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Arthur Benjamin Kemp (born September 14, 1962) is a writer, speaker, British activist, and political figure from South Africa, who currently works as the Foreign Affairs Spokesperson for the British National Party.

Biography

Arthur Kemp was in Southern Rhodesia, spending his formative early political years in South Africa. Kemp worked as a journalist for the South African Conservative Party, which opposed South Africa's transition to universal suffrage. Kemp also worked as an intelligence operative for the South African apartheid government and as a sergeant in the South African security forces.

Kemp has written and self-published several books including March of the Titans: a history of the White Race, which questions the number of Jews killed in the Second World War and "is popular with far-right activists around the world." In 2009 he re-published Victory Or Violence - The Story of the AWB of South Africa, on the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB - Afrikaner Resistance Movement), having originally published it in 1990. According to the SPLC, in 2005, when Kemp's byline started appearing in National Alliance publications, the group awarded him the "Dr. William Pierce Award for Investigative Journalism," which brought with it a $250 prize, for his article in National Vanguard, "White South Africa: What Went Wrong?"

Having moved to the UK in 1996, Kemp is manager of Excalibur, the British National Party (BNP)'s merchandising arm, and is in charge of maintaining the BNP website. Andrew Johnson of The Independent wrote that Kemp "was spotted in the BNP's election headquarters in Wales preparing thousands of campaign leaflets. The BNP released a video of the Euro election leaflet operation apparently showing that the operation was under the control of Birmingham BNP activist Richard Lumby.

In 1993 Kemp was the key state witness in the prosecution relating to the murder of South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani. Kemp testified before the court that two days after the murder Mrs.Derby-Lewis had admitted her involvement to him. A 2007 report from the Southern Poverty Law Center called Kemp a white supremacist who has been active in providing some manner of support to the National Alliance in the United States, and asserted that he left South Africa because he was seen to have betrayed those convicted in the murder trial of Walus and Derby-Lewis, by giving "testimony against the Derby-Lewises". Kemp testified against the Derby-Lewises by saying to the court that "they admitted to involvement during a lunch the three had together two days after Hani's death." On his personal website Kemp dismissed the SPLC's report as "total rubbish", saying they didn't even get his year of birth correct, whether 1962 or 1963.

Bibliography

• Arthur Kemp (2006), March of the Titans: a history of the White Race
• Arthur Kemp (2008), Jihad: Islam's 1,300 Year War Against Western Civilisation
• Arthur Kemp (2008), The Immigration Invasion
• Arthur Kemp (2009), Victory Or Violence - The Story of the Awb of South Africa
• Arthur Kemp (2009), The Lie of Apartheid and Other True Stories from Southern Africa

External links

• Blog site of Arthur Kemp
• YouTube video playlist of Arthur Kemp's BNP campaign speeches
• Read Arthur Kemp's book, "March of the Titans: A History of the White Race" online free-of-charge

Notes and References

1. ^ Heidi Beirich (Winter 2007). "Dangerous Liaison:South African Shores Up Neo-Nazi Group". Intelligence Report.
2. ^ The Guardian, 8 May 2009, BNP's attempt to gain first European seat aided by man linked to ANC leader's killer
3. "Excalibur, Dispatch Move to Bigger Premises under New Management"
4. Andrew Johnson, The Independent, 10 May 2009, BNP activist was linked to South Africa murder
5. A look behind the scenes at Euro depot
6. The Independent, 7 October 1993, Net widens
7. The Independent, 7 October 1993, Net widens
8. arthurkemp.com

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