@ZackPolanskiFan @nicolelampert listening and ready to learn. Educate us, please?
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@nicolelampert It’s a Jewish festival not a Zionist festival. Maybe stop trying dig your pro-Israel claws into a Jewish festival that has been around for hundreds of years longer than Israel.
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Owen Jones and Zack Polanski celebrating the original Zionist festival together.
If only we British Jews understood irony.
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@Matthewmil2707 @robjeffecology @AaronBastani Think you on the wrong thread Matty , this is about antisemitism. For some reason you taking about Israel
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@forbeetooo @robjeffecology @AaronBastani The existence of a state that only allows Jewish people the right to self-determination and denies all other groups that right is racist by definition.
Zionism does not equal Judaism.
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Labour supporting, and at this point increasingly senile, Paul Mason gleefully calling the Greens antisemitic. They are led by a Jewish guy.
This stuff just makes me more likely to vote Green. I’ve had enough of this toxic, divisive nonsense. Vile t*sspot.
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@traceynorm1967 @SCynic1 Maybe you should add the word ‘National’ infront of your self descriptor ‘Socialist’ - you would have been very much at home in 1930’s Germany Tracey
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@SCynic1 Is Zack the “wrong type” of Jew?What makes you the “right type”? Zionism isn’t a religion is it, it’s a political ideology, most Jews aren’t zios, most zios are Christian or atheist. Zionism wasn’t about 3000yrs ago, it’s 1st meeting wasn’t held til 1897 in Europe. Who’s the AS?
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Mate, you’re a lavender leader.
A fig leaf.
A beard.
Your activists call Jews abominations.
You let Greenstein join - a man the high court decided could be called an antisemite.
Your deputy called a rabbi a dog.
Your racist party is a magnet for Jew haters.
Have some self-respect
Zack Polanski@ZackPolanski
For whoever needs to hear this I'm the only Jewish person to lead a political party - third largest in the country. The Daily Mail have been & always will be my enemy - they historically supported fascists & continue to do so. I'll take no lectures from them on Antisemitism.
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@Wills_42 @AaronBastani Tell me about your lived experience of antisemitism then ?
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@forbeetooo @AaronBastani Oh do fuck off.
You don't seem to know what anti-Semitism is you fecking creep.
Clue: It's not just anything you disagree with.
You cunts using the 'wrong type of Jew' argument; now that's anti-Semitic.
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@robjeffecology @AaronBastani Please tell me about your experience with ‘real anti-semitism’ , would love to hear about it
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@forbeetooo @AaronBastani Shut up with your immoral nonsense. Real anti-semitism is not being able to be fought against because of your opportunistic politicised immoral smears.
Get in the bin.
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@AaronBastani Sorry hearing about Jews suffering antisemitism is tiring for you - keep talking over us , why don’t you
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@forbeetooo Grow up. I, and millions of others, are tired with this nonsense.
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@AaronBastani the motion is not about 'revisionist zionism', its just about Zionism, the belief that Jews have the same rights to self determinism as other people...but you know that don't you Aaron
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Revisionist Zionism is not only a racist ideology, but an expansionist one too. It will only mean death & destruction in the Middle East.
Anyone familiar with its origins, advocates, and direction of travel knows this.
Britain won’t be held to ransom by this mad zealotry.
Nicole Lampert@nicolelampert
Zack Polanski’s own family told me: 'If the Zionism-is-racism motion is passed it will make the Greens the most anti-Semitic party in British history since Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists,' said a second relation. 'The idea of it is one of the most sickening things I've heard in a long time.' A third family member said: 'The mad thing is that he's gay, he's Jewish but he's cosying up to people whose ideology is the complete antithesis of everything that he's supposed to stand for. It's like he's a chicken, telling us to vote for KFC!’ Ironically, the Green Party press office - apparently without irony - told me it would be antisemitism to publish this. Full story 👇🏼
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@AaronBastani if your family member was the leader of the BNP that would be cool, yeh?
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“The Daily Mail has spoken to three members of Mr Polanski’s extended family – none of whom now talk to him.”
Really low behaviour from all involved, really.
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“…family members believe he has put his ambition & politics ahead of his community.”
This is in reference to British Jews. British politicians should be seeking to serve the whole country, not a narrow community interest, yes.
If a Muslim said this the Mail would be outraged!
GB Politics@GBPolitcs
🚨NEW: Zack Polanksi's own family say they fear they would have to leave the UK if he ever became Prime Minister "It's like a chicken telling everyone to vote for KFC," one family member said [@DailyMail]
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Will certainly be interesting to see what a police investigation shows. There should be serious resources committed to it.
Lowkey@Lowkey0nline
It has also been drawn to my attention that the Hebrew word used for immigration in this statement is “Aliyah” עליה which has specific Zionist connotations.
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Iranian schoolbooks don’t even refer to Israel on a map. Rather odd if Iranians suddenly use it here in a political statement.
Lowkey@Lowkey0nline
It is worthy of note that the group which is claiming responsibility for the burning of ambulances last night refers to Palestine as “the land of Israel.” It does so in both English and Arabic, which is particularly unusual.
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@ThreeShiresHead @AaronBastani 100% correct. Egypt and Jordan also share a border with Israel, fire no rockets at them, and don't receive any rockets in return. Strange that...
