(1) In a 1987 interview with the magazine’s publisher and prime mover, Gerry Gable, it was claimed that Searchlight was set up as a news agency in 1964. * The claim has also been made that it was set up in 1963 ** and 1962. ***
* Relentless searchlight on hunting the hated, by David Winner, article/interview in the Jewish Chronicle, 23 October, 1987.
** Tips that spotlight the Nazi tendency, by Denis Campbell, published in the Guardian, page 15, 29 September, 1986. In this article, Campbell, who is well in with the magazine, claimed that Searchlight was set up in 1963 by “a team of journalists, politicians, anti-racist and anti-fascist campaigners who were alarmed by the far right’s revival in Britain...”
*** Searchlight, issue 217, July 1993, page 2. In an editorial Negative and positive, (which was presumably written by Gerry Gable), the following phrase appears: “...Searchlight in its 31 years of existence...” This dates the first appearance of Searchlight (in its many forms) to 1962. In reality, official documents reveal that the “Searchlight Association Limited” was incorporated as a “COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE AND NOT HAVING A SHARE CAPITAL” in March 1965, (the date its “Memorandum of Association” was stamped by Companies House).
(2) In his book Fascism In Britain, author Richard Thurlow says of Searchlight: “This is the most interesting intelligence source for post-1945 British fascism. Gerry Gable is particularly keen that more academics should be made aware of his resources.” *
Thurlow is an otherwise distinguished academic; if people of his calibre and with his resources can be taken in, what price the provincial journalist who rings Searchlight for an off-the-cuff quote or for background information for a story about the extreme right in Britain?
* Fascism In Britain A History, 1918-1985, by Richard Thurlow, published by Basil Blackwell, Oxford, (1987), page 306.
(3) You can order press cuttings from the British Library Newspaper Library at Colindale by post.
(4) Islington Gazette, Friday January 17, 1964, page 8.
(5) Ibid.
(6) Anti-racist jailed for press arson, published in the Jewish Chronicle, page 9, 24th April, 1981. The premises he burned down belonged to the Hancock family, the so-called “Nazi Godfathers”.
(7) The current writer visited the Uckfield print works in 1990. The date eludes me, but the most noticeable thing about it was that its work was overwhelmingly commercial. I remember specifically seeing what appeared to be menus for Chinese restaurants, which is a long way from the Hollywood/sex shop image of Nazism peddled by the likes of Gerry Gable.
(8) The now notorious Gable Memorandum was published in Destabilising the “decent people”, by Duncan Campbell, Bruce Page and Nick Anning, New Statesman, February 15th, 1980, pages 234-6.
(9) ENEMIES OF THE STATE: A sensational exposé of the security services by a former MI5 undercover agent, by Gary Murray, published by Simon and Schuster, London, (1993), page 252.
Murray also describes Gable as “a reputable veteran journalist formerly with LWT”, (page 252), and refers to “Gable’s expert research”, (page 256). If Murray believes this, the security services have got problems. If he doesn’t, then we have.
(10) CARNIVAL RACE WAR PLOT: Nazis planned a festival bloodbath, by Roger Todd, published in the Daily Mirror, Tuesday, July 21, 1981, pages 1 and 3.
(11) THE OTHER FACE OF TERROR: Inside Europe’s Neo-Nazi Network, by Ray Hill with Andrew Bell, published by Grafton Books, London, (1988).
(12) Personal communication to the current writer’s fellow researcher dated 24 November 1992. Miss A.M. Enright of the Directorate of Public Affairs, Room 1334, New Scotland Yard, replied to a written enquiry about the supposed “Nazi” plot to bomb the Notting Hill Carnival.
Dear Mr Taha...
I have made some enquiries on your behalf and unfortunately must inform you that I have been unable to find any information or evidence of a plot to bomb the 1981 August Bank Holiday Notting Hill Carnival.
I am sorry that I cannot be of assistance.
The film The Other Face of Terror, was a Channel 4 documentary which Gable “researched”. It was shown to an international audience in 1984.
(13) It has been suggested that Gable genuinely believed in this plot; in other words, if he is not a liar, he is a fool.
(14) PARANOIA PEDDLED, published in the International Times, VOL 86, No. 3. Full Moon, March, 1986, pages 2-3.
