More from Andrew Gilligan at the Spectator on the deranged antisemites still standing as Green candidates:
A Green candidate in this week’s council elections says the White House should be blown up, described Hamas taking ‘filthy hostages,’ and denies that anyone was raped by the terror group on 7 October.
Feda Shahin, a Green candidate in Bournemouth, was first exposed – for different extremist statements – by The Spectator on 21 April. We disclosed she had said that ‘the Zionists killed 20 million Christians’ and that ‘Zionists are trying to control the world.’ She is ‘secretary general’ of a local pro-Palestine group, the Palestine Solidarity Movement, which earned national notoriety after it staged a night-time picket of an MP’s private home.
Those remarks were, it turns out, only part of Shahin’s wide repertoire. We have now been passed her conversations in the Palestine Solidarity Movement’s group chat, including her reaction to our previous story about her. This was not, it’s fair to say, shame, apology or regret. Instead, she said The Spectator was running a ‘trolling campaign’ – deliberately posting inflammatory statements to provoke emotional responses….
But like the vast majority of the nearly 20 extremist Green candidates exposed by The Spectator and others, Shahin has neither been suspended nor disowned by the party in the two weeks since her original posts became public. Nor was she suspended this week, after The Spectator told the party of her latest posts. She remains on the Bournemouth Green party website as a candidate and continues to campaign as such, posting various election videos of herself in the town, complete with Green logo and typeface. In a break with normal practice, one of them is even about the environment.
Now there’s a surprise.
Even the former Green leader has, finally, joined the debate:
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Mick Hartley 
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