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Revealed: The Pro-Hitler Messages Behind the ‘Neo-Nazi’ Libel Case Funded by Reform’s Crypto Billionaire Donor

In @bylinetimes.bsky.social: Revealed: The Pro-Hitler Messages Behind the ‘Neo-Nazi' Libel Case Funded by Reform's Crypto Billionaire Donor Ben Delo financed a failed defamation case brought against a British Jewish artist who accused them of antisemitic bullying. bylinetimes.com/2026/09/18/r...

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Ben Delo financed a failed defamation case brought by two writers, who privately exchanged pro-Hitler messages and talked about studying Mein Kampf, against a British Jewish artist who accused them of...

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Reform donor Ben Delo loaned £350k to academic later found to have engaged in online bullying

From @theguardian.com: Reform donor Ben Delo loaned £350k to academic later found to have engaged in online bullying Judge said Nina Power and her friend's social media posts had 'the whiff of threat and antisemitism' www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Judge said Nina Power and her friend’s social media posts had ‘the whiff of threat and antisemitism’

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Reform UK’s mega-donor backed a friend’s libel claim. Now he controls her home

The @financialtimes.com: Reform UK's mega-donor backed a friend's libel claim. Now he controls her home Crypto billionaire Ben Delo loaned more than £300,000 to former academic Nina Power as.ft.com/r/2c6791dd-7...

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Crypto billionaire Ben Delo loaned more than £300,000 to former academic Nina Power

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This week has seen front page coverage of crypto billionaire Reform donor Ben Delo’s funding of neo-Nazis Nina Power and DC Miller in my High Court antisemitism case, in the Financial Times and the Guardian, as well as excellent in-depth reporting by the Byline Times (links below).

Financial Times: Reform UK's mega-donor backed a friend's libel claim.
Now he controls her home

Crypto billionaire Ben Delo loaned more than £300,000 to former academic Nina
Power

The Guardian: Reform donor Ben Delo loaned £350k to academic later found to have engaged in online bullying

Judge said Nina Power and her friend's social media posts had 'the whiff of threat and antisemitism'

Byline Times: Revealed: The Pro-Hitler
Messages Behind the ‘Neo-Nazi' Libel Case Funded by Reform's Crypto Billionaire Donor

Ben Delo financed a failed defamation case brought by two writers, who privately exchanged pro-Hitler messages and talked about studying Mein Kampf, against a British Jewish artist who accused them of antisemitic bullying.

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Revealed: The Pro-Hitler Messages Behind the ‘Neo-Nazi’ Libel Case Funded by Reform’s Crypto Billionaire Donor Ben Delo financed a failed legal case in defense of two writers who privately exchanged pro-Hitler messages and talked about studying Mein Kampf...

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Revealed: The Pro-Hitler Messages Behind the ‘Neo-Nazi’ Libel Case Funded by Reform’s Crypto Billionaire Donor

Ben Delo financed a failed legal case in defense of two writers who privately exchanged pro-Hitler messages and talked about studying Mein Kampf

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 19/09/2026

Judge said Nina Power and her friend’s social media posts had ‘the whiff of threat and antisemitism’

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Reform donor Ben Delo loaned £350k to academic later found to have engaged in online bullying

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

FINALLY there’s reporting on this! It only took literally years. But while @nafeez.bsky.social’s exposé is a good start, there’s a whole lot more, including the fascist bookshop in London, Power’s overt neo-Nazi affiliations in recent years, and support by philosophers like Stock and James Oor

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Stewart Home @stewarthome.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Nina Power & Daniel Miller told each other they each kept a copy of Hitler’s manifesto. Power had been reading a conspiracy tract alleging a “Judeo-Masonic Plan to Conquer the World”; later she asked what “the real deal” was with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. bylinetimes.com/2026/09/18/r...

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Also, Nina Power sits on the Free Speech Union's advisory board. FSU is financially supported by Ben Delo. Same actors, same tactics as in the Arday case. This is important information that explains the *why* Ben Delo is involved. It's missing from @us.theguardian.com piece.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s good to see that mainstream UK papers are now, finally, after many years, covering esoteric hitlerist Nina Power and DC Miller’s connections to Ben Dilo. It is a shame, however, that this FT column does not go into detail about their egregious antisemitic and racist conspiracy thinking