(15) No More Wars Between Brothers, published in issue 10, August 12, 1976, pages 18-9.
(16) It is an open secret that when the future Mrs Sonia Gable was running with the “Nazis” of the League of St George and the National Front, Steve Brady, out of lust, bravado or a genuine desire to improve Gentile/Jewish relations, was quietly slipping her a length.
(17) WELL, IF IT ISN’T...!: An old acquaintance turns up again in Lincolnshire, published in Spearhead, the theoretical journal of the British National Party, issue 233, July 1988, pages 14 and 20.
It is worth mentioning that the businessman in question was a convicted sex offender who was standing trial for similar offences. And the court acquitted him rather than convict him on the word of a man like Ray Hill.
(18) Issue 204, June 1992, page 11.
(19) RIGHT OF REPLY column, published in Labour Briefing, September 1991, page 25.
(20) Pages 14-5. The reference to the SWP’s newfound Jew-hatred stemmed, in this instance, from an article it had published in its 26 June 1982 issue. Entitled Holocaust Begin Style, it included an anti-Zionist cartoon. Two Israeli soldiers were facing two Arabs dressed in Belsen-style pyjamas. The caption to this “anti-Semitic” cartoon reads: ITS FUNNY HOW WELL THOSE OLD UNIFORMS OF YOUR GRANDADS FIT THESE PLO TERRORISTS.
The SWP was founded by “Tony Cliff”. His real name is * Ygael Gluckstein, and he has been described as “very Jewish”. Anti-Zionist Jews are a constant source of embarrassment to Organised Jewry throughout the world, and are often smeared as “self-hating Jews”. Although it is by no means unprecedented for persons of Jewish origin to distribute anti-Semitic propaganda, this cannot be said of the Jewish members of groups like the SWP. Mr Gluckstein and his fellow travellers, Jew and Gentile, are fanatical Trotskyites who interpret all history in terms of ruling class versus working class, oppressor versus oppressed. They are for world revolution and opposed to all forms of nationalism and “Imperialism”, including Zionist Imperialism. Whatever else one may think of them, they are not hypocrites, because, unlike Searchlight, they condemn Israeli atrocities against the “oppressed” Palestinians every bit as louldly as they rightly condemn outrages against Jews, real and imagined.
* Now deceased.
(21) Relentless searchlight on hunting the hated, article/interview by David Winner, published in the Jewish Chronicle, 23 October, 1987, page 10.
(22) For example, the Jewish Revisionist J.G. Burg gave evidence for the defence at the 1988 “thought crime” trial of Ernst Zundel in Canada. Other Jews too have been involved with the Holocaust Revisionist movement, especially in France. In spite of all the wailing and gnashing of teeth which inevitably accompanies any mention of this movement by the mainstream press, Holocaust Revisionism is gaining ground, and anyone who reads the testimony of the prosecution witnesses at the 1985 Zundel trial will realise why. Holocaust “expert” Raul Hilberg was humiliated, while survivor Rudolf Vrba was clearly proved a brazen liar. [See for example The Great Holocaust Trial, by Michael A. Hoffman II, published by the Institute for Historical Review, Torrance, California, (1985)].
(23) The July 1993 issue attacks black journalist Marc Wadsworth for “sharing a platform” with “well-known fascist activists, racists and antisemites”. Why shouldn’t Wadsworth share a platform with “fascists” when Searchlight’s editor and publisher shares his bed with one?
(24) PLAYING AT NAZIS?, by Brian Hilliard, published in Police Review, 6th February, 1981, pages 258-60.
(25) See for example, T.A. unit was involved in Nazi exercise Forest mistake, by Peter Gladstone Smith, published in the Sunday Telegraph, 18th April, 1976, pages 1 and 32.
(26) Author’s interview with a Labour Party activist who was active in the far left scene at the time. Although this person only met Roberts once – once was enough! – he provided the current writer with a great deal of information on this bizarre character. Roberts, who died in 1982 aged only thirty-two, was said to have been a heavy drinker and smoker and addicted to tranquillisers.
(27) T.A. unit..., (op cit).
(28) The first exposé of Column 88 appeared in the May 1975 issue. This was followed by “more of the same”. Roberts’ revelations were also published in a short-lived, hysterical “anti-fascist” publication called Forewarned Against Fascism. * Major articles on Column 88 were also published in the May 1976 and May 1978 issues of Searchlight, The most sinister allegation ever substantiated against this “organisation” was that it celebrated Adolf Hitler’s birthday.
