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Arthur Kemp (born in 1963) is a Rhodesian-born writer and the owner of Ostara Publications, a distributor of racist tracts, who was from 2009 to 2011 the foreign affairs spokesperson for the British National Party. He was born in
Southern Rhodesia Southern Rhodesia was a landlocked self-governing British Crown colony in southern Africa, established in 1923 and consisting of British South Africa Company (BSAC) territories lying south of the Zambezi River. The region was informally kn ...
(
Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...
) and worked as a right-wing journalist in South Africa before moving to the United Kingdom in 1996.


Biography

Kemp was born in 1963 in
Southern Rhodesia Southern Rhodesia was a landlocked self-governing British Crown colony in southern Africa, established in 1923 and consisting of British South Africa Company (BSAC) territories lying south of the Zambezi River. The region was informally kn ...
, and spent his early years in
South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...
. His father is British and his mother is Dutch. He attended the
University of Cape Town The University of Cape Town (UCT) ( af, Universiteit van Kaapstad, xh, Yunibesithi ya yaseKapa) is a public research university in Cape Town, South Africa. Established in 1829 as the South African College, it was granted full university statu ...
in the early 1980s.


Career in South Africa

Kemp was conscripted and served as a sergeant in the South African Police in
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from 1987 to 1988. From 1989 to 1992, Kemp worked for ''Die Patriot'', the newspaper of the white supremacist South African Conservative Party. Kemp also wrote for '' The Citizen'' newspaper, as well as ''The Patriot'', a far-right newspaper. In the early 1990s he worked for the National Intelligence Service, according to British newspapers. In 1993, Kemp was a key prosecution witness in the trial after the assassination of the
South African Communist Party The South African Communist Party (SACP) is a communist party in South Africa. It was founded in 1921 as the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), tactically dissolved itself in 1950 in the face of being declared illegal by the governing Na ...
leader Chris Hani. Kemp had been one of the right-wing activists arrested after the murder but was released without charge. Kemp gave evidence against
Clive Derby-Lewis Clive John Derby-Lewis (22 January 1936 – 3 November 2016) was a South African politician, who was involved first in the National Party and then, while serving as a member of parliament, in the Conservative Party. In 1993 he was convicted ...
and his wife, Gaye Derby-Lewis, saying they admitted their involvement during a lunch the three had together two days after Hani's death. Clive Derby-Lewis and the assassin,
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, were found guilty and sentenced to death (both death sentences were later commuted to life imprisonment), while Gaye Derby-Lewis was acquitted. At the trial, Kemp said he had made a list of addresses including Hani's and gave it to Gaye Derby-Lewis, but said he did not know it would be used for a murder. Hani's name was the third name on the list; at the top was
Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; ; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African Internal resistance to apartheid, anti-apartheid activist who served as the President of South Africa, first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1 ...
's. Kemp has written that he was later expelled from the Conservative Party for publicly opposing
apartheid Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...
and arguing in favour of Afrikaner separatism.


British National Party

Kemp moved to the United Kingdom in 1996. That year he spoke at a
neo-Nazi Neo-Nazism comprises the post–World War II militant, social, and political movements that seek to revive and reinstate Nazism, Nazi ideology. Neo-Nazis employ their ideology to promote hatred and Supremacism#Racial, racial supremacy (ofte ...
meeting in
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, according to the British anti-racism magazine ''
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,'' and he wrote for the German fascist publication '' Nation und Europa.'' In 1999 he began Ostara Publications "as a means of distributing his own white supremacist screeds", according to the
Southern Poverty Law Center The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, it is known for its legal cases against white su ...
(SPLC). Later it distributed racist tracts from the 19th and 20th centuries as well as work by Jared Taylor. He became manager of ''Excalibur'', the British National Party (BNP)'s merchandising arm, until in 2010 he was put in charge of the BNP website. In 2004, Kemp worked for
Nick Griffin Nicholas John Griffin (born 1 March 1959) is a British politician and white supremacist who represented North West England as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2014. He served as chairman and then president of the far-righ ...
, the BNP's leader, in elections for the
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and attended a BNP rally in
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. In 2009, Kemp "was spotted in the BNP's election headquarters in Wales preparing thousands of campaign leaflets", according to ''
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''. ''Searchlight'' said Kemp, as editor of the BNP website, was in charge of "ideological training of the party's 250 or so elite activists". It said Kemp was likely helping the BNP raise money from wealthy white South Africans, as the largest share of BNP website traffic came from South Africa. In March 2011, Kemp resigned from all positions in the party including that of web editor, foreign affairs spokesman and Advisory Council member. No official reason was given. SPLC reported that he resigned these roles in order to become editor-in-chief of a British nationalist website owned by
Andrew Brons Andrew Henry William Brons (born 3 June 1947) is a British politician and former MEP. Long active in far-right politics in Britain, he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber for the British National ...
. On 2 September 2011, Kemp announced on his blog that he was no longer a member of the BNP. As of 2016, he ran a website called The New Observer Online, which campaigned for
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and demonized immigrants as "invaders" and "rapefugees". The website was described by the SPLC as "arguably among the most racist websites in the United Kingdom".


