I attended the Green Party conference,  spending time inside the conference halls and observing demonstrations outside. I tried to speak to as many Green Party members as possible. When I dive into sewers such as this, I rarely rush to publish. I need time to recover, as well as to analyse footage and digest and understand what I have experienced. My goal is to try to bring deeper insight to what is unfolding.

As always, I bring receipts. In these two photos, you can see me alongside Mothin Ali, Deputy Leader of the Green Party, and Ismail Patel, the Islamist Founder and Chair of Friends of Al Aqsa and one of the key people responsible for the hate marches that have plagued our streets for years.

To be fair, I doubt they knew who I was.

Not My First Rodeo

As anyone who follows my research would know, I have been attending political events for many years.  This gives me the ability to draw comparisons. I was at the Labour Party Conference that took place in Brighton in 2017 – and this latest Green Party affair was certainly not that. Labour 2017 was at the height of Corbynism – energy and belief filled those halls. The barely understood issue of “Palestine” was capturing many local constituency groups, but despite the hostility, it was not the Labour Party’s only message.

Like it or not, the Labour Party has an identity, and as disillusionment with the long-ruling Conservatives began to rise, young leftists took to social media to “spread the word.” It created a dynamic that brought energy to the room. As with everything else it touches, “Palestine” would destroy all that from within.

Today’s Green Party is a very different animal. The eco-soul is still present, but its faithful are a suffocated minority within their own party. In the exhibition hall, I spoke to those running the “Green Party Women” stand – staunch defenders of women’s rights. The real deal. It is no coincidence that the only visible message critical of “Palestine” in the entire conference exhibition hall was beside their table – a reference to the sexual violence committed by Hamas on October 7. Not everyone has been ‘captured’:

The Palestine Fix

When I first saw the Green Women at their table, they were being somewhat harassed by a man of Arab heritage who was incensed by the “More Trees, Less Hamas” signage. I engaged him in conversation to better understand his objection.

Accompanied by his wife, who wore a keffiyeh – the must-have fashion accessory of the day – he struggled to explain exactly what the problem was. Unable to argue against an anti-Hamas message, the couple felt that anti-Israel messaging should be present too.

I gestured around the room, pointing to the tables for Greens for Palestine, Muslim Greens, the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians, Young Trans Greens, Young Greens and Palestine Solidarity – all providing wall-to-wall coverage of “Palestine.” I asked whether their lack of balance bothered him too:

As expected, he did not get the point. He kept trying to take me down rabbit holes where he felt more comfortable, but I would not budge.

I then asked whether the books on sale should be balanced – because they certainly weren’t. Some of the anti-Jewish material on sale – including Shlomo Sand’s conspiratorial book The Invention of the Jewish People – goes a long way towards illustrating how anti-Zionism is fuelled by antisemitism – and fuels it in return.

Why on earth would a book that distorts Jewish history, promotes the Khazar myth, and denigrates the religious identity of a persecuted minority group be on sale at a Green Party conference? How does selling that book help bring peace to the Middle East?

A Poisonous Growth

There is no denying that the Green Party has grown. The 2016 conference was held at the University of Birmingham, while the 2018 conference was at Bristol City Hall. Neither venue could possibly accommodate the Green Party of 2026.

But those who embody the soul of the Green Party have not increased greatly in number. Rather, the party itself has been lost to something else. The toxin that destroyed the Labour Party between 2015 and 2019 has captured the Greens. It has even evolved and become more potent since that time.

I can only imagine what true Greens, the lifelong eco-warriors, feel as they see their movement overrun with culturally appropriated fashion accessories, foreign nationalist flags, and imperialist attitudes which dictate how other nations should live. Worse still is the realisation that it is only when the party they love ingests this “Palestine” fix that it gains some ground in electoral battles.

That internal conflict would explain the tension in the room throughout the weekend. They come for discussions about saving the environment and improving social welfare – and the entire conference exhibition hall is little more than “Palestine,” “Palestine,” “Palestine.”

Outside and In

I am used to hostile events, but there was something especially insidious about this one. From the moment you turned onto Kings Road along Brighton’s seafront to reach the conference venue, raw antisemitic hatred was on display. Islamist and hard-left extremists had gathered outside, voicing their loathing of the vast majority of the world’s Jewish population. In direct opposition to both them and the conference attendees stood members of Stop the Hate UK—those post-October 7 heroes who can always be counted on to show up, speak out and fight back against hatred:

It only got worse inside the halls. “Palestine” was everywhere, and there was a swagger to those wearing a keffiyeh. Leftist antisemites and their Islamist partners were already celebrating a success they knew was coming.

