Israel lobby’s Green ‘WhatsApp antisemitism’ smear is itself antisemitic. Again

The hard-right, ultra-Zionist and genocide-denying Telegraph‘s claim of an ‘antisemitic’ Green party WhatsApp group shows the Israel lobby’s desperation to halt the surge of Jewish leader Zack Polanski’s party. And it appears, yet again, that the Israel lobby has no qualms about being antisemitic in its tactics.

Green activists called Jews ‘abominations’ in leaked WhatsApp chat

Blares the rag’s headline. It then claims that — with emphases added by Skwawkbox:

Green Party activists described Jewish people as “an abomination to this planet” in anti-Semitic WhatsApp messages, The Telegraph can reveal.

One member of the Greens for Palestine group, a Left-wing faction in the Green Party, said Jews “murder, bomb and starve” children.

Another claimed the arson attack on four ambulances owned by a Jewish charity in Golders Green, north London, on Monday had been a “false flag” operation, suggesting it could have been carried out by Jewish people.

A Green council candidate shared posts on social media, making the same claim.

But the paper’s examples show next to none of this — and the “abomination” in the chats is unequivocally Zionism. Most Zionists are not Jewish and many Jews are anti-Zionists, though one ill-advised comment does discuss frustration at being ‘forced’ to use the term ‘Zionism’ in discussions of it. Unsurprisingly, the article quickly falls apart under scrutiny and ends up only being propped up by the manufactured outrage of known Israel-funded pressure groups.

Israel lobby doesn’t purposefully miss the point

First of all, even the Telegraph’s own screenshots make absolutely clear that the topic of the discussion is Zionism — the racist political ideology that privileges Jewish colonisers over indigenous Palestinians:

The article’s central claim then falls apart like a two-pound suit. Nobody in the group says that “Jewish people” are an abomination. The screenshot makes plain, to an honest reading, that the comment is referring to “Jewish supremacists” — in other words, Zionists:

Zionism is racism

Zionism is an ethno-supremacist political philosophy — even to its majority of non-Jewish advocates who make it central to their so-called ‘Christian nationalism’. Israel is a racist, apartheid state perpetrating genocide in Gaza and trying to steal the lands of Lebanese, Syrian and other people based on a presumption that they are religiously and ethnically entitled to it. Its advocates believe they are entitled even to murder children to achieve this goal.

They have already murdered and maimed hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza and want to slaughter the children of their opponents in Iran. Zionism has rightly been described as one of the biggest dangers to humanity — and is shamelessly demonstrating why in the series of atrocities and global crises Israel is creating.

After these two screenshots, the best that hack Sabrina Miller — herself a notorious pro-Israel agitator even as a student — can come up with is highlighting discussions about information security and whether Israel-linked apps can be trusted.

That and some quotes from the so-called ‘Campaign Against Antisemitism’ (CAA) — which is funded by Israel and notorious for its attacks on Muslims to promote pro-Israel narratives. CAA’s charitable status has been under investigation for the blatantly political nature of its activities — but of course, the Telegraph leaves that out. Its chief executive Gideon Falter was exposed making up claims of being prevented from ‘crossing a road’ because of a pro-Palestine march — and folded embarrassingly under scrutiny.

Israel lobby is antisemitic

As so often with the Israel lobby, the latest attack spills over into… yep, antisemitism. By deliberately and falsely conflating Jews with Zionism, as if the two are inseparable, it breaches any reasonable definition of antisemitism. Including the unreasonable one the Israel lobby pushes to protect Israel. It’s very, very far from the first time and it certainly won’t be the last.

So far, so predictable from the Israel lobby, which is so desperate to prevent the Greens standing up as expressly anti-Zionist that it has apparently capped weeks of embarrassing attacks with a ‘DDoS’ tech attack on the party’s conference today, 28 March 2026 to try to prevent a vote on it.

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