Wind farms. Heat pumps. Hamas apologism. It’s a curious combination, but one that an alarmingly high number of Green party candidates seem keen to pursue at this General Election.
Yes, the political party nominally devoted to a single issue – ‘saving the planet’, at the cost of ordinary people’s living standards – has landed itself in another anti-Semitism scandal, after a bunch of its candidates for parliament were caught posting pro-Hamas or Israelophobic things online.
The Greens’ anti-growth, anti-fossil-fuel, anti-car agenda would immiserate the working classes
Around 20 would-be Green MPs have made rancid statements about Israel, Hamas and 7 October, according to a devastating report in the Times. Adam Pugh, candidate for Deptford and Lewisham North, took to X on the day of the pogrom, saying ‘there is no peace without freedom. Resist.’ Kefentse Dennis, candidate for Birmingham’s Perry Barr, praised a ‘pro-Palestine’ demonstration that disrupted a Holocaust remembrance march. At Auschwitz. ‘It’s because never again means never again’, Dennis said.
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