The Greens were on Sunday accused of choosing local election candidates who boast of ‘compassion’ despite openly promoting ‘abhorrent’ anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
Prospective councillors selected to stand in next month’s polls include those who have claimed Jews and Zionists were behind the 9/11 terror attacks, that they ‘love genocide’ and are ‘cockroaches’.
Ironically, some also boast in campaign leaflets about ‘compassion in action’ and ‘safe and inclusive communities’.
The shocking revelations come as the Greens are expected to make huge gains in council seats next month.
Aziz Hakimi, a civil engineer and local businessman, was selected to stand for the Greens in Camden, north London, despite reposting content blaming ‘Zionists’ for the terror attacks on the World Trade Centre in 2001 and posting support for Hamas in 2018.
He also shared a post claiming that arson attacks on four Jewish charity ambulances last month were a ‘false flag’.
Richard Olszewski, Camden council’s Labour leader, called Mr Hakimi’s posts ‘abhorrent’ and was appalled he’d been selected by the Greens.
Raja Ateeq, standing in Walsall, talks in his election flyer of ‘compassion’. But after the October 7 attacks, the travel company salesman posted: ‘Finally Muslim countries are being united’ and referred to ‘Jewish cockroaches’.
The Greens were on Sunday accused of choosing local election candidates who boast of ‘compassion’ despite openly promoting ‘abhorrent’ anti-Semitic conspiracy theories Pictured: Green Party leader Zack Polanski attended a campaign event at Gorton and Denton in February
Raja Ateeq, standing in Walsall, (pictured) talks in his election flyer of ‘compassion’
After the October 7 attacks, the travel company salesman posted: ‘Finally Muslim countries are being united’ and referred to ‘Jewish cockroaches’
Feda Shahin, a candidate in Bournemouth, falsely claimed that in the Soviet Union ‘the Zionists killed 20 million Christians’ and that they ‘love genocide’.
Green Party campaign literature describes how she ‘cares deeply about social fairness’ and ‘a safe, inclusive community’.
After being selected in Lambeth, south London, it emerged that charity boss Saiqa Ali had previously posted ‘England has a government overrepresented with Zionists’.
Another post from 2024 showed a snake with the Israeli flag printed on its skin wrapping itself around the globe. She wrote: ‘It’s time to cut the head of this snake. #FreePalestine.’
A spokesman for the Campaign Against Antisemitism urged the Greens to ‘expel those peddling dangerous conspiracies’.
Ms Ali has since quit as a Green candidate. She said: ‘I unequivocally reject anti-Semitism in all its forms.’
A Green Party spokesman said it was ‘investigating’ the comments which, in Mr Hakimi’s case, it discovered after candidate nominations had closed, and that both his and Mr Ateeq’s posts were being removed
She added: ‘These examples don’t represent the views of the Green Party.’
Mr Hakimi was contacted for comment.
