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7 unusual facts about Patrick Harrington

Official National Front

The ONF emerged in the early 1980s when young radicals such as Nick Griffin, Derek Holland, Patrick Harrington and David Kerr became attracted to Third Position ideas and, eschewing the route of electoral politics favoured by the National Front up to that point, hoped to develop a cadre of devoted nationalist revolutionaries.

Pat Harrington

Patrick Harrington (born 1964), far right politician in the United Kingdom

Patrick Harrington

According to Harrington's account of the split, when he opened discussion with racial-separatist rabbi Mayer Schiller (see section on Harrington's ideological development below) and advocated a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he was attacked as a "Zionist".

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Harrington was a regular contributor to NF publications on a range of subjects, including providing research for an article that supported Ernst Zündel's holocaust denial.

Political Soldier

It played a leading role in Britain's National Front from the late 1970s onwards under young radicals Nick Griffin, Patrick Harrington and Derek Holland of the Official National Front.

Ted Budden

Amongst his opponents, however, was an Official National Front candidate Patrick Harrington and as a result neither candidate polled at all well (although Budden finished behind Harrington, capturing only 83 votes).

University of North London

In 1984, Patrick Harrington, a prominent member of the National Front, and deputy editor of NF News, and also a university student, was the subject of protests by students who picketed and boycotted his lectures, arguing that his presence made life intolerable for ethnic minority students.