Malcom Gooderham: The resistible rise of Green fascism must not be ignored
This is why trust is collapsing.
Malcolm Gooderham is the founder of Elgin Advisory, and a former Conservative Party adviser.
The media profile and some polling suggest the Green Party is on the rise.
We have been here before, but this crop of Green Leaders has a more pernicious and divisive politics. Their focus is not on mainstreaming support for environmental causes, but on delegitimising the state of Israel. In doing so, they reveal their bigotry and raise broader questions about the Left’s political activism, the treatment of the Jewish community and the role of the State broadcaster.
The Green Party, like the far Left in general, has a long-standing and unhealthy obsession with Jews and the state of Israel. While the Left indulges all sorts of gesture politics and flirts with all sorts of boycotts, they reserve their passion and ‘progressive outrage’ for Israelis. This is currently driving Green Party campaigns to pressure shopkeepers and residents not to stock or buy goods imported from Israel. The tactics and discrimination has yet to attract the opprobrium they warrant. Note we have not seen Sir Keir Starmer rush out a demand for an apology or retraction unlike his decision to single-out Sir Jim Ratcliffe.
The Green political energy tilts towards foreign affairs and is Israel-centric or more accurately phobic. There is little ‘green space’ for campaigns to boycott goods from nations other than Israel. For instance, the CCP and China ignore prior commitments to freedom of speech in Hong Kong. Not to mention the rights of religious minorities. Or protests about Iran where the regime constantly kills demonstrators, denies women and girls equality and violates human rights. Or African countries where Muslim militias violently persecute Christians. Or, on our own Continent where they could raise awareness about Russia’s abduction of thousands of children from Ukraine. Or much closer to home, they could focus their energies on delivering accountability for the grooming and gang-raping of teenagers across northern towns and cities. Their relative silence is woeful.
Sadly the new Green Leader Zack Polanski has been swept up in the Green tide of opposition to Israel. As a man who is not shy about his Jewish ancestry he has been on a journey, from challenging the Green Party’s unhealthy pre-occupation with Israel – which he once bemoaned as “obsessive” – to now championing their anti-Zionist causes. His politics are morphing with those of Jeremy Crobyn and a political alliance with the former Labour Leader seems inevitable.
The Green wave of anti-Israeli activity is a salutary reminder of an uncomfortable political truth, those on the far Left do not see Jews as a minority worthy of their support. Instead they prefer to isolate and even intimidate them. While claiming to be …
This is why trust is collapsing.
Malcolm Gooderham is the founder of Elgin Advisory, and a former Conservative Party adviser.
The media profile and some polling suggest the Green Party is on the rise.
We have been here before, but this crop of Green Leaders has a more pernicious and divisive politics. Their focus is not on mainstreaming support for environmental causes, but on delegitimising the state of Israel. In doing so, they reveal their bigotry and raise broader questions about the Left’s political activism, the treatment of the Jewish community and the role of the State broadcaster.
The Green Party, like the far Left in general, has a long-standing and unhealthy obsession with Jews and the state of Israel. While the Left indulges all sorts of gesture politics and flirts with all sorts of boycotts, they reserve their passion and ‘progressive outrage’ for Israelis. This is currently driving Green Party campaigns to pressure shopkeepers and residents not to stock or buy goods imported from Israel. The tactics and discrimination has yet to attract the opprobrium they warrant. Note we have not seen Sir Keir Starmer rush out a demand for an apology or retraction unlike his decision to single-out Sir Jim Ratcliffe.
The Green political energy tilts towards foreign affairs and is Israel-centric or more accurately phobic. There is little ‘green space’ for campaigns to boycott goods from nations other than Israel. For instance, the CCP and China ignore prior commitments to freedom of speech in Hong Kong. Not to mention the rights of religious minorities. Or protests about Iran where the regime constantly kills demonstrators, denies women and girls equality and violates human rights. Or African countries where Muslim militias violently persecute Christians. Or, on our own Continent where they could raise awareness about Russia’s abduction of thousands of children from Ukraine. Or much closer to home, they could focus their energies on delivering accountability for the grooming and gang-raping of teenagers across northern towns and cities. Their relative silence is woeful.
Sadly the new Green Leader Zack Polanski has been swept up in the Green tide of opposition to Israel. As a man who is not shy about his Jewish ancestry he has been on a journey, from challenging the Green Party’s unhealthy pre-occupation with Israel – which he once bemoaned as “obsessive” – to now championing their anti-Zionist causes. His politics are morphing with those of Jeremy Crobyn and a political alliance with the former Labour Leader seems inevitable.
The Green wave of anti-Israeli activity is a salutary reminder of an uncomfortable political truth, those on the far Left do not see Jews as a minority worthy of their support. Instead they prefer to isolate and even intimidate them. While claiming to be …
Malcom Gooderham: The resistible rise of Green fascism must not be ignored
This is why trust is collapsing.
Malcolm Gooderham is the founder of Elgin Advisory, and a former Conservative Party adviser.
The media profile and some polling suggest the Green Party is on the rise.
We have been here before, but this crop of Green Leaders has a more pernicious and divisive politics. Their focus is not on mainstreaming support for environmental causes, but on delegitimising the state of Israel. In doing so, they reveal their bigotry and raise broader questions about the Left’s political activism, the treatment of the Jewish community and the role of the State broadcaster.
The Green Party, like the far Left in general, has a long-standing and unhealthy obsession with Jews and the state of Israel. While the Left indulges all sorts of gesture politics and flirts with all sorts of boycotts, they reserve their passion and ‘progressive outrage’ for Israelis. This is currently driving Green Party campaigns to pressure shopkeepers and residents not to stock or buy goods imported from Israel. The tactics and discrimination has yet to attract the opprobrium they warrant. Note we have not seen Sir Keir Starmer rush out a demand for an apology or retraction unlike his decision to single-out Sir Jim Ratcliffe.
The Green political energy tilts towards foreign affairs and is Israel-centric or more accurately phobic. There is little ‘green space’ for campaigns to boycott goods from nations other than Israel. For instance, the CCP and China ignore prior commitments to freedom of speech in Hong Kong. Not to mention the rights of religious minorities. Or protests about Iran where the regime constantly kills demonstrators, denies women and girls equality and violates human rights. Or African countries where Muslim militias violently persecute Christians. Or, on our own Continent where they could raise awareness about Russia’s abduction of thousands of children from Ukraine. Or much closer to home, they could focus their energies on delivering accountability for the grooming and gang-raping of teenagers across northern towns and cities. Their relative silence is woeful.
Sadly the new Green Leader Zack Polanski has been swept up in the Green tide of opposition to Israel. As a man who is not shy about his Jewish ancestry he has been on a journey, from challenging the Green Party’s unhealthy pre-occupation with Israel – which he once bemoaned as “obsessive” – to now championing their anti-Zionist causes. His politics are morphing with those of Jeremy Crobyn and a political alliance with the former Labour Leader seems inevitable.
The Green wave of anti-Israeli activity is a salutary reminder of an uncomfortable political truth, those on the far Left do not see Jews as a minority worthy of their support. Instead they prefer to isolate and even intimidate them. While claiming to be …
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