January 2001: INTERNATIONAL Searchlight, issue 307 is priced at £2.50 and runs to 36 pages.
After the Editorial, there are two articles by Lowles, the first on the skinhead music scene.
It being that time of year, there is a lot about the so-called Holocaust. January 27 is of course the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, but more significantly, it is Gable’s birthday! There is a two page article about a Jewish partisan unit operating in the Rudniki Forest and a two page article by Donald Kenrick, a Polish Jew who wrote mostly about the Roma.
On pages 18-9 is an interview by Kate Taylor of a dude named Michael Lee who survived Auschwitz followed by two book reviews, one by now regular contributor Dave Renton, the other by Nick Wright.
Among the international reports is Japanese nationalism revives by Kenny Coyle in Tokyo.
January 27: JUSTICE DELAYED “How Britain Became a Refuge for Nazi War Criminals” by David Cesarani, published by Phoenix Press, London, (2001). 342 pages. Index. Illustrated.
This book is said to have a new afterword by the author.
Page 199: “The authoritative anti-fascist magazine Searchlight”.
Page 209: reports that October 12, 1987, Gable presented a dossier on Paulis Reinhards to the Home Office after a three research week trip to the USSR.
See also entry for July 1992. According to the Amazon UK website, the first edition was published January 27, 1992, so I am assuming this edition was published on the same date. (Other sources give different dates, but whatever).
February 2001: INTERNATIONAL Searchlight, issue 308 is priced at £2.50 and runs to 36 pages.
The previous December, the offices of the Rome-based left wing newspaper Il Manifesto was bombed by Andreas Insabato, who nearly blew himself up with it. In February 2002, he would be sentenced to 12 years. Gable uses this incident to smear Roberto Fiore. Check out this article (Section D) for more about this particular Gable obsession.
The Gable innuendo is followed by what is said to be an eyewitness account by Roberto Zanini of the same newspaper.
Pages 22-3 is an article by Gable called Ideological warfare which he calls a personal opinion; this relates to the so-called institutional racism of the Metropolitan Police.
There are the usual overseas reports including from Ruth Wodak in Austria and Collins who writes about the One Nation party in Australia.
On February 9, 2001 I was browsing the Web when I found Searchlight: A Well-Oiled Disinformation Machine by Paul Cox, which is a critique of the organisation from an ostensibly O’Hara-esque perspective (incorporating a review of Searchlight For Beginners), although I recognised much of it as based on my own researches!
MR EVIL – The Secret Life of Racist Pub Bomber and Killer David Copeland appears under Book Review, (reviewer A. Shaw), published in RED ACTION, Vol. 4, Issue 10, March/April 2001, page 12.
Red Action is now a glossy magazine. This review is overtly hostile. The said book is actually worth reading (unlike most of the rubbish Gable writes).
March 2001: INTERNATIONAL Searchlight, issue 309 is priced at £2.50 and runs to 36 pages.
The cover story is about far right death squads in Colombia, this is a long feature by Silver on pages 18-20. His first article in this issue appears on pages 4-5 and is about English cricketers who toured in South Africa a decade and more ago. This was what was known as the Rebel Tour. This is followed on pages 6-7 by a one-off contribution from Mike Marqusee, in particular an extract from his book on the same subject.
On pages 8-9, Kate Taylor reports on BNP finances.
On page 10, the News from the Sewers column by the Jew from the sewers himself includes a smear on Troy Southgate.
Page 15 is a new column called What their websites say by a new contributor named Heaton Cullimore. Clearly, they are moving with the times, previously the reference was to what their papers say.
There are a number of overseas reports including one from Devin Burghart in Chicago who bloviates about David Duke.
April 2001: INTERNATIONAL Searchlight, issue 310 is priced at £2.50 and runs to 36 pages.
Page 2 is a full page advertisement for a seminar by the Searchlight Educational Trust on June 6.
Lowles and Silver contribute articles on the then forthcoming general election. A second article by Lowles alludes to the time when as a fully paid up member of the British National Party he attended a meeting at a venue local to Tony Lecomber.
Page 10 is an article written by Lowles with Rasmus Juel about violent far right groups.