* There were only nine issues of this magazine. The second issue was dated April 1978, and the ninth, April 1981.
(29) Forewarned Against Fascism, issue 2, April 1978, page 3. See also note 32.
(30) Ludmer died of a heart attack in May 1981; he was succeeded as editor by Veronica Ware.
(31) (Back page). This was the same issue which ran the story about the non-existent plot to bomb the Notting Hill Carnival.
(32) Forewarned Against Fascism, issue 2, April 1978, page 3. Daphne Liddle was the editor of this publication, and she certainly knew what she was talking about because for a time – until she threw him out – Dave Roberts was her live-in lover! And, in spite of her strong anti-Zionist leanings, to this day, Liddle, a freelance journalist, works for Searchlight. She is also a member of the anti-Zionist New Communist Party and writes for its newspaper, the New Worker.
(33) It is actually Gerry Gable who writes this column.
(34) The Other Face of Terror, Hill and Bell, (op cit).
(35) National Front men in court over cash, published in the Star, March 29, 1979, page 4.
(36) Jack Noble was a leading light in the South African National Front. According to the current writer’s information (from a reliable, confidential source), Noble told everyone he could that Hill had been responsible for this rip-off.
(37) An errand boy’s ire, published in the LETTERS section, page 23.
(38) June 1992, issue 204, page 8: “Professor Flew, who is neither a geneticist not a racial theorist, is a geographer by trade.”
(39) The real purpose of this article was to smear Professor Flew as a racist, whatever is meant by that quite vacuous term. Professor Flew is an outspoken individualist and a non-egalitarian, which makes him fair game for the grubby little communists and fellow travellers who make up the Searchlight team. However, Professor Flew is anything but a racist and is as charming and courteous a fellow as anyone of any race could wish to meet. He is also one of the few English people alive to have visited Nazi Germany, and has – on more than one occasion in the presence of the current writer –- reviled this régime for its anti-Jewish policy. Professor Flew has come under fire from other “egalitarians” at times, primarily because he believes in equality of opportunity rather than equality of output. For this reason he is a staunch opponent of affirmative action policies which seek to give blacks and other minorities special advantages over whites on the spurious grounds that white people should be held responsible for the sins of their ancestors.
(40) Searchlight boss Gable in his error-prone essay The Far Right in Contemporary Britain, his contribution to the book Neo-Fascism in Europe, Edited by Luciano Cheles, Ronnie Ferguson and Michalina Vaughan, published by Longman, London and New York, (1991). This gaff appears on page 246.
(41) Page 251, (ibid).
(42) And Gable has no excuse for this. The front cover of Searchlight’s September 1985 issue bears a photograph of Webster posing with an “armed robber”, James Howson. Somewhat more significant is the fact that in the accompanying article, the two men he has his arms around appear to be extremely youthful, and Webster looks very, well, affectionate!
(43) * Dr Little, a retired biochemist, Doctor of Philosophy and extremely erudite woman, believes that the Rothschild family control the world. She is no egalitarian and is also a Holocaust Revisionist, but that does not make her a Jew-hater. Lady Birdwood on the other hand believes the Jews control everything, but although she too has some weird views and has published some of the most appalling anti-Semitica known to man, she is simply a sorely misguided idealist. The current writer has met and interviewed both these women, the latter several times and in considerable depth.
* Both Dr Kitty Little and Lady Jane Birdwood are now deceased.
(44) The Other Face of Terror, Hill and Bell, (op cit).
(45) An excellent analysis of the bomb plot fantasy has already been published in Notes from the Underground: British Fascism 1974-92, Part Two, by Larry O’Hara, pages 15-21, Lobster, issue 24, December 1992. This edition of the parapolitics/conspiracy magazine is still available.
(46) “I wrote to Jordan congratulating him on the booklet, saying that while I was not myself an authority on the subject, I had been very impressed with what he had to say.” [Hill and Bell, page 34, (op cit)].
