Greens investigate ‘antisemitic’ candidate posts

As the general election date creeps ever closer, the Green party has found itself in hot water. It transpires that the eco-zealots are currently investigating almost 20 candidates over ‘antisemitic’ insults and conspiracy theories — and party officials have a dossier of dirt on the parliamentary hopefuls. Oh dear…

In the latest election scandal, it turns out that the Green party is looking into candidates who have suggested the 7 October attack by Hamas was planned by Israel and compared Zionism to cancer. The revelations follow a councillor controversy, in which Leeds city council politician Mothin Ali was found to have labelled a rabbi a ‘creep’ and a ‘kind of animal’ — and posted on the day of the Hamas attack that ‘white supremacist European settler colonialism must end’. Meanwhile Adam Pugh, the candidate for London’s Deptford and Lewisham North constituency was found to have tweeted on 7 October that ‘there is no peace without freedom.