#stephen yaxley lennon

[waxley-lemon]

Britain's banned documentary SILENCED

The video that the establishment do not want you to see. Here Tommy Robinson bravely exposes the corruption in MSM. Tommy is facing 2 years in Prison for releasing this video to the public.

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The Troll Watch video itself attracts hundreds of thousands of views, millions of impressions and dozens of comments:

Got to start calling him 'Tommy Gun', he truly is a machine gun of truth!

We're just people who are fed up with the lies the MSM has fed us.

Well done Tommy standing up to them scumbags for spreading fake news!!!!

I LOVE IT!!! STAND UP TO THESE LIARS!!!!!!

"Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists" - Julia Ebner

[tenth-sentence]

Looking back at these events, I am unsure what I find more shocking: the extent of harassment I received for what seemed like an innocuous opinion piece, or a world-leading counter-extremism think tank bowing to the demands of the harassers.

"Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists" - Julia Ebner

[antifainternational]

Resident of Derby here. I've heard rumblings - that I can't verify sadly - that extremists are planning "protest" (see: riot) in Derby on Normanton Road (DE23 6US, outside the Immigration Advisory Service but potentially any of the other three buildings with immigration services on the road) at 8PM tomorrow. There's also a lot of businesses on that road in general run by people extremists would happily target for bastard, racist reasons. If the Derby counter-protest is happening and people do go, please make sure you all stay safe and be aware that there may very well be extremists on the streets that same evening.

Thank you very much for the local info! I ommitted Derby from the pictures in the other post because they didnt put a place name on their visual, but you are right.

The far-right DO plan an attack on an office that helps asylum-seekers access their legal rights in Derby. We don't know how many people will show up to the fascist side of things, but what we DO know is that if they are outnumbered they'll fuck off, cower back to their shitholes without accomplishing anything, and blame Tommy Robinson (aka his real name Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon) for their failure., so we gotta make sure as many people as possible will be there tomorrow at 7.15PM. If you're not near Derby be sure to check all the places the fucking fascist losers are planning to attack people who help refugees, and be sure to show up beforehand with everyone you know who has ever said "punch a nazi". [link to all counter-demos we know of planned for 7 AUGUST here]

[hacash]

I don't always agree with the BBC's editorial choices, but their decision to start referring to Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon by his full name rather than 'Tommy Robinson' just to remind everyone that his whole 'regular working class bloke' thing* is an absolute scam and he is just some little snot manipulating people far more economically vulnerable than him is, quite frankly, very much a choice I can get behind.

(*it should also be noted that 'Tommy Robinson' is a name inspired by a prominent member of a UK-based football hooligan crew, just to further remind people who this wanker is framing himself as)

[mariacallous]

As asylum centers are boarding up ahead of another predicted day of violent protests across the UK on Wednesday, X owner Elon Musk has stoked tensions by labeling UK prime minister Keir Starmer “#TwoTierKier” and spreading a far-right conspiracy theory that claims white rioters are being dealt with more severely than minorities by police.

For days now, Musk has sought to use his huge influence to suggest that diversity was causing the riots: “If incompatible cultures are brought together without assimilation, conflict is inevitable,” Musk wrote. Responding to a video of riots in Liverpool on Monday, Musk warned: “Civil war is inevitable.”

Six thousand police officers are on standby in response to far-right figures sharing a list of dozens of targets, including locations of asylum centers and offices of lawyers who help asylum seekers. Officials are facing resistance from X to take down posts that are deemed a threat to national security, according to a report by the Financial Times.

After the death of three children in Southport during a mass stabbing attack last week, which sparked the riots, conspiracies flooded social media platforms, including X. But it was on Telegram where much of the initial organization for the attacks took place.

Far-right channels not only posted information on locations and times for protests, but shared information on how to construct Molotov cocktails and set fire to buildings, according to a WIRED review of multiple Telegram channels.

