Strange but true! I re-post in full a story which first appeared in SWNS.com – the South West News Service news agency on 25 April 2013. I’m not sure why it has reached the eyes and ears of the general public again now but I wish to assure my own readers that it is neither an early 2014 Purim spiel nor a rehearsal for an April Fool’s Day gag:
The SWNS reported that Anna-Marie Crampton, then a candidate for UKIP – the United Kingdom Independence Party – had claimed that Jews murdered each other during the Holocaust as part of a plot to create the State of Israel.
“The extreme views were posted in Mrs Anna-Marie Crampton’s name on a conspiracy theory website called ‘Secrets of The Fed’.
“Crampton, 57, is allegedly quoted as saying: ‘Holocaust means a sacrifice by fire. Only the Zionists could sacrifice their own in the gas chambers.
“’The Second World Wide War was engineered by the Zionist Jews and financed by the banksters to make the general public all over the world to feel so guilty and outraged by the Holocaust that a treaty would be signed to create the State of Israel as we know it today’.”
“Mrs Crampton posed with UKIP leader Nigel Farrage at a rally in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, two weeks ago – and proudly posted a photo on her Facebook page.
“A further outrageous comment, posted two months ago, added: “The Rothschilds are Zionists ...there is a difference between Jews and Zionists. These psychopaths hide behind and use the Jews.
“It was thanks to them that six million Jews were murdered in the War (along with 26 million Russians!).”
“Another comment says: ‘I am anti Zionist, not antisemit (sic). I love the true Israel and the Jews’.”
“Mrs Crampton is standing for UKIP in next week’s county council elections in the traditionally Conservative ward of Crowborough in East Sussex.
“UKIP yesterday (Thursday) said they were anxiously trying to contact Mrs Crampton to hear her explanation of the reported comments, but had so far failed to reach her”.
This tale is terrible but it has a happy ending. Apparently Mrs Crampton, whose Facebook profile describes her as a ‘former NHS registered nurse’, was expelled from UKIP some time ago. I believe Mr Farrage is a decent British bloke who has the best interests of his countrymen at heart. But I’m more than dubious about much of the company he keeps.
© Natalie Wood (06 March 2014)
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