Jim Saleam

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Jim Saleam being interviewed at the Sydney Forum, August 2006
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Jim Saleam being interviewed at the Sydney Forum, August 2006

James Saleam (commonly referred to as Jim Saleam) (born in 1955) is an Australian far-right activist and former member of the short-lived National Socialist Party of Australia in the early 1970s.

Saleam founded National Action (NA) on Anzac Day, 1982. National Action eventually imploded due to Saleam's criminal actions which included insurance fraud in 1987 and for organising a shotgun attack on ANC representative Eddie Funde by two NA members. Saleam was convicted for unlawful possession of firearms [1] and for organising the attack in 1991 and was sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment.

During his incarceration Saleam earned a PhD in politics from the University of Sydney by writing a thesis entitled The Other Radicalism: An Inquiry Into Contemporary Australian Extreme Right Ideology, Politics And Organization 1975-1995.

Saleam is currently the mentor for the Patriotic Youth League and is also the Secretary of the Sydney branch of the Australia First Party.

[edit] Allegations of Lebanese ethnicity

Due to his surname, Jim Saleam has faced accusations over the years of being of Lebanese ethnicity by those in Australian White Nationalist and neo-Nazi circles, including those by his former NA associate turned nemesis Jack van Tongeren [2], as well as those from his opponets in the anti-racist community [3] [4]

Saleam, however, has denied these allegations.

[edit] External links

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