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	[[Image:Searchlies.png\|thumb\|300px\|The logo of the organisation is similar to a 1919 widespread image by the ~~Jewish~~ Soviet Communist El Lissitzky, which was intended to illustrate the supremacy of the (Soviet) Red Communists over the (Soviet) White anti-Communists.<ref>{{cite web \|title=Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge\|url=http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/706.html\|publisher=University of Southern California}} Retrieved on 14 March 2012.</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=“Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge” by Lissitzky (1919), “Books!” by Rodchenko (1923), and “Electrification of the Entire Country” by Klutsis (1920)\|url=http://arthistory185sabakim2.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/beat-whites-with-red-wedge-by-lissitzky.html\|publisher=Art as Inspiration and Source of Meaning}} Retrieved on 14 March 2012.</ref> See also [[Mass killings under Communist regimes]] regarding Soviet treatment of opponents and others.]]		[[Image:Searchlies.png\|thumb\|300px\|The logo of the organisation is similar to a 1919 widespread image by the jewish Soviet Communist El Lissitzky, which was intended to illustrate the supremacy of the (Soviet) Red Communists over the (Soviet) White anti-Communists.<ref>{{cite web \|title=Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge\|url=http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/706.html\|publisher=University of Southern California}} Retrieved on 14 March 2012.</ref><ref>{{cite web \|title=“Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge” by Lissitzky (1919), “Books!” by Rodchenko (1923), and “Electrification of the Entire Country” by Klutsis (1920)\|url=http://arthistory185sabakim2.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/beat-whites-with-red-wedge-by-lissitzky.html\|publisher=Art as Inspiration and Source of Meaning}} Retrieved on 14 March 2012.</ref> See also [[Mass killings under Communist regimes]] regarding Soviet treatment of opponents and others.]]
	'''Searchlight''' was founded in February 1975 and is a ~~Jewish~~-communist "anti-fascist" magazine, and describes itself as an "organisation" in the [[United Kingdom]]. In fact it is a tiny group of fanatics. It is in involved with surveillance and propaganda and has significant similarities with the [[ADL]] and the [[SPLC]]. Its obsessions border on paranoia.		'''Searchlight''' was founded in February 1975 and is a jewish-communist "anti-fascist" magazine, and describes itself as an "organisation" in the [[United Kingdom]]. In fact it is a tiny group of fanatics. It is in involved with surveillance and propaganda and has significant similarities with the [[ADL]] and the [[SPLC]]. Its obsessions border on paranoia.

	==Founding==		==Founding==
	Founders included the communist ~~Jews~~ [[Maurice Ludmer]] and [[Gerry Gable]].<ref>http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/gerry-gable/</ref> Ludmer was the first editor and a member of the steering group of the first [[Anti-Nazi League]]. Gable, who stood for the Communist Party (UK) in several elections, was editor for decades until he handed this role to his wife, Sonya.		Founders included the communist jews [[Maurice Ludmer]] and [[Gerry Gable]].<ref>http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/gerry-gable/</ref> Ludmer was the first editor and a member of the steering group of the first [[Anti-Nazi League]]. Gable, who stood for the Communist Party (UK) in several elections, was editor for decades until he handed this role to his wife, Sonya.

	: See also the article on the [[62 Group]].		: See also the article on the [[62 Group]].
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	==Alleged links==		==Alleged links==
	''Searchlight'''s publisher Gerry Gable is said to have links with [[MI5]]. His leaked 1977 London Weekend Television memo stated that he had "given names I have acquired to be checked out by British/French security services".<ref>First published in the ''New Statesman'' 15 February 1980, reproduced in ''Lobster'' magazine, issue 24 December 1992</ref> A 1987 profile referred to Gable's "wide range of contacts, including people in the secret services".<ref>''~~Jewish~~ Chronicle'' 23 October 1987</ref>		''Searchlight'''s publisher Gerry Gable is said to have links with [[MI5]]. His leaked 1977 London Weekend Television memo stated that he had "given names I have acquired to be checked out by British/French security services".<ref>First published in the ''New Statesman'' 15 February 1980, reproduced in ''Lobster'' magazine, issue 24 December 1992</ref> A 1987 profile referred to Gable's "wide range of contacts, including people in the secret services".<ref>''jewish Chronicle'' 23 October 1987</ref>

