Controversial British activist Tommy Robinson told the Post that he feels Israel is losing a diplomatic battle, but fears Iranian influence in the West
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Tommy Robinson has been a deeply divisive figure in British politics since the rise of the English Defense League in the early 2010s. His detractors have labeled him a “white supremacist” and an “Islamophobe,” while his supporters have hailed him as the only person speaking truth to power over mass migration and radical Islam.
This division has, naturally, stretched into theBritish Jewishcommunity. Yet as the crisis of security for the British Jewish community has worsened, in particular since October 7, when antisemitism exploded across the UK, more and more British Jews have warmed to the formerly untouchable Tommy Robinson.
The Jerusalem Post sat down with Robinson following the Unite the Kingdom rally, which drew unprecedented crowds. The rally, which saw attendees march the streets of London holding the Union Jack, occurred during a period in which deep controversy had been sparked over the lack of prominence for the British and English flags, while Palestinian flags are present in many areas.
Union Jack and St George's Cross flags hang from a sign above Westminster underground station, the day after an anti-immigration rally organised by British anti-immigration activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, also known as Tommy Robinson, in London, Britain, September 14, 2025. (credit: REUTERS/Jack Taylor)
The Jerusalem Post Podcast sits down with Tommy Robinson
The rally saw marchers carry not only the Union Jack but also the national flags of England, Scotland, and Wales. However, one non-British flag was prominent: the Israeli flag could be spotted regularly throughout the march, carried both by Jew and gentile alike, with some carrying the flag in support of Israel and the hostages, while others said they had had enough of the constant pro-Palestine protests and wanted to show there was opposition to them.
Despite the accusations of white supremacism, Robinson expressed his support not only for the Jewish community but also for Israel, saying, “There are 55 Muslim states, why can’t the Jews have one?”
He explained how early experiences witnessing the dangers of being Jewish in the United Kingdom gave him an understanding of the community’s fear of violence. In one incident, he saw a Jewish family in Luton, his hometown, barricading themselves in the town hall following a racist attack.
Robinson also noted that following this incident, he began to notice that the students of the local Jewish school required additional police protection, which led him to wonder why this community needed special protection while other communities didn’t.
Robinson says his views on the Jewish community have led to accusations that he is an “Israeli agent.” Robinson emphasized that the actual Nazis in the UK, who are small in number, hate him for his pro-Jewish views and that Nazis and jihadists have teamed up to attack Jews in the West.
He told us that he understands why so many Jews in the UK are not visibly Jewish. He tied much of the police’s failure to properly protect Jewish people to the same failure to protect women from “grooming gangs” of which his own relative was a victim.
This is why, when Robinson visited Israel shortly after leaving the EDL, he was shocked to see Jews and Arabs living side by side, without violence, inside Israel. He told us the idea that an openly Jewish family could have a picnic beside a large gathering of Arab men without incident was eye-opening.
Robinson made clear that when he came, not only did he visit Israel, but he also made sure to visit Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank. He told the Post that he felt it was important to hear both sides of the story. He paid a group of guides to lead him around the camp, while keeping his identity a secret. What he found in the camps shocked him: the culture of martyrdom, the glorification of the murder of Israelis regardless of religion, and the endemic corruption, which led the people of the camp to live in poverty while billions of dollars were being donated ostensibly to support them.
In his view, the residents are intentionally being kept in poverty by the Palestinian Authority in order to generate justification for further donations, which would then be stolen. He said that throughout his whole trip, the people he most connected with were those from the refugee camp, who had been abandoned by the people meant to help them.
Robinson feels Israel is losing the diplomatic battle, but laments that it is an uphill battle against Qatari and Iranian money, which is flooding into the West, infiltrating social media and academia.
He sharply criticized so-called influencers who claimed they had converted to Islam as being part of the Qatari propaganda network designed to promote and spread Islam.
“Israel is losing this battle,” he said, pointing to the conspiracy theories in the immediate aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk that claimed Israel that had him assassinated, as evidence that antisemitism has become pervasive throughout popular culture.
Keep these in mind as you contemplate the direction of the American government over the past 50 years and especially since the Obama election.
The Goals of Communism
(as read into the congressional record January 10, 1963, from "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen)
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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