💥NEW: Two more hateful Reform UK candidates exposed in latest embarrassment for the party.

Jonathan Kay for South Ribble and Mick Greenhough, Orpington have openly shared racist views on their public Twitter accounts.

Reform must drop both immediately. hopenothate.org.uk/2024/04/03/mor…
Jonathan Kay frequently expresses racist and Islamophobic views on his public X account, claiming the IQs of “Africans and sub-Saharan Africans are amongst the lowest in the world”.

He said “Muslims never coexist with others”.

💥 EXCLUSIVE: A hardline Nazi, who has called for Sam Smith to be gassed and refers to black people as “c**ns” and “monkeys”, is appearing as a historian on @channel5_tv tonight about the 1928 London floods.

Thread below 🧵 Nikki Shaw has written three books about grisly murders in Victorian, Edwardian and Georgian London. In her spare time she mixes with leading Combat 18 and Blood and Honour thugs.

HOPE not hate can reveal shocking messages amongst far-right and football hooligan groups ahead of tomorrow's protest against the pro-Palestinian demonstration in London.

Links to buy high-calibre crossbows have been circulated:
hopenothate.org.uk/2023/11/10/rev… Some groups claim to want to 'protect' the Cenotaph and other monuments in the Whitehall area, while others, particularly the hooligans, are plotting to camp up in pubs along the route of the pro-Palestinian march in Victoria and Vauxhall.

Let’s rewind a bit. ⏪

In 2018 footage of a Syrian refugee child being bullied and assaulted was shared across the internet and was watched millions of times. The footage attracted widespread condemnation including from then Prime Minister Theresa May. Tommy Robinson (aka Stephen Lennon) jumped on the topic spreading lies that Jamal violently attacked "young English girls in his school".

Jamal said that the hate was unbearable. Jamal and his family couldn’t even walk to the local shops without verbal abuse from passersby.

🚨 BREAKING: Tommy Robinson has broken a court injunction which could land him two years in prison.

We're calling on the Attorney General to act - we need your help to send Tommy back to prison.

Add your name to our letter secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/128814/pe…

Here’s what we know 🧵 In 2021, Tommy Robinson (aka Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) was found guilty of libel against a Syrian teenage refugee, Jamal Hijazi.

The judge banned Tommy from repeating his lies about Jamal - with the threat up to two years in prison for breaking the ban.

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🧵 BUILDING HOPE IN COMMUNITIES: This is how we're doing it.

We are working in communities up and down the country to help people take a stand against the far right.

For example, here's Sophia from @antiracistcmbra talking about how we’ve worked together already this year! A strong community response can see off the far-right, like in Llantwit Major in Wales.

There, the community rallied together and stood up to fascist group Patriotic Alternative, sending them packing.

HNH was pleased to help with intel and messaging.

hopenothate.org.uk/2023/03/29/how… ]

🚨NEW:

Alek Yerbury, formerly involved with Patriotic Alternative and organiser of several recent anti-migrant demos, has a sickening fixation with political violence, and fantasises about seeing his enemies ‘annihilated’.

hopenothate.org.uk/2023/03/16/whe… Yerbury, privately educated in Australia, joined PA in 2021 and became a prominent activist in the group.

The leadership praised him as “a terrific example of what a modern ethno-nationalist should be”.

Online, Yerbury has revealed a vicious and violent personality.

💥 While we’re seeing the Conservatives echoing far-right language on migration, we’re also seeing examples of figures engaging with far-right organisations.

Here, Conservative Lord Cruddas RTs the leader of the fascist Patriotic Alternative, now banned from Twitter. Earlier this week, former Conservative councillor Tim Wills was out proudly campaigning with Patriotic Alternative (PA).

In Oct 2021, we exposed Wills as being a member of an extreme PA Telegram chat.

Wills promptly resigned, and has now openly embraced PA’s white supremacism.

Far-right anti-migrant demos is being discussed in the House of Commons today. We know that that this activity doesn't exist in a vacuum. parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/d2… Knowsley MP George Howarth asks if the Minister shares his concern about far-right groups stoking tension in local communities and will consider a review into use of hotels as asylum accommodation.

🧵 Some info on Patriotic Alternative (PA):

👉 PA has extensive links to banned neo-nazi terror group, National Action. This includes leader Mark Collett who collaborated with NA in 2016 & Y'shire Organiser Sam Melia who was several links to the group.

hopenothate.org.uk/2021/11/26/pat… 👉 Despite the denials of Melia's partner (PA's number 2, Laura Towler) Melia has admitted to being involved with NA and helped organise a number of nazi get-togethers in 2017, "joined a local NA branch" and tried to "make contact" with NA after the ban.

hopenothate.org.uk/2022/08/08/sam…

#TommyRobinson yet again failed to turn up to his court hearing today to be questioned on his finances after losing a libel case to Syrian refugee boy, Jamal Hijazi.

