Conservative antisemitism: the strange case of Boris Johnson, Richard Spencer and Gavin McInnes

JVL Introduction

It gives us no pleasure to reproduce this article about the Spectator during Boris Johnson’s tenure as editor from 1999 to 2005.

During that period the magazine employed a notoriously racist and antisemitic commentator known as just “Taki”, whom Johnson took no steps to rein in.

Why, we ask, is he not held accountable for the company he kept and indeed allowed to flourish. Why is his connivance at racism given a free pass by our mainstream media? Could he really not have known he was giving space to a virulent antisemite?

To say it smacks of of double standards is to understate the seriousness of the offence.

This article was originally published by libcom.org, R Totale's blog on Sat 23 Nov 2019. Read the original here.