Patriotic Alternative member encourages Unite the Kingdom marchers to engage in abuse

A Patriotic Alternative member has encouraged Unite the Kingdom marchers to engage in Islamophobic abuse, confront Jews and give Nazi salutes in London on May 16.

A hate-filled tirade ahead of Unite the Kingdom

We take London.

Enough is enough, no more messing around.

No more fucking around.

These are the words of Jason Withey, who took to Facebook last week to upload a disturbing five-minute, hate-filled tirade. He encouraged attendees of Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom rally to engage in acts of racism, islamophobia, homophobia and antisemitism.

Wearing rimless glasses and a navy T-shirt, Withey looks directly at the camera and declares:

This is our revenge, this is what we’re doing.

This is who we are. We are racist. We are proud.

According to anti-racist campaign group Hope Not Hate, Withey has been involved with far-right groups since June 2023. Last July he was pictured at the ‘Great British National Protest’ in Dover with a Patriotic Alternative flag.

Patriotic Alternative

Patriotic Alternative is a neo-Nazi group founded in 2019 by the former director of publicity for the British National Party, Mark Collet. The organisation promotes a white-nationalist ideology.

In the video posted to Facebook last week, he repeatedly uses inflammatory language and urges attendees of the May the 16th march to confront minority groups:

We are white, we are proud.

We are homophobic, we are proud.

His video is directed at people attending Robinson’s march, encouraging them to threaten any non-Christian, LGBTQ+ or person of colour they encounter in London:

When you come across those nxxxxxx in London, you will tell them, ‘You[‘ll] hang.’

He then instructs attendees to tell any Muslims they see:

that you shit on Allah.

He later uses a homophobic slur to refer to gay people and encourages attendees to abuse any LGBTQ+ person they encounter in London, before instructing marchers who come across Jewish people:

you will tell them that six million wasn’t enough.

Far-right antisemitism ignored

Despite the organiser of the Unite the Kingdom rally being a former member of the fascist British National Party, and the presence of Patriotic Alternative members at the last Unite the Kingdom rally in October, many political responses to antisemitism have focused elsewhere.

Keir Starmer has not commented on the prospect of antisemitism at the Unite the Kingdom march, but last week he called for police to prosecute people chanting ‘globalise the intifada’ at pro-Palestine protests.

Starmer, who has spoken about curbing Palestine marches, said the chant had left Jews feeling ‘scared, intimidated, wondering if they belong.’

Pro-Palestine protesters demonised

Similarly, Conservative figures have called for pro-Palestine protests to be banned.

On LBC, Conservative shadow secretary of state for work and pensions, Helen Whately, would not condemn Tommy Robinson’s march but referred to pro-Palestine protests as ‘hate marches’.

Meanwhile, Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch questioned whether Robinson was creating a comparable climate of intimidation and violence to pro-Palestine protests.

This is despite the fact that, during the previous Unite the Kingdom rally organised by Robinson on 13 September 13 2025, there were multiple allegations of racially or religiously aggravated public order offences and at least one arrest for racially aggravated common assault.

A clear danger to Jewish people

Withey has used his social media accounts in the past to share racist posts. He has also posted photos of himself spending time with leader of Patriotic Alternative, Mark Collett, and an image of his Patriotic Alternative membership card above a caption that reads ‘join the club.’

Withey is explicit in his latest video. He says ‘racism will be on display’ and asserts that:

if there are people giving Nazis salutes [at the march], then [marchers should] bloody well join them.

Withey’s video also urges attendees to prove that they are ‘the force that reckons with the Muslims’, and to show that they ‘are the force that kicks out every single foreigner.’ This includes any Japanese or Chinese tourists, who he urges attendees to ‘do some slitty eye [incomprehensible]’ at them and then ‘tell them to get out.’

He then continues giving the same advice to attendees who come across ‘nxxxxxx’, Muslims and Indians, who he refers to as ‘little Mowglis.’

He then concludes the video by saying:

I’ll see you on the 16th. Bring your ‘A’ game.

When the Unite the Kingdom rally is attended by people like Jason Withey, the danger to Jewish people – and every single other minority group – is clear, demonstrable and significant. But with the political establishment focussed on conflating criticism of Israeli aggression in Gaza with antisemitism, fascists such as Withey are being given free rein to march on the streets of London and incite violence.

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