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (AKA Tommy Robinson) will be sent to the High Court for possible Contempt of Court. For background info on the court case, read our blog on our campaign investigating #TommysMissingMillions 👇
hopenothate.org.uk/2022/01/20/tom…

#TommyRobinson claims he's bankrupt yet our investigations have linked him to ANOTHER property worth almost £800k 👀
hopenothate.org.uk/2022/03/22/tom… Our investigations took us to this run-down house, with steel bars over the windows and metal grilled gates across the doors. All around the property were cameras.

1/ Today, the @Conservatives Party Conference starts in Blackpool.

While the Tories distract from the rampant #Islamophobia that runs deep within the party, we thought we would remind you of recent events 👇

A thread 🧵 2/ We recently produced a dossier on #Islamophobia within the Tory Party and sent a copy of our submission to the Singh inquiry to all 360 Tory MPs.

The dossier revealed over 30 different MPs, councillors and other senior figures guilty of engaging with anti-Muslim hate online.

The crisis in Ukraine is ongoing and we know it can sometimes feel a little overwhelming to find practical ways to help.

Follow our thread for a short list of charities & organisations that are taking donations to help Ukrainian refugees and those on the front line 🧵 .@UNICEF is working across eastern Ukraine to supply safe water to conflict-affected areas, psychosocial care to children, and hygiene and emergency education supplies as close as possible to communities near the line of contact.
unicef.org/ukraine/en/tak…

The word p*ki has come back into the public eye, so we thought it might be useful to give a brief overview of the words racist history.

A THREAD 👇🏽🧵 After South Asians were invited by British employers to rebuild post WW2 Britain, many nationalists and members of the public felt their ideal of the majority White Britain disappearing.

Soon came the bullying in the 1960s-1980s which was to be coined ‘P*ki-bashing’

Our latest report identified 52 authorities where community resilience challenges are most likely to increase due to COVID-19.

Our open letter signed by 25 cllrs from 20 councils suggests 5 ways in which the govt can support these councils. 👇
…2-44cb-9993-fe42c4727066.usrfiles.com/ugd/078118_07a… 1. Focus on places and people, to avoid a slow recovery in the areas which can least afford it. A drive to improve resilience must recognise the reasons for economic decline in different areas.

Just over a year ago, former White Rose player @AzeemRafiq30 first made allegations of institutional racism at the club. The subsequent investigation by @YorkshireCCC found that p*ki is just "good natured banter"
#RunRacismOut

Join our campaign 👇secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/93139/pet… While the report found that it was “not reasonable for Azeem to have been offended”, it did find that Rafiq had been a victim of “racial harassment and bullying”.

The club issued an apology, however were “pleased” to announce that no further disciplinary action would be taken.

Tomorrow, @BorisJohnson will be hosting Hungarian PM Victor Orbán in Downing Street. This week Johnson said, “where we have concerns about human rights we do not shy away from raising them”. Here's just some of Orbán's views he should raise... Orbán’s illiberal, repressive and authoritarian brand of politics has won himself and his party admiration from across the global radical and far right scene, many of whom laud him as a ‘strong leader’ who understands the threat of ‘Islamisation’
hopenothate.org.uk/2018/01/18/vik…

Today we remember the tragic murder of George Floyd, but also the inspiring energy that arose in the space that was left. Together we rise to say enough is enough.

An injustice for one is an injustice to all and we stand in solidarity with all those fighting for change.

#BLM The renewed momentum of the BLM movement sparked by the death of George Floyd has opened up spaces for a global struggle against racialised violence, oppression and neocolonialism - @jacobinoire

hopenothate.org.uk/2020/10/29/glo…

Arthur infiltrated the BNP and helped to bring down the London Nail Bomber, David Copeland.

Not interested in fame nor money, this dedicated anti-fascist convinced his own family that he was part of the far right and even took a hammer to the head in an attack.

A true legend. David Copeland bombed Brixton, Brick Lane and Soho as they are hubs for the Black, Asian and gay communities respectively.

These were crimes against difference and we must continue to reject narratives that aim to divide our communities.

thetimes.co.uk/article/nail-b…

The conviction of Ben Hannam for membership of National Action is welcome. NA was a dangerous, a far right terror group that was proscribed by the Home Secretary in December 2016. This conviction highlights the continued danger posed by far right extremists.

https://twitter.com/DdesimoneDaniel/status/1377588660338577409

Hannam is the 60th far right activist or sympathiser to have been convicted of terror-related (or similarly violent) offences since early 2017. That is more than the total convicted for the previous 20 years. A threat we cover in this year's State of Hate: hopenothate.org.uk/research/state…