But, while Musk and X have done little to quell their activity, Telegram appears to have taken action against at least one channel which has been set up to spread hatred and disinformation around the Southport stabbings.

The “Southport Wake Up” Telegram channel was set up within hours of the stabbing incident last week and soon amassed a huge following. It shared details about local protests but quickly descended into making violent threats against named individuals and locations.

On Monday night, Telegram appeared to remove the channel, which at that point had almost 15,000 members. It is unclear if Telegram made this decision itself or if it was at the direction of the authorities in the UK.

The creator of the channel, who has been flagged to police by researchers but has not been publicly named, has attempted to set up new channels several times, but they have all been shut down within hours of being established.

Telegram told WIRED that its moderators were “actively monitoring the situation and are removing channels and posts containing calls to violence.”

A spokesperson told WIRED the Home Office could not comment on whether they had called for the Stockport Wakeup telegram channel to be blocked, as “it’s an operational issue.”

Many far-right figures had migrated to Telegram in recent years after being kicked off all other platforms, because of Telegram’s notoriously lax approach to censorship. But since Musk’s takeover of Twitter in November 2022, many of those previously exiled extremists have been welcomed back, including Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, the leader of the now-defunct English Defense League, who goes by the name of Tommy Robinson.

Robinson has repeatedly thanked Musk since being reinstated in November last year, calling Musk “the best thing to happen for free speech this century.” In recent days he has tagged Musk in multiple posts on the platform. Musk responded to one of Robinson’s posts over the weekend.

Analysis from disinformation researcher Marc Owen Jones has shown that any engagement like this from Musk dramatically boosts the number of views, likes, and shares a post on X receives—even posts whose interactions had been declining dramatically.

“Twitter has been a disinformation delivery system,” says Jones, which has allowed the “proliferation of anti-migrant and anti-muslim speculation.” He cites the trust and safety team cuts, the blue tick pay for play strategy and the reintroduction of far right people onto the site as “perfect conditions for disinformation and hate speech to thrive.”

“[Musk’s] comments are totally unacceptable,” courts minister Heidi Alexander told the BBC on Tuesday. “For someone that has a big platform, a large following, to be exercising that power in such an irresponsible way, is pretty unconscionable.” X did not respond to a request for comment.

UK law enforcement is taking action against those using X to overtly promote violence—in one case by arresting the wife of a local councillor in Northampton who called for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire.

“Mass deportation now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care … If that makes me racist, so be it,” Lucy Connolly wrote on X. Northamptonshire police told the BBC the 41-year-old child care worker was arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred.

Rioters and violent protesters have also taken over TikTok Live, sharing self-incriminating videos of them confronting the police or members of the public in cities like Leeds, Stoke, and Hull. Police have used that footage to prosecute a first wave of demonstrators this week.

“Over 400 people now have been arrested, 100 have been charged, some in relation to online activity, and a number of them are already in court, and I am now expecting substantive sentencing before the end of this week,” Starmer said in a video posted on X on Tuesday. “That should send a very powerful message to people either directly or online.”

Starmer has not referred to X or Musk by name in his comments on the issue of online radicalization around the riots.

[sortyourlifeoutmate]

Nigel Farage resents the implication that he was deliberately stoking the fires of discord - he was simply asking questions! Leading questions that pointed to certain answers or at least looked at them sideways and nodded and winked! It's not his fault if people assumed he meant those answers he was pointing towards! That's their fault!

He also resents the accusation that he a Stephen Yaxley-Lennon in a suit - he says it is beneath contempt, this accusation. Perhaps he'd be happier if it was phrased as a question?

Is Nigel Farage simply Stephen Yaxley-Lennon in a suit?

Is Nigel Farage deliberately exploiting this tragedy to further his own political career by asking vague questions about national security?

Is Nigel Farage an expert in doing things really obviously but doing them in such a way he has deniability so he can pretend he didn't?

Is Nigel Farage a bloated tick growing fat on the discontent and incoherent fury of those unable to articulate or even fully understand why it is they're unhappy or what they might do to improve their situation?