There is an emphasis in this issue on Roma/gypsies including an amusing article which mentions a Czech computer game called Kill Yourself A Gypsy; there have been similar games in the past, including one called Intifada in which IDF soldiers shoot Palestinian rioters!
International reports include one by Gable, who appears to have been in Italy, one from Matthew Colins in Australia, and one from Zeskind in the USA.
May 2001: INTERNATIONAL Searchlight, issue 311 is priced at £2.50 and runs to 36 pages.
This issue includes articles by Daphne Liddle (and Searchlight reporters), Nick Lowles and Renee Sams.
Page 12 is called an appreciation of Maurice Ludmer by Gable and Silver. Ludmer and Gable were partners; Silver is too young to have known Ludmer.
Nearly half the magazine is taken up with overseas reports, including one by Gable.
CRE man’s links to firm cashing in on race advice by Martin Smith and Faisal Bodi, published in The Mail On Sunday, May 6, 2001, page 25.
This is a report on Gable’s black poodle, Robert Purkiss, who appears to have been on to a nice little earner as an “independent consultant”. What a racket. Ironically, “links” is a favourite word of Gable’s; it remains to be seen if this allegation has any more substance to it than the ones Gable and company are fond of making, although it’s nice to see the boot on the other foot for a change.
AN INTERVIEW WITH MORRIS RILEY:
THE MAN WHO TOOK “SEARCHLIGHT” TO COURT
...AND WON!, published in Final Conflict, issue 26, pages 12-3.
An interview with the faithful Morris, dated 25th January 2001. The magazine was actually published in May 2001.
Some related comment appears on page 13 under the heading SEARCHLIES AND WHAT’S LEFT
Board to sell racist document,
100-year old paper for sale by Leon Symons, published in the Jewish Chronicle, May 18, 2001, page 1.
This is a report on the sale of Sir Richard Burton’s ritual murder manuscript.
Gable’s co-racialist (and Searchlight shareholder) Kushner is quoted thus on the man: “a scurrilous racist” who was “obsessed with black sexuality and believed in Jewish ritual murder”.
Oh dear.
Speed-camera detectors, published in the Times, May 19, 2001, page 23.
This is a letter from none other than Mrs Sonia Gable.
New TARGET, ISSUE...Number Sixteen, undated, came through my door May 31, 2001.
Among other things, the legal actions brought by the current writer, Mark Taha and Morris Riley are mentioned, on page 2.
June 2001: INTERNATIONAL Searchlight, issue 312 is priced at £2.50 and runs to 36 pages.
There is a big focus in this issue on Oldham where Lowles appears to have been on May 5. Silver also contributes an article on it.
On pages 16-7 is a review of a book about Greece during the Second World War by Kenny Coyle, who also contributed an article to the January issue.
On page 21, Kate Taylor publishes a review of the documentary Nazis in Margate: are refugees the real problem?
The National Front had been active in the area, and they are Nazis because?
There are a number of overseas reports including one by Atkinson on page 31, an obituary for Emil Carlebach, a German Jew who had been interned at Dachau, apparently because he was a communist rather than because he was a Jew.
Secret intelligence, American style by Glyn Ford, published in Tribune, June 15, 2001, page 19.
This is a book review by Gable’s political poodle. My apologies for the slightly slanted scan.
The David Copeland Case ‐ disturbing questions remain..., published in Green Anarchist, Issue 63, Summer 2001, pages 16-7.
This is said to be a summary of O’Hara’s ravings in Notes From The Borderland, Autumn 2000, pages 14-38. Yes Larry, we know the Searchlight gang are liars, but the rest of your article is speculative drivel.
Far Right picks next race target, by Paul Harris, published in the Observer, July 1, 2001, page 10.
Although Gable and his gang are not quoted in this article, his web address is given at the end, and a plain reading betrays Searchlight’s influence; the claim that the Observer has learnt that the National Front and Combat 18 plan to rally in Bradford the following Saturday is unlikely to have emanated from any other source.
Enter the racist rabble-rouser, by Matthew Hickley, published in the Daily Mail, August 1, 2001, pages 4-5.
