Zack Polanski

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Green Party's Gorton and Denton By-election Candidate Hannah Spencer makes a speech on January 30 (Photo by Ryan Jenkinson/Getty Images)

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West Midlands Police chief must go – but it won’t stop the Muslim Brotherhood in Britain

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Green Party leader rebuked for claiming Chief Rabbi doesn’t represent UK Jews on Israel

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Zarah Sultana gives a speech at the inaugural conference of Your Party on November 30, 2025 in Liverpool. (Image: Getty)

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Zohran Mamdani celebrates during an election night event at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, New York on November 4, 2025 (Getty Images)

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UK politicians hailing Mamdani ignoring ‘alarm’ raised by US Jews, claims CAA

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Hackney Council held its extraordinary meeting on October 23; pictured speaking is Councillor Alastair Binnie-Lubbock (Image: Hackney Council)

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Polanski ‘proud’ of anti-Israel Green councillors despite Hackney synagogue calls for their suspension

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Polanski says Government is ‘an active participant in the murdering of the Palestinians’, in conference speech

The Green leader also described the Heaton Park terror attack as ‘horrific’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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October 3, 2025 14:40

Green Party leader Zack Polanski delivers his speech at his party's annual conference (Photo: Getty)

Green Party leader Zack Polanski grilled over deputy Mothin Ali’s inflammatory October 7 comments

Justin Webb challenged the leader on the Today programme over Mothin Ali’s suitability for office

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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October 3, 2025 13:27

Green Party leader Zack Polanski (Image: Getty).

‘We still welcome Zionists’ say Jewish Greens despite outrage over deputy leader’s October 7 remarks

The group’s founder insists Zionists are welcome in the party despite Mothin Ali defending the right of ‘indigenous people to fight back’ on the day of the Hamas attacks in Israel

By Jane Prinsley

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September 5, 2025 14:19

New Green Party leader Zack Polanski (Image: Getty)

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The Green-Green alliance – Britain’s new natural home for the radical fringes

How can a Jewish political leader, even one of an irredeemably hard-left persuasion, act as the midwife to one of the darkest political forces facing British Jews today?

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Exclusive: Jewish Labour frontbencher says Green leader’s views on Zionism are ‘out of step’ with the community

Lord Katz said he hoped Polanksi had ‘ the honesty to acknowledge this and not misuse his status’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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September 4, 2025 12:29

Zack Polanski has been elected as the new leader of the Green Party (Image: Getty)

Greens unfit to hold any position of responsibility after electing extremist deputy leader, say critics

Mothin Ali hailed October 7 as the end of ‘white supremacist European settler colonialism’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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September 4, 2025 11:00

New Green deputy leader Mothin Ali (Image: Screenshot)

Zack Polanski elected Green Party’s first Jewish leader

The former actor and hypnotherapist is the first Jewish leader of any major political party in the UK since Ed Miliband

By Jacob Jaffa

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September 2, 2025 10:39

Green leadership candidate denies that Labour was ‘rife with antisemitism’ under Corbyn

Zack Polanski had previously criticised the former Opposition Leader but said he now has ‘a new appreciation of what [he] was dealing with’ following alleged ‘attacks’ from the JC

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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May 6, 2025 17:28

Zack Polanski, deputy leader of the Green Party (Image: Getty)

Greens deputy leader Zack Polanski launches shock leadership bid

Polanski, who has been a critic of the Board and other mainstream Jewish organisations says he will call out “genocide” as he seeks to oust Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay

By Jane Prinsley

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May 5, 2025 11:16

The Jewish deputy leader of the Green Party, Zack Polanski, has announced his bid for party leadership with a campaign video calling out "fascism and genocide" (Photo by Ming Yeung/Getty Images)

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Zack Polanski

Green candidate for Gorton and Denton by-election appears to compare Gaza War to Holocaust

West Midlands Police chief must go – but it won’t stop the Muslim Brotherhood in Britain

Party leaders wish Britain’s Jews a happy Chanukah

Green Party leader rebuked for claiming Chief Rabbi doesn’t represent UK Jews on Israel

How Sultana made Stalin look like a Tory – and sent Your Party to the Gulag

UK politicians hailing Mamdani ignoring ‘alarm’ raised by US Jews, claims CAA

Polanski ‘proud’ of anti-Israel Green councillors despite Hackney synagogue calls for their suspension

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