‘Back us to stop the far right,’ say the Greens. But what if parts of the Greens are the far right?

Saiqa Ali, a Green candidate in next week’s elections for Streatham St Leonard’s, Lambeth, posts on her Instagram account a picture of the Earth suffocated by a giant serpent with the Star of David on its skin. She thinks that the British government includes too many ‘Zionists Jews’, and that Donald Trump is ‘owned by Jews’. Not even the Z-word, that last one. Not even Israel. Just… Jews. Ali also posts a picture of an armed man in what looks like a Hamas headband, captioning it: ‘Long live the Resistance.’ If it is a Hamas headband, this may actually be a criminal offence. Ali has since apologised ‘for any offence or distress caused’ and said she rejects ‘anti-Semitism in all its forms’.

Some ‘legacy Greens’ are appalled but others are drinking the drug of relative success from a very low base

Some ‘legacy Greens’ are appalled but others are drinking the drug of relative success from a very low base

Other Green candidates give new meaning to the term ‘eco-warrior’. Rebecca Jones, standing for the party in Blackheath, Lewisham, says we must ‘burn Zionism to the ground’. Jones is a practising NHS GP.

Sabine Mairey, another Lambeth Green candidate, posts a video saying a terror attack on a synagogue ‘was not anti-Semitism’ but ‘revenge’ against Israel. Ifhat Shaheen, a Green candidate in Hackney, says that the mass murder, rape and abduction of civilians on 7 October was just Palestinians ‘inevitably try[ing] to defend themselves’. Feda Shahin, a candidate in Bournemouth, claims ‘the Zionists killed 20 million Christians’.

Over the past few weeks, at least 17 Green candidates have been exposed by The Spectator and others for holding or sharing hideous views. Many of them will soon also be holding public office, with significant power over........

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