This is a big report by Hickley and on page 5 by a Washington correspondent, on the ruling that Louis Farrakhan can enter Britain.
On page 4, Steve Silver, “co-editor of the anti-fascist magazine Searchlight” throws in his two shekels’ worth of hate against the Nation of Islam: “Under the guise of black pride, they espouse racial segregation, and we know from history where that leads.”
Gas chambers for Mr Silver and his co-racialists, no doubt.
New TARGET, issue number Seventeen came through my door August 4, 2001.
Searchlight’s token black Robert Purkiss comes under the spotlight in this issue. There is also a special supplement Andrew Jones Replies. This reports that “We hear they recently paid out £9000 to yet another victim.” This information came, obviously, from Yours Truly, and just as obviously it is wrong. £9,000 was the bill submitted by Anthony Julius for the first day of Gable’s partial strike out application in Taha v Gable. Curiously, I don’t recall writing to Jones about this, although I did tell a BNP contact or two.
‘Fascist’ Martin to learn fate at general meeting, by James Kaye, published in London Jewish News, 3 August 2001, page 3.
Searchlight gets a mention in this small hate article; it is said to have exposed Donald A. Martin’s “alleged anti-Semitic links”.
On Target, Vol. 31, Nos. 3 & 4, 11th & 25th August, 2001.
Searchlight magazine gets a mention on pages 23(47) and 23(48).
Griffin’s views ‘are shared by many Tories’ by Dominic Kennedy, published in the Times, August 25, 2001, page 10.
This is an inset in a much larger report, the so-called controversy over Edgar Griffin, Nick Griffin’s father. Lowles is quoted.
Open Letter To The Campaign For An Independent Britain was published on Usenet on September 19, 2001.
This was a response to Steve Silver’s article gloating over Donald Martin in the September issue of Gable’s goy-hating rag.
Alexander Baron’s SearchlightArchive opened for business on September 28, 2001. Two pamphlets were republished on it: A Revisionist History Of The 1960s Synagogue Arsons, (2nd Edition) and In Serving The Wicked Expect No Reward.
For the record, the site name searchlightarchive was originally all in lower case; it was changed to SearchlightArchive in May 2009.
EDITOR’S GONE BERSERK, by Rosa Prince and Stephen Moyes, published in The Mirror, November 15, 2001, page 9.
A number of people were asked to comment on the coverage by the Sun newspaper of the war in Afghanistan.
“GERRY GABLE, publisher of Searchlight, the international anti-fascist magazine, said: ‘Reading the leader in The Sun was like listening to a man in a mental asylum calling everyone else crazy.’”
Fair comment from a paranoid sociopath who suffers from Munchhausen’s Syndrome.
Admission of failure by Phil Revell, published in the Guardian (Education supplement), November 20, 2001, page 5.
December 2001: INTERNATIONAL Searchlight, issue 318 is priced at £2.50 and runs to 36 pages.
The front page alludes to an interview with a Searchlight mole. The actual story is a report by Nick Lowles on pages 4-6. The so-called mole in question is Darren Wells who is said to have been providing information to Searchlight since early 1999. Wells was a member of Combat 18, as far as groups like that have formal memberships. Reading this it is clear that he was disillusioned with big government and bureaucracy more than anything else, something he says in so many words. The murder of Chris Castle also had something to do with his supposed change of heart. The most dubious claim in this article is that he supplied information to the Gable gang that stopped a riot in June 2001.
Pages 8-9 is an article by Kate Taylor who claims the BNP are exploiting Burnley, which was hit by a riot. Notice the claim is not made that the BNP started this riot.
Talking of exploiting violence, on page 11, Renee Sams reports on the case of Christopher Alder. Alder was a former paratrooper who died in police custody on April 1, 1998. Because he was black, the usual suspects made a big issue out of it. In 2002, five police officers stood trial for his manslaughter and for misconduct in public office. The judge threw out the case.
What appears to have happened is that he suffered a head injury from an assault in a Hull nightclub. A head injury can cause disorientation and make the victim behave in strange ways. This may be misinterpretted as intoxication, for example which appears to be what happened here. Had the police been on the ball, he would probably not have died, but this case had nothing to do with so-called racism.
