No sooner had I declared my intention to down tools for Christmas, I find myself reanimated over a debate between Connor Tomlinson and Daniel Finkelstein.
This is an excellent piece with genuine intellectual depth. The sort of article now conspicuously missing from supposedly conservative journals like the Spectator and Unherd. Merry Christmas.
I remember when Rachel Riley decided to campaign against antisemitism in the days when Jeremy Corbyn was Labour leader, she quickly decided that she also needed to campaign against islamophobia. Attempts to educate her about islam fell on deaf ears. British jews need to realise that diversity is fatal for them as well as for everyone else who isn't a supporter of jihad.
Good post, but I do wish you wouldn’t subscribe to the divisive cultural Marxist generational wars (Boomer, Zoomer, Gen X et al). It is purely used by The Blob to divide the opposition to its March through the
Yes, I don't recognise his sweeping generalisations about a particular age group. I think it's because Pete North wants to appeal to a younger generation, quite rightly, but this isn't a good way to do it. Why alienate people who are broadly on your side?
We need more people like you. Nationalist, honest and measured who calm turbulent seas and help us lesser beings navigate our way through the storms of today.
While I generally agree with what you say there is a difference between an ethno English state and a Jewish one which is that Judaism is a religion. So the creation of the state of Israel, as a reaction to the Holocaust, in a predominately Muslim region was asking for trouble.
Giving the Jews a home land in 1948 is no different to giving the Sikhs or any other religious group their own sovereign country and if we had these new countries would have had as many troubles as Israel has had and is having.
However having said that Israel is not going away and we must now live with it and work with them on the important basis that they are only democracy in the region.
In 1948 The Middle East was more diverse than today. For example, Lebanon was largely Christian and Iran largely Parsi/Zoroastrian. They could not gave known that Islam would conquer so much of the Levant.
I've also been following the Tomlinson - Finkelstein debate. Abusing Connor and attributing to him things he never said while Connor has kept his cool has done his lordship no favours. In short, Finkelstein is being a bit of a dick.
Lord Danny is a liberal boomer who sees his ideological world crashing around him. He's in bunker mode (so to speak), and has lost his reason, screaming and lashing out at his critics for the raw failings of his own ideology. It's probably the first time in his life he's had to confront being on the wrong side of the ascendant meta-narrative and it's triggered a sweaty panic attack. He's done everything short of swearing at the cat.
What he will not accept is that Jewish people are far from the only ethnos to have faced existential threats, and the English are currently one such. His absence of any sympathy for the English (which name he insultingly puts between inverted commas) is resulting, as others have warned, in diminishing sympathy for Jews, even among philosemites.
Pete's point about the antisemitic currents in strands of the British Right is well made. However, as one poster on X (can't remember who) has said, Connor has trodden a nuanced path, and Finkelstein should see him (Connor) as an ally against neo-Nazi fringe trends. Finkelstein won't of course. But as I said, he's being a dick.
Second of all I agree wholeheartedly with your article. I believe that in America the Groyper movement are probably an invention of the American Left and if they're not then they are enabled by the American Left. They do all the Left's work in damaging the right without them having to do anything.
You would think the British Left would let the BNP and Steve Laws' mob run wild without much comment but our version of the Groypers and the ethno-nationalists are ineffectual in a way the American version isn't. It is telling though that the British ethno-nationalists see Jews as a bigger threat than the Muslims, who are the ones doing all the killing and raping in the UK. Then you've got the odious Neema Parvini, aka the Academic Agent, who is ethnically Iranian but somehow gets a free pass from the ethno-nationalists and out and out neo-Nazis like Keith Woods because he blames "da Joooz" for everything. I can understand Americans for not knowing much about history because most of them are notoriously poor on that subject but it takes a special level of delusion and stupidity for a British person to buy into the Darryl Cooper-verse (which is just regurgitated David Irving).