United States

In 2007, Kemp took a senior position in the American neo-Nazi group National Alliance, according to the SPLC. He worked as the National Alliance's media director for several years in the mid-2000s and ghostwrote some of chairman
Erich Gliebe Erich Josef Gliebe (born May 23, 1963) is an American former boxer, Neo-Nazi and former chairman of the National Alliance. In his youth, he was a professional boxer who had the ring name of "The Aryan Barbarian". Biography Gliebe's politica ...
's speeches and shortwave broadcasts. Kemp denied a connection with the National Alliance, but the SPLC found wire transfers sent from the group to Kemp's South African bank account.


Publications

In 1990 in South Africa, Kemp published a book on the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB – Afrikaner Resistance Movement), ''Victory Or Violence: The Story of the AWB'', which he re-published in 2009 as ''Victory Or Violence: The Story of the AWB of South Africa''. This book was subsequently updated and revised in 2012 to include information about the murder of
Eugène Terre'Blanche Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche (, 31 January 1941Terre'Blanche's year of birth is alternately given as 1941 or 1944. The majority of sources indicates 1941; sources that claim 1944 as his year of birth includ''The Star'' Kemp has written and self-published several books, including ''March of the Titans: A History of the White Race'', which was described as "clearly neo-Nazi material" by historian Paul Jackson. Alan Waring described it as "a typical product of British neo-Nazism, synthesizing
Holocaust denial Holocaust denial is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that falsely asserts that the Nazi genocide of Jews, known as the Holocaust, is a myth, fabrication, or exaggeration. Holocaust deniers make one or more of the following false statements: ...
and spurious claims about white racial superiority. It questions the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust, and according to ''
The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...
'', "is popular with far-right activists around the world". Although Kemp said, "I deny outright that my book denies the Holocaust", the book itself says, "certainly far fewer died than what is most often claimed. Increasingly, all the evidence urges a complete revision of this aspect of the history of World War Two." The National Alliance, an American neo-Nazi group, awarded him its "Dr. William Pierce Award for Investigative Journalism" (named after the neo-Nazi William Pierce), with a $250 prize, for his article in '' National Vanguard'', "White South Africa: What Went Wrong?". In ''National Vanguard'' he wrote using his own name and also a pseudonym, Richard Preston.


Bibliography

* ''Victory Or Violence - The Story of the AWB of South Africa'' (1990, republished 2009, 2012) * ''March of the Titans: a history of the White Race'' (1999, reprinted and expanded 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011) ; reprinted in two volumes in 2013 as ''March of the Titans: The Complete History of the White Race: Volume I: The Rise of Europe'' ; and ''March of the Titans: The Complete History of the White Race: Volume II: Europe and the World'' . * ''Jihad: Islam's 1,300 Year War Against Western Civilisation'' (2008) * ''The Immigration Invasion'' (2008) * ''The Lie of Apartheid and Other True Stories from Southern Africa'' (2009) * ''Four Flags: The Indigenous People of Britain'' (2010) * ''Headline: The Best of BNP News: The Stories Which Helped Propel the British National Party into the Political Mainstream. Volume I, July–December 2008'' (2011), . * ''Headline: The Best of BNP News: The Stories Which Helped Propel the British National Party into the Political Mainstream. Volume II, January–June 2009.'' (2011) . * ''The Children of Ra: Artistic, Historical and Genetic Evidence For Ancient White Egypt'' (2012) * ''Folk And Nation Underpinning The Ethnostate'' (2012) , reprinted 2012 as ''Folk and Nation: Ethnonationalism Explained '' * ''Nova Europa: European Survival Strategies in a Darkening World'' (2013)


References


External links


Blog site of Arthur Kemp

Official biography

Arthur Kemp, ''March of the Titans: A History of the White Race''

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kemp, Arthur Living people Date of birth missing (living people) British National Party politicians South African journalists South African people of British descent South African people of Dutch descent South African neo-Nazis South African police officers Afrikaner nationalists British neo-Nazis White Rhodesian people Zimbabwean emigrants to South Africa Zimbabwean emigrants to the United Kingdom 1963 births