The Second Elephant in Mr. Lowe’s Living Room

 

F The Second Elephant in Mr. Lowe’s Living Room Restore Isn't Even Registered as a Party, and it's Not as Simple as it Seems Nick Griffin Mar 8 R   Restore’s membership is reported now to have topped 100,000, and continues to soar. At just £20 a year and with no sort of activism test of commitment, there’s not exactly a high bar, but the figure is still testament to ‘far-right’ disillusionment with Nigel Farage’s love-in with failed and recycled Tories. It also reminds us of just how much good Mr. Lower could achieve if he put his growing army to effective work building a really solid base. I have already commented on the potential for the Reform/Restore split to inadvertently hand us over to a Labour/Green/SNP/Marxist/Islamist coalition until 2034 (and, given the number of Brits who would emigrate, while open borders immigration replaces them, in perpetuity thereafter) so I will not rehash this. I’ve pointed out this very dangerous elephant Instead, let us look at the other giant pachyderm in the living room – the fact that Restore still hasn’t even been registered with the Electoral Commission, without which it cannot stand a single candidate. This poses Rupert and his supporters with one very obvious problem and one which is less obvious, but even more dangerous. My guess is that Lowe is putting off registering the party so that he has a good excuse for not standing in May’s local council elections. This is a wise move. Restore candidates would suffer the same catastrophic results as afflicted Advance in the Gorton and Denton by-election. Their hardworking and very credible candidate, Nick Buckley, running on a Restore-style platform headlined by the grooming gangs issue, was beaten even by the Monster Raving Loony Party as voters faced the stark choice of Reform or the water-melon Greens. Rupert’s problem, however, is that every day in which he puts off registering his party is another day in which someone else can do it instead. In which case, he would be forced to come up with a new name, which would set his brand recognition meter back to zero and make even worse the current confusion with Reform, Advance, Restore, Reclaim and UKIP. Still, provided no-one else bothers to beat him to it, this first hurdle will be cleared very easily. The second, by contrast, could well lead to an extremely expensive legal battle which would prevent the registration of Restore – or indeed any other party – by Rupert Lowe. This is the fact that, after the Equality Commission’s lawfare operation against the BNP, the Electoral Commission declared itself to have the power to refuse to register any new party whose constitution or political aims were in any way ‘discriminatory’. The ban on the registration of such party’s was explained very clearly on their website, and was supported by the Equality quango. Several ultra-far-right parties have been refused registration under this purported power, despite having aims and objectives much more vaguely and moderately worded that Rupert Lowe’s “millions must go” stance. Take another look at his X post illustrating this article. Yes, of course I agree with it, but do you really think the liberal quangocracy will reward this is party registration - unless it suits them? Several years ago, however, the anti-discrimination ‘guidance’ vanished abruptly from the Electoral Commission’s website, which probably accounts for the fact that Mr. Lowe doesn’t even seem to be aware of the problem. This happened after a pro-indigenous lawyer and I wrote to our MPs providing legal chapter and verse as to how the Electoral Commission’s position was an abuse of power and, in itself, discrimination against the rights of indigenous Britons in general and the English in particular. Since both the Electoral and Equality Commission were set up by Parliament, they remain within the purview of the Parliamentary Ombudsman. We urged our MPs to submit our points to the Parliamentary Ombudsman, requesting that he review this outrageously anti-democratic power grab by these unelected quangos. This isn’t really a matter in which the parliamentary authorities have any wriggle room, their errant quangos have drastically exceeded their proper powers, so they should be brought to heel. Both MPs made reassuring noises, but in the end neither approached their Ombudsman. We then approached several MPs on the far-right of the Tory party (I know it’s not exactly Genghis Khan territory, but beggars can’t be choosers). These, however, replied by saying that, while they sympathised with our points, they were unable to do anything because MPs are only allowed to put matters before the Parliamentary Ombudsman on behalf of their own constituents. We were thus referred back to people who had already refused to take action. Contacted about the vanished claim to the power to prevent the registration of politically incorrect parties, the Electoral Commission have said that “the matter is under review”. They claim to know nothing and to be unable to provide guidance. We’ll all just have to wait and see. Mine’s a Pint of Woodfordes Wherry, Rupert Now, it might just be that the work which my legal eagle friend and I did on this has already done the job. The EC may have taken on board the fact that they overstepped the mark and would ultimately lose in court, so have already decided to drop their claim to power which parliament never intended them to have. If Rupert is allowed to register Restore without any fuss, then he owes me a couple of pints – because getting that himself from scratch would have incurred enormous legal costs. On the other hand, they may still be up for a fight to retain their purported power of life and death over anti-immigration dissident parties. If and when Mr. Lowe does get to submitting an application to register Restore, he may well still be rebuffed with a refusal, on the grounds that Restore’s stated policy aims are incompatible with the Equality Laws, and the Electoral Commission’s legal duty to abide by them. At that stage, of course, Mr. Lowe, as a sitting MP, can go to the Parliamentary Ombudsman and complain. After the usual delays in such bureaucratic matters, he may get a ruling in his favour, or he may not. In the former case, the Electoral and Equality Commissions are likely to hot foot it to the High Court. In the latter case, that will be where Mr. Lowe will have to go. That would spark a court battle costing huge sum of money and likely, by the time appeals take it all the way to the Supreme Court, or even the ECHR, to remain unsettled until after the next general election. Which would at least mean that hundreds of Restore candidates – being unable to stand - would be spared the humiliation of losing their deposits, or the less likely knowledge that their 6% – 7% ‘successes’ handed us over to the Coalition from Hell. That said, there is a possibility that Starmer & Co would fast-track Mr. Lowe’s appeal, and have words with the liberal-left quangocrats or activist judges to secure Restore’s right to register and to stand. This would not result from any sudden enthusiasm for democratic principles, but in the hope that Restore’s activist base and online popularity will indeed translate into enough actual votes to save a number of Labour seats, or at least hand them to their Green future coalition partners rather than Reform. The fact that neither Mr. Lowe nor any observers of the Reform/Advance/Restore circus have spotted this gigantic elephant shows just how ill-informed and amateurish this whole populist right scene really is. They all claim to stand for revolutionary change in British politics, and that they must and will usher this in by 2029, or Britain will crash and burn in civil war. Actually, they may well finally have got something right with that last claim; their counter-jihad allies are certainly working very hard to help make it happen, and even many liberal commentators now acknowledge that the country is divided and tense as never before. But really, if you think the country is headed for civil war, is hoping that a fanatical, shameless and totalitarian elite will let an old age pensioner come from nowhere and win a general election really the best you can do? People who do, need to get a grip. Don’t take a knife to a gunfight. There’s a lot of hot air, and some beautifully written pieces out there about the ‘British right’ at present. But is anyone else actually giving you blasts of reality like this? To support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. It makes a real difference. Upgrade to paid If you appreciate my work, but aren’t yet ready to become a paid subscriber on Substack, perhaps you’d feel good at least buying me a coffee. “Many a mickle maks a muckle”, as my ancestors on my fairly remote Scottish side would have said. Thank you! “Buy Me a Coffee” HERE

