A suspended Green Party candidate who was arrested on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred will still be on the ballot paper for the party at the upcoming local elections.
The Telegraph revealed that Sabine Mairey, who is standing in south London, had been arrested by the Metropolitan Police on Thursday after allegedly posting anti-Semitic comments online.
A post allegedly shared by Ms Mairey included a picture of a man holding a placard that read “ramming a synagogue isn’t anti-Semitism, it’s revenge” above a picture of two children that it said had been “murdered by Israel”.
The label “anti-Semitic” doesn’t really cover that. It’s promoting violence, which is a big step beyond being anti something.
The post also appeared to suggest that Israel was worse than Nazi Germany, with a photo of Auschwitz that said the Nazis “had to hide what they were doing”.
Is there an Israeli equivalent of Auschwitz? If there were surely we would have heard about it.
Three days after her arrest, Ms Mairey was seen campaigning alongside Green activists in Clapham, south-west London. The Green Party was also distributing newly printed leaflets featuring Ms Mairey to residents at the weekend.
Ms Mairey was arrested last week alongside Saiqa Ali, a fellow Green candidate who was standing in Streatham. She has also been suspended from the Greens.
Zack Polanski, the Green Party leader, told the BBC on Sunday that while it was “impossible to withdraw” candidates at this stage, he would tell voters not to support them.
Mr Polanski, who had overseen a surge in party support since his election last year, has seen his own popularity plummet following his response to the Golders Green attack.
He reposted a message on X criticising the police’s arrest of the man suspected of stabbing two Jewish men last week. He later apologised for sharing the post “in haste”.
Hmm. He was in too much of a hurry to grasp why the police would arrest a man suspected of stabbing two Jewish men? Why the rush?
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