Sunday, April 12, 2026
As the Greens prepare for its biggest ever elections is their antisemitism crisis even worse than feared?
There are growing fears that evidence of open Jew-hatred amongst Green Party candidates has been seriously underestimated, amid a failure to conduct proper due diligence ahead of next month’s local elections.
A Jewish News investigation has discovered multiple examples of Green candidates sharing conspiracy theories about Jews, including some originating on far-right neo-Nazi websites, along with clear evidence of Holocaust distortion.
Some observers now even fear that the antisemitism crisis with Zack Polanski’s party, which is fielding thousands of candidates at the May 7 elections, is comparable to, or even worse than, the similar problem that caused havoc to Labour under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.
Challenged at the launch of the Greens’ election campaign over fears of an inadequate vetting process by party chiefs ahead of next month’s poll, Polanski himself admitted: “I recognise we’re dealing with an immense amount of people very quickly, and so I won’t be surprised if we have the odd candidate where we have to distance from them.”
He claimed: “We’re doing everything we can to make sure we’re doing due diligence … We’re not being complacent about it for a second and recognise the scale of the task that’s in front of us.”
The widely predicted Green success in the local elections could impact significantly on Jewish voters, especially within areas of London.
While Polanski’s party is unlikely to make dramatic inroads in Barnet, home to the largest Jewish electorate, the predicted Green surge in boroughs like Camden, Brent, Hackney, Haringey, Lewisham and Islington is now a major concern for communal leaders in the run-up to the local elections.
A Jewish News investigation has discovered multiple examples of Green candidates sharing conspiracy theories about Jews, including some originating on far-right neo-Nazi websites, along with clear evidence of Holocaust distortion.
Some observers now even fear that the antisemitism crisis with Zack Polanski’s party, which is fielding thousands of candidates at the May 7 elections, is comparable to, or even worse than, the similar problem that caused havoc to Labour under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.
Challenged at the launch of the Greens’ election campaign over fears of an inadequate vetting process by party chiefs ahead of next month’s poll, Polanski himself admitted: “I recognise we’re dealing with an immense amount of people very quickly, and so I won’t be surprised if we have the odd candidate where we have to distance from them.”
He claimed: “We’re doing everything we can to make sure we’re doing due diligence … We’re not being complacent about it for a second and recognise the scale of the task that’s in front of us.”
The widely predicted Green success in the local elections could impact significantly on Jewish voters, especially within areas of London.
While Polanski’s party is unlikely to make dramatic inroads in Barnet, home to the largest Jewish electorate, the predicted Green surge in boroughs like Camden, Brent, Hackney, Haringey, Lewisham and Islington is now a major concern for communal leaders in the run-up to the local elections.
New evidence unearthed by Jewish News includes a Green Party candidate standing for election in Camden, north London, who shared antisemitic claims that the Old Testament commands Jews to kill children, that Zionists carried out the 9/11 terror attacks, and “false flag” lies about the Golders Green Hatzola arson attack.
Jewish News has approached the Green Party for comment after being shown a series of deeply troubling social media posts shared or written by Aziz Hakimi, who is standing in Camden’s Haverstock ward.
One post shared by Hakimi in August 2025 shows him sharing a graphic of the flaming twin towers after the 9/11 terror attack and openly blaming it on “Zionists.”
A second post shared by the Green candidate last month appears to be a far-right originating video sharing antisemitic claims that Jews are commanded by the Old Testament to kill children.
Hakimi also shared an article widely circulated after last month’s Golders Green arson attack that stated: “The London Ambulance Attack — Of Course It Was A False Flag.”
Another post shared by Hakimi originally appeared on the Islamist 5 Pillars website and shows footage of Charedi Jews being abused and told to “go back home” after arriving at Krakow airport in Poland on a flight from Israel.
Jewish News has also been sent evidence showing how the Green Party has willingly accepted candidates who faced antisemitism allegations in the Labour Party. Karen Sudan, now standing for the Greens in West Sussex, resigned from Labour amid such claims.
In August 2018, she accused the media of being “too busy making up and/or exaggerating stories about antisemitism in the Labour Party to raise an outcry over other forms of racism.”
Jewish News has approached the Green Party for comment after being shown a series of deeply troubling social media posts shared or written by Aziz Hakimi, who is standing in Camden’s Haverstock ward.
One post shared by Hakimi in August 2025 shows him sharing a graphic of the flaming twin towers after the 9/11 terror attack and openly blaming it on “Zionists.”
A second post shared by the Green candidate last month appears to be a far-right originating video sharing antisemitic claims that Jews are commanded by the Old Testament to kill children.
Hakimi also shared an article widely circulated after last month’s Golders Green arson attack that stated: “The London Ambulance Attack — Of Course It Was A False Flag.”
Another post shared by Hakimi originally appeared on the Islamist 5 Pillars website and shows footage of Charedi Jews being abused and told to “go back home” after arriving at Krakow airport in Poland on a flight from Israel.
Jewish News has also been sent evidence showing how the Green Party has willingly accepted candidates who faced antisemitism allegations in the Labour Party. Karen Sudan, now standing for the Greens in West Sussex, resigned from Labour amid such claims.
In August 2018, she accused the media of being “too busy making up and/or exaggerating stories about antisemitism in the Labour Party to raise an outcry over other forms of racism.”
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