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Trump the Destroyer By A Duggan Alexander Dugin on Iran’s resistance, the collapse of American credibility, and the accelerating birth of a multipolar world. The fact that Iran is not surrendering, not agreeing to a truce or a ceasefire, is already changing the balance of power. After the first strike, Iran regrouped and selected a new Rahbar (Supreme Leader): Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Ayatollah Khamenei. Despite painful blows to its energy infrastructure, Iran continues not merely to resist but to actively attack the enemy. Missile and drone strikes have been carried out against all U.S. bases surrounding Iran. According to neutral estimates, more than 1,000 American service members have been killed (Iran reports much higher numbers, while Trump speaks of only a handful, which seems laughable given the scale of the Iranian strikes). Iran has chosen a very effective tactic: striking not only military targets in Israel, which is gradually turning into something resembling Gaza, but above all the hubs and energy centers of the Arab Gulf states on which the global economy depends. Combined with the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz, this has already led to enormous losses for the global market. Moreover, the situation will worsen with each day of Iranian resistance. It is significant that the Gulf countries—whose plans to transform themselves into neutral and safe centers of the world economy have now come to an end—blame not so much Iran as Israel and the United States. They have always disliked Israel, but in their eyes Trump has become a direct traitor. If American military bases do not protect them but instead create danger, what are they needed for? Arab leaders ask this question quite logically. Meanwhile, the plankton of global capitalism and the armies of escort girls are hastily leaving Dubai. On the roof of an abandoned hotel, only the somewhat unhinged influencer Andrew Tate dances alone, stubbornly insisting that all of this is merely a computer simulation and that we are living in a matrix where new scenery has simply been loaded in. The next step will be the withdrawal of Arab bonds from the United States. Incidentally, BlackRock has halted the process of withdrawals from its funds, lowering the ceiling by more than half. It looks like the beginning of a collapse. Oil prices are soaring, and the indices are falling rapidly. It is entirely possible that the global economy may collapse altogether in the foreseeable future. Continue: Multipolar Press Trump the Destroyer Alexander Dugin on Iran’s resistance, the collapse of American credibility, and the accelerating birth of a multipolar world… Read more

