But wait @michaelgove. A charity *you* directed in 2017 was part of an 'Alt Right' gathering of white nationalists and antisemites, while it was funded by the Home Office. Your Govt continued to work with this lobby group. Will you condemn? https://bylinetimes.com/2020/11/02/michael-goves-lobbyists-at-the-heart-of-white-nationalist-trumpworld/ @BylineTimes https://twitter.com/michaelgove/status/1321871058568359945
In May 2017, while u @michaelgove were a trustee of this charity, its executive director Alan Mendoza platformed anti-black activist and white nationalist David Horowitz, to portray the Muslim Students Association as a "terror front" /2
In November 2017, while in receipt of Home Office funding, your charity, the Henry Jackson Society (which that yr paid u @michaelgove to meet Trump officials), shared the stage w/notorious antisemites such as Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes, a Holocaust denier and homophobe. /3
Another attendee of this 'Alt Right' gathering of white nationalists which @michaelgove's Home Office-funded charity participated in, was Katie Hopkins. She moaned that “discrimination against whites is institutionalised and systemic” in the UK. Do you agree @michaelgove? /4
Even Trump's ex-deputy assistant Sebastian Gorka, who collaborated with antisemites in Hungary (and was a member of a military order which helped Nazis deport Jews to camps in 1944), joined @michaelgove's friends + colleagues at the 2017 Restoration Weekend /5 (video deleted) /5
. @michaelgove u worked closely w/ @DouglasKMurray and @alanmendoza at HJS. In 2017, @DouglasKMurray singled out ethnic Indians and Sudanese for his bigotry. A wider range of cuisines in Europe due to immigration from such groups would be offset by “gang-rape and beheading”. /6
. @michaelgove do u agree with @DouglasKMurray's sentiment? “The first person from, for instance, India to bring Indian cuisine into the UK... vims up the local cuisine. It’s not the case that the next 100 Indians who come in... bring a hundred times more interesting cuisine." /7
. @michaelgove, noting ur glowing review of @DouglasKMurray's book, do u agree with his warning at the 2017 'Alt Right' gathering that too much "diversity" in Europe puts the continent in danger of becoming "a larger version of Mogadishu"? /8
In 2016, @michaelgove, the HJS paid you £2,764 for a visit to New York. In 2017, it paid you £492 for a trip to Washington DC to meet Trump officials. Is this why you refuse to answer questions about the group's fraternising with white nationalists and antisemites? /9
Home Office funded HJS the year it joined this Alt Right gathering of white nationalists and antisemites. In 2018, it had a staffer in Home Office. And this year, it has influenced Boris Johnson's foreign policy agenda at the highest levels. Why support pro-Trump extremists? /END
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