The bigots of Baggot Street: a stain on Dublin publishing

NOTE: This article was published on 25 November 2024An international publisher of anti-Semitic, white supremacist and conspiracy theorist literature is operating from Dublin. Omnia Veritas, translated roughly as “Truth conquers all things”, has been in business for the past 11 years. The company was originally registered in 2013 by Childéric Marcelou and David Marcelou, listed…

NOTE: This article was published on 25 November 2024

An international publisher of anti-Semitic, white supremacist and conspiracy theorist literature is operating from Dublin. Omnia Veritas, translated roughly as “Truth conquers all things”, has been in business for the past 11 years.

The company was originally registered in 2013 by Childéric Marcelou and David Marcelou, listed respectively as secretary and director.

According to Irish Companies Registration Office documents, David was based in Passage West, County Cork, while Childéric gave an address in Grenade, France.

Recent updates show the company now has a registered office on Baggot Street in Dublin and a new key principal, Florian Ventura.

Who’s who of extremists

Ventura is owned by a parent company, Omnia Publica International, which holds all the shares in Omnia Veritas. Company documents also seem to show that it is based at an address in Belize.

Although recent profits for the company’s Irish-based wing seem to be minimal, with assets amounting to €2,806, older financial returns show a rather different picture. In 2019, the company reported assets of over €96,000.

The company’s web store is a who’s who of US and French anti-Semites and white supremacists. Among the authors on sale is Eustace Mullins, a notorious and virulent US bigot who wrote the tracts Adolf Hitler: An Appreciation and The Biological Jew, not to mention countless others on topics ranging from biblical reinterpretations of anti-Semitism to the US Federal Reserve.

Peddling books by Hitler-admirer Eustace Mullins

In The Biological Jew, Mullins writes: “Treason, fraud, perversion, all the hallmarks of Jewish life among the gentiles in the Diaspora. And it is parasitism.”

Mullins was also a widely respected leader among the US militia movement in the 1990s following publication in 1952 of a book on the US Federal Reserve, where he argued that the US banking system was merely a tool of the Rothschilds.

Deportation of Jews

Another title is The Dispossessed Majority by Wilmot Robertson, which is a pseudonym for Sumner Humphrey Ireland. This promotes an early version of the “great replacement” conspiracy theory and is one of David Duke’s favourites.

Robertson argues that white people are being overtaken by “minorities”, calling for a white ethnostate and the deportation of all Jewish people.

Also available is the manifesto of James von Brunn, who in 2009 opened fire in Washington’s Holocaust Memorial Museum. A virulent anti-Semite with a long criminal history, von Brunn murdered special police officer Stephen Johns and engaged in a brief firefight with two others before he was wounded.

Leading the charge

The tomes of Adolf Hitler, Julio Meinvielle, Edwige Thibaut, Archibald Ramsay, Myron Fagan and Deirdre Manifold can also be purchased from the website. One of the more recent additions to the company’s portfolio is Irishman Emmet Connor.

Promoting his new book on the so-called Marxist cult, in which he lays the blame for all the world’s ills at the feet of Marxism, he appeared in September in a livestream interview with Ireland First’s president Derek Blighe.

Blighe, who was unsuccessful in both the local and European Parliamentary elections this year, appears to be leading the charge among Ireland’s far right for the upcoming general election.

Climate change ‘scam’

Aside from almost daily canvassing updates on social media, he attacks the government, opposition, the left in general and its supposed collective responsibility for what he sees as “uncontrolled mass immigration” to Ireland. Not content with one conspiracy theory, he opines that climate change is a “scam”.

Derek Blighe far-right election candidate in Cork

During his interview with Connor, Blighe again attacked climate change as a hoax and pontificated on the dangers of open borders, while Connor discussed the “Marxist international conspiracy”.

Society, it would appear, has been infiltrated from top to bottom by Marxism, with Connor proclaiming that the government, education system, civil service, police force, and even climate change activists, feminists and vegans, are all part of an “ideological war”.

During an interview in June, Connor repeated the long-debunked conspiracy theory that COVID-19 had originated in a lab in Wuhan, claiming that this “obviously means the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party, is involved”.

Race-baiting

Connor’s social media is replete with shares of posts from Ireland’s most prolific race-baiting publication, Gript, along with retweets of well-known Irish far-right agitators and anti-trans activists, such as former soldier Mike Connell and Jana Lunden.

Echoing some of his fellow Omnia Veritas authors, in early October he wrote on his X account: “All white populations will be forced to become second-class citizens in their own countries, since according to the ideology of Marxism, this is fair and justifiable.”

It is a disturbing evolution of Irish politics that a general election candidate could host someone with such views and links without any pushback. Ten years ago, it would have been unbelievable, today, it is becoming the norm.       


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