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Tonight Channel 4 will broadcast the latest in a long line of sensational ‘exposés’ of the ‘far right’. In line with 2024’s post-modern style, the focus is on the storyteller as much as the story. Undercover reporter Harry Shukman is portrayed as a plucky young journalist, a brave ‘David’ who dared take on the terrifying ‘Goliath’ of European neo-nazism – whether intellectuals meeting in smart hotels, or street thugs meeting in pubs.
Interviews promoting the film suggest that it took Shukman “‘hours and hours’ to recover mentally and emotionally” from the trauma of spending a few hours eating pizza at the home of Paul Golding, leader of Britain First, who is portrayed as a terrifying, intimidating figure.
H&D readers who know Golding will struggle not to laugh. But many viewers will probably take Shukman’s portrayal at face value when he says that “for 15 months, he had nightmares almost every night about being exposed.”
To understand the absurdity of this depiction, readers should consider Harry Shukman’s family background.
This is no ordinary journalist: he is descended on both sides of his family from some of the leading figures in Anglo-Jewish society – diplomatic, academic, and financial – as well as from what we might call ‘spy aristocracy’.
As one or two of his victims have already discovered, the infiltrator’s grandfather Harold Shukman (son of a Russian Jewish immigrant) was one of the late 20th century’s leading experts on the Soviet Union. For decades he was a fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, where generations of British diplomats and intelligence officers have been trained. Shukman was co-author of a famous book – A History of World Communism – with Sir Bill Deakin, a wartime intelligence officer and postwar research assistant to Churchill.
The infiltrator’s maternal grandfather has even wider and more influential connections. David Pryce-Jones is a half-Jewish journalist and author whose own memoir states that he “grew up in a cosmopolitan mix of industrialists, bankers, soldiers, and playboys on both sides of a family. Not quite Jewish and not quite Christian, not quite Austrian and not quite French or English, not quite heterosexual and not quite homosexual, socially conventional and not quite secure.”
Pryce-Jones is part of Europe’s oldest and most influential Jewish dynasties. His mother was a Fould-Springer and his aunt married the head of the French branch of the Rothschild family.
Another relative was the half-Jewish Spanish diplomat Eduardo Propper de Callejón, regarded today by Jews as one of the heroes of the ‘Holocaust’. Propper de Callejón issued more than 30,000 illegal visa documents to French Jews so that they could enter Spain (in most cases travelling on to the USA or Palestine) after Germany conquered France in 1940.
Unlike his modern relative Harry Shukman (who was supposedly quaking in his boots at the thought of eating pizza with the head of a tiny anti-Muslim street gang), Propper de Callejón was exposed for these pro-Jewish improprieties, but the purportedly ‘fascist’ Spanish authorities merely transferred him to another diplomatic posting. He continued serving the Franco regime as a career diplomat in Zurich, Washington, and other such cosmopolitan cities.
It’s a strange irony that tonight’s film is broadcast on the sixth anniversary of the death of Professor Robert Faurisson, the man who did more than anyone to unravel the truth behind Holocaust mythology.
Another illustrious relative of this supposedly naive little undercover journalist Harry Shukman was his great-grandfather Sir Harold Caccia (later Lord Caccia) one of the leading British diplomats of the 20th century.
Caccia was privy to most of the British Empire’s secrets, during both the Second World War and the Cold War, in a series of senior roles including chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee; Ambassador to Washington; and finally head of the Foreign Office.
So when you watch tonight’s film, please don’t take its central character at face value. Channel 4 might want you to believe in a terrifying elite conspiracy of “nazis” and “racists” being exposed by a brave young man armed only with his wokeist piety.
But perhaps, just perhaps, the terrifying elite is the side that young Mr Shukman represents, and of which he is himself a scion.
Why this elite should be dedicated to denying racial realities and undermining the basis of Western civilisation is another question, for another day.
