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Extremists planning riots denied the Holocaust and praised Hitler

Far right activists have shared the location of immigration advice centres

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Far right protesters attempted to storm a Rotherham hotel housing asylum seekers (Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Extremists attempting to organise attacks on immigration lawyers amid unrest sweeping the UK have also claimed that Jews “fabricated” the Holocaust and praised Adolf Hitler, the JC can reveal.

The thugs insisted they support “neither brown nor Jew” as they encouraged demonstrators to revolt against migrants on the encrypted messaging app Telegram.

On Monday, after violent disorder broke out in cities across the country, far right activists shared the names and addresses of immigration law firms and advice centres.

"Wednesday night lads,” wrote one anonymous figure who runs a channel on Telegram first uncovered by The Times. Named “Southport Wake Up” it has hundreds of members.

"They won't stop coming until you tell them,” the message continued. "No more immigration. 8PM. Mask up. Spread this as far and wide as you can."

Underneath, dozens of addresses of organisations across Britain supporting asylum seekers and immigrants were listed.

The post has been shared on Telegram by the British Movement, a neo-Nazi group, and James Goddard, a Patriotic Alternative campaigner who was convicted in 2019 of harassing Conservative MP Anna Soubry.

The Community Security Trust say they have alerted Jewish bodies near one of the immigration lawyers named as a precaution.

Southport Wake Up previously shared the name and location of Asylum Link Merseyside (ALM), a charity that aids refugees in Liverpool.

In a statement published to Facebook on Monday, ALM said they had decided to temporarily close their building after threats of violence.

"Our staff are currently working on securing the building and making a switch to remote working,” they added.

The far right Telegram channel has also published extreme pro-Nazi posts amid calls for demonstrations across the UK.

On Sunday, the channel said: “Adolf Hitler was the only politician since Roman times to truly care for his people. Like we are seeing today, Germany in the 1920s was a pit of despair...

The Weimar Republic [had] immigration, child prostitution, obscene inflation, degeneracy.”

After the Second World War, the message said, “the jewish people fabricated the holocaust - ensuring they would never again be questioned by Europeans while they destroyed their homelands.”

They added: “Today Jewish media, NGOs, finance, business, entertainment and a huge overrepresentation in government, are doing the same all over Europe.

"The fight will be long brothers, but we will succeed. Never capitulate.”

In the same message, it shared a link to “The Greatest Story Never Told”: a neo-Nazi propaganda film that aims to rehabilitate the image of Hitler and the Nazi regime.

In another post, Southport Wake Up shared an AI image of someone holding their middle fingers up at an Israeli and a Palestinian flag.

Underneath it, they wrote: “We support neither brown nor Jew. Our nation is our land and our people. Rise, the free Europa armies.”

According to the charity Hope not Hate, the Southport Wake Up channel featured the first mention of a demonstration held on St Luke's Road in Southport last Tuesday.

It was at this protest, which featured a number of far-right figures from outside the Merseyside town, that violence was first sparked as attendees surrounded and attacked a local mosque.

Anti-immigrant sentiment and antisemitism are being blurred together as neo-Nazis attempt to “jump on the bandwagon” while protests spread, the CST’s head of policy, Dave Rich, said.

Other antisemitic figures on the British far-right have also defended demonstrations that have seen protestors scream racial slurs, attack non-white people, and storm hotels housing asylum seekers.

Mark Collett, a former BNP activist who founded Patriotic Alternative (PA), wrote on Telegram: “The protestors are a symptom of white people being ignored and abused for decades.”

In other posts, he added: "Families who saw their children groomed and raped have finally snapped. The media attacks them because they are white...

"The reason the streets of Britain are filled with angry white people is because finally whites have had enough of being treated this way.”

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