Amazon has been accused of funnelling “thousands of pounds into the pockets of Britain’s best known far-right extremist” after Tommy Robinson’s latest book topped its bestseller charts.
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is one of Britain’s most prominent far-right activists and was a co-founder of the now defunct English Defence League.
The book, listed on Amazon as “Manifesto – Tommy Robinson’s NEW Book”, reached No 1 on the site’s bestseller charts on Tuesday before selling out. It outperformed Boris Johnson’s memoir and new releases by Richard Osman and Sally Rooney.
Joe Mulhall, the director of research at the campaign group Hope Not Hate, said: “Everyone has the right to write and publish a book as long as the content doesn’t break the law. The question is whether Amazon feel comfortable platforming him, and facilitating the sale of a book that will funnel thousands of pounds into the pockets of Britain’s best known far-right extremist. Freedom of speech is not freedom of reach.”
No, no, of course we don’t believe in censorship. Hah hah, how could you? But Tommy’s a bad man so no one should sell his book.
Joe Mulhall, the director of research at the campaign group Hope Not Hate, said: “Everyone has the right to write and publish a book as long as the content doesn’t break the law…..
….So I’ll shut up now and write my own Amazon best-seller which comprehensively refutes everything Robinson stands for…
So his real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon?
I’m glad the guardian shared this important information, in the second paragraph no less.
P.s. stating that the EDL is now defunct seems a bit of an own goal after so many claims by lefties and ethnic minorities this year that they simply had to take to the streets in order to confront it.
Joe Mulhall, and indeed the whole of Hope not Hate should be arrested for fomenting the riots earlier this year. Certainly all public money should be stopped, and ideally Reform
Can look to see if treason charges can be levied against the entire organisation – deeply unpleasant and throughly hateful people.
What Van Patten said, in spades!
I thought deadnaming people was unspeakable evil. Ok, I’m off to rewrite the Wiki entries for Wally Stott, James Morris, Marion Morrison, Reg Dwight, James Brown, Leonard Callaghan, Graham Walker,
Julia
A few weeks ago I commented about the Asian bloke from Birmingham who posted online claiming to be a white extremist and encouraging people onto the streets to bash the p***s.
His sentencing was extremely hard to locate, almost as if the media had made or been encouraged to make a collective decision, but it turns out he got 2 years 4 months, in other words out after little more than a year.
A bit light?
Why is it that most people are simply paid money they’re owed but people that are disliked have money funnelled to them?
It’s a bit transparent isn’t it? The trend to use the name of a bad thing and say you’re against it or use the name of what you think is a good thing and say you are for it.
So call yourself Hope not Hate and spew all the foul venomous bile you can think of or say you’re Pro Palestine and demand the genocide of Jews.
Talk is cheap, eh?
In the words of Evelyn Beatrice Hall, a biographer of Voltaire, hence often attributed to Voltaire:
“I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
@ Grist:
So call yourself Hope not Hate and spew all the foul venomous bile you can think of or say you’re Pro Palestine and demand the genocide of Jews.
Lol. HnH is a, mostly, Jewish organisation; the descendent of the Jewish anti-white ‘Searchlight’ organisation.:
Hope not Hate was founded in 2004 by Nick Lowles, former editor of the anti-fascist Searchlight magazine. Having experienced street racism as a child, Lowles got involved with the anti-fascist movement as a student volunteer at Sheffield University. Before he became editor, he was an freelance investigative journalist, working in television, including on BBC Panorama, World in Action, Channel Four Dispatches and MacIntyre Undercover. Between 1999 and 2011 Lowles was co-editor, and then editor, of Searchlight magazine. He was awarded an MBE in 2016 for his services in tackling extremism. The Deputy Director is Jemma Levene,who previously worked as Head of Campaigns at Jewish cultural education charity SEED, and at the Orthodox Union in New York. The Political Organiser is Liron Velleman, Policy Officer for the Jewish Labour Movement.
Hope not Hate functioned as part of Searchlight until 2011, when the organisations split. As a standalone organisation, Hope not Hate took with it two of the three units of Searchlight: Searchlight Educational Trust (SET), a charity; and Searchlight Information Services (SIS), its research and investigative function. The organisation now consists of Hope not Hate Educational Ltd (a charitable wing) and Hope not Hate Ltd (focused on campaigning and investigative work). From 2010 to 2015, Ruth Smeeth worked as Deputy Director; since then, she has been a director.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_not_Hate#History_and_personnel
If you trained a weasel to speak, sent it to Cambridge to study weaselling and then let it practice law for a decade it could not come out with words as weaselly as those uttered by Joe Mulhall.
@ Arthur the Cat
Two answers : first the funnel is to ensure that no money can get to them apart from that which political correctnes has been unable to ban
or second: to stop people like Joe Mulhall getting his grubby mitts on it
Nice ad for what is probably a pretty shit book.
I thought Tommy Robinson’s real name was Emmanuel Goldstein.
A quick search of Amazon shows books for sale such as Mein Kampf by A Hitler and the Joy of Tax by R Potato, both authors would agree with this bints virtual book burning article
Joe Mulhall looks like a danger to little boys.
HnH is a, mostly, Jewish organisation
Stunning investigative journalism from Johnny Hates Jews. Two senior staff are Jewish; it must be a conspiracy!
Jonathan – Yarp. “Searchlight” was a Jewish power group that burgled David Irving’s home in 1967 (do we think the decades of illegal harassment and torment David Irving suffered might have given him a bad impression of Jews?).
Similar to the ADL, which was set up in America to defend a Jewish rapist, and has spent all its time since then attacking the existence of the nation that hosts them and wondering why antisemitism still exists.