The Essence of Zionism

A Metaphysical and Historical Analysis

Alexander Dugin

Alexander Dugin argues that Zionism is Judaism’s heretical rebellion where Jews declare themselves God, seize the Holy Land by force, and plunge tradition into apocalyptic upheaval.

In the modern world, the Middle East remains the epicenter of geopolitical conflicts, where the interests of various forces intersect, including Islam, Judaism, and global powers. Particular attention is drawn to Zionism as the state ideology of Israel, which, in the view of many analysts, carries an eschatological dimension linked to the end times.

Like any religion, Judaism is a complex phenomenon encompassing metaphysics, history, and philosophy, with numerous interpretations that sometimes contradict one another. We will examine how Zionism fits into this tradition and why it can be perceived as both its continuation and, at the same time, its refutation.

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Judaism as a religion is tied to the idea that the Jews are the chosen people. Primarily in a religious sense, because this people was chosen to:

• remain faithful to the one God at a time when other nations, according to Judaism, had departed from this monotheism, and

• await His messenger, the Messiah (Mashiach), who will be crowned King of Israel and Ruler of the world.

The Hebrew word mashiach means “anointed” or “anointed for kingship.” The same word in Greek is Christos. But Christianity is founded on the conviction that the Messiah has already come into the world. That is our religion. The fundamental difference from Judaism lies in the fact that Jews believe the Messiah has not yet come and do not recognize Jesus Christ as the Messiah. This is the core distinction.

An extremely interesting point arises next. According to the Jewish religion, the Jews went into exile at the beginning of the first millennium, in the 70s AD (the fourth exile). This occurred after the Romans carried out a punitive operation against the rebellious province. The Second Temple was destroyed. The Jews left Palestine (the Holy Land). And thus began the two-thousand-year era of dispersion.

This era has religious meaning, as detailed in Jewish tradition. The purpose of the dispersion is to atone for the sins of Israel accumulated in previous historical stages. If this atonement is genuine and repentance (teshuvah) is profound, according to Jewish tradition, the Mashiach will appear as a blessing from the Jewish God for the deeds of His chosen people. In such a case, the appearance of the Mashiach will be a sign from above for the return of the Jews to Israel, the establishment of independent statehood, and the building of the Third Temple in Jerusalem on the site of the destroyed Second Temple.

In principle, the most consistent representatives of this Jewish approach are certain fundamentalists from the Neturei Karta movement or the Satmar Hasidim, who say something like: “Our Jewish God commanded us to endure the hardships of exile; let us wait for its end, let us atone for our sins, and when the Mashiach comes (but not before!), we will return to Israel, the Promised Land.” They rely on the fact that the Talmud contains a clear prohibition against a mass return to Palestine before the coming of the Mashiach, and especially against achieving it through force.

The Talmud prohibits it and firmly asserts: first the Mashiach, then the return to Israel, and no other way.

Here a question arises: how, then, was the State of Israel created when, apparently, the Mashiach has still not come? Even the most extreme Zionists do not claim that he has arrived.

To understand how it happened that the modern Israeli state stands in complete contradiction to Jewish religion in its orthodox, Talmudic formulation, we must dig deeper and go back at least to the 17th century, to the era of the pseudo-messiah Sabbatai Zevi. As Gershom Scholem writes, he was the first harbinger of Zionism.

Sabbatai Zevi declared that he himself was the Mashiach, and therefore the Jews now had the right to return to the Promised Land.

Sabbatai Zevi met a tragic end. When he arrived before the Ottoman sultan demanding that Palestine be handed over to him as the Messiah, the Ottoman sultan said: “I have another proposal for you, Mr. Sabbatai Zevi: if you continue spouting this nonsense, I will cut off your head. But if you want to survive, immediately accept Islam.”

At this point, Sabbatai Zevi makes a strange gesture. He puts on a turban and says: “You are right, you win; I am no Messiah—let me now preach Islam.”