A crypto billionaire who made a record-breaking £36mn donation to Nigel Farage's Reform UK financed a defamation case against an artist who claimed to have been the victim of an antisemitic harassment campaign.
Ben Delo loaned more than £300,000 to a former academic, Nina Power, which was secured against her home, to help her bring a joint libel suit against Luke Turner, a Jewish performance artist.
The case shines a spotlight on Delo's support for individuals and organisations whom critics accuse of having at times tested the boundaries of legitimate free speech.
Power and her fellow claimant lost their defamation case in 2023, and she was declared bankrupt. Afterwards, Delo enforced his rights over her London home as a way of recovering the money he had lent her.
That has meant that her other creditors cannot seek the sale of the home to recover other debts, unless Delo's security is deemed invalid in some way.
One of the creditors is Turner, the artist, who had originally sought the bankruptcy petition against her in order to reclaim his legal costs. The court had ordered Power and her co-claimant to pay him an initial £250,000, which they have not done.
Delo considers Power a friend, according to people close to him. The billionaire is in effect now the landlord of the bankrupt former academic, and receives monthly rent payments from her as a means of recovering the debt, according to people familiar with their financial arrangements. She remains the legal owner of the property.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

FT story carefully worded, but some more detail on the people Delo was backing here bsky.app/profile/luke...

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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 17/09/2026

Ben Delo is many things: a crypto billionaire, a Reform mega-donor and a free speech advocate. @oilsheppard.bsky.social and I discovered he's also the landlord of a bankrupt academic after funding her failed libel claim against a Jewish artist who complained of antisemism www.ft.com/content/21aa...

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Reform UK’s mega-donor backed a friend’s libel claim. Now he controls her home

Crypto billionaire Ben Delo loaned more than £300,000 to former academic Nina Power

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Not only that, but a crypto bro who funded the neo-Nazi libel case against me, where David's posts calling out their antisemitic abuse were in fact cited in evidence. Rest in power, David. bsky.app/profile/luke...

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Yep, it's also been made abundantly clear (via his solicitors) that Delo was ideologically motivated, and shows absolutely no remorse for what was a particularly sadistic act of antisemitic lawfare.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

To be fair, I'm not sure Delo was in court himself—although I wouldn't have known him from Adam at that stage, so it's entirely possible. That was before he came out as a Reform mega-donor, alongside his covert funding of neo-Nazis. The sound of crickets in the media has certainly been deafening…

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Still, on this one, can't quite believe that a few of the usual suspects tried to turn it into an academic freedom issue.

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Victory in High Court libel case against neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists - Luke Turner

Thanks for sharing – it certainly feels overdue and urgent for the media to report on Ben Delo's funding of Holocaust-revisionist neo-Nazis in the High Court. More details here, in case you're interested in covering this, @vicderbyshire.bsky.social luketurner.com/victory-in-h...

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I am delighted to have successfully defended the libel claim brought against me in the High Court by neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists Nina Power and Daniel ‘DC’ Miller, bringing to an end legal proceedin...

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

As Ben Delo's record £36m Reform donation is headline news, I can't emphasise enough that the media ought to be reporting on Delo's heinous funding of antisemitic conspiracy theorists in the High Court – anonymous contributors to the horrifying neo-Nazi account shown below. bsky.app/profile/luke...

A sample of neo-Nazi posts by the @ParallaxOptics account, displaying grotesque antisemitic caricatures and violent Jew hate.

The @ParallaxOptics account's banner image depicting Adolf Hitler.

Post by @ParallaxOptics of an article anonymously written by Nina Power and Daniel Miller: ON CULTS II "If we're proposing the the Left is a cult, the first question is what do cults want in general?"

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Now, you'd think that a very devout Christian wouldn't want anything to do with two gutter-level internet trolls who think that black people are aliens and there are faeries on the bus, BUT WOULD YOU BE SHOCKED TO LEARN-

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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 05/09/2026

The mediocrity of evil, and all that…

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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 04/09/2026

It’s a sordid little circle!

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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The far-right UK “Free Speech Union” still has Nina Power, who ineffectually tried to silence criticism with the help of state power, as one of their people. This is not uncommon, Toby Young has a history of cheering on SLAPP lawsuits from rightwingers trying to silence their opposition.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 04/09/2026

Yes, indeed – Toby Young was one of those promoting the neo-Nazis' dishonest crowdfunder against me from the outset.

September 2019 Tweet by Toby Young that reads, "An artist who's been branded a Nazi because he defended freedom of expression has launched a crowdfunder to finance a libel suit against his accuser. See here for more details"—sharing a link to Nina Power and Daniel 'DC' Miller's crowdfunder for their vexatious libel claim against me.

The accompanying photo shows Mr Miller at the LD50 protest in 2017, with a protestor holding a placard up to him that reads "F**k off Nazi Scum".