The TL;DR with these people is that you’re a “fascist” or a “nazi” if you have any objections to your country being turned into Africa.
I took a quick look into HnH and found their company structure interesting. There is a charitable trust that exist simply to receive money and distribute it. The money then gets given to an LLC which does all the donkey work. I suspect this structure is used so that if the LLC does something illegal or libelist then it limits the damage, allowing the organisation to live on by simply creating another LLC and funding the new LLC using the charitable trust.
Having known people involved with Searchlight, it’s the usual left wing platform.
Anti-fascist – Meaning anti-Tory & Fatcher at the time.
Anti- “colonial”.
Anti racist – unless the subjects are Jewish, Muslim or any other preferred racial group.
Anti- capitalist – unless you’re a supporter of Searchlight.
etc
etc
etc
I can remember breakfasting with a member & over the eggs & bacon was educated on the ever rise of anti-Semitism. He then switched topic & told me how pleased he was to get his son into a Jewish after school club where he could mix with nice Jewish children.
salamander – the purpose of these groups is to do what the government wants them to do, but with plausible deniability as an “anti racist” charity or whatever they’re claiming to be this week.
I.e. left wing thugs are an extension of the British state’s existing network of bent coppers and pedo judges, all of whom have been trained to attack “racists” (i.e. normal people).
They took this to its natural conclusion in the USA’s summer of love 2020, when the American federal government encouraged “anti-racists” to burn down several American cities.
@Marius
And Jonathan is a Jewish name, too. Can only be an undercover psyops operative.
Interesting how those who yearn for a return to all-white Britain object to Joos sticking together, almost as if they have a culture that needs defending.
Marius – apparently telling the truth is anti-Semitic…
Searchlight is a British magazine, founded in 1975 by Gerry Gable and Maurice Ludmer, which publishes exposés about racism, antisemitism and fascism in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searchlight_(magazine)#History
Chris – interesting how Jews living in Britain object to white people sticking together…
BiS and Steve:
+100
Chris – Interesting how those who yearn for a return to all-white Britain object to Joos sticking together, almost as if they have a culture that needs defending.
Interesting how you framed this comment – it’s quite exquisitely dishonest.
“Those who yearn for an all-white Britain” – or, simply people who object to rapey foreign men hanging around their daughter’s school and the Home Office setting up Afghan colonies in rural Britain.
“Object to Joos sticking together” – I haven’t seen any objections, just noticing.
“Almost as if they had a culture” – it’s the culture of critique that’s in question, which I think we’ve all had quite enough of. And antisemitically, the Israelis have no use for these “anti-fascist” twats either.
Christopher means lover of Christ. Do you love Christ?
Taxpayers are forced to fund it too:
Jewish orgs – The Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Association of Jewish Refugees – fund it, presumably, because they support its aims; taxpayers sadly have no choice but to do so.
https://www.charlottecgill.co.uk/p/who-funds-you-hope-not-hate-case
According to Farage (or his legal representative), Hope not Hate does not tolerate or pursue violent or undemocratic behaviour.. So it must not be true even if they are a bunch of scheming fucking wankers.
https://hopenothate.org.uk/2017/11/14/legal-challenge-nigel-farage-won/
Joe – here are the kind of peaceful, democratic things they do:
Anti-Ukip protesters in fancy dress forced Nigel Farage to flee his local pub where he was dining with his family on Sunday afternoon.
The Ukip leader called the demonstrators “scum”, claiming they had caused his children distress. The group, however, said they were holding a “cabaret of diversity” in support of those Ukip was seeking to marginalise.
Farage was with his wife and two younger children when the demonstrators arrived at the Queens Head pub in Downe, Kent. As he tried to leave, at least one protester jumped on the bonnet of his car.
The demonstrators said Farage pushed through them to get into the car and was then chased down the road.
They’re lucky they picked on Farage, many people would have run them over.
salamander:
I think the reason for the structure is partly what you say. There are also restrictions on what a charity can do with that money, but fewer on an LLC.
Also, I wonder if the directors have dual positions and get a dual rake-off of the donations as a result.
Hate not Hope should be unfunded.
I haven’t seen any objections, just noticing.
I have an objection, Steve. That so many Jews get together in organisations that are antipathetic to the British way of life. Searchlight being one of them. And will vociferously protest at organisations supporting the British way of life.
BiS – Yarp, but it’s equally bad when gentiles do it.
There’s no shortage of non-Jewish lunatics who want to bring our society to ruin.
Steve. I give you the Milibands. Father & sons. Amongst many many others
@ bis
I give you the whole of the British Communist Party
“Christopher means lover of Christ. Do you love Christ?”
Christopher means “bearer of Christ”, as St C is always depicted doing.
Chris – every day’s a school day, thanks for the correction.
The reason I asked Other Chris is because it seems to me that you can’t love God if you don’t love the truth. The Truth is in Him, which is why we are faring so poorly under the rule of godless liars. We should try to tell the truth, especially when it’s awkward. Collectively, the West is choking and drowning on sweet little lies.
BiS – I could see you, and raise you David Cameron, Treeza May, Rishi Sunak, Robert Jenrick, William Hague, etc. etc. etc.
Things have gone very badly wrong in Western societies, and the reasons are complex and not realistically reducible to blaming an ethnic minority group, however obnoxious some of them may be. Kier Starmer or Keith Joseph? David Lammy or Friedrich Hayek? Rachel Reeves or Ayn Rand?
I’d always pick the latter.
The right / free market – Funnels
Middle ground – pays for.
The Left – Invests.