One Restore Britain member demanded that Molly Kingsley be deported after Rupert Lowe named her the party’s “Spokesperson for Accountability in Public Office” on Monday. “Why is this jew calling somebody goy? Why is she in the country? Nevermind working for Restore? Deport,” the account VoteRestore26, whose bio describes the user as a “@restorebritain member,” wrote on Tuesday.
Kingsley, a former lawyer and freelance journalist, co-founded UsForThem, a campaign against school closures, in 2020. In a 2023 Telegraph interview, she said she had been “cast as an extremist” over her lockdown skepticism; the paper also reported that her articles had been flagged by the Counter-Disinformation Unit.
Lowe, the Restore Britain leader and Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth, a coastal seat in eastern England, said she had been a “tireless campaigner against school closures and the damage inflicted on children” throughout the pandemic and would “help lead Restore Britain’s fight to restore integrity, transparency and accountability to public office.” He announced the new spokeswoman alongside a new policy paper, “A Roadmap For Restoring Public trust.”
Kingsley said she was “delighted to be joining the Restore Britain team, and taking on this role.”
A second account, winnieman15, wrote: “Why does she calling British people “Goy”? This is the last fucking straw, Remove her, and any jewish influence or im canceling my membership and voting Reform out of spite You are turning into a massive let down Rupert.”
Another account wrote on Monday, in a reply to Lowe’s announcement: “Well,well,well as if it’s not bad enough,put a jew in the mix to divert attention from the tribe who caused this mess in the first place….you’re not a serious person.”
Yet another wrote that it was “one big fucking mafia. A jewish mafia,” and that Kingsley would not “hold any jews to account or indeed good little goy like rupert who took the shekels.”
A screenshot circulating on Tuesday purported to show a March 2022 post from Kingsley’s account calling someone a “silly goy.” Kingsley said: “This is a fake tweet.” She later added: “It is a fake tweet. I would never use that language, nor speak to anyone like that on X (or in real life, for that matter).” Lowe also wrote: “This is a faked post. Please delete it.”
The abuse continued after that denial. Replying directly to Lowe, the account DeportMillions wrote: “She’s still a Jew, get her gone.” The same account had earlier asked, “Why pick a fucking Jew?” and later told a critic to “fuck off over to Reform out of our way.”
Steve Laws, founder of Remigration Now, wrote after Lowe’s denial: “What’s not fake is that she’s a Jew who is a signatory to the British friends of Israel, contributes to the Telegraph… Terrible appointment.”
Kingsley wrote on November 6, “Like many of Jewish heritage I find the conflation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism flawed and upsetting.”
The reaction was not uniform. An account whose bio says “restore member,” noreen022348172, wrote: “What’s with all the pali crap, she’s a a jew ect, if you don’t like her because she supporters Jews,or is a Jewish, trot off to labour and go wave your hamas flags , sick of this crap.” Another user, Sundreamer3, wrote: “I’m seeing a few Restore Britain supporters melting down about the appointment of Molly Kingsley. Get a grip…”
PetuniaSmith6, whose bio contains “RestoreBritain” and who wrote “I belong to a party,” said: “I’ve just discovered I belong to a party with a lot of Jew haters in it.”
A_UK_Stoner, who wrote “If Restore want power, which we do,” argued against the anti-Jewish posts, saying most on the right consider expelling all Jewish people “a step too far.” He later wrote: “If Restore tears itself apart over the Jewish question then the country is fucked.”
Restore has faced numerous accusations over antisemitism. In August, the Daily Mail reported on a post by Charlie Downes, whom it described as a Restore founder, involving an image of Nigel Farage and a Reform Jewish Alliance. Jewish News reported Reform UK saying “antisemites and other extreme racists would have to go first” before any deal could be made between Farage and Lowe.
