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International support
Far-right
Assad has attracted support from the far-right both before and during
the Syrian Civil War. Former leader of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke
hosted a televised speech on Syrian national television in 2005.[190]
The Ukrainian far right figure Georgy Shchokin was invited to Syria in
2006 by the Syrian foreign minister and awarded a medal by the Ba'ath
party, while Shchokin's institution the Interregional Academy of
Personnel Management awarded Assad with an honorary doctorate.[191] In
2014, research by the Simon Wiesenthal Center concluded that Bashar
al-Assad had, like his father Hafez al-Assad, sheltered Nazi war
criminal Alois Brunner in Syria. Brunner was Adolf Eichmann’s top
lieutenant and was believed to have advised the Assad regime on torture
techniques[192] and on purging Syria's Jewish community.[193] Brunner is
thought to have died in Syria of natural causes in 2010.
The National Front in France has been a prominent supporter of Assad
since the civil war,[194] as has the former leader of the neo-fascist
Third Way (Troisième voie) organization.[190] In Italy, the far right
parties Forza Nuova and CasaPound have both been supportive of Assad,
with Forza Nuova putting up pro-Assad posters and the party's leader
praising Assad's commitment to the ideology of Arab nationalism in
2013,[195] while CasaPound has issued statements of support for
Assad.[196] Syrian Social Nationalist Party representative Ouday Ramadan
has worked in Italy to organize support movements for Assad.[197] Other
far-right political parties expressing support for Assad include the
National Democratic Party of Germany,[198] the National Revival of
Poland,[190] the Freedom Party of Austria,[199] the Bulgarian Ataka
party,[200] the Hungarian Jobbik party,[201] the Serbian Radical
Party,[202] the Portuguese National Renovator Party,[203] as well as the
Spanish Falange Española de las JONS[204] and Authentic Falange
parties.[205] The Greek Neo-Nazi political party Golden Dawn has spoken
out in favor of the Assad regime,[206] and the more radical Strasserist
group Black Lily has claimed to have sent mercenaries to Syria to fight
alongside the Syrian regime, specifically mentioning their participation
in the Battle of al-Qusayr.[207]
Far-right politician Nick Griffin, the former leader of the British
National Party, has been chosen by the Assad regime to represent the
United Kingdom as an ambassador and at regime-held conferences; Griffin
had been an official guest of the Assad regime three times since the
outbreak of the civil war.[208] The European Solidarity Front for Syria,
representing several extreme right political groups from across Europe,
has had their delegations received by the Syrian national parliament,
with one particular delegation being met by Syrian head of parliament
Mohammad Jihad al-Laham, Prime Minister Wael Nader Al-Halqi and Deputy
Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad.[197] Most recently, Assad met with Filip
Dewinter of the Belgian far-right party Vlaams Belang.[209]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad#Far-right
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