{"id":143579,"date":"2024-08-18T17:15:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T00:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=143579"},"modified":"2024-08-18T17:15:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T00:15:47","slug":"the-hidden-forces-behind-the-uk-race-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/08\/18\/the-hidden-forces-behind-the-uk-race-riots\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Forces Behind the UK Race Riots"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Kit Klarenberg Courtesy MintPress News<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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Aug 9, 2024<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ever since July 29, Britain has been plunged into crisis, with incendiary far-riot rights<\/a> sending towns and cities across the country spiraling into states of emergency. Vast mobs of armed, angry thugs, motivated by racist, Islamophobic animus, have vandalized homes, property and places of worship, violently clashed<\/a> with police, and targeted hotels housing refugees with arson attacks<\/a> in apparent stabs at mass murder. Hundreds of arrests<\/a> have been made, and counter-protesters have taken to the streets in profusion to counter the upsurge of hatred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has pledged<\/a> those responsible will face the full force of the law\u201d for their actions, and several perpetrators have already been sentenced<\/a> to years in prison. Still, the situation remains gravely tense. Furthermore, in keeping with so many prior explosive, unanticipated episodes in modern British history, a vicious mainstream blame game has erupted, with ultimate responsibility for the upheaval being apportioned to a wide range of domestic and foreign actors and causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unrest\u2019s actual, and perhaps most apparent, sources have been mysteriously overlooked. For one, average Britons remain gripped by an ever-worsening<\/a> economic cataclysm, in which the cost of essentials ever rises while living standards precipitously decline. The newly-elected Labour government has not only practically pledged<\/a> to do nothing to alleviate the misery \u2013 by maintaining if not intensifying self-destructive austerity policies \u2013 but already exacerbated the dire situation significantly by slashing<\/a> winter fuel payments, leaving millions facing life-threateningly freezing cold, without state support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

History shows that this milieu is invariably a fertile breeding ground<\/a> for fascism to take root. With no mainstream alternative to the neoliberal status quo, desperate, disillusioned and dispossessed working-class Britons look to outsiders\u201d and extremists like Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson for salvation in ever-greater numbers. And their remedy, as always, is to blame migrants, refugees and the other\u201d for all of society\u2019s ills and their own personal deprivation rather than ruling elites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even more ominously, though, there are unambiguous indications the anti-Muslim fervor that has torn through Britain in August is being stirred up by unseen spectral actors in service of the Zionist entity\u2019s ideological, political, and military interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Get Them Gone\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For all the flurry of claims and counter-claims about how and why the riots started, there is no dispute they ignited<\/a> on July 29 following a savage knife attack at a children\u2019s yoga and dance workshop. Three children were killed and eight others injured, with five still in critical condition. Two adults present were also severely harmed. News of the shocking event rapidly spread far and wide, promptly followed by wildly incorrect<\/a> conjecture and disinformation about the suspect\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within mere hours<\/a>, a popular anti-lockdown account posted on \u2018X\u2019 that the attacker was named Ali al Shakati\u201d \u2013 an asylum seeker who came to the UK by boat last year\u2026on an MI6 watch list.\u201d While this false information was deleted within an hour, the damage was thoroughly done. Multiple far-right influencers instantly leaped upon these claims, adding further groundless, incriminating details of their own to the mix. Among them was Robinson \u2013 aka Stephen Yaxley Lennon \u2013 a notorious fascist activist of some standing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He declared<\/a> the Southport knife attacker was an alleged Muslim,\u201d adding, They always target women.\u201d The next day, an aggressive crowd gathered outside<\/a> Southport Mosque, chanting Robinson\u2019s name, along with the offensive Islamophobic slogan, Who the fuck is Allah?\u201d \u2013 a common fixture at far-right demonstrations. Attendant law enforcement officers were attacked, objects were hurled at the mosque, and police vehicles were set on fire. This malign spark produced copycat events and incidents across Britain, leading us to where we are now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"SouthportProtesters attack a Holiday Inn Express beillived to be housing asylum-seekers in South Yorkshire, August 4, 2024. Photo | AP<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In almost every instance, police were quick to identify<\/a> the rioters as members of the English Defence League (EDL), a now-defunct far-right organization comprised of hardcore anti-Islam agitators and football hooligans. Robinson, the League\u2019s former leader, rubbished<\/a> these allegations via X on the grounds that there\u2019s has [sic] been no EDL for over a decade.