Green Party demand UK suspend Israel’s senior-most diplomat
The Green Party has demanded that the UK government suspend Israel’s senior diplomat in the UK. It follows the Israeli parliament’s legalising of the death penalty for Palestinians accused of “terrorism”.
Green Party’s Mothin Ali: execution law “unconscionable”
Reporting for the Canary, Maddison Wheeldon wrote:
Fascist Israel minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has pushed through a law in the Knesset which will authorise the death penalty – by hanging – of Palestinians. Specifically, this law will apply by default to Palestinians who have been tried in military court and found guilty of committing a fatal attack.
62 Israeli officials voted for the fatal bill, with 47 voting against.
Green Party deputy leader Mothin Ali has now said:
These military courts are conducted without proper legal representation or juries. This is unconscionable – the government must immediately suspend Israel’s UK [chargé d’affaires].
The chargé d’affaires is the senior diplomat at the Israeli embassy. Israel has had no ambassador to the UK since Tzipi Hotovely left in September 2025. As Middle East Eye reported, Tzachi Braverman is the recently appointed Israeli ambassador to the UK. However, he is currently not in his role. Braverman is unable to leave Israel after being questioned by police on suspicion of obstructing an investigation into the leak of a classified military document.
Braverman is Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff.
An apartheid state
Green Party deputy leader Ali continued:
Introducing the death penalty into Israel’s civil legal system, in a way that rights groups say will de facto only apply to Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, will result in Palestinians being killed without a fair trial.
Palestinian citizens of Israel already lack certain rights granted to Jewish citizens, and their second-class status was made explicit with the passing of the 2018 Jewish Nation-State Law.
It’s time for the Labour government to stand for truth: Israel is an apartheid state which is conducting a genocide in Gaza. Just like apartheid South Africa, it must be treated as a pariah state until the genocide is stopped, apartheid is ended, and Palestinians are granted the same rights as Israelis.
He also called for the UK to stop selling weapons and weapon components to Israel:
The government must make clear that it will not continue to sell any military weapons or weapons components to Israel. The Green Party calls for Britain to impose sanctions on Israel, as most of the world community did to South Africa, when it was also operating an apartheid state.
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So the israelis have devolved into making concentration camps for Palestinians.
Kidnapped without due process and shoved into rape prisons (because israelis are just all closeted homosexuals who don’t actually believe the religious nonsense they spout), the genocidal israeli now wishes to give everybody who is Palestinian – note, ONLY Palestinians, so a racist, apartheid law – the death penalty.
Of course they rely on an ambiguous phrase like ‘fatal attack’, which has zero legal definition, and knowing the dishonest israelis, will be twisted to mean even if the fat Ben Gvir twists his ankle running away to his cowardly hiding spot in the fallout shelter, rather than a more formal standard demanding actual evidence of intent, like a murder charge found in a jury trial.
The sudden spate and rise in spontaneous kidnappings of Palestinians across the West Bank prior and after this so-called “law” (if a genocidal, apartheid regime like the shithole of israel could be called a ‘law’) obviously coinciding with their plans to mass execute Palestinians.
My only curiousity remains that, now Palestinians know that jail = death, surely they’d have a very good reason to now violently fight back against their oppressors?
As for israel, more in common with apartheid South Africa than any rational, sensible first world nation. No doubt a child genocider will be along shortly to explain to us why people who mass murder children without facing reprisals should be trusted to determine who should be guilty of what is nothing more than mass execution of victims.
So, Mr Ali: is Zionism racist, or – as your leader Zack Polanski claims – are there nicer, kinder Zionisms that treat Palestinians as equals and don’t support genocidal, apartheid Israel? This article doesn’t make that clear.