The Greens have shockingly proved that anti-Semitism is a vote-winner

by Jake Wallis Simons

What do the local election results tell us about the condition of modern Britain? Some conclusions are obvious: voters loathe Labour, are repulsed by Keir Starmer, have still not forgiven the sins of the Tories and are betting big on Nigel Farage.

Thus advances the slow death of politics as we know it, both in this country and across the West. Yet it is the rise of the Greens that should keep us up at night. The fact that so many saw in Zack Polanski the answer to Britain’s most pressing questions tells us dark things about the changing heart of this country of ours.

Don’t get me wrong, Reform has cemented its position as Britain’s most authentic voice. With big wins in Tameside, Hartlepool, Tamworth and Redditch, council after council fell to Farage in Labour’s traditional heartlands. But Reform secured these gains largely on an old-fashioned conservative platform, albeit with the emphasis on the degradation of our culture at the hands of the reckless experiment in mass immigration. The concerns of the electorate have not radically changed, in other words, only the party that is most trusted to address them.

The same can hardly be said of the Greens. What happened to sandals, lentils and hemp? With gains thus far heralding an unprecedented rise for the Leftist-Islamist outfit, Britain must wake up to the fact that across great swathes of the population, anti-Semitism is a vote-winner.

This is a party too that is led by a former breast hypnotist and inveterate chancer, who has shown no hesitation about passing himself off as “spokesman” for the Red Cross then wheedling his way out of it with semantics.

Green policies, meanwhile, include legalising hard drugs, abolishing Trident, leaving Nato, punitive taxation and opening our borders, with immigration detention centres closed (and one Green councillor even delivering Valentine’s Day cards to asylum seekers). These are hardly proposals or leadership that would capture the hearts of the mainstream electorate, surely?

But that’s thinking in the old way. In this new digital world, all that is brushed aside by voters so besotted with the charms of Polanski. They are so saturated with social media propaganda, so convinced that society’s problems lie in a shadowy cabal of “billionaires”, and so driven by hatred of the Jewish bogeyman that they cast their vote with all the conviction, fervour and curled lips of those who backed Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts.

Think I’m exaggerating? For the duration of the campaign, which should surely have been about bin collections and potholes, an imaginary “genocide” on another continent has been the number-one campaigning point for that deplorable insurgent party. That war may have ended seven months ago, but the movement it catalysed is just getting started. As one Green candidate admitted on video: “I’ll be very honest with you, I had no interest in politics before, until the genocide [sic] take place [sic] in Gaza… apart from that, I had no interest.”

In the fertile ground of social media insanity and community balkanisation, the Greens have become a seedbed for the political ambitions of every jihadist, Islamist and progressive fanatic in Britain. Our politics have been disgraced by the rise of a Leftist-sectarian alliance of convenience, one that is riddled with anti-Semitism.

These are problems we have known about for years, even if the elites still prefer to downplay them.

The figure of Mothin Ali, the deputy leader, sums it up. Here is a man who celebrated October 7 (he later apologised), described a rabbi as an “animal” and has recently shared several posts by Sami Hamdi, a controversial Israelophobic firebrand whose American visa was revoked amid accusations that he supports terrorism. Yet, with bewildering success, Ali presents himself as a voice of tolerance and moderation. He has even rebranded himself as a humble gardener.

But what about the women? Bafflingly, it seems that the ladies can’t get enough of this stuff. According to YouGov, 44 per cent of women aged 18 to 24 would vote for the Greens.

So will anybody heed the true message of this election? Warning lights are blinking on the dashboard of Britain. With Jews under attack and a new fanaticism stalking our politics, Polanski’s Greenshirts are on the march.

*Published first on The Telegraph