Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage on Thursday slammed left-wing academics and writers who, upon the death of Queen Elizabeth II, attacked her legacy and that of the British empire.

While most of the world mourned the queen’s passing in solidarity with the people of the United Kingdom, some opinion writers at the New York Times, New York magazine, and the Atlantic celebrated her death, calling the queen a “colonizer.” Others on social media, including prominent black journalists, attacked the queen and the British empire as racist.

Farage ferociously pushed back against Queen Elizabeth’s critics on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Thursday, condemning “those who want to destroy everything that our civilizations are about.”