AIBU to think this Green Party response raises antisemitism concerns?

Doubtful that it was 'mindless vandalism' when currently attacks on Jewish premises in London are rife. So yes, it is correct to report it as a hate crime.

How are the Greens 'not wrong here'?

Just checked out the .Times cartoon - it's not an anti semitic portrayal at all. In fact more prominence is given to Zack's teeth than his nose.

In name only. A case of 'I'm Jewish so of course I can't be antisemitic.'

I don’t think that’s the point being made.
It’s more that the location of a crime doesn’t immediately render it a racial or hate crime.
A burglary in Golders Green isn’t automatically an attack against Jewish people, for example.
The criminal’s intent is key. I don’t think we’ve heard about motive yet, but this knife wielding madman certainly appears to have targeted Jews.

This is about the Green Party response, not logistics of the attacker.

They were all reported extensively. The first attack was on a Muslim man who the attacker knew personally and who tried to stop the attacker from going out to harm anybody else.

You don't have to read them, or comment. It's not compulsory to do so.

So if the guy in Finsbury attacked a white Brit in argument before travelling to drive into muslims near mosque, it would also not be racially motivated terrorism?
Imagine a man attacking women at women's rally, it wouldn't be misogynistic attack if he attacked a friend before in other part of town then?
So essentially people just need to attack someone else and voila, savong themselves from racially motivated terror offence. Ok.

The fact that people cannot differentiate between the two different crimes happening on same day is bit worrying even though it was explained everywhere over and over.

Did you even read the article? There have been a spate of arson attacks on Jewish sites recently and it was vandalised last year with antisemitic slogans to of course they’re investigating the possibility that it was motivated by antisemitism. Or do you think the fact that is used to be a synagogue is a coincidence?

Yes he does

he played into last week which he has backtracked on

and the previous week with his perceived threat statement he knew exactly how that would go down

and being critical of the Israeli government is not antisemitism in most people’s opinions it’s not about that it’s about who he is happy to reach out to to gain votes

the left has long had a problem with antisemitism and voters that are very driven by their feelings they had a safe home under Corbyn, who caused immense damage to the Labour party and now its Polanski who is doing excatly the same for the Greens

Green voters have traditionally voted for a very personal and one dimensional reason. Eco policies. Or a strong character like Caroline Lucas. Well meaning but narrow and of course, at times, a protest vote. Like the Reform party to the right, the Greens are now home to the disaffected left. This means their character has changed and they are not the rather benign and somewhat reasonable calm party of old. They have seen that the “far” left isn’t represented in the Labour Party so it’s hello to the Greens and it’s easy to gain control of a minor party if you mobilise well organised activists.

Radio 5 just said 30 Green candidates are being investigated for anti semitism. That’s a lot but many naive students and others won’t care because they see it as a normal viewpoint.

Because it's a report about anti-semitism.

Stop obfuscating. You asked a really stupid question in a disingenuous way. That is wasting everyone's time.

So why does his party keep picking antisemitic candidates?

They weren’t ignored. When the attacks were first taking place there was no reason to connect the first assault. Once the link had been made they were mentioned, which is how we know about them. This is all very clear from the Met Police statement. In addition, random attacks on strangers, particularly with a racist motive, always attract more coverage than attacks between acquaintances.

Jewish people sought safety here in the 1940s from the Nazis. They are now leaving the UK because they no longer feel safe.

You seem to be fine with that?

Terribly racist thing for you to say.

So you think people who dont like a politician should merely not vote for them, and sharing & amplifying negative news stories about them is wrong? Do you apply that principle equally across the political spectrum?

You refer to him by his first name so I assumed you knew him personally.

No, I'm not ok with antisemitism. I'm Jewish. Why would you think I would be ok with anti Jewish racism? Are you feeling quite right this morning?

I think many are surprised to discover he is Jewish given some of his rhetoric.

It was determined to be a terrorist attack, meaning ideology was part of it.

UK terrorism is defined as the use or threat of action—designed to influence government or intimidate the public—to advance a political, religious, racial, or ideological cause.

No implying that the third victim is being hidden by the media for political reaosns is 100% playing into racist conspiracy theories about Jewish people.

Nobody is labelled as antisemitic because they criticise the actions of the Israeli government. If that were the case, there would be a lot of antisemitic Jews.

What we are seeing is a criticism of Israel as an entity and an oft-expressed desire for it to be eliminated. Now I realise I'm asking you to do a certain amount of thinking and it's still early in the morning where I am, but why do you imagine that rhetoric is being put forward?