Oct 5, 2025 07:17 PM
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A new report from Policy Exchange, called ‘After Gaza: Frantz Fanon and his Acolytes‘, warns of the dangers that come from “anti-colonial thinking” after the Manchester terror attack this week. Kemi Badenoch has backed the report as Tory Conference kicks off…
The report’s author former UK Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Sir John Jenkins picks apart 1960’s activist Frantz Fanon’s argument that oppressed people could achieve both physical and psychological liberation from colonisation through violence. Jenkins writes: “in the context of the Gaza conflict, his powerful but deeply flawed justification of redemptive anti-colonial violence has found new resonance with both Islamists and progressive western activists.”
Kemi Badenoch said: “This celebration of Fanon has real effects. When intellectuals and activists romanticise violence, they give licence to those who see bloodshed not as tragedy, but as a political tool…most recently in the appalling terrorist attack in Manchester on Yom Kippur. This was not an isolated act of hatred: it flows from a wider culture that legitimises violence in the name of “justice”, cloaking it in the language of resistance.”
A new report from Policy Exchange, called ‘After Gaza: Frantz Fanon and his Acolytes‘, warns of the dangers that come from “anti-colonial thinking” after the Manchester terror attack this week. Kemi Badenoch has backed the report as Tory Conference kicks off…
The report’s author former UK Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Sir John Jenkins picks apart 1960’s activist Frantz Fanon’s argument that oppressed people could achieve both physical and psychological liberation from colonisation through violence. Jenkins writes: “in the context of the Gaza conflict, his powerful but deeply flawed justification of redemptive anti-colonial violence has found new resonance with both Islamists and progressive western activists.”
Kemi Badenoch said: “This celebration of Fanon has real effects. When intellectuals and activists romanticise violence, they give licence to those who see bloodshed not as tragedy, but as a political tool…most recently in the appalling terrorist attack in Manchester on Yom Kippur. This was not an isolated act of hatred: it flows from a wider culture that legitimises violence in the name of “justice”, cloaking it in the language of resistance.”