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The barriers come down: antisemitism and coalitions of extremes

Is a far-right's view of a Jewish-controlled world is becoming accepted across the political spectrum?

Dave Rich

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These are strange times for the British far right. Long left alone on the political extremes where they obsessed about secret Jewish machinations behind every government policy, all of a sudden they think they have noticed the most unlikely people agreeing with them.

The British National Party advised its members to read The Guardian for information about “the Zionist cabal around President Bush”. Followers of the neo-Nazi Combat 18 have found themselves publicly supporting the President of Malaysia, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, while the National Front found itself in sympathy with Labour MP Tam Dalyell. No wonder John Tyndall, former leader of the British National Party, wrote gleefully that “certain things are coming out into the open which not long ago would have been tightly censored and suppressed…We are witnessing a gigantic conspiracy being unveiled”.

But are the antisemites of Britain’s far-right correct in thinking that their view of a Jewish-controlled world is becoming accepted across the political spectrum?

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