In the summer of 2013 I interviewed Samuel Willenberg, at the time the last surviving participant of the Jewish revolt at Treblinka, the Nazi death camp in Eastern Poland. During the interview, he reminisced about Artur Gold, the famous Jewish violinist, and leader of the Treblinka orchestra. He told me: “As we stood during evening […]
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The Russian spy network that targeted Brexit Party MEPs
When Anton Shekhovtsov, a Ukrainian researcher of Europe’s far right and a former Searchlight contributor, published his forensic 2021 study “The Niedźwiecki case: The Rise and Fall of a Polish Agent of the Kremlin Influence”, it appeared at first glance to be a niche story about a Polish activist accused of espionage. But also featuring […]
Obituary: Antonio Tejero (1932-2025), Civil Guard officer who led failed fascist coup in Spain
European fascists are mourning the death of the last man to attempt an old-school fascist coup, Lt Col Antonio Tejero of the Spanish Civil Guard, who died this morning aged 93. Veteran Searchlight readers will remember him as, resembling Peter Sellers, he stormed into Madrid’s parliament on 23 February 1981 with heavily armed fellow Guard […]
Smirking Robinson wrecks chances of Israeli football fans watching Aston Villa game
When the Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv visit Villa Park on 6 November for a Europa League fixture, there will be no away fans in the stands – not because of football rivalry, but because of fears that extremists could hijack the event. And at the centre of the controversy sits Tommy Robinson, whose […]
Austrian army colonel held as police raid far-right ‘weapons exercise’
Well-connected European nazis and extreme conspiracy theorists are under investigation after heavily-armed police raided a weapons training camp in Austria ten days ago. Attention has focussed particularly on the involvement of a senior officer in the Austrian army. On Saturday 11 October, 19 men and women gathered at a rural property in Vorchdorf, district of […]
International far-right, pro-Putin axis launched in Russia
Last month, St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Palace — the city’s Legislative Assembly building — quietly hosted a meeting which led to the formation of a new international alliance of the extreme right across Europe. Within its historic chambers, an international congress brought together far-right, neo-Nazi and ultra-nationalist movements under the banner of the newly declared ‘International […]
The elite funders behind Italy’s far-right CasaPound movement
A covert network of high-profile financiers – including diplomats, academics, lawyers, military officials, and media figures – has been secretly funding Italy’s neo-fascist CasaPound movement, according to newly uncovered internal documents. The group, calling themselves the “Gli Unici” (The Unique Ones), was established in 2017, a year ahead of Italy’s 2018 general elections, with the […]
Remembering the massacre at Kerdyllia
As dawn broke on 17 October 1941 in the villages of Ano Kerdyllia and Kato Kerdyllia in the Serres region of northern Greece, the tranquillity of mountain-life was shattered. German troops, who had been hunting partisans in the area, rounded up some 230 men – estimates vary – forced them to dig mass graves, shot […]
Home Office turns blind eye to hardline foreign racists at nazi conference
The Home Office and UK Border Security have again turned a blind eye to militant racists entering the UK to speak at a fascist conference. Last Saturday, as Searchlight revealed a few days before the event, Jared Taylor spoke at Mark Collett’s Patriotic Alternative conference. It turned out he wasn’t to be the only one. […]
Reform’s Russian ‘asset’ – the Kremlin shadow over Nigel Farage
On 26 September, former Welsh Brexit Party MEP and Reform UK official Nathan Gill pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to eight counts of bribery for accepting payments for making pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament both on television and in public forums. He faces sentencing in November, and is widely expected to go to […]
UK Jewish groups’ fury at Israeli Minister’s invitation to Tommy Robinson
Mainstream Jewish organisations in the UK have reacted angrily to an invitation to Tommy Robinson to visit Israel. The invitation has been extended by Amichai Chikli, a member of the Israeli Knesset and Minister for Diaspora Affairs in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. Chikli announced the visit on Friday in a statement saying: “In the wake of […]
‘Help’ – Italian fascist leader Roberto Fiore begs Pope to keep him out of jail
Roberto Fiore, the leader of Italy’s far-right party Forza Nuova, has written an open letter to Pope Leo XIV urging the pontiff to intervene in his appeal against a jail sentence for his part in the violent attack on the headquarters of Italy’s largest trade-union federation in 2021. The 65-year-old fascist, who was sentenced at […]
Mark Collett gives platform to unapologetic ‘The Order’ terrorist
Patriotic Alternative führer Mark Collett’s latest desperate bid for attention again puts his followers at risk of prosecution, all for the sake of his insatiable greed. Last weekend on one of his endless video streams Collett hosted Frank DeSilva, an unapologetic former member of the American nazi terrorist gang The Order. They discussed a recent […]
Tommy’s back on his sunbed – Panama City mayor lets him in
Tommy Robinson can now settle down to his SEVENTH spell on a foreign sun lounger this year after all. While he was waiting in the detention room at Panama City airport to be deported back to the UK, the local mayor intervened to get him into the country. We reported yesterday how Robinson, in search […]
Shock neo-nazi council victory in German elections
Election successes for AfD including their significant advances in last weekend’s local elections at various levels in North Rhein-Westphalia (NRW) have pushed Germany’s other far-right parties into the shadows. But in one small NRW town a neo-nazi party last weekend began what its allies hope will be a comeback for that side of the racist […]
Far-right AfD triples vote in German local elections
Last weekend, citizens of North Rhein-Westphalia headed to the polls for the first local election since 2020. As Germany’s immigration debate becomes increasingly polarised, the far-right Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) is capitalising; amidst desperate calls to ban the party, their willingness to speak about the topics other politicians won’t touch is what makes them so […]
Thugs and nazi ‘intellectuals’ get together in Preston
On Sunday afternoon Preston in the north of England, witnessed the latest get together organised by the self-styled ‘intellectual’ journal of the UK’s nazi movement, Heritage and Destiny. And once again they had to lie to get somewhere to meet. In 2022, Preston-based H&D editor Mark Cotterill, who was excluded from the USA in 2002 […]
Home Office bans foreign nazis from UK conference
Two prominent foreign nazis were banned from attending a high-profile far-right gathering in the UK at the weekend. The event was the annual Heritage and Destiny conference held just outside Preston on Sunday. H&D is a magazine which poses as the theoretical journal of the UK nazi movement – with many connections to foreign fascists. […]
The bishop who is the new link between Catholic radicals and far right
Although his name is not well known outside traditionalist Catholic circles, Bishop Paul Morgan has come to occupy a pivotal position acting as a bridge between radicalised Catholic splinter groups and the broader ecosystem of far-right politics. Consecrated as a bishop by the holocaust-denying Bishop Richard Williamson, Morgan has quietly become one of the Catholic […]
Sacking signals split in far right intellectual wing
Today the racist movement’s self-styled intellectual wing is again at war with itself, after the world’s leading far-right publisher sacked its chief editor in a fierce row over his close ties to Moscow. Recent Searchlight reports have highlighted the increasing bitterness of internal far right splits over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. These splits began well […]