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	== Infighting ==		== Infighting ==
	In 1962, after 10 years' membership, Gable left the Communist Party to "concentrate on anti-fascist work and because the party had begun to adopt an anti-[[Israel]] line".<ref>''The Review'', February 1999</ref> Gable's son has served in the [[Israeli army]].<ref>''~~Jewish~~ Chronicle'', October 23, 1987</ref>		In 1962, after 10 years' membership, Gable left the Communist Party to "concentrate on anti-fascist work and because the party had begun to adopt an anti-[[Israel]] line".<ref>''The Review'', February 1999</ref> Gable's son has served in the [[Israeli army]].<ref>''jewish Chronicle'', October 23, 1987</ref>

	''Searchlight'' had an earlier close relationship with CARF, the [[Campaign Against Racism and Fascism]], whose magazine was published as an insert from 1979. This arrangement was put under strain by the perception that ''Searchlight'' maintained too close a relationship with pro-[[Zionist]] groups. This strain came to a head in 1991 when Gerry Gable was accused of excluding leading [[Asian]] anti-racists, and when he published an article promoting the openly pro-Israeli/pro-Zionist [[~~Jewish~~ Action Group]] in the pages of ''Searchlight'' the CARF editorial group decided to end their relationship with ''Searchlight''.		''Searchlight'' had an earlier close relationship with CARF, the [[Campaign Against Racism and Fascism]], whose magazine was published as an insert from 1979. This arrangement was put under strain by the perception that ''Searchlight'' maintained too close a relationship with pro-[[Zionist]] groups. This strain came to a head in 1991 when Gerry Gable was accused of excluding leading [[Asian]] anti-racists, and when he published an article promoting the openly pro-Israeli/pro-Zionist [[jewish Action Group]] in the pages of ''Searchlight'' the CARF editorial group decided to end their relationship with ''Searchlight''.

	The British anarchist website www.libcom.org has a number of articles critical of ''Searchlight''.<ref>http://libcom.org/library/searchlight-for-beginners-larry-o-hara</ref><ref>http://libcom.org/library/bash-the-fash-anti-fascist-recollections-1984-1993/appendix-1-searchlight</ref><ref>http://libcom.org/library/searchlight-and-the-state</ref> The magazine ''Green Anarchist'' has also been critical.<ref>At War with the Truth The True Story of Searchlight Agent Tim Heppl: http://www.spunk.org/library/antifasc/sp000525.html</ref>		The British anarchist website www.libcom.org has a number of articles critical of ''Searchlight''.<ref>http://libcom.org/library/searchlight-for-beginners-larry-o-hara</ref><ref>http://libcom.org/library/bash-the-fash-anti-fascist-recollections-1984-1993/appendix-1-searchlight</ref><ref>http://libcom.org/library/searchlight-and-the-state</ref> The magazine ''Green Anarchist'' has also been critical.<ref>At War with the Truth The True Story of Searchlight Agent Tim Heppl: http://www.spunk.org/library/antifasc/sp000525.html</ref>

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[[Image:Searchlies.png|thumb|300px|The logo of the organisation is similar to a 1919 widespread image by the Jewish Soviet Communist El Lissitzky, which was intended to illustrate the supremacy of the (Soviet) Red Communists over the (Soviet) White anti-Communists.<ref>{{cite web |title=Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge|url=http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/706.html|publisher=University of Southern California}} Retrieved on 14 March 2012.</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=“Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge” by Lissitzky (1919), “Books!” by Rodchenko (1923), and “Electrification of the Entire Country” by Klutsis (1920)|url=http://arthistory185sabakim2.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/beat-whites-with-red-wedge-by-lissitzky.html|publisher=Art as Inspiration and Source of Meaning}} Retrieved on 14 March 2012.</ref> See also [[Mass killings under Communist regimes]] regarding Soviet treatment of opponents and others.]]
'''Searchlight''' was founded in February 1975 and is a Jewish-communist "anti-fascist" magazine, and describes itself as an "organisation" in the [[United Kingdom]]. In fact it is a tiny group of fanatics. It is in involved with surveillance and propaganda and has significant similarities with the [[ADL]] and the [[SPLC]]. Its obsessions border on paranoia.

==Founding==
Founders included the communist Jews [[Maurice Ludmer]] and [[Gerry Gable]].<ref>http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/gerry-gable/</ref> Ludmer was the first editor and a member of the steering group of the first [[Anti-Nazi League]]. Gable, who stood for the Communist Party (UK) in several elections, was editor for decades until he handed this role to his wife, Sonya.

