Neo-Nazi threat to ‘burn down and drive out’ Board of Deputies

A second user attacked Jews generally, suggesting they should be forced out of Britain. They said: “Another reason to exile this ethnicity from any self-respecting nation.

“Over 100 sovereign countries can’t be wrong.”

Another anonymous user called for a “protest” against the Board of Deputies, adding: “Burn down their buildings and drive them out.

“What are you waiting for? Because talking and exposing them hasn’t done a damn thing.” In response, the Board of Deputies called for Patriotic Alternative to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation.

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Mark Collett with supporters (Getty Images)

A spokesperson said: “It is profoundly disturbing to see the leader of a UK-based far-right organisation, Patriotic Alternative, taking aim at us in this fashion and predictably receiving the threat of a murderous response.

“We hope that the government will soon proscribe Patriotic Alternative.”

A spokesperson for the Community Security Trust also said that Collett’s group incendiary social media post could trigger attacks on Jews.

They said: “Mark Collett and Patriotic Alternative regularly push antisemitic conspiracies online and it is no surprise that they incite violent rhetoric of this nature from their followers.

“This is the worrying reality of far-right antisemitism today, in which the incessant anti-Jewish propaganda of leading online figures risk stirring up real world harms.”

Founded in 2019, Patriotic Alternative describes itself as an activist group that aims to raise awareness of the “demographic decline of native Britons” and the impact of mass immigration.

Its conferences have featured Michèle Renouf, a leading Holocaust denier, and Andreas Johansson of the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement.

Collett has long been prominent in British far-right circles.
He was head of the British National Party’s youth division in the early 2000s and has a history of racist comments.

He has voiced pro-Nazi sympathies.

In a 2021 book, he revealed he would have been “proud” to have taken part in the Nuremberg rallies, a series of mass Nazi parades that took place in Germany between 1923 and 1939.

Under Collett’s leadership, Patriotic Alternative has become known for provocative stunts, including setting up a “White Lives Matter” banner on the summit of Ben Nevis.

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Marie van der Zyl (Photo: Handout)

The group, which has stated that it wants all non-white people to be removed from the UK, has tried to soften its image.

A recent report by the activist group Hope Not Hate suggested that the organisation has up to 250 activists in the UK and has played a leading role in organising protests against hotels housing asylum seekers.

Collett denies he is an extremist but continues to make incendiary statements online.

Last year, he wrote: “Whilst Jews constantly talk about white over-representation and demand ethnic quotas that always result in fewer whites being employed, Jews themselves are vastly over represented in the media and are quick to silence anyone who mentions this fact.”

A member of Collett’s group, Kristofer Kearney, pleaded guilty to two counts of disseminating terrorist publications earlier this year.

The court case came after an investigation found that he had shared dozens of far-right documents on the internet.

Mark Collett and Patriotic Alternative were contacted for comment.