He was spared, but what disappointment, what a blow to the Jewish community that was already prepared to embrace Sabbateanism! Sabbateanism was rejected by orthodox Judaism, but it did not disappear completely and continued to spread, especially among Ashkenazi Jews in Eastern Europe, almost underground. In the very same regions where it spread, Hasidism began to take shape—a movement that lacked sharp eschatological and messianic orientation but emphasized the dissemination of Kabbalah among ordinary people. Traditionally, Kabbalah could only be studied by elderly rabbis who had mastered all other forms of Talmudic learning.

But what happened in some Sabbatean sects? A theory emerged that Sabbatai Zevi was in fact the true Messiah, and he entered Islam deliberately because he committed a sacred betrayal. What is sacred betrayal? An entire theology of sacred betrayal developed, asserting that Jews could renounce their faith and outwardly enter another religion but only for appearance, in order to undermine it from within, while secretly continuing to profess Judaism.

Later, the Sabbatean Jacob Frank converted to Catholicism. Moreover, he supplied Catholic censors with so-called evidence of the “blood libel”—the legend that “Jews eat Christian infants.” He insisted on this as a converted Jew himself and provided “irrefutable evidence.” Frank completely abandoned all forms of Talmudism and renounced his faith, betraying his coreligionists. Yet he had justification. The secret doctrine of Frank, like that of Sabbatai Zevi, claimed that after the 17th century, the very concept of the Mashiach had changed. Now the Mashiach is the Jews themselves. There is no need to wait for some separate Mashiach—the Jews are the Mashiach.

Therefore, even if a Jew betrays his religion, he remains holy because he is holiness itself; he is God.

Thus, an intellectual environment was created for Zionism.

The essence of Zionism lies in it being a kind of “Jewish Satanism.” Not Satanism in relation to other peoples or cultures, but Satanism within Judaism—that is, an inversion of values. If classical orthodox Judaism insists that the meaning of Jewish existence in dispersion (galut) consists in awaiting the Mashiach, who will come from outside, and only then should one return to the Promised Land, Zionism is based on the principle that the Jews themselves are God. Therefore, they can return to Palestine right now and can do so by force, thereby rejecting the Talmudic prohibition and proceeding to build the Third Temple. The appearance of the Mashiach will be the culmination of this messianic process, but in essence, every Israeli is the Mashiach.

Hence the completely specific relationship between Zionism and Judaism. On one hand, Zionism is a continuation of Judaism; on the other, it is a refutation of Judaism, since it rejects the most fundamental principles of Judaism: the culture of pious waiting and the culture of repentance (teshuvah).

Moreover, Zionists assert that the Jews have nothing to repent for—they have suffered enough. The Jews are God—not merely “the people of God,” but God Himself. Therefore, no law applies to them; they are their own law.

This explains the fundamental feature of the modern Zionist movement, which relies not only on Israel but also on a vast number of secular Jews, liberal Jews, atheist Jews, communist Jews, capitalist Jews, Christian Jews, Protestant Jews, Catholic Jews, Orthodox Jews, Muslim Jews, Hare Krishna Jews, neospiritualist Jews, occultist Jews—all types of Jews who in fact represent a network of generalized Frankism. Precisely because they collectively and individually are now the Mashiach, each of them can calmly engage in sacred betrayal while not sinning against their essence.

This is an immanent messianism in which the concepts of Mashiach and the Jews themselves have swapped places. Zionists no longer wait for the Mashiach—they themselves are the Mashiach, and therefore there is no one and nothing left to wait for. All that remains is to rely on their own strength and their own global networks to assert world domination and build their Israeli state, disregarding the local population or any other costs.

This is served by the formal prohibition on criticizing Zionism that operates in some American states, where anti-Zionism is equated with anti-Semitism.

If we look closely, we notice that the State of Israel itself wages war against Semites—that is, against the Palestinians, Arabs who are pure Semites. Moreover, Zionist ideology cannot even be fully called “Jewish” because it is based on the refutation of the basic principles of Judaism. If there is no waiting for the Mashiach, then what Judaism is there?

The very existence of the State of Israel is, in the eyes of Zionists, proof that they are the Mashiach. Otherwise, the state would not have arisen. They attribute all credit for its creation exclusively to themselves and their networks. Since it succeeded, they believe, it was done with God’s help.

