THREAD: This week's @JewishChron tells the story of how an anti-fascist informant codenamed 'Arthur', who infiltrated the far right for @CST_UK & Searchlight, identified the London nailbomber as BNP member David Copeland in 1999 thejc.com/news/uk/how-th…
'Arthur' did so much more than this: he spent a decade inside the far right, attending over 400 meetings, rallies and leafleting sessions, and told us all about everyone he met, everything he saw and everything that was being planned.
He was surrounded by vicious antisemitism, racism and misogyny, and a casual attitude to violence that was utterly chilling.
Arthur was a hero who took huge risks. My role was to meet him in random hotel bars in central London, get as much information out of him as I could and plan his next moves. It was a privilege to be involved.
This is an area of @CST_UK's work that we rarely talk about publicly, but intelligence-led anti-fascism has a long tradition in Jewish defence work and we are proud to take our place in that history.
The full story is told in a fantastic new book by @lowles_nick of @hopenothate partisanbooks.com/codename-arthu…. Arthur is also in a Netflix documentary about Copeland. netflix.com/gb/title/81184…. He won't be named or identified, but it's time for Arthur to get the recognition he deserves.
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