Desperate Labour double down on Green Party antisemitism smear

This article is part of a series looking at the British media’s smear campaign against the Green Party in the May 2026 elections

On 15 April, we reported that Labour gasbag Steve Reed was accusing the Greens of antisemitism. This was despite the antisemitism smear perpetrated by the Labour right having lost any impact. It was also despite Reed having antisemitism accusations of his own.

Since then, Reed has doubled down on the slanderous accusations. The result has been more criticism of Reed and still no impact on the Greens:

Steve Reed would not be allowed to join the Green Party due to known past antisemitic views. https://t.co/3ogOSN7LTY

— Dr Iain Darcy 🍉 🇮🇪 💚 (@doctoriaindarcy) April 20, 2026

Smear merchant

To be clear, when we describe Reed’s actions as an ‘antisemitism smear‘, what we mean is that he’s concocting allegations for political purposes.

In the video above, an unsettlingly wide-eyed Reed talks about an alleged antisemite who was “exposed” by the Spectator – a right-wing shitrag.

According to Reed, this candidate posted a meme which featured a venomous snake wrapped around the world. Reed highlights that this snake had the Star of David on it. What he fails to mention is that the snake is actually wrapped in the Israeli flag – a flag which prominently displays the Star of David.

Reed fails to mention this, of course, because there’s obviously a big difference between criticising Israel and criticising Judaism.

A person can still take offence with criticism of Israel if they like, although fewer are choosing to do so. This is especially the case since Israel kickstarted the war on Iran, with disastrous consequences for the global economy.

Reed faces pushback

People laid into Reed for his latest intervention, anyway. Ex-BBC employee David McNab said:

Still banging the ‘any criticism if Israel is antisemitic’ bs I see. Just like WW1 generals, the Labour Party have run out of ideas and are going to die on that hill.

Journalist Richard Sanders said:

Steve Reed embodies a particularly distasteful feature of Starmer’s Labour Party – non-Jews who believe they have a God-given right to designate Jews they disagree with about Israel antisemites.

The Fraud details how he led a purge of left wing Jews shortly after Starmer became leader.

If white people roamed the Labour Party expelling black people as Uncle Toms we would be absolutely appalled. When and how did this become acceptable?

You can read that passage on Steve Reed in The Fraud here.

Lads the corrupt racist who backs a genocide and is linked to Labour pedophiles is trying the antisemitism smears agst a Jewish man

Not happy with sabotaging their own side. They want to try and do it to @ZackPolanski https://t.co/SQFpulg2B0 https://t.co/EtfnZpP9ju

— jan (@smerkinkones) April 21, 2026

Media smears

As people highlighted, the Spectator has been pulled up for concocted antisemitism accusations before:

The Spectator? Isn’t that the rag once edited by Alexander de Feffel Johnson whose novel is dripping with antisemitic tropes and which had to pay compensation to a man falsely accused of antisemitism in an article by its journalist who was cited in Anders Breivik’s manifesto? pic.twitter.com/eU1K4kmRGC

— Carl Freeman 🇵🇸 (@carljfree) April 21, 2026

In fact, the entire British media has been pulled up for this shit.

The fact that these smears no longer work is a positive development, but they still need calling out wherever we see them.

Featured image via Steve Reed