Green Party activists have spent the weekend sharing a letter-writing campaign based on the conspiracy that there has been zero reporting about Essa Suleiman’s third non-Jewish alleged victim. They were later joined on the bandwagon by senior party leadership…
The letter-writing campaign is titled: “UK Govt’s Racist Double Standard Must Be Challenged by MPs re the handling of the 29 April Golders Green stabbings.”
On a private group chat for “Muslim Greens,” which contains deputy leader Mothin Ali, Green activists were encouraged to write a letter to their MP alleging that Starmer and Shabana Mahmood have “repeatedly framed” the Golders Green attack “only as a terror attack on ‘two Jewish men’ and an “antisemitic national security emergency,’ while failing to name or centre Ishmael Hussein in their public statements.” There is no suggestion Ali has supported the campaign in the group chat. By focussing on the attack on Jewish people the letter organisers allege “Jewish victims are elevated to the level of a national security crisis while the Muslim victim in the same case is treated as background detail”…
The letter to MPs, organised by the “Campaign Against Muslim Hate,” demands that the government: “Issue a public apology to the Muslim community for the selective handling of this case… Confirm in writing that the attack on the Muslim victim will be treated as fully equivalent under hate-crime and counter-terrorism frameworks… Publicly name Ishmael Hussein as the first of the three victims in all future ministerial statements and correct the “two Jewish victims only” framing.”
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward also shared a post from NewsCord, an AI news aggregator and campaign platform which was founded after the October 7th attacks to challenge “the way the Western media was justifying and manufacturing consent for Israel’s war.” It alleged: “The third alleged victim, Ismail Hussein, attacked at his home in Southwark hours before Golders Green, has been erased from headlines to suit a weaponised, desperate narrative.” Millward said: “How can this be? Three attempted murders and only 2 reported?”
Major outlets have of course reported all three alleged attempted murders. The Greens are fast becoming world experts in missing the point…
Speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”