On March 12, 2018, hard-right Canadian YouTuber Lauren Southern was refused entrance to the United Kingdom reportedly after distributing flyers in Luton, U.K., stating “Allah is a gay God” and “Allah is trans” — which Southern called a “social experiment.”
The U.K. Border Force denied Southern entrance, declaring her “not conducive to the public good.”

Despite this, on March 14, Southern was invited to the European Parliament to discuss her ban from the U.K. Southern then met with far-right members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to discuss a familiar racist “alt-right” dog whistle — the murders of white farmers in South Africa, which is used as a shorthand for supposed white genocide.

A popular blogger on the alt-right with over 500,000 subscribers on YouTube and over 360,000 on Twitter, Southern has become a figurehead of the South African “white genocide” narrative, after traveling to the country to produce a documentary on the murders of white farmers in the country. With her help, the farm murders in South Africa are being recast as a story of interracial warfare to fuel the narrative of oppression of white nationalists and identitarians in the US and Europe.

The 22-year-old blogger, who has authored a book called Barbarians: How the Baby Boomers, Immigration, and Islam Screwed My Generation, is also fiercely opposed to immigration, even joining a boat of European identitarians from the group Defend Europe in the summer of 2017 to stop refugee and NGO rescue boats from landing on European shores, leading to her ban from the fundraising platform Patreon. The crew instead infamously stumbled from one blunder to the next. An avowed anti-feminist, Southern has called Islam “dangerous to the West” and has mainstreamed many causes dear to the alt-right.

After Southern was banned, Gerolf Annemans of the far-right, Flemish, pro-secession party in Belgium Vlaams Belang, sent her a car to bring her to Strasbourg to address the European Parliament. She was introduced by MEP Janice Atkinson, another devotee of the white South African cause. Atkinson, who was expelled from the collapsing pro-Brexit United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) for financial fraud, is now the vice-chair of the Europe of Nations and Freedom group, a coalition of far-right parties at the European Parliament.

Full article: Southern Poverty Law Centre