Gable contributes the News from the sewers column on page 12 and an interview with a film maker on pages 16-7.
There are various other contributions including two international reports from Tammy Wild in Germany and one from Jeroen Bosch who is said to be their new correspondent in The Netherlands.
EVIL IN OUR MIDST by Christopher Hudson, published in the Daily Mail, December 1, 2001, pages 52-4.
This lengthy article is basically a review of the newly published book White Riot. Lowles’ new effort is credited at the end.
WHITE RIOT: THE VIOLENT STORY OF COMBAT 18 by Nick Lowles, published by Milo Books, Bury, (November 2001). 338 pages. Index. Illustrated.
Page 3: Aside from being “fun”, it was, in C18 eyes, simply doing to the Left what they themselves had been doing to the Right for years through publications like Searchlight.
Page 10: Lowles makes a brief but highly imaginative reference to the May 1991 incident in Kensington Library. The “secret and influential” League of Saint George was said to have been due to be addressed by members of most of Britain’s Nazi groups, but this meeting was aborted after “200 anti-fascists” took over the hall. He admits that the thugs (that is what they were) gained entry with forged tickets, and locked the security men in a downstairs room. This would probably constitute false imprisonment, which can be a serious criminal offence.
The claim that the street outside the venue was “littered with the bodies of unconscious skinheads” is not true, and would of course bring no credit on these “anti-fascists” if it were. One person who certainly was injured in the ensuing fracas was my colleague Mark Taha, whose balding bonce hardlly qualifies him as a skinhead. He was taken to hospital, and later received a certain sum in criminal injuries compensation.
The prosaic truth is that, in the words of Keith Thompson, the League was/is a private organisation, like countless other political and non-political ones throughout Britain and the world. The library had been hired for a private meeting, which was then invaded by a group of thugs, led by Gable and one of his goy accomplices, Gary O’Shea of the pro-IRA group Red Action. [Due largely to the lies of Gerry Gable, which, incredibly, many people on the far right take at face value, Keith is regarded in certain quarters with suspicion. I can only say that I have spoken to him many times, and he has always impressed me as one of the more sincere and genuine people on the far right. The claim that he sold or otherwise gave information to Gable and his gang is a lie, pure and simple.]
Gable ended up in the dock over this but was cleared, although his reputation was tarnished somewhat in the process. [He claimed after that he had been fitted up because of his investigations into the Security Services. The simple truth is that Mr Gable couldn’t investigate his way out of a wet paper bag, although (tainted) Jewish money has bought him a certain amount of inside information on the far right over the years.]
Pages 240-1: “In November 1997, Tony Williams brought out the first of four issues of Column 88, a thick, theoretical journal printed out on his home computer.”
Page 255: “In the summer of 1995, Searchlight mooted the possibility that C18 was either a creation of the state or had been allowed to develop unhindered, either to use as a vehicle through which MI5 could spy on other organisations or to destabilise the right-wing generally through its divisive nature. This is not as preposterous as it may appear. The British Security Services had funded and directed the nazi group Column 88 as a state-sponsored honey trap.”
Pages 255-6: Lowles says that Column 88 was formed in the 1960s by Ian Souter Clarence and operated through an old pals network in the Royal Marines and other military units.
Page 256: Les Vaughan is mentioned.
Page 256: he suggests that Souter Clarence (who is referred to on the previous page as a “school master” rather than a Major) was either a paedophile or a homosexual who fancied young men.
Page 256: The government is said to have denied that Column 88 existed but was forced to back down after a series of “media disclosures”. He neglects to mention that these disclosures were the product of Maurice Ludmer’s sick Jewish mind and the fantasies of his goy fellow traveller, Dave Roberts.
Under the Skin of the BNP, is the listing in the Radio Times, 17-23 NOVEMBER 2001, for Sunday, November 18, 2001, on page 80.
The listing says this programme in the BBC 1 Panorama series is to be repeated with sign language the following Wednesday.
The programme was actually screened November 25, 2001.
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