\u201d Nonetheless, in a video published<\/a> while the Southport riot was ongoing, he seemingly traced the violence back to the group he once headed and the streetfighting dogma it espoused:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before people\u2026condemn the \u2018angry men\u2019, that anger is justified. I\u2019m surprised it\u2019s took [sic] this long\u2026you\u2019ve actually encouraged the scenes you see tonight. You\u2019ve done this, your government has done this, the police have done this\u2026You care more for Afghanis, Somalis, Eritreans, Syrians, Pakistanis. They\u2019re a danger to us. Stop the f***ing boats! Get them out of them [sic] hotels! Get them gone! Send them back! They shouldn\u2019t be here ! Men will rise up, they were always going to rise up, they have to rise up, to defend their families!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On August 8, intelligence-adjacent independent\u201d outlet Byline Times published a lengthy probe<\/a> into the real UK race riot instigators,\u201d mapping the key players and Transatlantic network\u201d around Robinson. It argued he may have instigated the recent British upheaval at the behest of a sinister nexus of wealthy far-right figures in Europe and North America, including wealthy Donald Trump supporter Patrick Michael Byrne. Markedly, not once were Israel or Zionists mentioned \u2013 far more plausible candidates for directing Robinson\u2019s incitation to Islamophobic violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Foreign Pressure\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EDL burst onto British streets in June 2009<\/a>. Describing itself as a human rights organization\u201d  and touting the slogan not racist, not violent, just no longer silent,\u201d Robinson and his confederates consistently claimed to be simply standing up for white working-class citizens and raising legitimate concerns about extremist Islam. However, the behavior and chants<\/a> of its members on regular EDL marches through British towns and cities told a very different story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, the League was ever-keen to flaunt its non-racist, diverse credentials. From its inception, the EDL had dedicated divisions for its Cypriot, Greek, Hindu, Jewish, LGBT and Pakistani Christian supporters and other minority groups present on marches besides. The League\u2019s Jewish\u201d wing was always the movement\u2019s most visible<\/a>, even if barely acknowledged by the mainstream media. The profusion of Israel flags<\/a> routinely found in EDL protests also went largely unremarked upon during the group\u2019s five-year existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, indications that the EDL\u2019s activities served quite another nation\u2019s interests were always unambiguously hidden in plain sight. The League never operated as a charity or political party in Britain, but two separate commercial entities were registered under its name. In June 2011, Robinson\u2019s compatriots launched a company<\/a>, the English Defence League. A month later, this was updated<\/a> to the English and Jewish Defence League. Meanwhile, a firm known as EDL English Defence League LTD was registered<\/a> in December 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later<\/a>, the company\u2019s name became the Jewish Defence League and one of its directors<\/a>, Roberta Moore, a belligerent<\/a> Zionist, established links<\/a> with Jewish Task Force, a far-right U.S. organization. Founded by Victor Vancier, it espouses a hardcore, fundamentalist Zionism<\/a>. Despite raising money for illegal settlements in the West Bank and avowedly seeking to save\u201d Israel, Vancier was banned from entering Tel Aviv for his involvement<\/a> in 18 bombings in New York and Washington, protesting Soviet treatment of Jews during the 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This connection was reportedly<\/a> too extreme\u201d for EDL higherups, who subsequently distanced themselves from Moore and their Jewish\u201d wing. However, this is difficult to rationalize with Robinson\u2019s own views. In February 2019<\/a>, a leaked video depicted the former League chief declaring his love for Israel and discussing how, on some occasions, he is forced to get [his] Zionist card out, which says that [he is] a Zionist.\u201d The clip ended with him proudly declaring:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Palestine?! F*** Palestine. Why would you support Palestine? If there was a war tomorrow, which probably there would be, I would be there on the front line fighting for Israel\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five months later, Robinson was jailed<\/a> for 13 months for contempt of court after he exposed the protected identities of accused sexual groomers while they were on trial in May the previous year. Once imprisoned, notorious hardline Zionist lobby think tank Middle East Forum<\/a> announced it had not only helped fund his legal expenses but financed and organized 25,000-strong solidarity protests in his honor. An accompanying statement revealed<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MEF is helping Mr. Robinson in his moment of danger\u2026[MEF] is aiding Mr. Robinson\u2026diplomatically, by bringing foreign pressure on the UK government to ensure [his] safety and eventual release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement was signed by MEF Director Gregg Roman, who previously worked<\/a> in the Zionist