It’s almost as though the Greens have a cunning plan to uncover just how many deranged antisemites we now have in this country. Andrew Gilligan, once again, in the Spectator:
A Green candidate at tomorrow’s election has called the UK a ‘terrorist state,’ blamed Jeremy Corbyn’s demise on the ‘web of lies Israel released on him’ and reposted a claim that Israel has ‘captured’ Britain’s Department for Education.
Marc Batchford is one of a cluster of Green candidates in Walsall with extreme views. Another, Raja Ateeq, described Jews as ‘cockroaches’. A third Walsall Green candidate, Joe Belcher, has been allowed to run again tomorrow for the party despite having been dropped from a previous election for claiming that ‘My hunch is the leaders of Israel and Gaza conspired to carry out what happened on 7 Oct for financial gain.’
Batchford is running – entirely without irony – on the slogan ‘Hope not hate’ with a social media timeline on which he calls Israel ‘Nazis.’ He retweeted a video by ‘death to the IDF’ musician Bob Vylan on ‘the shocking story of how the British Department for Education has been captured by Israeli forces.’ (This is, apparently, because Vylan’s band was stopped from playing at a university campus, and someone who is now working at the DfE, but wasn’t then, went on a free trip to Israel.)….
Mick Hartley 
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