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Tommy Robinson, the main instigator, and co-founder of the English and Jewish Defense League (alongside Paul Ray, ex-Israeli intelligence), before they renamed it the EDL have been working for Israel as part of their counterjihad movement since 2009.
Do you have a reliable source for that?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/07/tommy-robinson-global-support-brexit-march
The Guardian looked into Robinson’s global support after he was jailed for filming outside a rape trial involving defendants of mainly Pakistani heritage at Leeds crown court. He was released on 1 August after the court of appeal ordered that he should be retried. The attorney general is deciding whether to proceed with a retrial.
The investigation has established that:
A Philadelphia-based thinktank, the Middle East Forum (MEF), acknowledges it has spent about $60,000 (£47,000) on Robinson’s legal fees and demonstrations staged in London earlier this year. A senior MEF executive has been closely involved in preparations for this weekend’s march, though the thinktank said she was there in a personal capacity.
A US tech billionaire, Robert Shillman, financed a fellowship that helped pay for Robinson to be employed in 2017 by a rightwing Canadian media website, the Rebel Media, on a salary of about £5,000 a month.
The David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC), a California-based thinktank that describes itself as a “school for political warfare”, has published a series of pieces defending Robinson, and has lobbied for him to address US politicians.
Horowitz, the co-founder of the DHFC, told the Guardian in an email: “Tommy Robinson is a courageous Englishman who has risked his life to expose the rape epidemic of young girls conducted by Muslim gangs and covered up by your shameful government.”
MEF, Gatestone and the DHFC are well funded by influential rightwing donors, according to tax returns scrutinised by the Guardian. In 2014-16, the returns show they received a total of almost $5m from several millionaire donors.
Sounds like it's the bourgeois who are funding him and not "Israel" then.
What's causing the Islamophobic riots across the UK, and why now?
https://xcancel.com/Tracking_Power/status/1819696060941627553
Tommy Robinson has previously stated he would "fight for Israel in a war."
This thread examines Robinson and EDL's very clear material relationship with the Zionist Movement and considers the possibility that the racist attacks and pogroms in Britain are part of that fight.
https://xcancel.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1820188695099502783
Do you have an actual source and not Xitter?
Google is your friend sir. The people linked on Twitter are reputable and is an ‘actual source’.
"Google is your friend" is just a copout. You cannot just make claims without adequately substantiating them.
Also, who appart from you can vouch for the reputation of the Twitter person?
I did substantiate them adequately, you can google and confirm the companies house registration or whatever other info you doubt. Which is what exactly? Seems pretty clear cut.
The filing, the financial backing, or that this is what they do ?
First one is literally this guy
https://supportmiller.org/
I don't see anything linking Israel and Yaxley on any of the links you provide.
Well then you’re either thick or dishonest which is it?
Lol