AIBU to think this Green Party response raises antisemitism concerns?

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Reported today that Rachel Millward, the Green Party co-deputy leader, has shared a conspiracy theory about the Golders Green attack in which two Jewish men were stabbed.

It emerged the Muslim Greens, a group of party activists, chatted on a private WhatsApp group over the weekend about launching a campaign to highlight the alleged failure to report Ishmael Hussein, the third victim of the April 29 stabbings. There is no suggestion that this idea has the backing of Mr Hussein.

The private group chat, which included Mothin Ali, the Green Party’s other co-deputy leader, suggested the “racist double standard” in the Government’s handling of the attack also needed to be challenged.

The Golders Green stabbings are the latest in a spate of attacks on the British Jewish community. Last week, Essa Suleiman was charged with the attempted murder of Moshi Shine, 76, and 34-year-old Shloime Rand.

Media outlets reported that he was also charged with the attempted murder of Mr Hussein in Southwark, south London, earlier on the morning of April 29

Ms Millward shared a post from the NewsCord account that claimed Mr Hussein had been “erased from headlines to suit a weaponised, desperate narrative”.
The Greens’ deputy leader commented: “How can this be? Three attempted murders and only two reported?”

NewsCord is an AI-generated news aggregator and campaigning platform set up after the October 7 attacks to challenge the “Western media” and how it was “justifying and manufacturing consent for Israel’s war”.

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/05/05/green-party-anti-semitism-local-election-sabine-mairey/

You'd think they'd learn from Corbyn's disastrous leadership of Labour. And yet some of Corbyn's most loyal followers from that period have recently joined the Greens instead of Your Party.

I have to admit I struggled to see the antisemitism in it.

Owen Jones on the other hand described the nose in the cartoon as "grotesquely hooked"... I have no comment to make about Mr Jones or his commitment to opposing antisemitism.

I don't agree with the current Israeli Government but then again I don't agree with the American Government or many other foreign governments either.

I'm more than happy to call Polanski 'antisemitic'. There are other Jews who are self hating Jews like him, mainly anti Zionist ones, I grant you, but to deny their fellow Jews a country of their own in which they are not constantly attacked by Iranian backed proxies, is antisemitic.

I read of three men being attacked on the same day on multiple news sources. The first man attacked was a muslim acquaintance of the terrorist who then made his way to a Jewish area (the largest in the UK) and violently stabbed two Jewish men.
This was an antisemitic attack. That is a fact.
If you can't see that, I can't help you.

I don't think some people would accept it was an antisemitic attack unless the knife man had been wearing an "I hate Jews" t shirt and shouting Heil Hitler. Even then they'd have probably called him an anti Zionist.

They were.

Just look at the antisemitic drawings used by the Nazis to denigrate Jews. They are very, very similar to the depiction of Zack Polanski.

Why, were they depicted with awful teeth too?

Actually they were far worse than the one in the Times.

I agree, some people can never accept what is right in front of them. Today's antisemite is synonymous with the term anti Zionist. And roll on Friday when these threads about Polanski will die down and we'll be on to the next thing!

Another issue is that the Islamists carry out what any decent person can see as atrocities, and claim their actions to be by and for all Muslim people.
This fuels actual Islamophobia . Don’t blame Tommy Robinson for this, blame
Islamists.

How does that sound to you?

(I wouldn’t personally completely equate Israeli government action with terrorism and you idea of Israelis as colonialists is problematic, but as you’ve decided on this angle to excuse racism, let’s go with it)

Racist rubbish.

Nice try. You equate it with terrorism (as you confirm here), therefore I've used your position (not mine) in another example - Islamophobia. I'm guessing you would be perfectly comfortable, given your position on Israel with someone expressing the view that the blame for any rise in Islamophobia lies with Islamists and that no individual, or indeed political party, could possibly have any part to play. That's your position. Own it.

Why do you think there shouldn't be a Jewish state?

In America, when a loon shoot’s up a school, they always lead with how many people at the school were shot. The fact that they killed their families before heading to the school is always an aside.

People complaining over this reporting are looking for conspiracy theories to suit their own narratives.

Oh yes all the many Jewish people you pretend to know who conveniently think just like you do!

Exactly. Imagine stating an entire country should be dismantled and demanding people with an ancestral link denounce that country, all its culture and history, and accept the majority of the population banished or killed. Israel is not perfect, no country is, and many criticise the current government, but Israel has been turned into a one dimensional, evil, negative caricature that must be destroyed - and we have seen this before, again and again.

100% on the Greens side here.

The lies in the media are concerning. Fuelling the idea that there are huge threats to the Jewish community by altering the narrative completely. Saying an attacked building was a synagogue when it was a mosque…not calling this out is a reminder of the understanding of source material and what you learn in GCSE history!

What lies in the media are you on about? There is no 'fuelling that there are huge threats to the Jewish community'. IT IS A FACT.

Did you take GCSE History?

You're saying every Jewish person you know agrees that those who think anti-zionism is antisemitic are actually being antisemitic for thinking that?

I am... quite impressed by the... shit I don't even know what to call it...

Lol, my thread took quite a turn there.