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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 04/09/2026

Worth noting too how Reform's James Orr—disgraced by Verbatim's Channel 4 exposé—leapt to Nina Power's defence (alongside Kathleen Stock) following the damning judgment and her unmasking as antisemitic conspiracy theorist and anonymous contributor to a notorious neo-Nazi account.

James Orr: "Nina Power is a talented and valuable voice in the postliberal space, so I can understand why progressive authoritarians are so desperate to cancel her; but it's not going to work."

Kathleen Stock: "@Nina_Compact is an original, stimulating, light-footed writer who always makes me think; I'm very happy I supported her crowdfunder a few years back; and I get a lot from @compactmag where she is editor…"

The Ineffable Horror of Joe Muggs: "James, she made sure her Nazi sympathies would be publicised when she tried to silence - "cancel" if you will - a critic who she'd been subjecting to Antisemitic bullying. Help me out. Can you explain how the marketplace of ideas has failed here exactly? Because I'm CONFUSED."

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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 03/09/2026

Ben Delo, the crypto billionaire who funded Holocaust-revisionist neo-Nazi "bullies" in the High Court against their Jewish target (me), has just given Reform another £4 million. This is the scary state of UK politics. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 27/08/2026

Oh yes – Fox's Battle of Ideas festival receives funding from Ben Delo (£100k/year per the Guardian), who also spent £350k funding Nina Power's wretched case. The key "ideas" being supported there were Holocaust revisionism, and the notion that it's "cancel culture" to oppose the targeting of Jews…

In the Sanctuary offices a framed picture of Delo, a gift from the Academy of Ideas, founded by Claire Fox, contains a written thank you to “our free speech hero”. The Academy uses one of the rooms as an office, and the Guardian understands Delo has provided £100,000 a year to fund Fox’s Battle of Ideas festival, which holds debates tackling the “free speech emergency” and “cancel culture”. Its marketing material credits the Ben Delo Foundation as a supporter.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Also note "race realist" Nathan Cofnas's appearance in Nina Power and Daniel Miller's messages about "The Jews" revealed in court. luketurner.com/Nina_Power/

Daniel Miller: The Jews, yes...

Daniel Miller: What do they run? They run some things...

Nina Power: Was unfortunate....also a question about Tommy Robinson in the quiz which perhaps a surprising number of people playing took as an opportunity to sing TR's praises. Paul was like 'Rothschilds, tentacles' etc

Daniel Miller: Did you ever read Kevin McDonald Culture of Critique? He's probably got the most sophisticated anti-Semitic theory

Nina Power: I did not. I am really not very up on philo or antisemitism or Judaism at all unfortunatel

Daniel Miller: ((Nathan Cofnes))) wrote a pretty good critique of it a while back...

Daniel Miller: Many things that one could say about this topic ultimately but of course it's not so easy to discuss

Nina Power: no. I need to do more

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Plagiarism is only one part of a much broader scope of academic misconduct, and ‘race realism’ is itself a form of academic misconduct: using academia to launder long-discredited and empirically refuted white supremacist propaganda. It is disseminating pernicious lies into broader society

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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 19/08/2026

Byline Times here details Nathan Cofnas's racist network, backed by crypto-billionaire Ben Delo. More scrutiny is needed of how Delo covertly funded the neo-Nazis in my case to the tune of £350,000 (enabling Nina Power to unlawfully dissipate her assets). bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 18/08/2026

Yep, depicting Jewish people as reptiles is a vicious antisemitic trope that goes back centuries, and one that the Parallax Optics account was particularly fond of. (See also David Icke.)

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Ugh yes, it was a truly awful account – and one of the final nails in their legal coffin. It also figures that Nina Power has been a regular on Alex Kaschuta's podcast.

YouTube thumbnails showing Nina Power's repeated appearances on Alex Kaschuta's channel.

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See also these horrific antisemitic posts exhibited in court showing replies to Nathan Cofnas by Parallax Optics, the neo-Nazi account that Nina Power and Daniel Miller were unmasked as anonymous contributors to.

Tweet by Nathan Cofnas: See the examples of Jewish behavior that clearly undermine Jewish ethnic interests.

Reply by Parallax Optics: And the classification of Jews as 'people' is also obviously highly questionable.

Reply by Parallax Optics: #Jews (with an image of a reptile hatching from an egg).

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Also note "race realist" Nathan Cofnas's appearance in Nina Power and Daniel Miller's messages about "The Jews" revealed in court. luketurner.com/Nina_Power/

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