REVEALED: The animal rights group sharing obscene anti-Jewish hate
EXCLUSIVE: Farms Not Factories boasts high-profile supporters, some of whom have asked to be removed from its website after Jewish News revealed the group’s newsletter promotes conspiracy theories
An animal rights group that claims to fight cruelty to pigs is spreading vile antisemitic conspiracy theories – blaming “Zionists” for the Holocaust, 9/11 and the war in Ukraine – while boasting celebrity backers, Jewish News can reveal.
Farms Not Factories, which campaigns for consumers to only buy local, high welfare and ethically produced pork, lists celebrities including Hugh Grant, former Channel 4 TV presenter Jon Snow and Game of Thrones actor Jerome Flynn on its “high profile supporters” page.
However, the organisation also publishes what it describes as “newsletters”, tens of thousands of words long, which quote copiously from a variety of deeply unpleasant sources pontificating about Jews, Israel and the Shoah, as well as promoting anti-vaccination and anti-Ukraine themes.
The newsletters tend to begin with the line, “The purpose of our newsletter is to give you important information that is censored in the mainstream media.” While much of the newsletters are made up of quotes from different sources, the newsletter itself will also introduce topics with its own wording. Examples of the latter, from newsletters over the last few months, include:
- “In the 1930s the Rothschild-Rockefeller alliance introduced music frequency science that would alter people’s mental state into disruption, disharmony and disunity to brainwash them to be ready to fight in World War II”
- “Watch a banker explain how during WWl the German and US Central banks were run by two Zionist brothers.”
- “Murdering non-jewish children is allowed in the Talmud”
- “Charlie Kirk’s words that helped get him killed by the zionists”
- “Zionists are liars, thieves and murderers in their pursuit of world domination”
- “The zionist diaspora controls governments across the world, forever aiding their zionist brothers in the Middle East to access oil and other resources belonging to Arab nations. Jews are 2% of the world’s population possessing 10% of the world’s wealth to buy their power to establish The Israel Project that includes conquering the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Jordan”.
- “The proxy war in Ukraine is to steal Russia’s resources and bleed them of their power to intervene in the West and zionist geopolitical games.”
- “Also consider that the zionists along with their US brothers and sisters in the CIA, were behind 9/11 to convince the gullible US public to endorse multiple wars against the so-called axis of evil in the Middle East and Africa”.
A list of “trusted sources” is regularly referred to by the newsletter, which includes Palestine Declassified, the Iran state television show produced by former MP Chris Williamson and disgraced academic David Miller, sacked by the University of Bristol in 2021. A number of scripts from Palestine Declassified were shared by the Farms not Factories newsletter, with one of them featuring Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, a doctor recently arrested after a spate of social media posts about Jewish supremacy and expressing support for Hamas.
In her Press TV interview, as cited by Farms not Factories, Aladwan said: “Jewish supremacy is the definition of zionism and when materialised physically, it is the entity, the settler colony of Israel. So anybody who helps maintain the existence of the entity, helps fund it, helps promote it in any way is promoting Jewish supremacy.
“And because the entity is the physical manifestation of Jewish supremacy, the theological or ideological basis of Jewish supremacy is grounded in Jewish scriptures, in the Torah and the Talmud, in Rabbinic authority and the Halaka. And so you have those authorities and those scriptures are being, are either the foundational or they’re being used to promote and to carry out Jewish supremacy in real time, which is Israel.”
The Farms not Factories newsletters also quoted directly from notorious far right sources, such as a TV interview with Eustace Mullins, an American white supremacist and extreme Holocaust revisionist. Farms not Factories shared the script of a monologue from Mullins claiming that the last two letters of “Nazi” stood for “Zionists”, that “the concentration camps were run by the zionist Jews in order to punish and get rid of the anti-zionist Jews, which they did” and that German generals at Nuremberg after the war were executed “because they didn’t want them around to testify about the alliance between the Nazis and the Zionists”, and that “now the zionists were now in command of the world because their National Socialist allies were now gone from history and the zionists had a free rein. So they set up the state of Israel.”
The same newsletter quoted at length from an article in The Unz Review, a website set up by far-right Holocaust denier Ron Unz. The large excerpt quoted by Farms not Factories included mention of what it described as “organised Jewry revenge genocides (eg. Palestinian, Ukrainian)”. It said that “For the first time, there exists a rational counterforce capable of challenging international Jewish finance and its war machine. That force is China and trinity allies, Russia and Iran.”
The Unz Review piece excerpt, as quoted by Farms not Factories, also included the claim that “The ‘War with China’ Rothschild zionist long game entails squeezing China through nuclear and biological weapons threats, NGO revolts, economic warfare, terrorist attacks, proxy wars, and low-grade chest-puff military encounters. Through this pressure, they hope China either suffers internal collapse or relents to international Jewish finance gaining a foothold in the Middle Kingdom.
“The international bankers snuck into the United States through Civil War borrowing. Fifty years later they implemented the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, effectively turning the US economy over to global finance. The international bankers want a Chinese Federal Reserve. If China agrees to behind-the-scenes Sassoon-rule, hostilities end…The battle for primary global influencer is between China and international Jewish finance.”
Another Unz Review article quoted at length by Farms not Factories made the claim, in the excerpt quoted by the organisation: “Traditional religious Judaism” believes that “Jews have divine souls and goyim do not, being merely beasts in the shape of men. Indeed, the primary reason for the existence of non-Jews is to serve as the slaves of Jews, with some very high-ranking rabbis occasionally stating this well-known fact.”
The excerpt shared in the Farms not Factories newsletter also claimed that “As a further illustration of the seething hatred traditional Judaism radiates towards all those of a different background, saving the life of a non-Jew is generally considered improper or even prohibited, and taking any such action on the Sabbath would be an absolute violation of religious edict.” It further put forward the notion that “while religious Judaism has a decidedly negative view towards all non-Jews, Christianity in particular is regarded as a total abomination, which must be wiped from the face of the earth.”
Other examples of conspiracy theories put forward in the newsletter included the claims:
- “A brain surgeon says they are spraying aluminium into the sky and it’s going straight to your brains increasing Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease”
- “According to a defence contractor in a letter to the Guardian, geoengineering is a military science possessed by Russia, China, US and Israel to alter weather and geological events, produce cyclonic events, earthquakes, drought and flooding.”
- “Vietnam didn’t have a single case of autism till Bill Gates showed up” [an introduction to a quote blaming a vaccination programme introduced by Bill Gates for a “300% rise in autism”]
- “This week, Jerm speaks with Sasha Latypova, former pharma executive, on why Covid wasn’t a biological event but a military operation — exposing political cover, pharma’s role, and the fight to challenge the official narrative.”
Ben and Zac Goldsmith, the high-profile environmentalists, are both listed among the supporters of Farms not Factories. Ben Goldsmith told Jewish News: “My brother Zac and I are appalled to discover that we are still publicly associated with Farms not Factories. Once upon a time this small charity did brilliant work towards ending the scourge of factory pig farming. But its founder has succumbed to myriad dark-web conspiracy theories, and worse besides.”
Goldsmith confirmed: “I’ve asked the charity to remove our names from their website.”
Farms Not Factories sent Jewish News a legal threat this week, warning against the publication of this article after being approached for comment.
The letter from the group’s lawyers included the statement: “The organisation’s newsletters share and repost material that is already publicly accessible. The views expressed in the articles do not necessarily represent those of our Clients but are selected to promote open discussion on issues often overlooked by mainstream media.”
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