A row has erupted after two BNP councillors were asked not to attend a Holocaust memorial service.
Cllr Robert Bailey says he was asked to stay away from the service, marking National Holocaust Memorial Day, at the Peace and Memorial Garden, Rainham Road North, Dagenham, on Monday. But Barking and Dagenham Council leader Cllr Charles Fairbrass said Cllr Bailey had no reason to attend when the national leader of his party denies the Holocaust ever happened.
Cllr Bailey, who said he attended the service with party colleague Cllr Lawrence Rustem, despite the apparent ban, said he "expected an invite" as he was an elected councillor.
But Cllr Fairbrass, referring to BNP party leader Nick Griffin, said: "To quote his words, 'I have come to the conclusion that the extermination tale is a mixture of allied wartime propaganda, extremely profitable lie and latter day witch hysteria'."
Cllr Fairbrass said: "In addition, on a recent TV programme, a member of the BNP commented that they had never thought much about the Holocaust, but does query the number of deaths. Cllr Bailey is a member of the BNP. Why would he want to attend an event that remembers the Holocaust, when the leader of the BNP said it didn't happen?"
But Cllr Bailey, who says he received a letter on Friday explaining Cllr Fairbrass thought it would be "inappropriate" for him to attend, said he did not support Mr Griffin's views.
"What Mr Griffin speaks is for himself. He doesn't speak for the party. If he said those things in the past, that's up to him. We have no policy on the Holocaust. We are not a party of Holocaust deniers. Mr Griffin has acknowledged that what happened during World War Two, and consequently in many countries, has been a very sad event for everybody concerned. It's a time of remembrance. People died and suffered, they should be remembered by all.
Barking and Dagenham Recorder
January 31, 2008
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So, is nazi BNP councillor Robert Bailey’s statement, "What Mr Griffin speaks is for himself”, an implicit admission that his leader Nick ‘The One Eyed Pig Farmer’ Griffin may be an anti-Jewish Holocaust denier?
Just a reminder: the nazi BNP produced a newspaper called 'Holocaust News' in the early 1990s, a four-page broadsheet which denied the Holocaust. Issue one was headlined: "'Holocaust' Story an Evil Hoax". Issue Two was headlined "Auschwitz not a Death Camp". In both editions the Anne Frank Diaries were dismissed by the nazi BNP as a forgery. The nazi BNP in this newspaper referred to the Holocaust as the “holohoax”.
Why does the nazi BNP invite some of the world's leading Holocaust deniers to address its race-hate meetings? The nazi BNP have invited David Irving, Ernst Zündel and Fred Leuchter over the years. Same old BNP.
Bailey is a bloody liar, the one and only reason he and pussy rustem attended was in the hope of getting their pictures in the newspaper, at which they failed miserably.
They did not attend the whole ceremony only where the cameras were.
So, the nazi BNP aren’t anti-Jewish? Well, yes they are. Read the following excerpts about nazi BNP materials:
“In March 1998 [...] copies of a new BNP journal, British Countryman, were distributed. This contained an article entitled 'Stop the Real Cruelty,' which stated: 'Hundreds of thousands of animals die in terror and agony by having their throats slashed open without humane stunning. Halal and kosher ritual slaughter of fully conscious animals is a barbaric affront to the British tradition of livestock [...] Ritual slaughter is a deliberate torture!'”
http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw98-9/uk.htm
“Following its annual November rally, the BNP launched an attack on the BOD [British Board of Deputies] and CST [Community Security Trust] for supposedly trying to disrupt the event. An article in Spearhead under the title "Jewish Nazis Try to Sabotage BNP Rally," stated that "the rally has become the focus of a sinister attempt by a shadowy group of Nazis calling itself the Board of Deputies of British Jews, to sabotage it and stifle what little freedom of speech does still exist in Britain. Most people have little idea that behind this innocuous-sounding name, the Board of Deputies is in fact a front for politically motivated extremists to conduct vendettas against their perceived enemies””.
http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw98-9/uk.htm
The nazi National Front in its magazine ‘Nationalism Today’ (founded by nazi BNP leader Nick Griffin) stated:
"All the Jews have to do is stop this barbaric and torturous murder of defenceless animals. When they cease the slaughter the NF will cease its campaign. Until then the NF campaign for animal welfare will continue”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/programmes/2001/bnp_special/roots/1984.stm
Another point:
Nick Griffin is The BNP, he's the one in control, it is not a democratic organisation.
Sorry to intrude, but
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The mainstream political parties are facing sustained pressure over donations, loans and honours. But now new concerns have been raised about the finances of The British National Party. Will its records bear scrutiny? Fran Abrams investigates. Producer: Samantha Fenwick, Editor: David Ross.
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re "Anonymous" "so the BNP aren't anti-Jewish?"
I'm not sure that being against ritual slaughter makes one anti-Jewish. I'm sure there are perfectly reasonable, non-racist, non-nutzi people who just think it's cruel.
Mind you, I suspect any BNP thoughts on ritual slaughter ARE largely motivated by racism !
Cannot help feeling that sending such a letter was a mistake - simply gives the lowlife useless berks attention they both crave, and do not deserve!
“Graffiti was drawn on the synagogue fence in Wembley and the path leading to the synagogue.
Stickers belonging to the radical right-wing British National Party (BNP) were found pasted to lampposts on the street leading to the synagogue and the entrance gate of the Belmont United Synagogue in Stanmore, Middlesex”.
Source:
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Anti-Semitism+and+the+Holocaust/Antisemitism+Monitoring+Forum/Report+of+Anti-Semitic+Incidents+-+May-97.htm
"BNP organization pamphlets were sent to the ‘Southgate Progressive’ synagogue".
Source:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/antisem599.html
Funny how the BNP/NF claimed the false flag for racial purposes, while the BNP endorses fox hunting, and tried to infiltrate several Countryside Alliance marches, the "pro-animal rights" defending the right for foxes to be torn to shreds for fucking fun.
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