Polanski capitulating and apologising for police brutality is a critical mistake

Green Party leader Zack Polanski has let himself down and millions of Israel’s victims, those who advocate against genocide, and the millions in this country who need the reversal of decades of Thatcherism under successive blue and red governments. The situation is not yet irredeemable after he apologised for sharing a post condemning police brutality against an unconscious, immobilised and mentally unwell man. But it is very dangerous – both for the Greens electorally and for the nation that is looking to them to halt the drive into fascism.

Polanski capitulates

Polanski has capitulated to pressure from the Israel lobby and Israel’s enablers in government, who are busy turning the UK into a police state to protect the apartheid colony, and apologised for not ‘lowering the temperature’:

Full contact bullshit

Met Police commissioner Mark Rowley tried to excuse the brutal assault on an immobilised, sick man by quipping that policing is a “full contact and messy task”. This contemptible excuse makes it sound like they went in a bit hard in a rugby match. In reality, they had the Golders Green knife attacker immobilised, and stunned after being tased and kicked.

And then they kicked him in the head. Again and again and again. After he was helpless:

The law does not say it’s ok to risk kicking a suspect to death because you don’t like what he allegedly did. Polanski sharing an X post that condemned that brutality was not ‘raising the temperature’ of a ‘both sides’ debate. It was the least that right-thinking people expect from someone who is in a position to stand up for what’s right.

The lessons of abdication

Apologising is abdicating that responsibility, in order to try to appease people who won’t be appeased – because they want Polanski gone or neutralised and this is just one step toward that goal.

If there was any lesson from the Corbyn era of Labour, it’s that. Corbyn, terminally optimistic about finding common ground, thought he could meet the Israel lobby in the middle by apologising for ‘Labour antisemitism’. There was no Labour antisemitism. It was a scam. Now, after two and a half years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the ‘Green antisemitism’ scam is even more transparent.

The people pushing the Labour scam didn’t really care about Jewish feelings, or even about antisemitism. They wanted him gone and any concession short of his resignation was going to be pocketed and then more demanded, never taking yes for an answer. And demanding more still, until the end goal was achieved. If someone wants your head, offering them an apology is only strengthening them. And Corbyn – encouraged by his advisers – strengthened his attackers until they had what they really wanted – his political head.

The Brexit Syndrome

What makes it even more dangerous for Polanski – and therefore millions of the rest of us – is the Brexit syndrome.

In 2017, Corbyn was seen by millions of voters as the genuine article – which he was – and he presented a ‘Labour Brexit’ that he genuinely believed in as an alternative to the Tories’ racist recklessness. And he stunned the establishment and came within a few thousand votes of winning a general election.

But in 2019, after allowing saboteur Keir Starmer to drag him and the party into a nonsensical ‘second referendum’ position, conman Boris Johnson was able to fool voters that he was the anti-establishment candidate, while Corbyn was one more politician who wanted to ignore their 2016 vote. It was a deadly combination and a huge scam – but it worked, and what happened to Corbyn is now history.

Now the same UK-Zionist establishment is terrified of Polanski and his party’s electoral surge. That surge is, in large part, because Polanski comes across as the real thing. Voters are impressed that he has not danced to the tune of the Labour-Reform-Tory uniparty and its Israel lobby. They like his irreverence and his refusal to lie down and take the smears against him.

So they are trying to manoeuvre him into a position where he loses that authenticity and edge; where he sounds and acts like one more politician – and if ‘they’re all the same’, what’s the point in choosing? And capitulating to attacks for doing the right thing in the face of police brutality and police-state collusion is what ‘one more politician’ does.

Polanski, please don’t fall for it

Polanski seemed to show he had understood what was done to Corbyn when he apologised to Corbyn for being fooled by it. But the lesson hasn’t gone deep enough. If Polanski wants to continue his surge, thwart the fascists, and rescue the UK, he has to learn it fast.

No, not fast. Right the hell now. No more apologies. No more falling for the scam or even flirting with it. Back to being the version of himself that scoffs at, and then wipes the floor with, his smearers.

Featured image via the Canary