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How the Israel lobby fueled the rise of Britain's top anti-Muslim chaos agent
By David Miller | October 25, 2024
The riots that gripped the UK this August were heavily inspired by anti-Muslim agitator Tommy Robinson. His rise to prominence is largely the product of the North American Zionist lobby, representing a clear break with traditional far-right British activism.
A wave of anti-Muslim and anti-migrant riots which consumed British society in racist violence this August were fomented almost entirely by a self-proclaimed "counter-Jihad" activist who goes by the moniker Tommy Robinson. This October 26, Robinson will return to the public eye in the UK for a provocative action outside Westminster in London protesting his prosecution for defaming a Syrian refugee in a film he produced.
The riots he helped inspire from abroad shook Britain for almost a week, triggering attacks on police stations and mosques. Though they did not occur in circumstances chosen by Robinson and his street fighting cohort, they perfectly served the agenda set into motion years before by the Israel lobby elements which sponsored his rise to political prominence.
Prominent British leftists have framed the anti-migrant riots led by Robinson as a "classic fascist mobilization," painting them as an entirely homegrown, organic phenomenon arising from a reactionary lower middle class. Yet a closer look at the history of those involved demonstrates that the violent rampage reflected a notable break with traditional far-right British activism.
This rupture was accomplished through financial backing and political support by an Israel lobby centered largely in Tel Aviv and the United States, which sought to redirect the rage of the downwardly mobile European working class against Muslim immigrants, and in support of Western and Israeli military campaigns.
Indeed, the state of Israel's international lobbying apparatus is deeply implicated in the crusade to assail Muslims across Europe. The strategy originated during the 1980's in Benjamin Netanyahu's marketing of the concept of "'Islamic terrorism," and gained popular currency during the so-called war on terror. The Zionist-backed campaign has spawned far-right street groups like the English Defense League, and the broader activist umbrella known as the "Counterjihad" movement.
While millions in pro-Israel astroturf has produced an array of loudmouthed anti-Muslim chaos agents, few have proven as marketable or durable as the agitator who calls himself Tommy Robinson. And none have been more loyal to the cause of Zionism. As Robinson declared in a leaked video, "If there was a war and it kicked off, I would be there on the front line, fighting for Israel.
“If there was a war, I'd fight on the front lines for ISRAEL!”
— ADAM (@AdameMedia) August 5, 2024
- Tommy Robinson, a British Patriot who never served a single day in his Majesty’s army 🤡
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Who is "Tommy Robinson" and what do his backers want?
Tommy Robinson represents the persona of a half-Irish former aircraft engineering student named Stephen Yaxley-Lennon whose violent tendencies undermined his professional ambitions. In between prison sentences, Yaxley drifted into far-right activism and football hooliganism, adopting a series of aliases, including Wayne King, Andrew McMaster and Paul Harris, to cover up his criminal past. Tommy Robinson was apparently the name with the most populist, authentically English ring to it.
By the time the US invaded Iraq in 2003, Robinson was rising through the ranks of the British National Party (BNP), an overtly Judeophobic political cell whose membership was whites-only until 2010. However, as the BNP's ranks dwindled, Robinson led an exodus of members into the newfangled English Defense League, or EDL. At EDL rallies, rank-and-file members could be seen with shaven heads, clad in their familiar combat boots and bomber jackets, while waving a new symbol of their movement: the Israeli flag.
In fact, the EDL owed its creation to pro-Israel elements in the US which also helped conceive and fund Europe's so-called "Counterjihad" movement.
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