Then only one step remains: to blow up the Al-Aqsa Mosque and proceed to build the Third Temple, which is precisely what the extreme Zionist group—the Temple Mount Faithful movement—calls for. Enormous funds have recently been allocated for research on the Temple Mount.

Since Zionism has such a profound metaphysical underpinning, taming it with UN appeals or futile cries of “let’s make peace, let’s respect human rights” is pointless.

We are in the thick of eschatological scenarios with a very deep metaphysical basis. The situation is becoming increasingly alarming, far exceeding the bounds of habitual banal explanations—economy, markets, oil prices, stock exchanges, national interests, and so on—which are becoming more and more contradictory and even absurd.

We live in very interesting times, but the price for the opportunity to live in them is that parts of our consciousness are simply blocked or paralyzed. If we step beyond the hypnosis, fog, nonsense, absurdity, and postmodern fragmentation of consciousness, we will see a very interesting and terrifying picture of what is happening in the Middle East.

The mentioned figures:

• Gershom Scholem (1897–1982): Israeli historian and specialist in Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah). Considered the founder of the modern academic study of Kabbalah. Scholem described Sabbatai Zevi as a harbinger of Zionism, emphasizing how messianic movements influenced Jewish history.

• Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676): Jewish mystic and false messiah who proclaimed himself the Mashiach in the 17th century. His movement (Sabbateanism) generated massive enthusiasm among Jews but ended with his conversion to Islam. This event influenced the development of antinomianism (violation of laws for “spiritual purification”) in Jewish sects.

• Jacob Frank (1726–1791): Founder of Frankism, a religious movement combining elements of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Frank claimed to be the reincarnation of Sabbatai Zevi and preached “purification through transgression” (sacred betrayal), including the rejection of traditional Judaism. His followers (Frankists) contributed to antisemitic campaigns, such as blood libel accusations.

• Neturei Karta: An anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox Jewish group founded in 1938. They view Zionism as an affront to God, since Jews should not return to Israel en masse or by force before the Mashiach comes. The group advocates the peaceful dissolution of the State of Israel and supports the Palestinians.

References to books and sources:

Gershom Scholem, Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676 (Princeton University Press, 1973): A classic biography of Sabbatai Zevi, where Scholem analyzes him as a precursor to Zionism. The book emphasizes how messianic expectations evolved into political movements.

Paweł Maciejko, The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755-1816 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011): The first comprehensive study of Frank and Frankism, showing its influence on Jewish-Christian relations.

Talmud (Ketubot 111a): Contains the “Three Oaths”—a metaphor in which the Jews swear not to “ascend as a wall” (mass return) to the Land of Israel before the Mashiach, not to rebel against the nations, and not to hasten the end times. This is interpreted as a prohibition on creating Israel.

Yotav Eliach, Judaism, Zionism and the Land of Israel (Wise Path Books, 2018): An overview of 4,000 years of Jewish history, focusing on the religious and ideological aspects of Zionism.

Yitzhak Conforti, Zionism and Jewish Culture: A Study in the Origins of a National Movement (Academic Studies Press, 2024): A study of the cultural roots of Zionism, including the balance between tradition and modernity.

Yossi Shain, The Israeli Century: How the Zionist Revolution Changed History and Reinvented Judaism (Post Hill Press, 2021): An analysis of how Zionism transformed Jewish identity from diaspora to sovereignty.

Derek Penslar, Zionism: An Emotional State (Rutgers University Press, 2023)—on the emotional aspects of Zionism.

Marjorie N. Feld, The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism (NYU Press, 2024)—on Jewish critics of Zionism.

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  Crime is rising. Immigration is out of control and people feel the demographic foundations of the country shifting beneath them.   The cost of living burdens ordinary families. Freedom of speech is narrowing. British culture is being eroded, our history demeaned, and public services fail the people they exist to serve.   The Britain I grew up believing in feels further and further away.   Like many people, I reached the point where I felt politically homeless.   That is why I am giving my support to Rupert Lowe and Restore Britain.   Lowe is not a career politician. He speaks plainly, with courage and conviction, about the things many people quietly feel but rarely hear said from the political and cultural establishment.   For the first time in a long time I see a movement that speaks about restoring competence, sovereignty and pride in our country.   If you care about Britain’s future, I would encourage you to listen to what Rupert Lowe has to say.   And if you feel the same love for this country that I do, consider giving Restore Britain your support and join the party.   For the love of this country, and for the generations who will inherit it, we must find the courage to restore Britain. United as one.