There is a lot going on with arrests & charges against various U.K. neo-Nazis right now. Here’s a summary
1) Benjamin Hannam was first cop in U.K. convicted of a neo-Nazi terrorism offence & was jailed for 4+ years last week reuters.com/world/uk-ex-po…
2) Oliver Bel was found guilty of terrorism offences in April & will be sentenced later this month. He also posted on a far-fight forum that “Extermination is the best option for [Jews]” itv.com/news/granada/2…
3) Andrew Dymock is currently in court & denies 12 terrorism-related charges, 1 of possessing racially inflammatory material, 1 of stirring up racial hatred, and 1 of stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
4) Dean Morrice is also in court & denies two counts of possessing explosive substances without a lawful purpose, one of encouraging terrorism, three of disseminating terrorist publications and four of possesing documents useful to a terrorist independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…
5) Police have also been given further time to question four people held on suspicion of right-wing terrorism offences.
Officers carried out a series of raids in Keighley in West Yorkshire, Swindon in Wiltshire and Anglesey in north west Wales on 1 May. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
6) 4 people have been charged in relation to a right wing terrorism investigation
Two men and a woman from Keighley are charged with possessing articles connected with terrorism, as well as manufacturing and possessing a 3D-printed firearm
8) Man who shared explosives & firearms manuals while expressing his far-right views online has been convicted of terrorism offences
Michael Nugent, 37 from Ashford, in Surrey, ran & was active on a number of extreme right wing chat groups on Telegram app standard.co.uk/news/uk/far-ri…
9) Two men arrested by counter-terror cops accused of handing out ‘far-right’ extremist materials across London standard.co.uk/news/crime/met…
10) Counter-terrorism police have charged a man for allegedly being a member of banned far-right group National Action
Alex Davies was interviewed under caution and subsequently charged under Section 11 of the Terrorism Act
12) Islamophobic troll John Nimmo jailed for 10 yrs & 2 months. He admitted disseminating terrorist material, encouraging terrorism, 2 charges of distributing material likely to stir up religious hatred & possessing a prohibited firearm shieldsgazette.com/news/crime/dan…
13) Oliver Bel was jailed for 2 years after being convicted in April of collecting information useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism. He made racist & anti-Semitic comments online, posting that he wanted to "go on a killing spree" bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
14) A "right-wing extremist" has been jailed for possessing manuals on knife fighting and making explosives.
Police found a hoard of Nazi-era daggers, far-right literature and a framed Ku Klux Klan certificate in Nicholas Brock's bedroom in Berkshire. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
15) Dean Morrice: Former Ukip member found guilty of neo-Nazi terror offences
16) Dean Morrice, former Ukip member who posted violent racist, antisemitic and Islamophobic propaganda online and collected the means for making bombs has been jailed for 18 years
21) Neo-Nazi Andrew Dymock has been sentenced to seven years in prison after being convicted of fundraising for an extreme right-wing group and promoting its “distorted and wicked cause”.
23) ‘Fascist’ teenager Matthew Cronjager, 18, attempted to make 3D gun and drew up plans for storage bunker in terror plot, court hears bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
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Plus worth reading/re-reading some older classics on this topic like Steve Cohen’s ‘That’s Funny, You Don’t Look Anti-Semitic’ nopasaran.media/thats-funny/
Was asked for this a while ago but here’s a reading list of books by academics & journalists which explain, historicise & contextualise where conspiracy theories come from, who believes them & why.