“RACIST AND ABHORRENT” attacks directed at a York campaigner have been posted on a white supremacist website. 
A racist internet forum, used by KKK and BNP supporters, launched an anti-Semitic assault on a former YUSU president over the Christmas holidays.
Ex-YUSU President James Alexander had launched an anti-fascist campaign, backed by York Vision, after a BNP candidate was elected to represent Yorkshire in the EU last year.
One comment on the website says: “He looks Jewish to me. He’s got the beady eyes, the Jew lip and the funny shaped face.” Another post threatens him physically, while another states that BNP activists would “make Jamie see sense”.
Alexander told Vision: “I find these attacks extremely offensive. My great grandmother was a Jewish French Canadian and I find such attacks racist and abhorrent. These comments are very telling of the true nature of the supporters of the BNP.”
The website, which uses the slogan “White Pride World Wide”, includes comments claiming that Jewish people “are a danger to our race because of what little white blood they have”. The self-confessed BNP supporters who wrote the abusive comments about Alexander have elsewhere advocated violence against black people and Jews.
Alexander, who is a prospective MP for York, has said he hopes that the actions of the BNP will encourage more students to join his campaign. In December he had intended to present the ‘BNP Does Not Speak For Me’ petition to the EU but was forced to postpone it due to the disruptions with Eurostar.
He said: “I am rescheduling the trip to present the first wave of petitions in the very near future.”
You can sign the petition by joining the Facebook group ‘The BNP Don’t Speak For Me’