Is Nigel Farage a festing boil on the arse of the nation, oozing the thick yellow pus of fascism as he makes saps and suckers of those he claims to speak for?

I don't know! I'm just asking questions! Just asking questions!

[whatevergreen]

UK racist fascist clown "Tommy Robinson" aka Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is a wealthy middle-class parasite.

And a Zionist (below with that other creature whose name I've actually forgotten)

[good-old-gossip]

Tommy Robinson mocks British Army veterans murdered by Israel

Far-right influencer, Tommy Robinson, tweeted that he believes “British people doing aid work in Gaza are cucks”, after two U.K.

army veterans doing aid work with the World Central Kitchen were murdered in a series of targeted drone strikes by Israel.

The campaigner who has made a career out of attacking Muslims and Asylum seekers online, leading hate protests and working to spread fake news, calls himself a patriot, yet mocks a foreign military killing British army veterans.

As far-right riots have continued to wreak havoc across parts of the UK, fingers have pointed in many directions to apportion blame.

One name that has regularly featured in chants by the far-right agitators as they torch libraries, attack mosques and smash windows, however, has been “Tommy Robinson”.

The nom-de-guerre of former tanning salon owner Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, Robinson has over the past two decades built a violent street movement focused on intimidating the British Muslim community and stoking fears of an Islamic takeover of the UK.

Although his English Defence League no longer exists in official form, the hand of Robinson can still be felt across the British far-right, even after repeated jail sentences and spates in exile abroad.

Prior to founding the English Defence League in 2009, Robinson drifted in and out of other far-right groups, including the British National Party (BNP). But right from the beginning, Robinson attempted to distinguish his new movement by claiming they were focusing on “Islamic extremism” rather than non-white communities or even Muslims as a whole.

Another important pillar of EDL was staunch Zionism - Israel came to be seen by counter-jihadists as the vanguard of the fight against Muslim terrorism and a state which was uncompromising in its willingness to use force to suppress a largely Muslim population.

Even the EDL’s name resembles that of the Jewish Defence League, a much older far-right Zionist organisation based in the US and Europe that has hosted Robinson at a number of events.

“I’m not far-right…I’m just opposed to Islam. I believe it’s backward and it’s fascist,” he said in 2016.

✍️ by Alex MacDonald 

[nando161mando]

""Notorious Melbourne-based serial pest Avi Yemini of the Canadian-based right-wing propaganda network 'Rebel News' rocked up to the student encampment at the University of Melbourne today and got a fitting reception"

"Yeminem was convicted in July 2019.

More here":

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In my case the following lines of my Guardian piece prompted him to confront me:

That the far right has moved from the fringe into the mainstream demonstrates the massive support that white supremacist movements have attracted from digital natives. Their online followership often exceeds that of mainstream political parties: with over 200,000 followers, Tommy Robinson's Twitter account has almost the same number of followers as Theresa May's.

"Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists" - Julia Ebner

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In a desperate attempt to keep them from hurting each other, I offer to go upstairs with Robinson and repeatedly say: 'I'm happy to engage in dialogue.'

"Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists" - Julia Ebner

[goblincow]

I had to postpone the apocalypse for a few days with this post to help organise against the fash after this August's pogroms in the UK (which I wrote about here).

I engaged in the long tradition of antifascist protest art and I'm glad to say ex-IDF-funded grifter Tommy Robinson (real name Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon) was charged with contempt of court over terror charges for his role in inciting fascist race riots this summer and has been jailed for 18 months.

Obviously this is not justice, nor is it a meaningful response to fascism and populism at scale, but given that Yaxley-Lennon's cult-of-personality has been a centralising force preventing the fash from collapsing into in-fighting it provides an opportunity for the union-supported antifascist movement to keep the pressure up and seriously damage the far right's momentum in the UK.

[heliophile-oxon]

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon inadvertently dunking on his own "Tommy Robinson" persona.

