I hope you will forgive me for sharing a couple of posts I submitted to another thread on this subject, but I feel they are relevant to this discussion too and I am too lazy to make the same point in different words. Firstly is my response to those claiming that the Greens can't be anti-semitic since they have a Jewish leader.
The issue is that people like Polanski think they can protect themselves from anti-semitism by cosying up to the anti-semites and trying to prove to them that they are a 'good Jew', which, for the purposes of some elements of the Green Party and their ilk means not speaking out against blatant anti-semitism, just nodding and smiling politely when your 'mates' insist that Jews are responsible for all the world's ills and agreeing that all this 'so-called anti-semitism' is just 'legitimate criticism of Israel' and that Jews expressing fear for their safety are making a fuss over nothing. As we all know, making comments to British Jews about bringing back gas chambers and what a great man Hitler was are definitely 'legitimate criticism of Israel' and not absolutely vile pure racism.
When people like Polanski pal up with the anti-semites to prove they are not one of those 'evil genocidal Jews', they think they are making themselves safer. However, these self-hating Jews and apologists for anti-semitism should always remember that their new mates still hate them, because they are, in fact, rampant anti-semites. These racists are only tolerating Polanski as a useful idiot so they can say:
"See, I know that are party is rife with people making awful comments online that reek of Jew-hatred but we're not anti-semitic, honest. How could we be when we have an actual real-life Jew for a leader?"
Polanski, when you've done throwing your fellow Jews under the bus to placate your fellow party members, please don't forget to many of them you will always be a 'filthy Jew', no matter how useful a smoke-screen for their bigotry you are currently providing.
Polanski is by no means the first and will, sadly, not be the last, to think that sucking up to the bullies who want to harm them will protect them in some way.
Polanski may wish to heed the cautionary tale of the French Jewish novelist Irène Némirovsky who thought by writing anti-semitic articles for far-right publications and distancing herself from her Jewish roots she could placate the nazis who wanted her dead. She sadly discovered she was quite wrong when she was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942. It turns out the Nazis still hated her because of her race and still very much wanted her dead when she had outlived her usefulness.