UK Green Party candidate posts about killing Zionists from Anne Frank parody account |
JTA — A candidate in the United Kingdom’s Green Party was under fire after posting under the social media handle “thereal.anne.frank” that “every single Zionist” should be killed, marking the latest antisemitic scandal to hit the party in a matter of days.
Two other candidates were charged with spreading hate online in relation to anti-Israel social media posts, while the party’s Jewish leader, Zack Polanski, has been fending off allegations of deep-seated antisemitism.
The latest scandal came after the Jewish News revealed that in a series of posts on Threads, Tina Ion, a Green Party candidate in Newcastle, referred to “Zionists” as “vermin” and “rats” and posted an image of an industrial shredding machine, which she called a “Zionist juicer.”
She also referred to “Jewish Nazis” as “money-grubbing thieves” who “have built mountains of money over centuries,” according to the newspaper.
The profile photo for the account, titled “thereal.anne.frank,” featured an image of a young woman wearing a keffiyeh, the traditional Palestinian headscarf. In one post referencing the image, Ion allegedly wrote that it was used “because Ann Frank wearing a keffieh pisses Zionists off.”
Ion’s rhetoric, which was first surfaced by Labour Party activist Steve Cooke, was quickly condemned by a host of Green Party lawmakers, who wrote in a joint statement posted on X Friday that the party was “reviewing our vetting processes.”
I see that Newcastle Green Party’s election candidate Tina Ion has set her spoof “Anne Frank” account to private this morning. Some frenzied post deleting going on behind the curtains there, I expect. #antisemitism https://t.co/DzPgzomUki pic.twitter.com/N2XYSSY9rb — Steve Cooke (@Steve_Cooke) April 29, 2026
I see that Newcastle Green Party’s election candidate Tina Ion has set her spoof “Anne Frank” account to private this morning. Some frenzied post deleting going on behind the curtains there, I expect. #antisemitism https://t.co/DzPgzomUki pic.twitter.com/N2XYSSY9rb
— Steve Cooke (@Steve_Cooke) April 29, 2026
“We are appalled by the racist material written and shared by Tina Ion,” the statement read. “We are anti-racists and are clear that antisemitism has no place in our party or society. We do not support her candidacy.”
Ion defended her posts in a statement posted on Facebook, writing that “isolated fragments” of her statements had been........