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Why is this Green candidate sharing an anti-semitic post?

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17.04.2026

A terror attack on a synagogue was “not anti-semitism” but was “revenge” for Israel “murdering people,” according to a video promoted by a Green Party council candidate.

Sabine Mairey, a Green candidate for Clapham Town ward in Lambeth, south London, posted the video, by David Spevak, an American Jewish anti-Zionist, on her Facebook page last month. It’s still there at the time of writing.

As so often with the Greens, one community appears to be left out of the care and inclusion offer

As so often with the Greens, one community appears to be left out of the care and inclusion offer

Mairey was used by the Lambeth Green Party to launch its election manifesto this week, and is quoted in the party’s press release. The video on her Facebook page is posted with the caption “Ramming a synagogue isn’t anti-semitism. It’s revenge.” She cannot claim that she posted it without knowing what it says.

Mairey is the third Green council candidate – and the second in Lambeth – to be exposed by The Spectator for sharing extremist views in the past five days. On Sunday, we revealed that Ifhat Shaheen, a Green council candidate in Hackney, defended the 7/10 attacks, suggested that Israel........

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