>The festival’s list of speakers includes many individuals who have courted controversy. These include Professor Ilan Pappé, an academic at Exeter University known for his radical anti-Zionism, and activist Ismail Patel, who has met Hamas leaders in Gaza and “saluted” the group for “standing up to Israel”.
Also listed are those who are less well-known in the mainstream. The social media theologian and self-proclaimed “race realist” Paul Williams, who has a million followers across X/Twitter and YouTube, is due to deliver a speech on Sunday.
He has hailed an interview with former BNP leader Nick Griffin – entitled “Jews, Zionism, the far-Right and Islam in Europe” – as “superb” and shared a video by the American white supremacist Jared Taylor about the “biological reality of race”.
The former far-right Dutch politician Joram van Klaveren, who sensationally converted to Islam in 2018 and has since shared a video denying that mass murder and rape took place on October 7, is also due to speak.
A festival of antisemitic nutters, then…
Website here. The list of "inspiring speakers" still includes Labour MP Naz Shah.
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