“These people just haven’t updated their software because they never step out of their metropolitan suburban bubbles. They do not see that the British people are threatened by mass immigration because they don’t have a functioning definition of “British people”
Disagree on this point. They know very clearly what homogenous British are because one of them, Labour MP Barbara Roach, unashamedly made sure that the British borders would be opened up to diversify the country en masse. But broadly in the West they have worked tirelessly since 1945 to stem nationalist sentiment with large success as is seen just by walking through any European city. And how? Done so by chipping away at immigration policy, promoting multiculturalism and miscegenation, and supporting the Left, until now. They have completely lost the Left because of the war in Gaza and so now are slyly cozying up like a hungry cat to the Right charming them with right wing sentiment of anti-Islam, anti-immigration, and anti-LGBTQ.
Their strategy is so obvious now in 2025 because they cannot control the flow of information on the internet and also due to the high quality analysis and research done by intelligent and brave scholars of which there are too many to name.
Good article but you never discussed the difference between anti Zionism and anti semitism. You do not even mention the former.
2 in 5 American Jews under 40 believe Israel is an apartheid state. Anti Zionism is a mainstream view among younger American Jews. Confusingly the two prompts a backlash that is not on the best interests of both Jews and Israel.
Fascinatingread on how ethno-nationalism intersects with the Jewish question in British politics. The point about how a homogenous society could historically accomodate minorities but struggles when demographics shift fundamentally is sharp. I've watced this play out in real time where legitimate concerns about sectarianism get redirected into conspiracy theories instead of focusing on the actual threats from unchecked immigration.
Connor made his points without once suggesting Jews were targets for remigration, so I'm wondering why this entire article is dedicated to defending Jews from far right Nazi grade ethnats. If Pete regards ethno-nationalism as long over-due in the UK it would be good to hear more about what type and why.
I see a future where Israel could be crucial allies for us. This anti-Semitism is a foolish distraction from serious thought.
Merry Christmas Pete
This is an excellent piece with genuine intellectual depth. The sort of article now conspicuously missing from supposedly conservative journals like the Spectator and Unherd. Merry Christmas.
I remember when Rachel Riley decided to campaign against antisemitism in the days when Jeremy Corbyn was Labour leader, she quickly decided that she also needed to campaign against islamophobia. Attempts to educate her about islam fell on deaf ears. British jews need to realise that diversity is fatal for them as well as for everyone else who isn't a supporter of jihad.
Good post, but I do wish you wouldn’t subscribe to the divisive cultural Marxist generational wars (Boomer, Zoomer, Gen X et al). It is purely used by The Blob to divide the opposition to its March through the
institutions.
Yes, I don't recognise his sweeping generalisations about a particular age group. I think it's because Pete North wants to appeal to a younger generation, quite rightly, but this isn't a good way to do it. Why alienate people who are broadly on your side?
Great article, Peter, thank you.
We need more people like you. Nationalist, honest and measured who calm turbulent seas and help us lesser beings navigate our way through the storms of today.
Keep it up and have a happy Christmas.
'White people will one day no longer exist. Its just
a matter of time. Who cares?' - Ed Krassenstein
While I generally agree with what you say there is a difference between an ethno English state and a Jewish one which is that Judaism is a religion. So the creation of the state of Israel, as a reaction to the Holocaust, in a predominately Muslim region was asking for trouble.
Giving the Jews a home land in 1948 is no different to giving the Sikhs or any other religious group their own sovereign country and if we had these new countries would have had as many troubles as Israel has had and is having.
However having said that Israel is not going away and we must now live with it and work with them on the important basis that they are only democracy in the region.
In 1948 The Middle East was more diverse than today. For example, Lebanon was largely Christian and Iran largely Parsi/Zoroastrian. They could not gave known that Islam would conquer so much of the Levant.
I've also been following the Tomlinson - Finkelstein debate. Abusing Connor and attributing to him things he never said while Connor has kept his cool has done his lordship no favours. In short, Finkelstein is being a bit of a dick.
