Time's up

VIDEO | Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir, outside the Knesset chamber, celebrates the passing of the death penalty law for Palestinian detainees, describing it as historic and saying, “Soon we will count them one by one.”

“The reason they hate Zack Polanski is that they can’t Corbynize him because he is a Jewish politician who criticizes Israel.” Mehdi Hasan is right: that is exactly why the islamists have co-opted Polanski’s Greens as their lightening rod (& Trojan Horse). They know he provides an effective camouflage. And they know he is sufficiently craven and opportunistic to indulge them.  That is why today we see ‘Greens’ madly lining up to defend a regime that tortures and kills young girls for showing their hair or dancing, executes gays, worships death over life, and murders tens of thousands of young people simply for disagreeing with them.  Did anyone notice the new Green MP’s Maiden speech to Parliament had nothing to do with the environment? Or that only 5% or so of the motions currently being debated by Green Members have anything to do with the environment? So yes, the radical Islamists have played an absolute blinder.