous element to a potentially explosive mix.<\/h5>\n
What next?<\/h5>\n
Nigel Farage seems to understand that modern politics is a dirty, dangerous game, especially for independent outsiders like him. While another assassination attempt would seem a little too obvious, we can certainly expect more media efforts to smear Farage.<\/h5>\n
However they turn out, don\u2019t be surprised if we hear much more from Farage in the coming years. His Brexit campaign may have only been the start. Ed.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nigel Farage has made the establishment nervous again. So the Guardian has been called in to do a smear job on him with claims that he\u2019s toying with \u201cconspiracy theories\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209586"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209596,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209586\/revisions\/209596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}