Speaking to journalist Hagar Shezaf, Green leader Zack Polanski suggested that there was only a “perception of unsafety” for Jewish people as opposed to any actual increase in danger for Jewish communities:
“I am concerned about the rising anti-semitic attacks. Um, we saw arson attacks on ambulances for instance, and we know that increasingly Jewish communities are feeling unsafe. Now, there’s a conversation to be had about whether it’s a perception of unsafety or whether it’s actual unsafety, but neither are acceptable. As a politician, as a leader of a political party, it’s really important that we do everything we can to make sure people are both physically safe and have a perception of safety. and it’s unacceptable for anyone in this country to be feeling unsafe if they’re just going about their daily business.”
Polanski went on to accuse Labour of “weaponising” antisemitism against his party:
“I see as an increasingly weaponised, cynical political attack from the Labour Party. Now, that doesn’t mean that I don’t take anti-semitism seriously. In fact, the opposite. I do take anti-semitism seriously and part of taking it seriously is recognising it needs to be dealt with compassion and care and nuance and we need to be level-headed about these conversations. For the Labour Party to wait until the day the election started to start accusing candidates of being anti-Semitic shows me the opposite of that. That’s a deeply unserious commitment to actually dealing with a serious issue and instead the weaponisation of of a political attack which I think is is really really unhelpful and unhealthy.”
The Community Security Trust is recording an increase in antisemitic incidents across the country. Incidents involving the Hatzola ambulances, Finchley Reform Synagogue, and Kenton United Synagogue all occurred within the last month…
A Green candidate in the local elections has failed to delete numerous videos on his social media despite the party promising they would be removed. The party has also kept him on as a candidate despite being alerted to his posts by the press days before close of nominations last Thursday…
Mark Adderley, a Green candidate in Crystal Palace & Upper Norwood in the Croydon elections, regularly posts about Israel to his 118,000 followers on Instagram. Often alongside his wife the Loose Women panellist Nadia Sawalha…
The Jewish Chronicle first contacted the Green Party about a selection of the videos – including one which appeared to blame Netanyahu for the Hatzola ambulance attack – on 7 April. The party said “there are some examples here that don’t represent the views of the Green Party and we have had conversations with those involved and the relevant posts are being deleted.” Guido can confirm at least one video has been deleted – implying these still-live ones represent the views of the Green Party:
- “NETANYAHU BLAMES EVERYONE BUT HIMSELF FOR THE BONDI BEACH TRAGEDY”: Israeli PM is “only person who has made the lives of Jewish people infinitely more dangerous.” Posted two days after the attack…
- “STARMER USING IRAN TRUMP FALL OUT TO HIDE LABOUR’S ZIONIST FUNDING”: “you CANNOT HIDE just how complicit your Cabinet is when it comes to the influence of the Israeli Regime over British Politics.”
- US foreign policy is dictated by Israeli release of kompromat: “Jeffrey Epstein’s blackmail honeytrap operation is being run right now by Binyamin Netanyahu in Washington DC.”
- “STARMER USING IRAN TRUMP FALL OUT TO HIDE LABOUR’S ZIONIST FUNDING”: “you CANNOT HIDE just how complicit your Cabinet is when it comes to the influence of the Israeli Regime over British Politics.”
- A map of a so-called “Greater Israel” implying expansion into Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan and Iraq.
- “Could drone attack on RAF be Israeli false flag?”: “Now of course, if it has come from Israel, there will be absolutely no compulsion within our Ministry of Defence, within our government, within the West, within Europe, within America, within Israel to admit that. There would be a cover-up… The Western Zionist supporting Israeli complicit media and governments are all going to say well it must have come from Hezbollah.” Charming…
The Greens told the Times on 13 April – this week – that after “conversations with those involved… relevant posts are being deleted.” The above are a small selection and all remain up and Mark Adderley remains the Green candidate in the upcoming election…
The Greens have showed up to Jenrick and Lee Anderson’s constituency fuel cut stunt in a diesel-guzzling car. No appetite for a short bike ride?
Reform’s Anderson located the Green vehicle – a Volkswagen Passat TDI – parked surreptitiously far from the protest. Plus ca change…
The stunt is as follows as per Reform:
“The Gulf/Spar garage in Lowdham will slash its prices by 13p a litre for petrol and 16p for diesel tomorrow.
The price reduction is the same as the saving from halving VAT on fuel to 10%, which Reform has called on the Chancellor to implement for three months as an emergency response to the war.
The one-day reduction is being paid for by the local businessman who owns this Nottinghamshire garage and forecourt. The move follows similar cuts organised by Reform UK in Derbyshire and Kent.”
Maybe the Greens are planning to pop into the garage to fill up on the cheap after a spot of protesting. Can they resist the savings…
Pinging around dead tree press newsrooms since the start of the week:
“IPSO has today been contacted by a representative acting on behalf of the immediate family of Zack Polanski.
Mr Polanski’s mother, father, brother, and sister ask that the press do not attend their homes and do not approach them by phone or email, as they do not wish to give comment to the media. For any media enquiries, please contact the Green Party press office at [REDACTED] or on [REDACTED].
We are happy to make editors aware of his request. We note the terms of Clause 2 (Privacy) and 3 (Harassment) of the Editors’ Code.”
Guido is an unregulated publication.
New polling from More in Common shows Green voters are far more likely to back Iran over Israel and the US, with 38% taking the Iranian side compared to just 4% backing the Americans and the Israelis. 40% back neither side and 6% judge both equally. The Green support for the Iranian side is more than twice as high as any other voting group…
As the chart above shows, Reform voters are far more likely to back the American position. Overall, however, most Brits sympathise with neither side at all…
The BBC has published an investigation debunking Zack Polanski’s titillating claim to have apologised after he attempted to grow a Sun reporter’s breasts via hypnosis in 2013. In fact, the BBC has found Polanski stood by the claims…
The Greens claimed Polanski went on the BBC to apologise and claim the Sun misrepresented him the day after the original hypnosis piece came out. The BBC dug into its archives and couldn’t find that particular instance…
What it could cleave from the archives was a BBC Radio Humberside appearance six days later in which he roundly backed the asset treatment method:
“Actually increasingly more and more as I work with people, there’s starting to become anecdotal evidence, at least, of a growth in breast size… the evidence is growing… I believe that it can happen in theory and I think it’s definitely worth investing the time of evidence and research into hypnosis generally.”
No doubt Polanski will now be known as a bizarre grifter to voters all over the globes…
Lee Anderson, speaking to The Sun’s Tom Scotson, reveals the wokest thing he’s ever done: “I once had a vegetarian thought, about becoming a vegetarian. That was quickly dismissed when I had a bacon sandwich…”
