WARNING: THIS REPORT CONTAINS RACIST, ISLAMOPHOBIC AND MISOGYNISTIC CONTENT
A far right group has been condemned for targeting young men after one of its teenage activists posted racist, misogynistic and Islamophobic messages on social media.
The schoolboy – who we are not naming – is a card-carrying member of the Homeland Party.
In one video, the teenager said he has “always been disgusted by mixed race couples and race mixing in general” and claimed white women’s attraction to Black or Asian men is “wrong for them and stems from porn addiction and promiscuity”.
The 16-year-old also called for pro-immigration politicians to be jailed and in a post on social media, he said that “the idea that we fought the Nazis in an ideological war is extremely damaging and must be refuted”.
He also claimed to have been interviewed by a teacher over his political views, suggesting it was at the behest of counter terrorism officers.
The Scottish Greens said the teenager’s comments – some of which were posted after he joined Homeland – are “shocking” and it was “deeply troubling to see someone so young sharing such poison and hatred”. The party accused “hate groups like Homeland” of targeting “young and disenfranchised people,” particularly “boys and young men”.
The anti-racism charity Hope not hate claimed Homeland is “leading young men, some of them teenagers, down a dark path, doing potentially irreparable damage to their futures in the process”. An expert on the ‘manosphere’ said “unregulated social media” plays a “big part” in the radicalisation of young men.
The Homeland Party –which offered to coach the teenager in debating skills last September when he was 15 years old – confirmed he was a party member and described him as a “true son of Scotland who is doing his community proud”. It added: “We won’t throw such young people under the bus for things they’ve said or done online before they joined us – even when we strongly disagree with them.”
Homeland is a far right political party founded by a Scot called Kenny Smith from the Isle of Lewis, who was a candidate for the British National Party, which was condemned for its racism. Smith started Homeland in 2023 after breaking away from another far right group called Patriotic Alternative.
One branch organiser for the party has claimed that roughly 70 per cent of Homeland’s members are under 30.
Homeland’s Scottish teenage activist became a member of the party in January and supports the mass deportation of immigrants. His political posts date back to when he was 15 years old.
He said in a video that some women are addicted to porn and constantly search for “extreme” sex including “sleeping with a bunch of men”, and that “the next thing is eventually gonna be black man.” Women enjoy this because it is “perverse” and “kind of dirty”, he added.
Referring to an event last month at his school when staff and pupils were encouraged to try on hijabs to celebrate ‘World Hijab Day’, the 16-year-old wrote on his social media account: “At the same time in England, a school boy was stabbed to death by a foreigner. And just to add salt to the wound, now the Labour government is set on creating a council to ‘tackle Islamophobia’. I’m disgusted at the current political and educational system in Britain.”
The youth wrote “yawn” in response to prime minister Keir Starmer who said antisemitism is “hatred”, and claimed that “our ancestors didn’t fight the Nazis so we could get invaded by foreigners and Muslims from the third world instead”.
After posting an image of a shanty town alongside a cathedral, he wrote: “The people who built this …are not going to benefit or enrich the culture of a people who built this .”
He also said politics needs to get a “lot nastier” and urged “British people” to “come out fighting”. He added: “The only way out of our corrupt political system and to stop the heinous crimes being committed against our people is to get nasty. No more being nice. No more ‘let’s not have a political divide’. It’s about time we be honest with ourselves and realise that the pro-immigration lunatics are traitors who will never like the British people or understand our cause. People will be locked up for what they’ve done.”
“Beneath its euphemisms and empty sloganeering, the Homeland Party is a fringe fascist organisation rife with antisemitism, misogyny and crank conspiracy theories.
David Lawrence, senior researcher at Hope not hate
Scottish Greens MSP Maggie Chapman said the rise in extremism and misogyny among young men “should concern all of us” and accused Homeland of targeting young men and “cynically trying to direct their anger into hatred against marginalised people”. She added: “But they are not doing it alone. It is in a political ecosystem where a lot of similar views, even if sanitised, are being spouted almost every day by powerful politicians and large swathes of the media. It has only helped to normalise such bile.
Chapman said society needs to “counter the fake solutions and talking points” of the far right, and urged men to “play their part in stepping up and boldly calling out the harm” being done. “Unless there is a concerted effort to offer hope and to counter these hateful narratives they will only spiral,” she said.
David Smith, a lecturer in psychology at Robert Gordon University with a focus on radicalisation and the ‘manosphere’, said the trend of young men moving right politically is happening in the UK, Germany, the USA, and South Korea, while young women are moving leftwards.
He told The Ferret: “Obviously we need to distinguish between mainstream conservatism and the more extreme groups it sounds like he has been following. However, this trend points to a stark new gender divide that appears to be opening around the world.”
“The far right has always been effective at storytelling, and in this case, I think many young people feel a sense of national decline, where life seems harder than it should,” Smith said, adding that for some “their anger is being harnessed, unconstructively, in the wrong direction.”
David Lawrence, senior researcher at Hope not hate, said: “Beneath its euphemisms and empty sloganeering, the Homeland Party is a fringe fascist organisation rife with antisemitism, misogyny and crank conspiracy theories. Nonetheless, the group often brags about the youth of its membership, many of whom have been recruited on social media. Responsible adults ought to be wary of the influence of this toxic organisation.”
Kenny Smith, leader of the Homeland Party, said: “Young men like our new member are fed up being second class in their own homeland. Every day the aggressive liberal progressives spew their hatred against native young men. They have had enough and want a future.”
He added: “The young man you speak of, joined our party in mid-January and is already engaged in positive community work. Unlike the professionals quoted in this article, we volunteer our time to guide people away from online extremism and help them build something more grounded and constructive.
“Hope not hate claims to be ‘building communities challenging hate,’ yet their entire operation revolves around spreading hate toward their political opponents, including children. Unlike us, they contribute nothing positive at the grassroots level. They are demonstrably one of the most toxic forces in UK politics. The unscrupulous Ms Chapman is one of the worst offenders in Scotland for demonising those who refuse to submit to her Communist-style oppression.”
Last year, the Electoral Commission approved Homeland’s bid to register as a political party and field candidates in elections across Britain. This was despite comments from its staff accusing Homeland of breaking its own code of conduct by sharing “terrorist literature” and “antisemitic and racist” content. Homeland dismissed the “spurious claims” and said it enforces a code of conduct.
The party advocates the mass deportation of immigrants and says nationalism should be based on land and the “law of blood” – which means membership of a nation is defined by ancestry rather than political decisions.
