Nigel Farage's Anti-Semitism Hypocrisy

Pro-Reform media outlets are trying to pin allegations of anti-semitism against Britain's only Jewish political party leader, whilst largely ignoring the Reform leader's own behaviour

“I would argue not a single politician in public life today, certainly no British political leader, has done more to highlight these issues [of antisemitism] than Nigel Farage” Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf told the BBC this week.

In some ways he’s right.

Farage has done a huge amount to highlight these issues. Just not at all in the way that Yusuf suggests.

To take just a few examples, over recent years the Reform leader has:

• Suggested that the “Jewish lobby” has too much power in the United States

• Pushed what Jewish groups described as anti-semitic “dog whistles” about the Jewish billionaire George Soros

• Engaged in conspiracy theories rooted in anti-semitism about “cultural marxism”, the “new world order”, “great replacement”, “globalists” and the “global government”

• Repeatedly dismissed allegations of anti-semitism against other Reform politicians

And that’s before you even get to the multiple accounts of Farage’s own anti-semitic bullying of his former classmates - something he has neither admitted to, nor apologised for.

In short, while there is lots that we could now learn from Farage about the evils of anti-semitism, the truth is that it is an evil that he has long been a perpetrator of, rather than a defender against.