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Benson was born in South Africa.
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Zionist Factor: Study of the Jewish Presence in Twentieth-century History by Ivor Benson (1986-12-03)
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Zionist Factor: Study of the Jewish Presence in Twentieth-century History
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vor Benson -- author, journalist and current affairs analyst, and a good friend of the Institute for Historical Review -- died in mid-January in a small market town in West Suffolk, England, where he and his wife had lived for nearly eight years. He was in his 86th year. Benson was born of Swedish parents in November 1907 in South Africa (Orange Free State), and grew up in South Africa and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). His writing career began as a teenage reporter with the Natal Mercury in Durban (South Africa). After work for the London Daily Telegraph and the Daily Express, he became chief assistant editor of the Johannesburg Rand Daily Mail, then South Africa's leading morning paper. He resigned that post because of what he regarded as the paper's entrenched misrepresentation of truth. He also served as assistant editor of the Sunday Tribune in Durban. During the early months of the Second World War, he worked as a freelance journalist in Poland, Finland and Sweden. He left Norway just ahead of the occupying German forces. After returning to South Africa to enlist, he served with distinction as an officer under British command in tank and armored car units in north Africa and Italy. In 1960, he was the last journalist to leave the embattled Congolese city of Elisabethville (now Lubumbashi). His exclusive first-hand reports on the chaos and bloody fighting there appeared in newspapers around the world. In 1963 he delivered a series of acclaimed weekly broadcasts of news analysis and commentary over the South African Broadcasting Corporation. Then, from 1964 to 1966, he served as Information Advisor to the government of Rhodesia (then headed by Ian Smith). For most of the rest of his life, he was an independent political analyst and commentator on world affairs. For 15 years until his death, he wrote and published Behind the News, a courageous and well-written monthly newsletter that enjoyed an influence out of all proportion to its modest circulation.
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Ivor Benson
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He started out as a journalist in Durban before later moving to London where he wrote for the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Express. During the Second World War he enlisted in the British Army in South Africa, and returned to journalism there after the War. He became a news commentator at Radio South Africa and broadcaster for the South African Broadcasting Corporation.
He became chief assistant editor of the Rand Daily Mail.
However, after he wrote an editorial in favour of Sir Oswald Mosley, who was staying with him he was later sacked. From 1964 to 1966, he served as Director of the Government Information Department to the government of Rhodesia, under Ian Smith and would speak for the Rhodesian Front.
In South Africa his fanatical support of apartheid went beyond that of most Afrikaners. Benson would author many books and essays alleging a Jewish World Conspiracy.
He wrote articles for magazines abroad, such as Western Destiny, The Journal of Historical Review, and The Spotlight.
He produced a newsletter, Behind the News, and in the 1970s founded a group called the National Forum, and would head the South African chapter of the World Anti-Communist League. He was the South African correspondent of the Crown Commonwealth League of Rights. He would pay host to Eric Butler in 1970.
Benson would travel worldwide promoting his view point.
In 1983 he spoke to the Swinton Circle in England, and for the Canadian League of Rights in Canada. In later years he would leave South Africa to live in England, where he died.
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Zionist Factor: Study of the Jewish Presence in Twentieth-century History
(vor Benson -- author, journalist and current affairs anal...)
- Zionist Factor: Study of the Jewish Presence in Twentieth-century History by Ivor Benson (1986-12-03)
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Zionist Factor: Study of the Jewish Presence in Twentieth-century History
Politics
Behind Communism in Africa.
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Nationality
South Africa -
Political Party
National Forum