newsTommy Robinson’s invite raises eyebrows and temperatures at the Oxford Union
Tommy Robinson – best known as an anti-Islamist activist and the co-founder of the now defunct English Defence League (EDL)
by Trevor Grundy
Tommy Robinson, the co-founder of the now defunct English Defence League (EDL), has accepted an invitation from officers at the 200- year- old Oxford Union to talk to students about the apparent threat Islamists pose to western society.
The meeting is scheduled for May 28.
A report in “The Oxford Student” said that the invitation has prompted internal unease among some members of the Oxford Union.
It will be the second time Robinson has spoken to an audience of students at one of the world’s best known and most prestigious universities.
The Oxford Union has hosted prominent right-wing politicians and activists in the past.
They have included Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party BNP) during its hey-day long ago: the warm to Adolf Hitler historian David Irving and the pre-Second World War leader of the British Union of Fascists (BUF) Sir Oswald Mosley when his son, the late Max Mosley, was secretary of the Oxford Union in the late 1950s.
A report in the anti-fascist magazine “Searchlight” said that “decent people inside and outside Oxford should ensure that Tommy Robinson is isn’t welcome at the Union and that politics of hatred and its cynical careerist enablers are given no quarter.”