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**Hugh** · Yesterday, 22:32

Green Party aren’t helping themselves…

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...d-antisemitism

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Two women standing as Green party candidates in the local elections have been arrested over alleged antisemitic social media posts.

The women, running in seats for Lambeth council, south London, were arrested by the Metropolitan police on Thursday morning.

The Green party declined to comment, citing the ongoing police inquiry, but the women are understood to be Saiqa Ali, a Lambeth Green candidate for Streatham St Leonard’s ward, and Sabine Mairey, who was standing in Lambeth’s Clapham Town.

The Met said in a statement: “Police have arrested two women, aged 57 and 54, on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred online, an offence under section 19 of the Public Order Act 1986. They remain in police custody.

“The arrests follow an investigation launched after concerns were reported to police on Tuesday 21 April about antisemitic material that had been posted online.”

Ali’s Instagram account is set to private but screenshots indicated she had posted an image of an armed man wearing a headband of the banned Islamist group Hamas along with the slogan: “Resistance is freedom”.

Another screenshot indicated that Mairey had shared a post which included the text: “Ramming a synagogue isn’t antisemitism. It’s revenge.”

And for balance

https://www.thetimes.com/article/3ed...4adda04aeef07d

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One of Reform’s candidates is Ben Rowe, who is standing in the Ham ward of Plymouth. He urged protesters throwing bricks at police defending a mosque to “get rid of that filthy building” during the 2024 Southport riots.

Commenting beneath a YouTube video in February, Rowe accused “the Jews” of “creating division by forcing other races on our societies”. He elsewhere described immigrants to the UK “breeding like rats”, posted blackface memes and labelled Islam “a cancer”.

And from my neck of the woods

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics...hant-nd5llwhgf

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Raja posted a 23-minute video on his TikTok account of him taking part in a demonstration against Israeli attacks on Gaza in June 2024, captioned: “I led a protest in Leeds today [in] solidarity with the people of Palestine.”

In the video, the Reform candidate is seen at the front of the march with a Workers Party sign reading: “For Britain, for Gaza”. Raja chanted slogans including “end apartheid”, “Israel is a terrorist state” and “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”.

Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform, has described “from the river to the sea” as a “hate slogan” which calls for “the abolition of the state of Israel and, frankly, the eradication of the Jewish people that live there as well”.