: See also the article on the [[62 Group]].

==Activities==
''Searchlight'''s main focus is to survey and attack groups such as the [[National Front]], the [[British National Party]], the [[New Right]] and anyone else, groups or individuals, remotely right-wing or seriously conservative. During the 1970s in particular they concentrated a great deal of effort on stigmatising and demonising the [[Conservative Monday Club]]. In the 1980s they paid similar attention to the [[Western Goals Institute]]. They were completely obsessed with the British National Party and its steady rise culminating, in the early 21st century, with several seats in the European parliament. More recently it published criticisms of the [[UKIP]], sections of the [[Conservative Party]] and, lately, the [[Traditional Britain Group]].
In May 2013 Gable made direct contact with Member of Parliament [[Jacob Rees-Mogg]] who was to address that year's Annual Dinner of the group, advising Mogg that he should not attend, and libelling and smearing the TBG urging the MP to cancel. Mogg, however, honoured his obligation. In 2015 he provided libellous and unsubstantiated smear "evidence" (doubtless supplied by the [[SPLC]] et al) against American author Michael Cushman<ref>''Our Southern Nation'' - Its Origin and Future, by Michael Cushman.</ref> to the fake conservative Home Secretary [[Theresa May]] who then banned him from entry to the United Kingdom just as he was about to board his plane.

Some of the claims made by ''Searchlight'' derive from unsubstantiated information provided by hostile infiltrators and defectors, who are Far-Left fellow-travellers, and non-neutral and unreliable sources. Some claims have even been stated to be from [[agent provocateur]]s. (See the "External links" section.) The veracity of some of ''Searchlight''’s claims has been called into question in court, occasionally resulting in legal damages, notably in the cases involving Alexander Baron.<ref>Alexander Baron ''Alexander Baron v.Gerry Gable and Others: Summary of One of the Libel Actions of the Decade (and Related Legal Actions)'' ITMA, ISBN 1871473195 (1997)</ref><ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/antifascist-articles-prove-rich-pickings-1338136.html The Independent 22 June 1996]</ref>

==Alleged links==
''Searchlight'''s publisher Gerry Gable is said to have links with [[MI5]]. His leaked 1977 London Weekend Television memo stated that he had "given names I have acquired to be checked out by British/French security services".<ref>First published in the ''New Statesman'' 15 February 1980, reproduced in ''Lobster'' magazine, issue 24 December 1992</ref> A 1987 profile referred to Gable's "wide range of contacts, including people in the secret services".<ref>''Jewish Chronicle'' 23 October 1987</ref>

==Criminal activities==
In November 1963, [[David Irving]] called the London Metropolitan Police with suspicions he had been the victim of a burglary by three men who had gained access to his flat claiming to be General Post Office (GPO) engineers. Gerry Gable was subsequently arrested and admitted breaking in with intent to steal private papers. At the trial, counsel for the defence claimed that this was no ordinary crime, telling the court, "they hoped to find material they could take to Special Branch". The case was reported in the ''Daily Telegraph'', 17 January 1964 and other newspapers.<ref>{{cite web|url=|title="Searchlight" & the State|accessdate=20 September 2009|publisher=Kate Sharpley Library}}</ref>

==[[BBC]]==
In 1984 Gerry Gable was commissioned by the Far-Left [[BBC]] to produce "research" for a BBC ''Panorama'' programme "Maggie's Militant Tendency". The episode was to focus on the BBC's claim of right-wing extremism in the [[Conservative Party]]. Gable claimed that his "research" drew upon the information previously published in ''Searchlight''!<ref>''Searchlight'', No.130, April 1986, p2</ref> Gable claimed that two right-wing Conservative party politicians, Neil Hamilton and Gerald Howarth, were secret extremist "[[Nazi]]" supporters was met with their libel action against the BBC. The programme had alleged (not admitted as evidence in court) that Hamilton gave a [[National Socialist]] salute in [[Berlin]] while 'messing around' on a Parliamentary visit in August 1983. ''[[The Guardian]]'' reported that "Writing for the ''Sunday Times'' after the collapse of the case, Hamilton admitted he did give a little salute with two fingers to his nose to give the impression of a toothbrush moustache. "Somebody on the trip clearly did not share our sense of humour," he wrote."<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/1999/dec/22/hamiltonvalfayed.jamiewilson3 | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Jamie | last=Wilson | title=Who will listen to his story now? | date=December 22, 1999}}</ref> The BBC were forced to capitulate on 21 October. Hamilton and Howarth were awarded £20,000 each in damages and in the next edition of ''Panorama'' on 27 October, the BBC made an unreserved apology to both. Costs of £1,000,000 were awarded against the BBC.

