TWO months ago, the Green Party won their first Parliamentary by-election and claimed to be Britain’s leading leftist party, more popular than the ruling Labour Party, and a contender to form the next government. Now the Islamist strategy that got it there has collapsed into cross-party revelations of anti-Semitism.
Some of these have emanated directly from the Labour Party which distributed a dossier of social media posts by 25 Green local council candidates. Labour characterises these posts as ‘harrowing anti-Semitism, dangerous conspiracy theories and appalling comments supporting Hamas’.
Housing and Communities Secretary Steve Reed declared that ‘racists shouldn’t be running councils’, adding that the imagery shared by Green candidates was so anti-Semitic ‘it could have come from the Third Reich’.
Labour accuses ten candidates of downplaying violence against the Jewish community, five of describing anti-Semitic attacks as Israeli ‘false flag’ operations.
A case in point is the arson attack on a Jewish volunteer ambulance service in Golders Green in March.
Aziz Hakimi, a candidate in Camden Green, reposted an article on Facebook describing the attack as a ‘false flag’ and convenient for the ‘Zionist narrative’ (even though a pro-Iran group claimed responsibility, using communications similar to Iran-funded terrorists).
In 2018, Hakimi, then standing in the Haverstock ward, posted: ‘Stay strong Hamas, you’re the pride of the sleeping ummah [the global community of Muslim believers].’
Ifhat Shaheen, a candidate in Stoke Newington, reacted to the arson with this post: ‘I want to take the opportunity to make people aware that the Jewish community in North London host IDF soldiers in their synagogues and raise funds for the IDF during a “family fun day”.’
Some of the posts are bizarre. For instance, one candidate claimed that Israel is harvesting organs to ‘alter DNA of Zionists to claim land, ancestry’ (which I think means taking the DNA from healthy Palestinians and then using gene therapy to alter the DNA of Jews to make Jews seem local, but I am not good at understanding such nonsense).
Perhaps the most violent post claims that Zionists should be killed by a combine harvester.
The dossier fingers the Green Party leader too. Zack Polanski liked social media posts accusing Keir Starmer of being on Israel’s payroll. Remember, Polanski is a gay Jew trying to appeal to Islamist conspiracy theorists.
Meanwhile, Rachel Millward, one of the party’s co-deputy leaders (the other is the awful Islamist Mothin Ali), is accused of promoting a conspiracy theory about the stabbings of two Jews last week in Golders Green. She shared a post on X which claimed that a Muslim the suspect allegedly attacked earlier had been ‘erased’ from news stories to ‘suit a weaponised, desperate narrative’.
This is a strange claim given that the earlier stabbing was reported within hours.
Nevertheless, over the weekend the Muslim Greens (including Mothin Ali) chatted on a private WhatsApp group about launching a campaign to highlight the Government’s supposed failure to admit Ishmael Hussein as another alleged victim of the stabbings on April 29.
The Daily Mail reported however that the Green Party is investigating more than 30 candidates for anti-Semitism even though it neither noticed nor cared about evidence sufficiently strong enough for the police to arrest two members last week.
The party suspended one of the members, but characterised the suspension as ‘no-fault’ pending party investigation. Then Mothin Ali encouraged the pair to take legal action against the disciplinary procedures.
In the meantime one of the two was spotted canvassing for the Green Party in London several days after her arrest.
An anonymous member of the Greens told the Daily Mail: ‘There is a growing realisation among early party members that this has gone too far and action needs to be taken.’
Another said: ‘Polanski’s actions are all about his ego.’
Former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas urged Polanski to ‘take immediate action’ against anti-Semitism.
To make matters worse, Polanski now admits he ‘used the wrong word’ after the Times revealed he had repeatedly claimed, while running for deputy leader of his Party, to be a spokesman for the British Red Cross, which denies he had any official role.
Mr Reed says that Polanski ‘can’t stay silent on these abhorrent candidates. He needs to take action against them, withdraw his support and boot them out of the party’.
He said: ‘This isn’t one or two bad apples. This is serial hatred from candidates handpicked by Zack Polanski and the Green Party to represent them at the ballot box.’
I doubt Labour can benefit from its own dossier. For instance, pointing to Greens who think that Israel was behind the attack on Jewish ambulances in Golders Green also reminds us that the Government denied the links with Iran.
Starmer even said there was ‘no assessment’ that the UK is being targeted by Iran. That was one month after Starmer said, just a day into the new war, that Iran ‘backed more than 20 potentially lethal attacks on UK soil’ in 2025 alone.
Similarly, the Government’s promise to fund security for Jews acts as a reminder of the money for security thrown at Islamic sites although they are in far less danger than Jewish locations.
Sending Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to sympathise with Jews can also serve as a reminder of her Islamo-centrism.
Labour’s attention to anti-Semitism is belated.
Some of the posts at issue have been in the public domain for years. For weeks, Andrew Gilligan has been reporting on them for the Spectator. His most recent list includes Ifhat Shaheen, who is in Labour’s dossier, and who is among ‘at least 17 Green candidates [who] have been exposed by the Spectator and others for holding or sharing hideous views’. It also exposes a Green candidate who called Britain a ‘terrorist state’, blamed Jeremy Corbyn’s fall from the Labour Party on a ‘web of lies Israel released on him’ and reposted a claim that Israel ‘captured’ Britain’s Department for Education.
Labour’s dossier seems to be mostly plagiarised from the Spectator.
Labour did not want to draw attention to its own anti-Semitism or to the fact that many of the Green anti-Semites are defectors from Labour, a fact admitted by Mr Reed. But it’s desperate, with its leader the most unpopular prime minister on record in just his second year of office.
For readers who are not in the UK, the local elections are considered Britain’s equivalent to American mid-terms in passing judgment on national government (listen to the pollster Lee Cain on this).
Labour’s belated accusations of anti-Semitism unwittingly implicate itself as a home and seed bed of Jew hate in its 21st century form.