entity\u2019s Defence and foreign ministries. There are no prizes for guessing from which country the foreign pressure\u201d to release Robinson emanated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Going Undercover\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the EDL, Robinson and Moore were not alone in having deep and cohering ties to Israel and a pronounced affinity for Zionism. One of the group\u2019s key founders, Paul Ray,\u201d whose blogging on race was cited<\/a> in the manifesto of Norwegian Islamophobic mass murderer Anders Breivik, had a highly dubious history indeed as an infiltrator of Palestine solidarity movements in Britain. Whether he was a volunteer or state agent remains unclear today, but he evidently inflicted enormous damage<\/a> on his targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September 2006, Islamophobic U.S. website FrontPageMag published an expose\u00e9\u201d<\/a> on how one of its British volunteers\u201d had infiltrated the International Solidarity Movement\u2019s London wing a year prior. ISM is a pro-Palestinian campaign group dedicated to nonviolent protests, with chapters around the world. It trains and dispatches volunteers to the Occupied Territories to assist with nonviolent protest activities. Despite this, in 2003, two ISM activists \u2013 Rachel Corrie<\/a> and Tom Hurndall<\/a> \u2013 were killed by Israeli Occupation Forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Investigative journalist Asa Winstanley, a veteran Palestine solidarity activist, has revealed<\/a> that British intelligence has long penetrated ISM. Ray\u2014real name Paul Cinato\u2014was among the spies who infiltrated the Movement. As the FrontPageMag article reported, he had prior experience going undercover for the police in the UK\u201d before targeting ISM. The outlet added, Photos and intelligence [Cinato] brought back are proving invaluable to intelligence agencies watching ISM and [are] in official hands.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again, there are few prizes for guessing the location of the intelligence agencies watching ISM\u201d that benefited from Cinato\u2019s activities. Other British spies who infiltrated the Movement very clearly<\/a> passed what they learned on to Zionist entity authorities. By 2008, Tel Aviv had obtained such precise intelligence on the group that its volunteers were either deported after entering Israel or blocked from entering altogether. As ISM\u2019s primary raison d\u2019etre was to get people into the Occupied Territories, its value and impact were significantly curtailed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"TommyTmy Robinson poses with IDF troops during a visit to Israel. Photo | Twitter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It must not be forgotten either that the deranged Great Replacement\u201d conspiracy theory was a core precept of the EDL during its five-year-long lifespan and remains promulgated<\/a> by Robinson and Britain\u2019s fascist rioters in the present day. This narrative posits<\/a> that Western elites are covertly engaged in a dastardly connivance to flood Europe with Muslims and destroy local culture in service of creating Eurabia,\u201d an Islamized mega-continent and caliphate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The originator of this profoundly racist, fantastical drivel was Bat Ye\u2019or\u201d \u2013 the nom de plume of former Mossad operative<\/a> Gis\u00e8le Littman. In 1961, she and her British husband David led Operation Mural<\/a>, a sickening Zionist operation to kidnap Jewish children from Morocco to become settler colonists<\/a> in Israel. She spent three months in Rabat posing as a Christian aid worker, gaining the trust of young targets to assist with their unwilling extraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pair went on to be involved in a variety of Zionist organizations and leading lights in the Islamophobic Counterjihad movement<\/a>. Despite their sordid personal and professional history being well-documented, Gis\u00e8le Littman\u2019s obscenely hypocritical Great Replacement\u201d theory quickly became popular with right-wingers in Europe and North America. As a 2019 Guardian long-read<\/a> put it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once an obscure idea confined to the darker corners of the internet, the anti-Islam ideology is now visible in the everyday politics of the West.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Littman\u2019s theory\u201d is just one way in which the Zionist entity has over decades normalized and legitimized everyday discrimination and xenophobia towards Muslims while dehumanizing and demonizing them in pursuit of its putrid, genocidal settler colonial project. Having insidiously poisoned Western information spaces with surging Islamophobic hatred via assets such as Tommy Robinson, it appears the pot is finally boiling over in Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That there is a mainstream omerta on these fundamental truths indicates Europe and North America\u2019s media and political class are determined to let the Zionist entity get away with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feature photo | Illustration by MintPress News<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kit Klarenberg<\/em><\/strong> is an investigative journalist and MintPress News contributor exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. His work has previously appeared in The Cradle, Declassified UK, and Grayzone. Follow him on Twitter <\/em>@KitKlarenberg<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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