The halls were conquered territory, and everyone knew it.

So was party policy. I lost count of the number of times someone on a panel tried to convince the audience that “Palestine is an environmental issue.” This spurious connection was repeated like a drumbeat.

The result was a conference embracing extremism rather than rejecting it.

During a panel session on Saturday afternoon that explicitly sought to explain how “the thread of Palestine” is interwoven into every economic and social issue British people face, the backdrop featured the “Stitch Their Names Together” exhibition – the same exhibit that was removed from Leeds Minster after it was revealed to contain the names of known Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists.

This provides a reminder that it is British Jews the Green Party has a problem with; they are far less concerned about associating with Hamas.

The irony is that, for all the attention given to “Palestine” over the weekend, events devoted to Palestinians attracted surprisingly little interest. Hostility towards Zionism clearly generates more enthusiasm than discussion of the people whose cause these activists claim to champion. The turnout was striking: three key Palestinian-themed events took place in rooms that appeared more than half-empty:

It was in one of these rooms, during the Friends of al-Aqsa event, that the Jewish News journalist Lee Harpin walked out after being singled out by Mothin Ali. I was in the room. A conspiratorial question about shadowy groups targeting the party with media smears led to Ali doxing the Jewish journalist.

Yet how does a weekend so heavily focused on “Palestine” produce such sparse audiences for pro-Palestinian campaign groups?

Because for antisemitism, the Palestinians are nothing but a useful tool.

And So They Gathered

Make no mistake: the Green Party is the most antisemitic political movement the UK has seen in decades. It has been for a while, and the adoption of the “Zionism is Racism” motion simply confirmed that fact publicly.

Within the hard-left political ecosystem, networks of activists cut across several different issues. Drawing on crude Soviet anti-Western ideologies that have since been expanded and polished by post-truth academic balderdash, they stand in opposition to much that holds our society together.

This meant that those gathering outside were not just Green Party members, but others who had come to lend their support to the anti-Zionist crowd.

Pictured below are Tony Greenstein; a Revolutionary Communist Group activist handing out its “Fight Racism” newspaper with the headline “Resistance is Justified”; and Vincent David – a Marxist running a different stall – who could barely contain his anger at the sight of Israeli counter-protesters outside the hall:

Extremist movements on the left seek a political home in whichever organisation is stupid enough to recruit them for political strength. Corbyn’s Labour did – and it brought Labour to its knees. Factional infighting inside the “Your Party” spinoff destroyed whatever momentum it may have had. The Greens needed people; these movements needed a party.

Seriously, look at them now. Green Party members covered in culturally appropriated fashion accessories, waving Islamic nationalist flags and making imperialist demands of far-off nations – now represent the party that was once almost exclusively invested in the environment.

At this point we should distinguish between those gathered outside the halls and those inside wearing official conference lanyards or queuing to receive them. Sadly, that distinction seemed to make no difference at all to levels of extremism. One attendee was even spotted wearing a PFLP T-shirt to the event:

Those Inside the Halls

Take Luba Speitan, the proposer of the ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion. She was once described in court documents as a ‘close friend’ of an al-Qaeda terrorist who had planned a suicide attack targeting Heathrow Airport. While still involved with ‘Your Party’, Speitan aligned with Green Party activists in efforts to reject the adoption of antisemitism motions. Go back a little further to 2024, and she was seen supporting Galloway’s Workers Party, campaigning for its Lewisham mayoral candidate:

Or take this man, who was eagerly encouraging people to sign up for Left Greens and handing out BDS boycott stickers from rolls in his hand. He made his way to the front of the crowd to shout at protesters with Israeli flags. Just one year ago, he appears to have been at the Your Party conference in Liverpool:

He is not alone. This is Abdullah Okud, who could not resist standing outside the conference hall to shout at those waving Israeli flags. Okud is a longtime activist who only joined the Green Party in July. He came through the Corbyn route, but can be seen in the second image alongside Zarah Sultana at the founding Your Party conference in November 2025:

Kieran Andrieu, one of those who joined the ‘Global Sumud Flotilla’, was also on the ‘Zionism is Racism’ front line at the conference. Last November, he was a speaker at a Your Party event for Ealing members. In the same month, he attended a Palestinian Forum in Britain event alongside Azzam Tamimi. Both the PFB and Tamimi have long been associated with Hamas support and Muslim Brotherhood networks:

Andrieu’s X account header image shows the large “Victory to the Resistance” banner belonging to the Islamist group Inminds and the Iranian-linked IHRC.

