Mick Hartley

And there’s more. Number five in Andrew Gilligan’s Green Party chamber of horrors, in the Spectator:

A Green candidate who is also a GP has repeatedly attacked ‘Zios’ and called on people to ‘burn Zionism to the ground.’

Rebecca Jones, a vegan activist and NHS doctor, is standing for the Greens in Blackheath, where she lives. She has the personal support of the party leader, Zack Polanski.

Jones says on her Facebook page, ‘The Vegan Doctor’: ‘I’ve often said that Zios seem to use doublethink and doublespeak a lot… I’m still amazed by the way they, the media and the colonialists try to make us believe that anti-zionism [is]….extreme. There’s only one side showing hate here, and it’s definitely not from this love-filled, vegan anarchist.’

For such a committed vegan and supporter of love, Dr Jones does occasionally seem a little too keen on violence, posting that Bob Vylan’s chant at Glastonbury (‘Death, death to the IDF’) was ‘amazing.’ A reel of her listening to them the next day is captioned: ‘When right-wing media helps you find your new favourite band that you didn’t even know you were looking for.’

She posted a video of someone reading the purported last will and testament of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who masterminded the October 7 attacks. Her view: ‘This is so beautiful. It also reminds me of why the fight for Palestine is so important.’

In 2024, Jones posted: ‘Burn Zionism to the ground.’ The image below the words, of a masked Palestinian holding a burning Israeli flag, was produced by a Plymouth-based graphic designer called Krime. This person also designed Jones’s own ‘Vegan Doctor’ logo, a balaclava-wearing figure with a stethoscope around her neck and a chicken cradled in her left arm.

It’s not quite clear what role the IRA/bank robber headgear plays in either veganism or medicine but Dr Jones bravely attempts to make a previously-unsuspected connection between meat-eating and Zionism. She claims that ‘non-vegans and Zionists have something in common,’ namely ‘the discomfort they feel when I’m talking about animal rights or the rights of Palestinians… You feel angry with me because you know deep down something has to change.’…

In another ‘Vegan Doctor’ post, she says: ‘I can’t be a safe space for anyone excusing Israel’s actions. I’ll never be unsafe for/ towards anyone, but I can’t hold space for you if you think that Zionism and the resulting atrocities are ok.’ What, if anything, does this mean for a ‘Zionist’ or Israel-supporting patient who needs treatment from Dr Jones?

She sounds insane. A perfect fit for the Greens, then.