After their successful Quebec trip, which resulted in minor league shock jock and Que. mayor Stéphane Gendron offering a grovelling apology and promising to be more circumspect in future, JDL-Canada has gone back to dancing with wingnuts. This time they're holding a rally for UK "New Freedom Party" Leader Paul Weston. Here's Paul rationalising the actions of mass murderer Anders Behring Brievik ; here's Paul arguing that The Left is using undereducated immigrants in its war against white Britain.
Perhaps not surprisingly, Paul has won the endorsement of EDL leader Stephen Yaxley Lennon, who has apparently gotten out of the joint.
The JDL are just another example of the far-right are meeting & greeting to share their common emnities.
ReplyDelete// in December, a delegation of European far-right politicians toured Jewish settlements on the occupied West Bank, pleasing their hosts by reassuring them that this was “Jewish land.”
Some of these “friends of Israel” represent political parties whose supporters, to put it mildly, have not traditionally been noted for their fraternal feelings towards Jews. Heinz-Christian Strache, for example, leads the Freedom Party of Austria, //
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Israel’s Wrong Friends Ian Buruma 2011-01-07