This man, walking into the conference wearing a ‘justice for Palestine’ T-shirt, is almost certainly Ben Geraghty, formerly of the Revolutionary Communist Group.

And it goes on. In 2023, Imtiaz Ali was deselected as a sitting Labour councillor, having been deemed unfit because of posts he made about “Palestine.” So he switched to the Greens. He has since liked posts honouring the Ayatollah and, in one Facebook comment, referred to the “Epstein class of evil rulers” causing the global suffering of Muslims. Posting footage from the conference to celebrate the motion’s passage, Imtiaz Ali added the simple caption “we did it” alongside three Palestinian flags:

Islamic scholar Ismail Syed was also there to vote, and there is little doubt about his opinion on the matter. His social media is a horror show of sectarian Islamist ideology, all built upon an antisemitic, conspiratorial mindset:

Syed’s comments about Green Party policy focus almost exclusively on Zionism.

It is not as if these people are hiding it. At a Greens for Palestine meeting, Animah Kosai, one of the co-chairs, stated:

“I don’t believe in serving the Green Party, and I think some people are going to hate me for this. I actually believe in using the party in order to reach certain goals. And in this case, for Palestine, for anti-imperialism.”

Evidence of the occupation of the former Green Party is everywhere. On Saturday morning outside the event, I saw Sara Ibrahim leading the chant “resistance is glorious, we will be victorious.” By Sunday afternoon, she was inside the conference, leading the celebrations after the motion had passed:

Commenting on Ibrahim’s extremism, GnasherJew reports that Ibrahim has been arrested multiple times over support for Palestine Action. She has also been filmed leading death chants on London’s streets. Almost all her public posts on Facebook and Instagram are sectarian, Islamist and anti-Israel. There is nothing about the climate or environment at all.

Trip down memory lane

With so many familiar figures from Corbyn-era Labour also in evidence, it often felt like a trip down memory lane for me. Local figures such as Greg Hadfield and Lloyd Russell-Moyle were soon spotted. Other Corbynistas, such as Ashok Kumar, Philip Proudfoot and Andrew Feinstein, were also in Brighton for the vote.

Natalie Strecker, the former Labour Party activist who was prosecuted and cleared of inviting support for terrorist groups, was helping to run the ‘Greens for Palestine’ stall inside the conference hall:

For me, this photograph below encapsulates the story of the entire conference: Greg Hadfield standing alongside former Labour MP Chris Williamson – who is now an Iranian regime hack at PRESS TV. Williamson has purchased a keffiyeh. The conspiratorial book in Hadfield’s hand, “The Invention of the Jewish People”, provides the icing on the cake:

Talking to the Cult

The person in this image is Ashley Routh. He is a longstanding Green member and stood as a candidate in the 2024 election in Wakefield and Rothwell. I am using him as an example, but to be fair, I engaged in several conversations with young Green members that followed the very same pattern. Ash is stupid – not because he does not know anything – but because he thinks he knows it all.

Why? “Because he has seen the videos.”

This was his response to almost every issue that was raised. Routh is part of a generation of people for whom feelings trump facts. In conversation, all debate swiftly leads to a dead end. Routh made an accusation – there was factual pushback that should have resulted in real engagement – but he always responded as if those arguing were beneath him.

After all, “he had seen the videos.”

Kids doomscroll their way into mental oblivion. He has not been to Israel. I asked him if he knew what an urban conflict was like. His response was that he “had been in the navy”. I pushed further: “So what? Have you been in an urban conflict?” “No,” he replied. So no personal experience at all, then. The poor boy’s mind has been so scrambled he has bought into every propaganda line that Hamas has sold. He truly believes that the IDF has trained dogs to rape people. No videos exist of this particular claim – but he believes it all the same.

Social media has completely trashed his brain.

And this is what we are up against. He has a mocking grin, convinced he is ethically superior to those who know far more than he does. Ashley Routh wraps himself in culturally appropriated fashion accessories. He champions a foreign nationalist movement fuelled by Islamist maximalist ideologies. And he claims the moral authority to impose his own beliefs on natives living thousands of miles away, mirroring English colonial attitudes from the 18th or 19th century. Cultural appropriation, foreign nationalism, supremacism and imperialism – all in support of an anti-Jewish position. What a ‘progressive’ combination.

