I guess it\u2019s only fitting that Zack Polanski has been accused of telling porkies about his career. The Green Party leader who thinks men can identify as women apparently spent years identifying as a British Red Cross spokesman and a fully licensed hypnotherapist.<\/p>\n
Polanski is a figure by turns despicable and risible. The latest revelations fall into the latter bucket. According to The Times<\/a>, he passed off his efforts hosting fundraisers for the Red Cross as a formal spokesman role with the charity, even bragging on his website in 2020 that he was \u2018really proud of the work we do\u2019 (my emphasis).<\/p>\n As for the hypnotherapy thing (Polanski claimed to be a full member of the National Council of Hypnotherapy), this has only served to remind people of the creepiest and most embarrassing chapter of his professional life: when he had a practice on Harley Street and claimed he could enlarge women\u2019s breasts with his skills. I for one am shocked that a bloke who claimed he could do hypno boob jobs might not have been on the up and up.<\/p>\n Natch, Polanski has accused the right-wing media of having a vendetta against him. But he apparently can\u2019t stop giving them ammunition. And I don\u2019t just mean by massaging his CV. Indeed, I hope his colourful past doesn\u2019t steal focus from the shameful things he is saying and doing in the present \u2013 particularly on anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n After two Jews were knifed in Golders Green<\/a>, the heart of Jewish north London, last week, you might have expected the self-appointed leader of the \u2018anti-racist\u2019 left to have something strong to say about it. Instead, we got a perfunctory tweet<\/a> from Polanski, which interestingly omitted the words \u2018Jews\u2019 and \u2018anti-Semitism\u2019.<\/p>\n Enjoying spiked?<\/p>\n Why not make an instant, one-off donation?<\/p>\n We are funded by you. Thank you!<\/p>\n \n \u00a35 Choose an amount<\/p>\n \n Donate now\n <\/p>\n \n Please wait… <\/p>\n If only he had stopped there. Instead, Our Zack proceeded to share posts criticising the police for how they subdued the suspect \u2013 they gave the scumbag a few stern kicks to the head, fearing he might be wearing a suicide vest, as they wrestled to get the knife off him.<\/p>\n After a rebuke from Metropolitan Police chief Sir Mark Rowley, Polanski apologised. Kinda. When pressed over the weekend, he conceded only that \u2013 while he remained concerned, even \u2018traumatised\u2019<\/a>, by the treatment of the suspect \u2013 he should have taken it up with the cops in private, rather than on social media.<\/p>\n Personally, if I was looking for a word to describe how I felt watching that arrest footage, \u2018traumatised\u2019 is not the one I\u2019d land on. (That kicking might have been the first time I\u2019ve ever envied a copper.) But trying to turn an attack on Jews into a conversation about police brutality is only the latest, despicable distraction tactic to be used by \u2018progressives\u2019 whenever Jew hatred rears its head.<\/p>\n The reflex is always to deflect, to change the subject. Polanski even made a point on Sky News on Sunday of saying that the suspect, Essa Suleiman, also allegedly stabbed a Muslim man (a friend of his) in south-east London before going on his rampage in Golders Green.<\/p>\n What is the point of this comment, if not to dilute the distinctly anti-Jewish nature of the (alleged) attack in Golders Green? Only Polanski can know. But it looks and feels like Zack \u2013 like many on the \u2018pro-Palestine\u2019 left \u2013 struggles to compute the distinct threat to Jewish life and so feels compelled to diminish and generalise it.<\/p>\n You\u2019ll have noticed this tic. After a little throat-clearing about how awful anti-Semitism is, leftists will suddenly pivot to Islamophobia, or racism in general \u2013 issues on which they\u2019re much more comfortable. Because staying on topic would provoke awkward questions about their own role in fomenting the Jew hatred in our midst.<\/p>\n On this score, the Green Party is now the prime offender, picking up where Corbyn\u2019s Labour left off. There have been a slew of stories of late about Green local-election candidates and activists spewing pond-scum anti-Semitism. And no, we\u2019re not talking about \u2018criticisms of Israel\u2019, as some remain determined to dress it up. We\u2019re talking about calling Jews \u2018cockroaches\u2019<\/a>, dismissing October 7 as a \u2018false flag\u2019<\/a>, and openly praising the rapists and butchers of Hamas. At least 25 Greens<\/a> have a history of anti-Semitism. Two were arrested last week<\/a> on suspicion of inciting racial hatred.<\/p>\n And what is the Green Party doing about it? Only a handful<\/a> of these candidates have been sanctioned. Mark Adderley, standing in Crystal Palace in south London, was suspended after his rants about \u2018the chosen people\u2019 were uncovered, but his local party is still urging people to vote for him<\/a>. Co-deputy leader Mothin Ali has even been encouraging some ousted candidates to take legal action<\/a> against his own party.<\/p>\n Polanski says these are just a few bad apples, that there are anti-Semites in every party, that the establishment is just trying to take him down, etc. Presumably the media are choosing only to report on the Greens\u2019 Jew haters. Perhaps he thinks Bibi Netanyahu put them up to it. <\/p>\n But this won\u2019t wash. The Greens have succumbed to anti-Israel hysteria, which is the seedbed of the new anti-Semitism. All the ancient anti-Semitic tropes about Jews \u2013 as baby killers, puppeteers, sneaky subversives \u2013 have just been dolled up as \u2018anti-Zionism\u2019. And as the Greens\u2019 candidates list attests, the Jew haters aren\u2019t even bothering to make the distinction anymore. <\/p>\n Polanski, himself a Jewish man, can hardly be accused of being an anti-Semite. But he has become a prisoner of his own low-wattage worldview. The anti-Israel zealot cannot compute the new anti-Semitism, because doing so would require admitting he is part of the problem. <\/p>\n
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