Lord Danny is a liberal boomer who sees his ideological world crashing around him. He's in bunker mode (so to speak), and has lost his reason, screaming and lashing out at his critics for the raw failings of his own ideology. It's probably the first time in his life he's had to confront being on the wrong side of the ascendant meta-narrative and it's triggered a sweaty panic attack. He's done everything short of swearing at the cat.
What he will not accept is that Jewish people are far from the only ethnos to have faced existential threats, and the English are currently one such. His absence of any sympathy for the English (which name he insultingly puts between inverted commas) is resulting, as others have warned, in diminishing sympathy for Jews, even among philosemites.
Pete's point about the antisemitic currents in strands of the British Right is well made. However, as one poster on X (can't remember who) has said, Connor has trodden a nuanced path, and Finkelstein should see him (Connor) as an ally against neo-Nazi fringe trends. Finkelstein won't of course. But as I said, he's being a dick.
First of all, Merry Christmas, Pete.
Second of all I agree wholeheartedly with your article. I believe that in America the Groyper movement are probably an invention of the American Left and if they're not then they are enabled by the American Left. They do all the Left's work in damaging the right without them having to do anything.
You would think the British Left would let the BNP and Steve Laws' mob run wild without much comment but our version of the Groypers and the ethno-nationalists are ineffectual in a way the American version isn't. It is telling though that the British ethno-nationalists see Jews as a bigger threat than the Muslims, who are the ones doing all the killing and raping in the UK. Then you've got the odious Neema Parvini, aka the Academic Agent, who is ethnically Iranian but somehow gets a free pass from the ethno-nationalists and out and out neo-Nazis like Keith Woods because he blames "da Joooz" for everything. I can understand Americans for not knowing much about history because most of them are notoriously poor on that subject but it takes a special level of delusion and stupidity for a British person to buy into the Darryl Cooper-verse (which is just regurgitated David Irving).
I think Tomlinson deserves a straight answer to a straight question and not screeds of irrelevant “analysis”.
“These people just haven’t updated their software because they never step out of their metropolitan suburban bubbles. They do not see that the British people are threatened by mass immigration because they don’t have a functioning definition of “British people”
Disagree on this point. They know very clearly what homogenous British are because one of them, Labour MP Barbara Roach, unashamedly made sure that the British borders would be opened up to diversify the country en masse. But broadly in the West they have worked tirelessly since 1945 to stem nationalist sentiment with large success as is seen just by walking through any European city. And how? Done so by chipping away at immigration policy, promoting multiculturalism and miscegenation, and supporting the Left, until now. They have completely lost the Left because of the war in Gaza and so now are slyly cozying up like a hungry cat to the Right charming them with right wing sentiment of anti-Islam, anti-immigration, and anti-LGBTQ.
Their strategy is so obvious now in 2025 because they cannot control the flow of information on the internet and also due to the high quality analysis and research done by intelligent and brave scholars of which there are too many to name.
Good article but you never discussed the difference between anti Zionism and anti semitism. You do not even mention the former.
2 in 5 American Jews under 40 believe Israel is an apartheid state. Anti Zionism is a mainstream view among younger American Jews. Confusingly the two prompts a backlash that is not on the best interests of both Jews and Israel.
Source https://jcpa.org/survey-among-american-jews-over-51-support-for-bidens-decision-to-withhold-arms-shipments-to-israel/
Fascinatingread on how ethno-nationalism intersects with the Jewish question in British politics. The point about how a homogenous society could historically accomodate minorities but struggles when demographics shift fundamentally is sharp. I've watced this play out in real time where legitimate concerns about sectarianism get redirected into conspiracy theories instead of focusing on the actual threats from unchecked immigration.
Connor made his points without once suggesting Jews were targets for remigration, so I'm wondering why this entire article is dedicated to defending Jews from far right Nazi grade ethnats. If Pete regards ethno-nationalism as long over-due in the UK it would be good to hear more about what type and why.
Connor will give it the big talk but the Church of Rome will tell him "diversity is your strength" and he will shut up again.