A Manifesto by British activist Tommy Robinson became a top seller on Amazon in the UK and sold out, leading to questions from activists from the Hope Not Hate research group, which was sometimes funded by Soros.
Until now all kinds of news Tommy Robinson, a right-wing street organizer, received the book. manifestoIf anything, it was more than the fact that the book's cover contained text in Microsoft's sans-serif typeface, “Comic Sans.” many people don't like it. But earlier this week, the book was listed as an Amazon bestseller and prompted at least one complaint from a left-wing political activist.
British traditional left-wing newspaper guardian,in article It appears to have been created primarily as a vehicle to air this complaint, noting that Mr Robinson's book “reached number one on the site's bestseller chart on Tuesday before it sold out”, and even that Boris Johnson's newly published He said that it surpassed even the most recent political memoir. This is no small thing considering the book received widespread publicity in traditional media, including a series of television interviews with former prime ministers.
Joe Mulhall, a left-wing activist with the “dirty tricks” group Hope Not Hate (HnH), said Amazon should be forced to self-censor, although he cited freedom of speech to publish within the law. I made my opinion clear. he said. guardian: “Everyone has the right to write and publish a book, as long as the content does not break the law. The problem is that Amazon has used his platform to line thousands of pounds in the pockets of Britain's most famous far-right extremist. “Freedom of speech is not freedom of contact.”
This position is completely consistent with Hope Not Hate's longstanding position that right-wing books should not be available for purchase from retailers. Indeed, in 2018 they published a list of banned books, inevitably drawing comparisons to the actions of the historical fascists that Hope Not Hate claims to be fighting.
Hope Not Hate has strong links to friends in the British government and parliament, but dispassionate observers outside British politics have their doubts about the organization. Notably, Sweden's Swedish Defense Research Agency (FOI) included this group in its 2018 report on left-wing extremism. According to reports at the time,
The FOI report says that far-left groups often request information about right-wing opponents and that “they want to hold them accountable in some way (for example, by visiting people's homes with threats and harassment).” , sometimes information, names, and photographs to publicly identify people involved in nationalist movements,'' and organizations such as Expo and HnH are thought to be providing this information.
In particular, the report lists operations involving Patrick Hermansson, a former Expo writer and now HnH researcher who infiltrated alt-right and far-right circles in the UK and US last year.
This is not the first time HnH has been linked to far-left extremists, as lead researcher Dr. Joe Mulhall has tweeted multiple times on Antifa accounts.