(47) The Other Face of Terror, Hill and Bell, page 33, (ibid). I should perhaps add that in a personal communication dated 2nd November 1993, Mr Colin Jordan stated to the current writer: “...I do not blame the Jews for everything, including the weather, and never have. The gravamen of my charge is that they naturally incline to behave as Jews, as members of a distinct racial-religious community with interests inimical to those of this and other countries within which they are settled in large numbers with large power and influence. That is all, and that is enough. There my case rests!”
(48) FRAUDULENT CONVERSION: The Myth Of Moscow’s Change Of Heart, by Colin Jordan, published by the Britons, London, (1955).
The Britons Publishing Society was the brainchild of Hamilton Beamish, the inspiration of Jordan’s inspiration, Arnold Leese. It has quite probably published more editions of the notorious Protocols of Zion than any other publisher in the world.
(49) Michael McLaughlin was the National Chairman of the British Movement, which Hill had joined on his return from South Africa.
(50) I share membership of two organisations with Tame. He is the Director of FOREST, the smokers’ rights group, and is also Secretary of the Libertarian Alliance – Britain’s leading anti-fascist organisation – many good judges would say he was Britain’s leading Libertarian. I have also interviewed him on a number of occasions. Tame was recently commissioned by a leading publisher to compile a bibliography of freedom, an enormous project, and one which he estimates will take several years. As well as a passionate defender of individual liberty he is opposed to all forms of racial discrimination, anti-Semitism and authoritarianism. Although he is most definitely not homosexual, he is a staunch supporter of homosexual rights, and indeed, when he realised he had been lied to by Searchlight, homosexual rights activist Peter Tatchell resumed contact with Mr Tame and was a speaker at a Libertarian Alliance conference on gay rights. The fact that Tame is both married to a Jew and a
known supporter of Israel demonstrates both how careless Searchlight’s smears are and how sloppy is its research.
(51) For example, issue 118, April 1985, page 15, PETER TATCHELL DROPS LIBERTARIAN ALLIANCE ENGAGEMENT, and in issue 98, page 14, the Libertarian Alliance is said to combine “theoretical libertarians in the correct sense of the word with the likes of Chris Tame”.
(52) Gothic Ripples, No 1 (2nd. Edition), 22nd. June 1945, priced two pence. (On microfilm in the Wiener Library). Gothic Ripples could hardly be called a magazine.
(53) INSTINCTIVE SADISM THE HITHER ASIATIC RACE, BY A.S. Leese, page 5, The Fascist – The Organ Of Racial Fascism, July, 1936. (On microfilm in the Wiener Library).
(54) My Irrelevant Defence being Meditations Inside Gaol and Out on Jewish Ritual Murder, by Arnold S. Leese, published by I.F.L. Printing and Publishing Co, (1938).
According to Richard Thurlow in Fascism In Britain, * this booklet was actually co-written by one of Leese’s fellow travellers, Charles W. Gore. Thurlow cites as his source a Board of Deputies of British Jews intelligence report. Unfortunately, Thurlow also speaks highly of Gable as a source of “information” on the extreme right, and Gable is also, reputedly, held in high repute by the Board of Deputies. Which means that the accuracy of all their information must be questioned.
* Fascism In Britain, Thurlow, page 73, (op cit).
(55) Exposed: The uncivil servants of the BNP, pages 12-13. This is the first sentence of the article.
(56) Harold Bidney, a 54 year old company secretary, was fined £1,600 after being found guilty of eight charges concerning female prostitutes between January 1973 and October 1976. He was said to have lived off their earnings. See SOHO VICE BOSS JAILED, published in the Daily Telegraph, page 3, Saturday, August 6, 1977.
(57) See “DISGUSTING” VICE CHIEF IS JAILED, by Neil Blincow, published in the London Evening Standard, (Closing Prices), pages 1 and 40, Friday, August 5, 1977.
D**** G*** C*********, Bidney’s employer, was said to have attempted to procure a 16 year old youth for him. C********* was fined £4,500 and jailed for 18 months.
(58) Grantham too has been singled out by the media, the mainstream gutter press, and lurid details of his crime – committed at the age of nineteen – have been well publicised. The public appeared unperturbed.
(59) The Church of the Creator is a loony, race-hate cult founded by Ben Klassen, a recently deceased – and ironically Jewish-born – raving anti-Semite. Its “literature” is so vile that even many of the more dedicated race-haters in the “Nationalist” movement refuse to associate with it. American “Nazi” Harold Covington has suggested that the Church of the Creator was set up by the FBI or some other organisation with the express aim of discrediting all white nationalist groups. Anyone who even considers joining the Church of the Creator must have a screw loose.
