Jim Saleam

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Dr. '''Jim Saleam''' (born 1955) is a [[Lebanon|Lebanese]]-[[Australia]]n<ref>[https://www.smh.com.au/national/on-the-march-20140602-39d0h.html On the march] by John Safran (7 June 2014 — 3:00am) ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. "He denies it, of course, but people who knew Jim's parents and grandparents from his old hometown of Maryborough, Queensland, say this: Jim's from a Lebanese immigrant family."</ref> right wing activist and leader of the [[far right]] Australia First Party.

Saleam cofounded the National Action group in the 1980s after being a member of the short-lived Australian National Socialist Party in the 1970s. National Action's existence was also short lived due to many acts of violence by its members, including a shotgun attack organised by Saleam on [[African National Congress]] representative Eddie Funde in 1989. Saleam was convicted of his role and served a prison sentence for his crime, despite pleading not guilty.<ref>https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/14811</ref> Saleam has also maintained his innocence for the last two and a half decades since committing the offence.

Upon his release from jail, Saleam earned a Ph.D. at Sydney University; his doctoral thesis being on the growth of Australia's populist far right.

Saleam joined the Patriotic Youth League in the 1990s and acted as a mentor to up-and-coming right wing activists. He joined the Australia First Party in 
2002 and acted as secretary, before establishing a separate New South Wales branch of the organisation in 2007, which he has continued to lead.

Saleam is highly critical of [[multiculturalism]] and despite being of Lebanese descent, he believes that non-white immigration to Australia must be halted to prevent racial genocide. To no one's surprise, he also adheres to the idea that anti-racism is a code for anti-white.

Despite denying ever being a [[Neo-Nazi]], images have emerged of Saleam in his youth wearing Nazi attire in public, and recently, footage emerged of him attending a Neo-Nazi meeting where he [[Irony|saluted]] an image of [[Colonel Gadaffi]], which earned the annoyance of fellow Australian right wing loon [[Party For Freedom (Australia)|Nick Folkes]]<ref>http://www.nick-folkes.com/2015/11/14/nazi-bunker-exposed-dr-jim-saleam-salutes-colonel-gaddafi/</ref>. Folkes, an ardent Zionist, has argued that Saleam is [[No True Scotsman|not a real patriot]] because of his Nazi links, and has even gone to the extent of accusing Saleam of supporting anarchist groups he so dearly claims to oppose. 

Saleam also strongly opposes [[Islam]] and is a follower of the [[Reclaim Australia]] and [[United Patriots Front]] (UPF) movements, attending rallies of theirs in 2015. In early 2015, Saleam was interviewed by then UPF member and fellow Neo-Nazi [[Neil Erikson]] on how the Australian right can overcome Islam and the [[left]], whom both see as conspiring together to destroy the Australian state.<ref>http://www.kieransreview.com/2015/06/28/jim-saleam-and-the-united-patriots-front/</ref>

==See also==
*[[Horseshoe theory]]

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