Jewcy Ignores the BNP’s True Role and Position

“This party has finally cast off the leg iron of anti-Semitism and not a moment too soon.” — Nick Griffin, 2005

Jewcy has printed two separate post about tonight’s debate including David Irving and Nick Griffin. The debate about the debate, as framed by the luftmentschen hipsters, is only one of free speech versus limits on free speech. I would like to focus on something different.

Firstly, forget David Irving, who, as a Holocaust Denier “historian,� is less interesting to me, and indeed, a man who can only be defended on free speech grounds. But Nick Griffin, the head of the far-right BNP, is more interesting. We should not be conflating these two men. They disagree on many things. Not least of all, the Jews. And yet, Jewcy chose a symbol of November 9th Society to represent the debate, even though the November 9th Society is a hardline neo-Nazi party that is quite critical of the British National Party for being mere “conservatives on steroids.� That Jewcy chose their logo (replete with swastika, of course) to represent Nick Griffin is as risible as it is shrill.

The BNP is the most popular overtly anti-Muslim group in England. Now I know I should find that horrible, and I know for a fact that they say horrible things that I find disgraceful. But I also know that England—like so much of Europe—is under siege. The book “Londonistan� enjoys popularity because of this reality. And it is a reality.

Now, you can (and some surely will) point to overt and disturbing antisemitism of select members of the BNP. But that isn’t the BNP’s policy. More importantly, antisemitism isn’t the BNP’s focus. Islam is. Absolutely. And Griffin is a critical voice – even if not always the most delicate one – in urging the British to stand up to those who seek to Islamify England’s own wonderful culture and norms. But Peter Tatchell is disingenuous about that focus, writing,

“Nick Griffin is the leader of a far right party, the BNP, which has a history of promoting racism, homophobia, antisemitism and prejudice against Muslims.�

As if the BNP’s concern over Islamicization is irrational, only fueled by “prejudice,” and low on the list of BNP concerns. In fact, under Griffin’s leadership, the BNP does not promote antisemitism. And though Griffin has been ineffective in ridding the BNP of antisemitic elements, he has been quite successful in changing its focus.

And a little fairness to the British people, please. I don’t believe they are headed to fascism. I don’t think that’s the kind of people we are dealing with. We are dealing with the greatest resistors to Nazism, and that is no small footnote in their collective conscious. Churchill is considered by the British people to be the greatest Briton – ever.

What the BNP could accomplish is pushing the envelope on reducing or even ending Muslim immigration, as well as pressuring England to stop ever-increasing capitulation to fundamentalist Muslim demands. And quite frankly, I don’t see either of those achievable goals as a bad thing at all. But that’s for the British themselves to work out. They don’t need the likes of us protecting them from Nick Griffin’s ideas, but there is more reason to not want Griffin silenced than the sole issue of free speech. And Jewcy, which at least is sometimes willing to ask the tougher questions, has elected to instead confine itself to an easy one, through dishonest conflation. And that, dear readers, is a wasted opportunity.