The Ignorant Cult of Hate

Lee Harpin captured footage of a group of Green Party members chanting “all of Palestine is Arab” in Arabic after the motion passed.

Harpin also uploaded two videos in which he spoke to Green Party members who had supported the motion. I identified both of those involved. In one video, Lambeth’s Serena Oliver explains that people who support Israel are the real antisemites, before outrageously suggesting that Jewish people who associate their Jewish identity with a belief in Jewish self-determination are the ones who need to educate themselves.

It is hard to imagine white people on the left dismissing the self-identity of any other minority group in this fashion. As if to prove she has been totally brainwashed by ahistorical garbage, Oliver says Jews should learn about how the “Zionist project was linking with the Nazis.” Turning her Holocaust revisionism dial up to maximum, she implies that “history has been rewritten” to suggest otherwise.

It may shock her to learn that Jews at Auschwitz were not divided into Zionists and non-Zionists before being selected for the gas chambers.

The second video features Alex Blower from Peterborough. Blower was one of those singing “Palestine is Arab” in Arabic, although it is unclear whether he knew what he was saying. Then, speaking straight to camera, Blower suggests that “Zionism has to go” and that the motion “empowers UK people”. He tells them to “go out and fight” Zionism. Stressing how important this mission is, he says “we cannot have a world with Zionism”, adding that the future of humanity depends on it.

 

This is unhinged, irrational hate, fuelled by ignorance and targeting the only Jewish state in the world. This is what the Green Party has unleashed – and it is their motion the party adopted.

Standing Next to a Jew

This movement evolved within Corbynism, but many of those involved believed Corbyn was too weak. They are more forceful in their antisemitic ideology, more confident in their manner, and now supported by an army of arrogant, cocky young people who truly believe Israelis are the new Nazis. A generation educated through doomscrolling classes on Instagram or TikTok.

“How on earth can we be antisemitic?” they will respond. “The leader of our party is Jewish.”

Finding Jewish outliers to hide behind is standard practice for left-wing antisemitic movements.

History is littered with examples. The early communists created a special group, the Yevsektsiya, for just this purpose. The Soviets did it again in 1983, creating the Anti-Zionist Committee and placing Jewish figures at its forefront to deflect accusations of antisemitism.

The Soviet propaganda statement that accompanied the 1983 launch stated that Zionism “concentrates in itself extreme nationalism, chauvinism and racial intolerance, justification for territorial seizures and annexations, armed adventurism, the cult of political permissiveness and impunity, demagoguery and ideological diversions, filthy maneuvers and perfidy.” It also rejected attempts by Zionists to call their opposition to Zionism “antisemitic.”

That 1983 Soviet propaganda statement is mirrored in the Green Party’s 2026 ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion.

Within ten years of the committee’s formation, the Soviet Union had collapsed, its borders had opened and approximately 1.5 million Jews had escaped, most of them to Israel. So much for the committee’s insistence that there was no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union.

Yet the strategy is still deployed successfully on the left. Corbyn’s inner circle created Jewish Voice for Labour. It is no coincidence that, after Corbyn’s defeat, ‘Jewish Voice for Labour’ changed its name to ‘Jewish Voice for Liberation’ and some of its founders became Green Party members. I saw JVL executive member Jonathan Rosenhead at the conference. In the video below, Mike Cushman, a JVL founder and now a member of ‘Jewish Greens’, talks about how happy he is that the motion passed:

 

This is always how it is done: find fringe members of the Jewish community and use them as cover.

Andy Burnham, knowing he was going to swing left to chase the Islamist vote, deployed Ed Miliband in the Foreign Office to make criticism of his anti-Israel policies more difficult. The Green Party chose Zack Polanski.

Once that protection is in place, fringe anti-Zionist groups form around the larger movement to reinforce it:

For Jews, the strategy is transparent. They know most of these token Jews already have one foot, if not both, outside the community. But non-Jews are left scratching their heads, and this confusion helps to blunt the voices of Jews who speak out in opposition. After all, how can a movement be antisemitic if Jews are there defending it?

Someone should ask the 1.5 million Jews who fled the Soviet Union.

The antisemites have invaded and occupied the Green Party.

I am unsure whether the Green Party has the numbers or the energy to oust them.

When Sunday arrived, I could not wait to get home.

 

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