(shirley shome mishtake this can't be possible, this must be a piss-take, nobody is that fucking stupid shirley shirley shirley ...)

AI people: we're just as much artists as you are, you gotta be so observant and go through so many correcting phases for the picture to look good uwu also AI people:

[mariacallous]

Tommy Robinson has come a long way on the subject of Islam. Born Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, he rose to prominence as the leader of the anti-immigrant and anti-Islamic English Defence League. In a speech in Denmark in 2016, he claimed that there was an ongoing “military invasion” of Europe, referring to the increasing numbers of refugees from Muslim countries. In his self-published book, “Mohammed’s Koran: Why Muslims Kill for Islam,” Robinson instructs any potential Muslim readers to put the book down. “We do not wish you to become a killer because this book leads you to understand the doctrines and history of Islam more thoroughly.”

Yet Robinson’s opposition has since softened. He has observed that “Islam has become an attraction for so many, because people are looking for something strong in principle that can stand its ground.” Lamenting the state of the West, he has noted that there are areas of common ground between his extreme far-right views and certain forms of conservative Islam. Both Robinson and Muslims can be found protesting the pro-LGBTQ curriculum taught in British schools. Realizing that they could be allies in the culture wars, Robinson went so far as to attend a protest condemning the burning of the Quran by a far-right activist in Sweden. Instead of supporting the right to desecrate the Muslim holy book, as he used to, he talked to the Muslim protesters and asked questions, describing himself as an “observer.”

Robinson is far from an isolated example of this previously hard-to-imagine union between the extreme right and conservative Muslims. He is one of many far-right personalities carving out a new form of conservatism, characterized by this new, admiring attitude toward Islam. The most high-profile among them is, of course, Andrew Tate, who took this admiration to its logical conclusion by converting to Islam. But there are many more who have been vocal in their admiration and support for specific forms of conservative, patriarchal Islam, even if they’ve stopped short of adopting the faith. This unlikely alliance is not just built on LGBTQ issues. Feminism, “cultural Marxism,” globalists and “wokeism” are all used as scapegoats. And it’s no longer just on the fringes.

The past year has seen this alliance go mainstream. In competing to become the most anti-woke candidate out there, former President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others have put conflicts over gender roles and LGBTQ rights front and center, with the latter presenting himself as the cultural warrior most willing to take the necessary measures to halt wokeness. Former enemies, conservative Muslims and anti-woke Christians, have found common ground over these issues — with electoral implications. Once discouraged from voting Republican by post-9/11 policies, today, Muslims in America are flocking back to the right, finding this new form of conservatism more agreeable. In turn, the right no longer sees Muslims solely through the lens of terrorism but as potential allies in the culture wars. This support, along with new signs of respect for Islam, may fundamentally shift foreign policy. After all, if you see no problem with how the Taliban treat women, then you have less reason to oppose their rule.

We have witnessed this new trend from its early days, over years of observation and interaction, from finding Jordan Peterson trending in the Middle East back in 2018 to witnessing Tate’s star rise among Muslims in the West and the Arab world. (Tate was recently charged in Romania with human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.) We have monitored dozens of YouTube channels, read thousands of posts in online chat rooms, followed scores of online influencers and spoken to many followers and fans in multiple countries. At first, this research traced existing divisions between Muslims and the right, but through long-term observation of online communities, we came to realize that political fault lines were being redrawn.

This new trend encompasses both political and social factors that influence and impact one another. Particularly important is the collection of communities, united by misogynistic and conspiratorial theories, known as the “manosphere.” From incel chatrooms to self-help dating sites, fueled by influencers from Peterson to Tate, the manosphere has formed a core demographic of this new conservatism. These figures have not only gained mainstream attention but have also pulled the entire political establishment to the right. This article is the result of observing these trends become increasingly widespread and normalized, most obviously in politics but also throughout Western societies, perhaps epitomized best by the recent protests over, of all things, school curricula.