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Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X and dominant stakeholder directing Tesla and SpaceX, has shared with millions of people a speech by British far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon aka ‘Tommy Robinson’ which was hosted by a group with longstanding neo-Nazi ties. In the speech, Robinson demanded that more than half of the UK’s population of British Muslim citizens be forcibly deported by the state.
The address was hosted by Uncensored America, an American student organisation founded by the former secretary for a far-right campus club whose co-founders now run a neo-Nazi press that prints Adolf Hitler’s speeches. Uncensored America has also hosted speakers from the white nationalist movement of Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, and other antisemites.
During his speech, Robinson built his case for mass removal on the premise that “Islam” is a hostile political ideology rather than a faith, and that the only Muslim he would permit to remain is one who has given up “Shariah law”, which includes basic Muslim practices such as praying, fasting and the other ordinary obligations of the religion.
Musk, the owner of X, shared the video on 22 June. Uploaded by Uncensored America under the title ‘The Islamic Invasion’, it had drawn only a few hundred reposts before his intervention. It has since passed 20 million views on X, and the post carrying it on Musk’s own account reached over 36 million.
Uncensored America’s Neo-Nazi Connections
Uncensored America is a registered student group, founded in 2020, that has built its profile by bringing far-right speakers onto US campuses, where it runs chapters at universities including Penn State. It describes itself as a non-partisan organisation devoted to free speech.
Every event it has staged has platformed a figure from the far right, among them antisemitic propagandist Milo Yiannopoulos, anti-Muslim activist Laura Loomer and antisemite Gavin McInnes, founder of the Proud Boys, the far-right extremist organisation whose key members were convicted of seditious conspiracy for their role in the 6 January 6 2021 Capitol riot.
Its speaking roster places Robinson in pointed company.
Nick Fuentes, the white nationalist live-streamer who leads the ‘groyper’ movement – an online following of young activists who push white nationalist and antisemitic politics into mainstream American conservatism – has praised Adolf Hitler, denied the Holocaust, and had his X account personally reinstated by Musk in 2024.
Uncensored America has hosted John Doyle, a far-right streamer aligned with Fuentes who co-organised a “Stop the Steal” rally alongside him in Detroit in 2020, part of the campaign that falsely claimed the US presidential election had been stolen from Donald Trump.
Uncensored America has also repeatedly hosted Myron Gaines, whose real name is Amrou Fudl, co-host of Fresh & Fit, a male-supremacist podcast with 1.57 million YouTube subscribers. Gaines, a black man who has positioned himself as a white nationalist ally, engages in Holocaust denial and has defended Hitler. On the show’s set, Fuentes and several guests were filmed performing the Nazi salute; Gaines has joked about teaching the salute to his dog, and has boasted that his was the largest platform discussing the “JQ”.
The “JQ”, or “Jewish Question”, is the phrase antisemitic movements have used since the 19th Century to cast the existence of Jewish communities as a problem requiring a solution; the Nazi “Final Solution to the Jewish Question” was the euphemism under which six million Jewish people were murdered.
At Gaines’s appearances for Uncensored America, audience members raised the “JQ” from the floor, and one praised Fuentes by name. Opening a campus address in April 2025, Gaines told students: “We need to bring back bigotry and racism and everything else.”
Before founding Uncensored America, Sean Semanko served as secretary of the Bull Moose Party, a campus club its own members described as “alt-right”. Two other senior members of that club, Vincent Cucchiara and Dmitri Loutsik, went on to run Antelope Hill Publishing, a neo-Nazi press.
It prints translations of Adolf Hitler’s speeches and the works of Leon Degrelle, the Belgian Schutzstaffel (SS) commander – the Nazi paramilitary force – who was convicted of war crimes, and cooperates with the neo-Nazi podcast network The Right Stuff as well as the white supremacist National Justice Party.
Its principals use coding long established on the extreme right, including the numbers 14 and 88 – the first a white supremacist slogan, the second a cipher for “Heil Hitler”.
Sean Semanko and Uncensored America did not respond to request for comment.
‘Two Million People Need to Leave’
The demands Robinson put to the audience were explicit. He called for a halt to all immigration from Muslim-majority countries, a state-funded “remigration” scheme paying individuals £100,000 each to leave, and a ban on the Quran, the call to prayer and the face veil.
