Neo-Nazis against ‘Zionist wars’
One of the most bizarre British far-right forum threads I have seen yet is currently active on Nationalists Online, a forum associated with the anti-Griffin North West Nationalists (NWN) blog. The NWN blog is run by representatives of the unreconstructed old school of the BNP – Tyndall loyalists who are deeply anti-Semitic and extremely opposed to Griffin’s ‘modernised’ BNP. Seeing the real enemy as Jews, not Muslims, and unimpressed with Griffin’s sidelining of Nazi anti-Semitism in favour of a more ‘populist’ anti-Muslim bigotry, NWN maintains an obsessive focus on ‘anti-Zionism’.
In the thread, forum member DIRLEWANGER has announced that the neo-Nazi British People’s Party is planning a demonstration at the Israeli embassy in London, with the rallying cry: ‘No more British involvement in Zionist Wars – Bring our troops home now’. As the thread has developed, it has got more surprising:
DIRLEWANGER: We may even be really controversail [sic] and invite Muslims to protest with us.
Unregistered: Do you really want to be seen protesting with filth?
You also run the risk of looking like you only have the balls to protest when non whites are doing it as they can’t be racist while whites on their own can.
I’d say no. If you want to stand out to the public don’t invite Muslims.
I thought the BPP were extreme and now you’re willing to protest with non whites?prometheus unbound: Wouldn’t bother me. The muzzies know the score about the 4 by 2’s.
DIRLEWANGER [replying to the 'I thought you were extreme' comment]: We are – exactly about who the real enemy is.
Following his initial posts, DIRLEWANGER has gone on to claim that ‘A Palestinian group has already been contacted and so far have shown interest in this demo’, ‘I have invited the Nation of Islam UK and await their response’, and ‘Aso [sic] have been in touch with the Islamic Human Rights Commission’.
Whether or not DIRLEWANGER has informed these groups that he represents the BPP is unclear, if he has indeed contacted them at all.
The rest of the discussion so far has been split between those who take the view that ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’ and those who’d prefer to capitalise on the recent football hooligan anti-Islam demos. The consensus seems to be with the former.
‘prometheus unbound’ states that ‘The NPD in Germany have had demos with muslims’. ‘Sean Hadley’ argues that ‘being anti muslim per se is of no help, who allowed the muzzies here? The muzzies are a symptom of a disease, not the disease itself’. Meanwhile ‘raven-banner’ suggests inviting David Myatt, a former leading neo-Nazi ‘intellectual’ and advocate of race war who now goes by the name Abdul-Aziz ibn Myatt and praises Osama bin Laden. Amongst Myatt’s better known admirers we find Omar Bakri Mohammed of Al-Muhajiroun.
While this attempt at bringing together the openly racist and anti-Semitic BPP with Muslim anti-Zionists is certainly a highly unusual proposal for a British far-right group, it is not with precedent, as I have noted elsewhere:
Just as Himmler admired and befriended Al-Husseini, and just as von Leers enthusiastically promoted a perverse union of radical Islam and Nazism, so today we find neo-Nazis applauding Jihadism and seeking to offer it their support. The 9/11 attacks are a case in point. In the aftermath of the atrocities of that day, neo-Nazis paid tribute to their Jihadist ideological brothers, thanking them for ‘knocking out’ the ‘common enemy’. The German former Red Army Faction terrorist turned neo-Nazi, Horst Mahler, called the Jihadist assault on civilian America ‘military attacks on the symbols of mammonistic world power’ that were ‘justified warfare by opponents of the global structures in the United States’, stating that ‘they have my full sympathy’. Another German far-Right group, National Resistance, said that September 11th was ‘a day for celebration’. Neo-Nazis in the North-Eastern town of Stralsund publicly celebrated and burnt the American flag, while a neo-Nazi in Eisenach was arrested after praising the attacks in a television interview. On the evening of 9/11, French neo-Fascist youth celebrated with champagne. Jan Kopal, head of the Czech National Social Bloc, declared at a rally in Prague that bin Laden is ‘an example for our children’. Dr William Pierce, head of the American neo-Nazi organisation the National Alliance, stated that he wished neo-Nazis had ‘half as much testicular fortitude’ as the 9/11 attackers.
Despite all this, in reality the chances of any Muslim group being willing to team up with a bunch of racist boneheads is almost non-existent and probably the only ‘Muslim’ in Britain who would consider it would be the aforementioned David Myatt. Almost certainly nothing will come of this proposed demonstration (other than a handful of BPP goons standing around looking gormless), but it is worth noting that an openly neo-Nazi British organisation is now starting to believe that it has found temporary non-Nazi comrades in its campaign of hatred against the Jewish people. There are those, as we know, who like to argue that ‘criticism of Israel cannot be construed as anti-semitic’. When neo-Nazis want to hook up with anti-Zionists, as they apparently now do, this certainly offers something of a challenge to such assertions.
