Arthur Kemp

Arthur Kemp (born in 1963) is a Rhodesian writer and the owner of Ostara Publications, a distributor of racist tracts, who was from 2009 to 2011 the foreign affairs spokesperson for the British National Party.

Biography Kemp was born in 1963 in Southern Rhodesia, and spent his early years in South Africa. His father is British and his mother is Dutch. He attended the University of Cape Town in the early 1980s. Kemp had been one of the right-wing activists arrested after the murder but was released without charge.

British National Party Kemp moved to the United Kingdom in 1996. That year he spoke at a neo-Nazi meeting in Germany, according to the British anti-racism magazine Searchlight, and he wrote for the German fascist publication Nation und Europa. until in 2010 he was put in charge of the BNP website.

In 2004, Kemp worked for Nick Griffin, the BNP's leader, in elections for the London Assembly and attended a BNP rally in Bromley.

In 2009, Kemp "was spotted in the BNP's election headquarters in Wales preparing thousands of campaign leaflets", according to The Independent. Searchlight said Kemp, as editor of the BNP website, was in charge of "ideological training of the party's 250 or so elite activists". It said Kemp was likely helping the BNP raise money from wealthy white South Africans, as the largest share of BNP website traffic came from South Africa. SPLC reported that he resigned these roles in order to become editor-in-chief of a British nationalist website owned by Andrew Brons. On 2 September 2011, Kemp announced on his blog that he was no longer a member of the BNP.

As of 2016, he ran a website called The New Observer Online, which campaigned for Brexit and demonized immigrants as "invaders" and "rapefugees". The website was described by the SPLC as "arguably among the most racist websites in the United Kingdom".

United States In 2007, Kemp took a senior position in the American neo-Nazi group National Alliance, according to the SPLC. He worked as the National Alliance's media director for several years in the mid-2000s and ghostwrote some of chairman Erich Gliebe's speeches and shortwave broadcasts. The SPLC described the book in 2007 as "a glowing history of the white supremacist Afrikaner Resistance Movement". Alan Waring described it as "a typical product of British neo-Nazism, synthesizing Holocaust denial and spurious claims about white racial superiority. It questions the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust, and according to The Guardian, "is popular with far-right activists around the world". In National Vanguard he wrote using his own name and also a pseudonym, Richard Preston.