Filmmaker Adderley says he will seek legal advice as Greens capitulate again

Filmmaker, anti-genocide campaigner and Green Party candidate Mark Adderley has reacted with fury to smears from Israel fanatic Labour front-bencher Steve Reed. He has also blasted the Green Party administration for (again) capitulating to fake antisemitism smears from Reed and the Israel lobby media.

The Greens have again fallen for Labour’s and the Israel lobby’s desperate and arrogant attempts to dictate who can stand against Labour. Adderley was the Green candidate for Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood in London’s Croydon — a hotbed of Labour corruption unfortunate enough to have Reed as its MP.

But now the party has caved to a blatantly political — and libellous — smear by Reed and others and has suspended Adderley. His ‘crime’, apparently, was to criticise wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu. And, allegedly, he wondered, on the YouTube channel he runs with his wife Nadia Sawalha — like millions of others — whether Israel was involved in the assassination of US right-winger Charlie Kirk.

Kirk had said he was going to end his support for the genocidal colony and feared Israel would kill him.

Israel lobby worried

It seems Adderley’s candidacy seriously worried the Israel lobby. It has targeted him with a clearly-coordinated series of smears and hit-pieces, including one in the Times. Its author, Israel advocate Fintan Hogan, helped Israel deny murdering 500 Palestinian civilians in a missile attack on the Al-Ahli hospital in 2023. The attack was subsequently forensically proven to have been perpetrated by Israel, one of hundreds of Israeli war crimes against hospitals, medics and ambulances.

For the Times, Hogan attacked Adderley for daring to compare Benjamin Netanyahu’s racist ‘Greater Israel’ project with Hitler’s ‘Lebensraum’ (‘room to live’) plans. Also cited were other views Adderley mentioned that are now entirely mainstream — except in the pro-Israel ‘mainstream’ media and lobby groups, of course. Like the idea that the Israel lobby’s constant conflation of Jewish people with the terrorist colony puts Jews in danger.

The same attacks were amplified by the ‘usual suspects’ in the pro-Israel smear industry. Libel-factory and “dauphin of phone-hacking” Lee Harpin had to get in on the act, of course, after years of spouting a “litany of lies” against left-wingers that cost his previous rag huge libel payouts. Harpin posited that Adderley is part of a Green “antisemitism problem” — familiar language, eh? — that is even “worse than feared”.

And pro-Israel Labour horror Reed — of course — chipped in. Reed, with typical arrogance, demanded that the Greens bow to his ‘Labour’ call to withdraw Adderley and another local candidate for daring to oppose Israel’s crimes:

 

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Adderley hits back

But it seems that Harpin, his new rag, and a number of others — including the odious Reed — may be about to add to the heap of cash paid out to wronged and smeared left-wingers. In a withering post on his Instagram feed he poured scorn on the despicable Reed — and he said he will be suing those who have libelled him:

I am disgusted. Truly, deeply, viscerally disgusted.

Labour Cabinet Minister Steve Reed MP has had the audacity to level accusations of antisemitism and racism against me.

Let me be CRYSTAL clear: I have spent my entire life fighting racism in all its forms. I have stood shoulder to shoulder with Jewish friends, comrades, and communities against genuine hatred. But Steve Reed’s pathetic, blood-soaked government has and continues to directly assist in the genocide of the Palestinian people, the slaughter of Lebanese civilians, and the indiscriminate killing of Iranian men, women & children.

He is a “politician” knee deep in atrocity who spends more time smearing humanitarians than he does calling out the behaviour of Netanyahu’s government. And now, to add insult to injury, I learn that, having only recently joined the Green Party with hope in my heart, I have been suspended. Suspended because the Green Party has seemingly folded to the same false allegations, weaponised smears and cowardly lies that The Labour Party has thrown at me.

The complaint against me (like recent articles in the legacy media) conflates anti-Zionism with a hatred of Jewish people. It takes issue with my opposition to Netanyahu, a wanted war criminal leading a far-right Zionist government that is overseeing a genocide. It even twists my statements on NATO expansion and warmongering into so-called “conspiracy theories”. I have never supported Putin. I have never supported war. But by simply pointing out that decades of NATO aggression has helped create the conditions for conflict is not conspiracy. It is history and I refuse to apologise for speaking truth to power.

His words for the Green Party machine were scarcely less furious:

I genuinely thought The Green Party was supposed to be different, and was promising a beacon of hope in the dark, ugly world of British Party Politics. Instead, they have fallen at what feels like the first hurdle in Labour’s attempts to recreate the Corbyn anti­semitism psychodrama of some years ago. If we are to change politics for the good, we must do things differently. We must be unafraid to say what establishment politics has disallowed: that Zionism is racism, that opposing a fascistic, apartheid state is not racism, it is not antisemitic, it is not conflating all Jewish People with the Netanyahu Regime — and that standing with the oppressed should NEVER be something to suspend someone for.

Adderley made clear that he has no intention of being cowed by the cynical smears of the friends of genocide — even if the Greens’ administrators don’t find a spine:

So let me be CRYSTAL clear … I will NOT STOP

I will not stop campaigning for a free Palestine. I will not stop demanding a liberated Arab World from Gaza to the West Bank, from Lebanon to Iran and beyond. I will NOT stop calling out this Labour Government’s complicity and I will NOT be bullied by Govt Ministers who say nothing other than they are “DEEPLY CONCERNED”,

I would have preferred to do this inside the Green Party (a party I believed would have understood the nuance in these sorts of attacks that have been levelled at me) but I will pursue these goals outside the party if necessary. This is just the beginning. The fightback carries on.

But there was room for just a touch of humour at the end. In a post-script, Adderley admitted that one complaint against him had been upheld — but this one he seemed quite proud of: a few choice words for the Labour “fuck-wads” ruining the country and collaborating in genocide and a war of aggression:

p.s. whilst l’m here … one of the other complaints lodged against me (and being upheld) is me describing the Labour Cabinet as being populated with “FUCK­WADS in TIES” … well … as the last 24 hours have proven … there is definitely one “fuck-wad in a tie” who really doesn’t know when to shut up.

Peace & Love … Free Palestine
Mark Adderley

The Greens must get their act together — or go the way of Corbyn’s Labour. There is even less excuse for capitulation to the Israel lobby’s smear campaign when two and a half years of genocide in Gaza have exposed that racist, murderous ideology for what it is.

Follow Mark Adderley and Nadia Sawalha on YouTube here and Instagram here. Also, read about Israel’s long history of false-flag attacks and its ‘Hannibal’ mass slaughter of its own citizens in October 2023.

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