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Green Party leader Zack Polanski (right) celebrates with the Greens' Zoe Garbett after she was declared the winner in the 2026 London Borough of Hackney mayoral election at Hackney Service Centre, east London, May 8, 2026. (Reuters via PA)
May 9, 2026, 3:27 pm
UK Jews worry as Green Party rise sees election of candidates accused of antisemitism
Jewish residents of Hackney in east London voice concern as Greens win mayoralty and council control; several Green party candidates accused of antisemism win election elsewhere, as does a Holocaust-denier from the soaring hard-right Reform party
By ToI Staff
Green Party leader Zack Polanski, center, and former Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn (far left) join protesters holding placards and waving flags as they take part in a march against the far right in central London on March 28, 2026. (Henry Nicholls/AFP)
March 29, 2026, 6:22 pm
UK’s Green Party fails to pass ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion after infighting, tech issues
After repeated delays at conference, vote on motion demanding abolishment of Israel in favor of ‘a single democratic Palestinian State’ will be held at a later date
By ToI Staff
John Lithgow, as Roald Dahl, confronts Aya Cash, playing an American Jewish sales director at Farrar Strauss Giroux, in 'Giant.' (Joan Marcus via JTA)
March 25, 2026, 4:17 am
In Broadway’s ‘Giant,’ Roald Dahl is a warped messenger for a vital debate about Israel
John Lithgow stars in a new play about the beloved children’s author whose antisemitic outbursts of decades ago may sound hauntingly familiar to many Diaspora Jews today
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Illustrative: People play soccer outdoor in Wanstead Flats, in east London, January 23, 2021. (AP/Alberto Pezzali)
March 7, 2026, 3:09 pm
Jewish children face gas chamber taunts, antisemitic slurs during UK school soccer match
Norfolk police say they are investigating a hate crime after spectators directed antisemitic chants including ‘Dirty Zionists’ and ‘Dirty Jews’ at London’s JFS students during game
By ToI Staff
Green Party candidate Hannah Spencer poses for a selfie with Green Party leader Zack Polanski after winning the Gorton and Denton Parliamentary by-election, at Manchester Central Convention Complex in Manchester, England, on February 27, 2026. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP)
February 27, 2026, 4:42 pm
UK Green Party’s election upset is a crippling blow to Labour – and a major boon to anti-Zionism
As ruling Labour comes in a dismal third in Manchester’s heavily Muslim district of Gorton and Denton, voters seem to heed the BDS-supporting Greens’ call to punish Starmer for supporting Gaza ‘genocide’
By Robert Philpot
Britain's newly announced leader of the Green Party, Zack Polanski, reacts after being announced as the party's new leader, at a media event in central London on September 2, 2025. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)
December 27, 2025, 1:25 pm
UK’s Jewish answer to Zohran Mamdani is now one of PM Keir Starmer’s biggest challenges
One of Britain’s fastest-rising politicians, Zack Polanski, is taking his Green Party further down the road of far-left, anti-Israel politics — and reaping the political dividends
By Robert Philpot
Illustrative: Anti-Israel demonstrators protest Israel's existence in New York City, October 8, 2023, following the October 7 Hamas atrocities and before Israel launched a military operation in the Gaza Strip. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
June 4, 2024, 2:54 pm
After Oct. 7, UK journalist Hadley Freeman believes ‘the progressive left hates Jews’
The New York-born writer comes out with a new essay on the antisemitism emerging after the Hamas atrocities in Israel, and how it’s rooted in a hypocritical and myopic ideology
By Robert Philpot
Anti-Israel protesters hold placards addressed to Britain's Labour leader Keir Starmer as they walk past his office during the 'Day of Action for Palestine,' a march from Chalk Farm to Camden Town, in London, on November 18, 2023. (JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)
February 17, 2024, 8:07 am
UK’s Labour faces Muslim bloc in revolt, anti-Israel challenger in special election
The party’s support for Israel in the Gaza war is causing pushback from within, and has some voters eyeing radical anti-Zionist George Galloway – but does this pose a true threat?
By Robert Philpot
Protesters hold placards and flags and chant slogans at a rally in support of Palestinians and against Israel, outside of the Houses of Parliament in central London on November 15, 2023. (Henry Nicholls/ AFP)
November 18, 2023, 8:13 am
UK Jews say govt not protecting them from Islamic extremism amid Israel-Hamas war
Jews suffering a sharp increase in antisemitic incidents look to state to review legislation and proscribe Iranian-sponsored terrorism: ‘It’s just the political will that’s missing’
By Robert Philpot
In this July 30, 2018 photo, a view of ticket office at the New Lawn, Forest Green Rovers’ football ground, in Nailsworth, England. (AP Photo/James Brook)
August 28, 2022, 5:13 am
In England, world’s greenest soccer team is vocal critic of Israel’s blue and white
Forest Green Rovers is the first UN-certified carbon neutral club, only serves vegan concessions, and proudly flies a Palestinian flag at its ground
By Shaul Adar
Britain's opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn delivers a speech during an election campaign event on Brexit in Harlow, England, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. Britain goes to the polls on Dec. 12. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
November 15, 2019, 12:04 pm
How bad would it get? Month before vote, UK Jews worry over a Corbyn government
Victory for the hard-left Labour leader on December 12 could radically reshape Britain’s ties with Israel, prompt Jewish emigration, spell an end to domestic displays of Zionism
By Robert Philpot
Rabbi Fishel Cohen with Jewish students at a candle lighting ceremony in Hanukka in Birmingham, the United Kingdom on December 24, 2014. (Courtesy of Rabbi Fighsel Cohen /The Birmingham Tab/via JTA)
June 4, 2019, 4:29 pm
Amid rising anti-Semitism, one British university has a thriving Jewish life
With campuses in London, Oxford and beyond becoming increasingly inhospitable to Jews, University of Birmingham provides kosher housing for first-years and a welcoming atmosphere
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: Opposition Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, stands right, as he makes a speech to lawmakers inside the House of Commons in London as Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron sits at center left, during a debate on launching airstrikes against Islamic State extremists inside Syria, December 2, 2015. (Photo by Parliamentary Recording Unit via AP Video)
March 6, 2019, 4:33 am
70 years of transcripts from UK’s parliament show clear ‘obsession’ with Israel
Using a new analytics tool, researcher David Collier picks up 17,667 parliamentary references to the Jewish state — more than Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine combined
By Robert Philpot
Rivka Bond
July 11, 2018, 10:46 am
Rivka Bond
Calling Jews ‘poisonous worms’ isn’t anti-Semitic?!
Martin Luther’s vile invective was hate speech, no different from today’s racism disguised as anti-Zionism
Sir Mick Davis (Courtesy)
From the WebJuly 3, 2018, 2:03 pm
We’re at war with ourselves in the battle for Zionism
The diaspora discourse on Israel has never been more polarized, vicious or impoverished
By Mick Davis
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