Now they are trying to create an “antisemitism crisis” in the Greens
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We have been here before, indeed JVL originally came into being mainly to defend the Corbyn project from the plethora of unfounded antisemitism allegations, let alone from the oft repeated lie that that the Party was “rife with antisemitism”. Now that the Greens are recognised as a serious political force in the UK, and this is a Party that supports Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel, a Party that recognises Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide, the Jewish Establishment, indeed the Establishment more generally, are trying the same old, predictable, tired old tactics.
But Gaza has changed everything, compounded by Israel’s attacks on Iran and ongoing attacks on Lebanon as well as the effective annexation of the West Bank, the tactics are not working.
The moral high ground that organisations such as the (so called) Campaign Against Antisemitism and the Jewish Labour Movement claimed to occupy has collapsed in the wake of Israel’s multiple and ongoing war crimes. It helps that the Greens are led by a Jew and that Zack Polanski is not having to fight his own back office and the majority of his Party’s MPs, but perhaps even more important is that the Green Party is not apologising for standing up for the rights of Palestinians.
(You may also be interested to watch this JVL discussion with Zack Polanski on how he would lead the Green Party)
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This article was originally published by Novara Media on Tue 17 Mar 2026. Read the original here.
Replicating an Antisemitism Crisis in the Greens Is Proving Tougher Than Some Had Hoped
The Corbyn era is over
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I note Rivkah term’s Jeremy Corbyn’s apology in 2018 as “insincere”. As insincere as Polanski’s, her own, and Owen Jones’s own volte face on the false accusations of antisemitism levelled at Corbyn and his supporters in the period 2015-2019? When their influential voices could have made a difference, they didn’t speak up and offer support to the thousands of us who knew exactly what was going on.
Yes, former antisemitic Labour Party members have been joining the Green Party in droves since it elected a Jewish person as leader.
Hundreds of thousands of us in fact Marion. As for Zack and the Green Party being attacked and smeared and demonised as antisemitic, Zack should ask each of the various groups and organisations and individuals smearing him and the Green Party – all of whom repeatedly accused Jeremy of being antisemitic – why it is that not a single one of them ever reported Jeremy Corbyn to the police for hate speech/antisemitism.
By doing so he will expose them for what they actually are to the general public, because there IS no possible explanation for them not doing so (if their concerns were legitimate), and so they are HIGHLY unlikely to respond as such, and THAT will say it all. As for the Jewish newspapers and the MSM, Zack could do the same, only he won’t be asking them why THEY didn’t report Jeremy to the police, but asking them why they think it is that none of the groups and organisations and individuals who repeatedly accused Jeremy of being antisemitic ever reported him to the police.
Collectively they set out to subvert democracy (just as they are now doing again), and they succeeded, and they should be put on the spot, and exposed for the fascists they undoubtedly are, and Zack could be just the person to do it, and free millions of people from their malign malevolent and totally evil influence.