He demanded that Islam be stripped of its status as a religion so that the state could “act forcibly and without fear”. Addressing his American audience directly, he called on the US Congress to pass what he termed a “Muslim Community Deportation Act”.
Citing his own claim that 40% of British Muslims want Sharia law, Robinson told the audience that “two million people … need to leave” to preserve democratic order and the safety of what he called the “indigenous” population. In other words, Robinson wants to forcibly deport over half of Britain’s Muslim population of 3.9 million.
Sharia describes a body of religious obligation and ethical guidance drawn from the Quran and the example of the Prophet Muhammad – daily prayer, fasting during Ramadan, charitable giving, dietary rules and personal conduct. For most of the world’s Muslims it is the framework for personal worship and everyday ethical conduct, and surveys that ask Muslims whether they support Sharia generally measure attachment to those religious duties, which observant believers affirm as a matter of faith.
Robinson’s argument conflates that devotional framework with a political ideology. By treating support for Sharia – for prayer and for fasting – as evidence of a desire to overthrow the constitutional order, he turns the routine observance of Islam into the marker of the “extremism” his deportation programme is built to target. On that reasoning, the only Muslim exempted from his removal programme is one who has set aside the practice of Islam.
A Racial Theory of Replacement
Robinson’s speech rested throughout on the “Great Replacement”, the baseless far-right conspiracy theory that white populations are being deliberately displaced through migration and higher birth rates. The theory has inspired several white supremacist terrorist attacks in recent years.
Robinson claimed that “white people”, “white natives” and an “indigenous” population are in “terminal decline”, set against the “proactive procreation” of newcomers. He called Muslim family size “the weapon of the womb” and cast migration as a covert form of conquest. He claimed that Muslim birth-rates and immigration are part of a stealth strategy concocted by late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and predicted majority-Muslim populations across Britain and Europe within decades. A previous Byline Times analysis has shown there is no basis for these population predictions.
To pre-empt the charge of racism, Robinson folded black Britons into the threatened native population. “Every group of white boys has a group of blacks with them,” he said, presenting white and black citizens together as assimilated, and isolating Muslims as the sole unintegrated group. He invoked a “historic white Christian majority” being “outmanoeuvred” by “organised diaspora groups”, and singled out South Asian Muslims in particular. In his home town of Luton, which he falsely described as “50% Pakistani” (the correct figure is 18%), he claimed voters were directed by imams to vote “in a military fashion”.
He ranked nationalities by what he called a “math of risk”, setting low conviction rates he attributed to Japanese migrants in Germany against far higher rates he attributed to Algerians, describing the Somali community in the US state of Minnesota as a permanent welfare burden, and claiming that 99% of Afghans, 91% of Iraqis and 89% of Palestinians want Sharia law.
The framing extends a pattern Byline Times documented in May, when analysis of Robinson’s X output found a sustained racial binary of “native” against “invader” running across multiple posts a week for 28 months; the “remigration” he demands is a term repurposed by the former neo-Nazi Martin Sellner, founder of the pan-European Identitarian movement, to describe the ethnic cleansing of non-white citizens from European nations.
Robinson was contacted for comment via his media platform Urban Scoop, but did not respond.
Musk and Yaxley-Lennon
Musk has promoted Robinson repeatedly. He previously campaigned for Robinson’s release from prison and praised him as a victim of censorship while paying for his legal costs.
In September 2025 Musk addressed Robinson’s ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally of more than 100,000 people in London by video link, telling the crowd “you either fight back, or you die”. During anti-migrant riots in Belfast this June, he re-shared Robinson’s posts, urging people to come out on the streets “repeatedly and loudly” as violence spread through the city.
Enquiries sent to Musk via X, Tesla and SpaceX received no reply.
Musk’s support for Robinson has received widespread condemnation from across Britain’s political spectrum, including Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper; Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey and Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper; Alicia Kearns, Conservative Shadow Safeguarding Minister and former prime minister Boris Johnson; and even Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.
However, other senior UK conservative figures have refused to condemn Musk, with the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch recently describing him as a “overall a goodie” who “does some naughty things from time to time”.
“He’s been a great advocate for free speech” she told the City AM newspaper.