Green Party deputy leader suggests Labour MPs paid for by ‘Israel Lobby’

The screenshot of Ali sharing the image is dated January 30, though it is not clear that it was this year.

The graphic misspells Labour’s former deputy leader Angela Rayner’s name. The former deputy prime minister has taken donations from Chinn. The £25,000 figure is likely a reference to his 2020 donation to her deputy leadership campaign during the same year.

Her most recent Register of Members’ Financial Interests show she accepted a £2,500 donation in January 2026 “to assist with campaigning activities”. Other figures on the graphic include the prime minister and David Lammy, his current deputy.

However, it also included the likes of Owen Smith and Ivan Lewis – former MPs who are no longer in Parliament – and Tom Watson, Ruth Anderson and Ian Austin – who are now members of the House of Lords.

The X account also shared footage posted by Ali, and since deleted, shortly after October 7, in which he called Rabbi Zecharia Deutsch, a Leeds University Rabbi, a “creep”, after it emerged shortly after October 7, 2023 that he had returned to Israel for reserve duties with the IDF.

Labour MP David Taylor reposted, commenting: “Absolutely vile. This person shouldn't be a member of any political party, yet alone it's deputy leader.”

In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Ali responded to Taylor, appearing to suggest that the Labour MP was himself in the pay of the Israel lobby.

He posted on X: “This is exactly why you're called the genocide party! Labour MPs now agree with extreme racists and islamophobes, like there's no difference between them! Anyway how much did you get?”

Speaking to the JC, Taylor described Ali’s comments as “absolutely vile”.

Taylor, the MP Hemel Hempstead, said: “I haven't taken money from Sir Trevor Chinn, but I'd have no problem doing so. The outrageous accusation that Labour MPs who have accepted donations from him are 'bought for' by the 'Israel Lobby' show he's unfit to be a member of any political party.

“I'd have thought that after hounding a rabbi into hiding he might want to reflect on the impact of his poisonous words. Clearly, he hasn't and this incident demonstrates the sewer that the Green Party has become."

Rabbi Deutsch accused Ali of personally causing “harm and distress” to his family after they were forced into hiding after receiving hundreds of intimidating phone calls, recordings and online messages.

After being elected as a councillor in Leeds in May 2024, Ali apologised for the use of his language on social media relating to the conflict in Gaza.

Sir Trevor Chinn, who has given donations to Labour MPs – including £50,000 to Sir Keir Starmer’s 2020 leadership campaign – has also previously donated to charities working for peace and coexistence between Jews and Arabs including the New Israel Fund and Yachad.

In August last year he signed an open letter urging the Israeli government to end the war in Gaza and condemning settler violence in the West Bank.

Earlier this month, Ali was criticised for spreading “conspiratorial” claims about the “Israeli Lobby”, which the Jewish Leadership Council had criticised as drawing “on well-established tropes about Jewish power”.

The Green Party has been contacted for comment.

Taylor and Ali continued their clash online throughout Tuesday. The Labour MP reacted to Ali’s post, saying: “Do you remember when the Green Party used to profess to care about environmental issues, rather than spout baseless antisemitic conspiracy theories?”

Ali responded, doubling down on his original accusations: “It looks like you need me to continue your education. The Green Party has never been a single issue party, people and the planet first, right from its inception! Not big business, not billionaires and not genocide! Which is exactly why people are ditching labour! You still haven't told us how much?”