London’s Metropolitan Police commissioner has threatened to charge foreigners for “whipping up hatred” online, naming X owner Elon Musk as someone who could be prosecuted. The warning comes amid a nationwide crackdown against supposed “hate speech” following a spate of right-wing riots. “We will throw the full force of the law at people. And whether you’re in this country committing crimes on the streets or committing crimes from further afield online, we will come after you,” Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told Sky News on Aug. 9, as reported by RT. He named Musk as an example.
RT noted that “more than 700 people had been arrested and more than 300 charged over their alleged participation in the riots, which kicked off after a teenager of Rwandan descent killed three children and injured ten others in a stabbing spree in the town of Southport late last month.”
Kit Klarenberg wrote an investigative article in MintPress News, headlined, “Tommy Robinson and the Zionist Agenda: The Hidden Forces behind the U.K. Race Riots,” which details the history of the right-wing organization being named as the instigator of the riots, the English Defence League (EDL), “a now-defunct far-right organization comprised of hardcore anti-Islam agitators and football hooligans,” founded by Tommy Robinson. Klarenberg notes that the disintegration of the U.K. economy is the real cause of the riots, saying that this creates “invariably a fertile breeding ground for fascism to take root,” but also reviews the actual history of the EDL.
Robinson founded the EDL in 2011, but “a month later, this was updated to the English and Jewish Defence League.” Klarenberg adds: “Two years later, the company’s name became the Jewish Defence League, and one of its directors, Roberta Moore, a belligerent Zionist, established links with Jewish Task Force, a far-right U.S. organization. Founded by Victor Vancier, it espouses a hardcore, fundamentalist Zionism. Despite raising money for illegal settlements in the West Bank and avowedly seeking to ‘save’ Israel, Vancier was banned from entering Tel Aviv for his involvement in 18 bombings in New York and Washington, protesting Soviet treatment of Jews during the 1980s.”
In 2019, when Robinson was imprisoned over other issues, Klarenberg writes: “Once imprisoned, notorious hardline Zionist lobby think tank Middle East Forum announced it had not only helped fund his legal expenses, but financed and organized numerous solidarity protests in his honor, attracting tens of thousands of people.”
