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gave rise to the following tweet by Griffin:
“Sakharov Prize this year going to
“Arab Spring”. Sick joke as it neo-con
scam that opens door to Islamist extremists.”
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Andrew Henry William Brons began
his political career in 1964 as a member
of the National Socialist Movement
(NSM), an organisation founded in 1962
by the well-known right-wing extremists
Colin Jordan and John Tyndall. He was
also quick to reveal his anti-Semitic ideology.
In 1965 in a letter to Françoise
Dior, Colin Jordan’s wife, he wrote:
“Also, however, he mentioned such
activities as bombing synagogues.
On this subject I have a dual view,
in that although I realise he is wellintentioned,
I feel that our public image
may suffer considerable damage
as a result of these activities. I
am however open to correction on
this point.” 74
teristics, potential and abilities […]
We believe the gradual dismantlement
of the Apartheid system over
the last 17 years to be retrograde ...
The alternative to Apartheid, multiracialism,
envisages an extinction
of the White man.” 75
In 2009, when asked about his life and,
above all, his thoughts concerning attacks
on synagogues, Brons replied:
“People do silly things when they are
17.” However, in a letter to President
Jerzy Buzek of September 2011, it becomes
clear that Brons by no means
distances himself, at the age of more
than 60, from his racist, anti-Semitic
and xenophobic attitudes of the past.
Some MEPs from other parties made
it clear during a memorial ceremony in
plenary following the right-wing extremist
attacks in Oslo in July 2011 that the
far-right views of the perpetrator Anders
Behring Breivik were the real motivation
for his hate crimes. Brons commented:
at the same time denies that Breivik was
a “true” nationalist, claiming that he had
only acted out of opposition to Muslim
immigration, and the attacks had been
planned for Zionist motives. In this way,
Brons is seeking to detract from the delegitimisation
of racist and xenophobic
views, distance himself from Breivik
and, moreover, implicitly brand him the
actual enemy of all true nationalists.
Breivik did indeed turn out to be a Zionist.
Brons and the BNP were supported
in his complaint about the conduct during
the memorial ceremony in plenary
by the Austrian FPÖ, the FN and the
Greater Romania Party. BNP members
are also happy to mix with other
right-wing populists and extremists on
other occasions. BNP representatives
also took part in the trip to the Yasukuni
Shrine in Tokyo (see the Country Report
on France).
Shortly afterwards, Brons moved to the
British National Party and eventually to
the National Front. He was elected NF
Chairman in 1979. In 1983, as head
of the policy department, he published
the National Front’s election manifesto,
which called for a worldwide system of
apartheid. Later in the same document
came the following statement:
“The National Front rejects the
whole concept of multiracialism.
We recognise inherent racial differences
in Man. The races of Man are
profoundly unequal in their charac-
“Martin Schulz, Guy Verhofstadt,
Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Diana
Dodds spoke as though Breivik’s
real crime was being a racist, a
xenophobe or a person on the ‘far
right’ and not the appalling murder
of seventy-six young persons […]
[Breivik] was not a Nationalist and
his opposition to immigration would
seem to be restricted to opposition
to Muslim immigration. Breivik is a
Zionist […]. “ 76
Brons thus regards his explicitly racist
and xenophobic views as “normal” and
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