(60) Writing under the pseudonym Eagle Scout, * Hepple penned an article in Autumn 1992 issue of Green Anarchist. FIGHTING FASCISM, * which contained the following phrase: “If you’re going to use violence, know what you’re doing...When you go in, go in hard with extreme prejudice, & not weak slogans.” (Bold in original). * See Appendix B.
(61) Although none of the people named here are necessarily “Nazis”, they are to Searchlight.
(62) Benn’s Media Directory * lists Searchlight as established in 1975. Its Circulation Manager is listed as Graeme Atkinson; Gerry Gable is listed as the Publisher. The circulation for Jan-Jun 1989 is given as 6,900.
* Benn’s Media Directory 1993, 141st Edition, (United Kingdom), published by Benn Business Information Services, Tonbridge, Kent, page 365.
(63) Private information.
(64) Private information.
(65) Well-produced only in an artistic sense.
(66) It is not generally known for example that French National Front leader Jean Marie Le Pen, often alluded to as some sort of spiritual heir to Hitler, is also a fervent Zionist.
(67) There are organisations in this country which campaign for civil liberties for everyone; sadly, so-called “Liberty”, formerly the National Council for Civil Liberties is not one of them. The Libertarian Alliance is Britain’s premier organisation devoted to the defence of individual liberty; it is small but influential, and Jews have, and continue to make, great contributions to Libertarianism.
(68) Magazine accused of race incitement and False friends, published in the Birmingham Post, Friday, December 31, 1976, pages 1 and 4.
(69) A WELL-OILED NAZI MACHINE: An Analysis of the Growth of the Extreme Right in Britain, published by A.F. & R. Publications, (1974).
(70) The magistrate made this remark in a case concerning two summonses by veteran Nazi and anti-Semite Colin Jordan, who was attempting to prosecute the magazine for criminal libel. Although Mr Jordan’s application was dismissed, the magistrate said that “the words in question were, prima facie, libellous.” The implication is that Ludmer was a political opportunist, who was exploiting racial intolerance for financial gain and/or the basest of political motives. We couldn’t agree more.
(71) Guardian Women, Monday, February 25, 1980, page 8, the Guardian. Interview by Polly Toynbee.
(72) Guardian Women article, (ibid).
(73) Page 13.
(74) According to FASCISM IN BRITAIN: An Annotated Bibliography, by Philip Rees, published by Harvester Press, Sussex, (1979), page 213.
(75) On 16th March, 1984, the Daily Mail published Lies, Damn Lies and Panorama, which exposed this programme for exactly that, a tissue of lies, smears and innuendo. Gable’s trademark.
(76) New Doubts on the phone-tap programme, page 6, London Evening Standard (CLOSING PRICES), the Londoner’s Diary column, Thursday, March 7, 1985.
(77) AN OPEN LETTER TO THE BRITISH LEFT FROM Harold A. Covington, National Socialist, undated but published circa May 1993.
(78) “GERRY, GERRY, GERRY.....” Searchlight’s macho munchkin GERRY GABLE is telling porkies again. HAROLD A. COVINGTON duly chastises the little twit. A DISSERTATION ON THE IDIOCY OF GERRY GABLE, published cAugust 1993.
Covington also claimed to have received a high response rate from British left wingers, who, he said, were not as dumb as he had previously figured. Many of them have long realised that Searchlight and its controllers are not quite what they would have the rest of us believe.
(79) Covington also claims that Gable is involved in the fabrication of documents; a claim people on the left have also made.
(80) A LIE TOO FAR: SEARCHLIGHT, HEPPLE & THE LEFT, by Larry O’Hara and Tim Scargill, produced by Mina Enterprises, (1993), page 19.
(81) The article called LISTEN LEFTIE! Baz critiques ‘anti-fascist’ strategy and suggests his alternatives, appears on pages 10-11, also under the FIGHTING FASCISM section. It also incites the burning of the BNP HQ, suggests the “selective assassination” of fascists, and slags off Gable. These are the sort of people who are campaigning against hatred and intolerance, remember.
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