== Antifa ==
Even politically correct sources state that ''Searchlight'' has been closely associated with [[antifa]] ([[Anti-Fascist Action]]).

== Questioning Funds ==
At the insistence of the [[British National Party]], ''Searchlight'' and its associated bogus Searchlight Educational Trust were investigated by the British Charity Commission as a result of a complaint that claimed that the Educational Trust had been engaging in political activity incompatible with its charitable status.

The Commission's report stated that, in its opinion, the Searchlight Educational Trust had gone beyond the Commission's guidelines on political activities, and found there was a need for a greater distinction between the public activities of ''Searchlight'' magazine and the educational trust. No action was taken as the charity agreed to follow the Commission's recommendations.

== Infighting ==
In 1962, after 10 years' membership, Gable left the Communist Party to "concentrate on anti-fascist work and because the party had begun to adopt an anti-[[Israel]] line".<ref>''The Review'', February 1999</ref> Gable's son has served in the [[Israeli army]].<ref>''Jewish Chronicle'', October 23, 1987</ref>

''Searchlight'' had an earlier close relationship with CARF, the [[Campaign Against Racism and Fascism]], whose magazine was published as an insert from 1979. This arrangement was put under strain by the perception that ''Searchlight'' maintained too close a relationship with pro-[[Zionist]] groups. This strain came to a head in 1991 when Gerry Gable was accused of excluding leading [[Asian]] anti-racists, and when he published an article promoting the openly pro-Israeli/pro-Zionist [[Jewish Action Group]] in the pages of ''Searchlight'' the CARF editorial group decided to end their relationship with ''Searchlight''.

The British anarchist website www.libcom.org has a number of articles critical of ''Searchlight''.<ref>http://libcom.org/library/searchlight-for-beginners-larry-o-hara</ref><ref>http://libcom.org/library/bash-the-fash-anti-fascist-recollections-1984-1993/appendix-1-searchlight</ref><ref>http://libcom.org/library/searchlight-and-the-state</ref> The magazine ''Green Anarchist'' has also been critical.<ref>At War with the Truth The True Story of Searchlight Agent Tim Heppl: http://www.spunk.org/library/antifasc/sp000525.html</ref>

==Factions & splits==
''Searchlight'' was earlier part of the steering committee of [[Unite Against Fascism]] but split after a falling out. This may reflect conflicts between the pro-Zionist Searchlight and the pro-Muslim Unite Against Fascism.

'''[[Hope not Hate]]''' was founded in 2004 by Nick Lowles, a former sub-editor of ''Searchlight''. Hope-not-Hate functioned as part of ''Searchlight'' until 2011, when the two organisations split.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lowles|first=Nick|title=The Future of HOPE not hate|url=http://www.socialistunity.com/the-future-of-hope-not-hate/|publisher=Socialist Unity|accessdate=29 October 2012}}</ref> As a separate organisation, Hope-not-Hate took with it two of the three units of ''Searchlight'': Searchlight Educational Trust (SET), a charity; and Searchlight Information Services (SIS), its research and investigative function.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/who-we-are/organisation/|work=Hope not Hate|title=Hope not hate structure|accessdate=25 April 2014}}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Cultural Marxism]]
== External links ==
*[http://www.redwatch.co.uk/searchlight/sliesexp.html Searchlies Exposed]
*[http://www.fpp.co.uk/docs/people/Gable/PaulCox1996.html A Well-Oiled Disinformation Machine]

=== The Website Of Alexander Baron ===
*[https://www.infotextmanuscripts.org/searchlight_hate_quiz.html The “Searchlight” Hate Quiz]
*[https://www.infotextmanuscripts.org/twenty_things_every_black.html Twenty Things Every Black And Asian Should Know About Gerry Gable & the Searchlight Organization]
*[https://www.infotextmanuscripts.org/gable-loses-another-libel-case.html Gerry Gable Loses Another Libel Case]
*[https://www.infotextmanuscripts.org/happy-birthday-gerry.html Happy Birthday, Gerry Gable!]

=== Article archives ===
*[http://www.fpp.co.uk/docs/people/Gable/ David Irving's Website]
*[http://www.sunray22b.net/Searchlight.html Searchlight]

==References==
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