Is Nigel Farage Antisemitic? You decide.
Nigel Farage and Antisemitism: A Chronicle the Spin Can’t Erase
It began at school. Dulwich College. Late 1970s.
A teacher wrote to the headmaster warning that a teenage Nigel Farage had been seen marching through a Sussex town singing Hitler Youth songs. The teacher begged the school not to make him a prefect, calling him a “fascist.” Farage never denied the letter existed. He just brushed it off.
By 2025, more than twenty of his former schoolmates had gone public. They recalled how he would shout “Hitler was right” in the corridors, make jokes about gassing people, and hiss like a gas chamber during break. Not once. Not as a bad joke. Regularly.
“It was habitual, you know, it happened all the time,” one said. “He would often be doing Nazi salutes and saying ‘Sieg heil’ and, you know, strutting around the classroom.” Even back then, classmates were shocked. When asked about it decades later, Farage said he couldn’t remember. His political ally Richard Tice dismissed the reports as “made-up twaddle.” Jewish groups and Holocaust survivors asked him to apologise. He refused.
Opening the Door: UKIP’s Lurch to the Far Right
By the late 1990s, Farage was climbing the ranks of UKIP. In June 1997, he had lunch with Mark Deavin, head of research for the British National Party. Deavin had written a screed titled Mindbenders, which blamed Jews for controlling the media, and another pamphlet arguing that mass immigration was a Jewish plot to destroy white Europe.
Farage was seen grinning alongside Deavin and Tony “The Bomber” Lecomber, so nicknamed because he once tried to blow up the office of a political rival with a nail bomb. Farage claimed the photo might have been doctored. He said he had no recollection of meeting Lecomber.
At the same time, UKIP underwent a quiet but telling change. When founder Alan Sked quit in 1997, the party removed a rule that had explicitly barred racists from joining. There was no announcement. No discussion. The clause was just gone. Sked later said it was Farage who dragged the party toward the far right.
In that same Guardian report, it was alleged that Farage had used slurs like “nigger” and “nig-nog” in pubs after UKIP meetings. Not in his youth. As a man already in public life.
Making Friends in Europe
In the 2000s, Farage began forging alliances in the European Parliament. He gravitated toward Italy’s Lega Nord and Austria’s Freedom Party. These were parties with long histories of Holocaust denial, racism and fascist nostalgia.
Farage didn’t echo their worst rhetoric, but he gave them cover. He sat alongside them. He helped them access European funds and gain legitimacy. He also became a fixture on Russia Today, where he warned of shadowy elites trying to erase national identities.
2014: Holocaust Deniers in Brussels
That year, Farage brought in Polish MEP Robert Iwaszkiewicz from the Congress of the New Right to help UKIP access Brussels funding. The party’s leader, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, had claimed that Hitler “probably didn’t know about the Holocaust” and suggested women were intellectually inferior.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews said it was “gravely concerned by reports that UKIP may sit in the same parliamentary grouping as a far-right Polish MEP in a bid to save its funding. Robert Iwaszkiewicz belongs to an extremist party whose leader has a history of Holocaust denial, racist remarks and misogynistic comments.” Farage defended it as a practical arrangement.
2017: Reviving an Old Trope
On his LBC radio show, Farage declared that “the Jewish lobby” had too much influence in American politics.
This was no slip. The phrase is an old trope rooted in the idea that Jews manipulate governments behind the scenes. The Jewish Leadership Council and Community Security Trust responded immediately. Farage didn’t retract a word.
2018: Turning Point, Turning Away
In 2018, Farage publicly backed Turning Point USA, a hard-right youth movement in the United States. Its leaders had links to white nationalist forums and regularly promoted the antisemitic cultural Marxism conspiracy theory. When a UK offshoot launched, it was met with fierce protests by anti-racist and Jewish groups.
Farage’s support remained unwavering.
2019: Globalists, Soros and the New World Order
Farage told LBC that George Soros was “the biggest danger to the Western world.”
He blamed financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan for the European Union’s power. He praised Hungary’s Viktor Orbán for resisting Soros, even as Orbán’s government plastered Budapest with antisemitic posters.
Farage also appeared several times on Infowars, the conspiracy network run by Alex Jones. He railed against “globalists” and the “new world order,” terms steeped in the language of antisemitic conspiracies.
Later that year, he appeared on TruNews, hosted by Rick Wiles. Wiles had previously referred to Trump’s impeachment as a “Jew coup.” Farage did not object.
2020: Cultural Marxism and BLM
As protests erupted over George Floyd’s murder, Farage didn’t talk about police brutality. He talked about “cultural Marxism” and “Soros-funded” chaos. On GB News and LBC, he warned of anarchists and elites undermining British values.
Jewish groups again raised the alarm. Farage ignored the warnings.
2022: The “Globalist Coup” and Grant Shapps
After Liz Truss resigned, Farage posted on social media about a globalist coup. Among the supposed conspirators was Grant Shapps, a Jewish cabinet minister.
Jewish organisations denounced the statement. Farage’s behaviour did not change.
2023–2025: The Pattern Persists
In 2023, he claimed Britain was being run by a “globalist government.” In 2024, he said Truss had been brought down by a “globalist attack” involving the IMF, Germany and Joe Biden. In 2025, speaking to Bloomberg, he warned that Britain was trapped in a “globalist mindset.”
The language evolves. The ideas do not.
Conclusion: The Warnings Came. He Ignored Them.
The pattern is clear. For nearly five decades, Farage echoed the rhetoric of fascists, promoted conspiracy theories and employed tropes long recognised as antisemitic.
Each time he was challenged by Jewish groups, by journalists, by people who know what this language means, he did not back down. He doubled down.
These were not isolated remarks. They were choices. To remove anti-racism clauses from his party. To meet with Holocaust deniers. To invoke Soros, globalists, cultural Marists and the new world order.
Farage was warned again and again. He knew.
And he kept doing it.
Does that make him an antisemitic? Decide for yourself.