The following text is from a leaflet we started handing out on 11th November 2023, the day an event was held in Stroud featuring Sandi Adams (returning for her 3rd public speaking event here) and James Delingpole (returning for a 2nd time)
As well as opposing the harmful content in The ‘Light’ paper, Community Solidarity Stroud District has raised concerns about some of the people who have been invited to speak in Stroud by groups pushing conspiracy theories locally.
For example, before her appearance at a rally in November 2020, we challenged organisers regarding antisemitic content on Sandi Adams’ website. Despite this, she has since been invited on two further occasions.
In July 2020 Adams published an article titled The Truth is anti-Semitic which repeated vile claims that have been and are still used to persecute the Jewish community and are extremely harmful. Adams also hosted a notorious, 12-hour long highly antisemitic pro-Nazi Holocaust denial documentary.
Adams has blamed this content on her then website manager, deleting some items she claims were published without her knowledge or permission.
However, she continues to host on her website a ‘documentary’ called The Jewish Crucifixion of Russia, which concludes “Although it is believed the Soviets lost power years ago, the Jewish hand behind [Communism] is very much alive today.” Adams describes this ‘vital’ and adds a grossly antisemitic cartoon featuring a Jewish ‘puppetmaster’. There also remains a post on her website (featured on her home page) about The New World Order which contains quotes from notorious Jew-hater Douglas Reed, references the infamous antisemitic forgery the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’, and praises ‘brave’ holocaust deniers Kevin Barret and Nicholas Kollerstrom – among other antisemitic content.
It isn’t only her promotion of antisemitic content that makes Adams a concerning public speaker. Her main obsession is with ‘Agenda 21’, which she describes as “indicative of a longer plan of human population control and world domination”. Since 2021 has been and gone without Adams’ fantasies coming true, she and other conspiracy theorists have copy-pasted their theories into reheated scaremongering about ‘Agenda 30’.
In fact, Agenda 21 was a non-binding planning paper, adopted by the UN Conference on Environment and Development in 1992. It is not a treaty. It has no force of law, no penalties, and no significant funding. It sought to encourage communities around the world to come up with their own solutions to environmental problems rather than to impose them. In the decades since, right-wing groups in the US like the John Birch Society, have claimed that this document is a blueprint for a totalitarian world government – but people who care about our environment shouldn’t be fooled.
Environmentalists should also be concerned about a repeat invitation to James Delingpole, who has a long history not only of denying the science around climate change, but of attacking climate scientists and activists, to the point of repeatedly inciting violence. Since the pandemic, Delingpole has been embracing increasingly extreme conspiracy theories and their politically extreme proponents including Colin Robertson, a white nationalist who has enthused about “torpedo[ing] boats carrying refugees”.
Read more about Sandi Adams on our website.
Read our open letter opposing an appearance by James Delingpole.
Community Solidarity Stroud District 