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@forbeetooo @AaronBastani I don't want more Middle Eastern/Muslim refugees in the UK. They're slowly destroying my country but I can't help but notice that countries in the region that don't fire missiles at Israel & don't continually call for its destruction, generally avoid the attentions of the IDF/IAF
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Israel displaced 100,000 people in Lebanon. In 1 day.
A state backed by virtually the entire European right - these are people who claim to ‘not want more refugees’. 1 day.
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@PirateMaterial_ @Holocaust_Irl I strongly believe old jokes portraying Irish people as think are offensive and wrong. You are the exception that proves the rule
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@Holocaust_Irl If you're a Zionist, you certainly aren't Jewish.
The same way I wouldn't call a KKK member a 'Christian'.
Please leave and never come back.
Ireland will be a better place without you.
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My op-Ed in today's Irish Times on the current state of antisemitism in Ireland.
"A report on antisemitism in Ireland, released last week by the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland, had some deeply distressing findings: 143 incidents were recorded over a six-month period ending in January 2026.
If this were the UK, with 120 times more Jews, that would represent 17,000 incidents."
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@AaronBastani So why were you silent when Iranians were being slaughtered in their thousands by the regime in January?
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How do I personally benefit from any of this? I’ve not seen my family for twenty years. My aunt could access cancer treatment because of sanctions. She lost her savings too.
But I won’t cheer another catastrophe, so they have to lie.
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These people will have to lie about me more, the worse this gets.
They are cheering on war crimes, and potentially millions of refugees.
The killing of Khameini *helped* the Islamic republic. Just as the Iran-Iraq war ultimately did. He was 86.
James Heartfield@JamesHeartfield
Why on all earth would anyone want to see the end of the psychotic and reactionary millenarian cult that tortures and abuses its political opponents, and indeed anyone who enjoys themselves, ask Aaron Bastani? Wouldn’t the more obvious question be, why does Aaron defend it?
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I keep seeing, and watching, stories of kids being buried alive.
One country doing it is the common thread.
Natasha Korecki@natashakorecki
“By the time we arrived, the entire school had collapsed on top of the children,” the mother told NBC News. “People were pulling out children’s arms and legs. People were pulling out severed heads.” nbcnews.com/world/iran/kno…
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@AaronBastani What would she have thought about the actual indiscriminate murder of thousands of Iranian civilians by the Islamic regime?
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So grateful my grandmother died in 2023. Having to live through carpet bombing, and Tehran turning into Gaza, would have terrified her.
Alireza Akbari@itsalireza_akb
Images of yesterday’s U.S. and Israeli attacks on Tehran.
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@AaronBastani Every Jew hater loves a conspiracy theory to make their Jew hate make sense
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Yet they didn’t foresee October 7? On their own border?
Hard to square both realities.
Richard Hanania@RichardHanania
“Nearly all the traffic cameras in Tehran had been hacked for years, their images encrypted and transmitted to servers in Tel Aviv and southern Israel.. ‘we knew Tehran like we know Jerusalem’, said one current Israeli intelligence official” Can we all just admit Israel is really cool? ft.com/content/bf998c…
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@pmosligo @orlidegani Don’t believe the victims. Believe Peter… because ???
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The thing is, I don’t believe this, and neither will most people in Ireland. I have been called anti semitic for criticising what Israel is doing in Gaza. It’s a cynical ploy to shut down any criticism of Israel. The Irish have been attacked and denigrated by some Jewish people because they stood with the people of Gaza. This is just another example of it.
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Today we published Ireland’s first-ever report on antisemitic incidents.
I built the reporting mechanism because there wasn’t one.
When we at the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland realised the scale - 143 incidents in 6 months, in a community of ~2,000, and the continued lack of acknowledgment, we had no choice but to document it ourselves.
75% happened in physical settings - in places people deserve to feel safe.
30% began as ordinary interactions until a Jewish/Israeli identity cue was discovered.
36% were verbal abuse and slurs.
25% were emails and messages sent directly to the community. Nearly half of them included violent threats. We received another one just this morning promising us that "Jewish people in Ireland will die".
For over two years we were told:
“There is no antisemitism in Ireland.”
“It’s just criticism of Israeli government policies.”
But when Jewish people are afraid to take public transport, go to the doctor, enter a shop, attend school, go to work, or even feel safe in their own homes - that is not “anti-Israel.”
It is not “political discourse.”
It is antisemitism.
As I told the Social Democrats two years ago: when rhetoric becomes absolute and collective, it does not stay political. It lands on a minority community.
The report is here:
jrci.ie/143-incidents-…
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@AaronBastani Aaron was unavailable for comment when thousands of Iranians were deliberately murdered by the IRGC
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Beautiful child. Rest in peace. Like all the other innocent kids who’ve lost their lives in the last 36 hours.
Tehran Times@TehranTimes79
#BREAKING Zahra Mohammadi Golpayegani, 14 months old, granddaughter of the Leader, who was martyred in the US and Israeli attack.
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@mrmarksteel @ZackPolanski Yes out of a pop. Of 80m they indiscriminately bombed and just happened to hit the ayatollah and his top generals … sorry for your losses today Mark
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I would like to join in demanding that the country that is being bombed indiscriminately, doesn’t engage in the unforgivable practice of bombing indiscriminately, which is never justified which is why we must stand by our allies as they bomb indiscriminately.
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