I sometimes feel compelled to look at the Jewish Chronicle website and am rewarded with some of the most outstandingly deranged political opinions ever committed to print.

Have a lot of bad stuff to say about Starmer and his politics around antisemitism - but he is not at the vanguard of the countries neoNazi resurgence, like Trump is.

We have choices to make. Do we invest in our communities and people who live across the country? Or do we provide tax breaks & subsides to billionaires? The Green Party will always push the right choice. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"use the full length of the platform" is not an instruction you can personally put into practice, unless you are an anaconda, in which case you should not be on the piccadilly line for other reasons

Again @greenparty.org.uk I beg.

This guy was professor of sociology at the University of Bristol as recently as 2021, and before that (up to 2018) was professor of sociology at the University of Bath.

This seems reasonable. However, even if there was not an explanation and apology - it would still have been right to free him from detention without trial. Human rights also apply to people we think are bad. That's why they are universal.

Gaining six points on reform feels eminently plausible.

Really pleased to be a signatory of this letter with some other outstanding Jewish studies scholars

The idea that minority groups are a fifth column that hates our way of life is the sort of rhetoric that inspires mass shootings.

As a serious answer - everything the current board leader do is shaped by a small circle of twitter people. They beef with leftists on twitter as a hobby and issue statements as a way of winning twitter beef. They are not interested in Farage because Faragists aren't in their twitter circle.

Questionable headline aside, Verdant is a welcome development. The Green Party has a bold, ambitious programme for the progressive left-wing economics our country needs - it is right that we ensure our platform is credible and achievable. I look forward to seeing Verdant's work. archive.ph/TILpN

BBC journalists keep on writing articles which play up reform's support from young voters with literally no statistical basis and that's good news for reform

Thankyou for having me!

Stephen Pollard misses the point. Farage's schoolboy antisemitism and fascism would be insignificant if he repudiated it, or if he felt contrition. But instead he lies about them in the face of overwhelming evidence or hides behind 'banter'. It's significant because he's still that schoolboy.

'urged to explain'?? Should be 'called out', 'criticised' or even 'causes outrage'. The explanation is quite simple - he's a bigoted antisemite who thinks nothing of voicing these once-unconscionable views to whip up support, knowing he won't get any pushback from the 'establishment' 🤷🏻‍♀️

this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself it is also free to read youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...

I say this as an expert in Jewish history, someone who has written about Holocaust memory, someone who has worked at HMD every year in the last 6: There is no point in holocaust memorial culture if the taboo against comparison is so strong we can't learn from this history.

My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard. damn right they're auditors. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

As a member of the Green Party's policy development committee I want to congratulate Darren and the Labour Party for having some extremely well worked out and deliverable policies like 'make the country gradually worse' and 'xenophobia'. If only the Greens could be so practical!

Massive congratulation to legendary Africanist political theorist Mahmood Mandami. I believe his son won some sort of election

David Miller sharing David Clews of UNN / Patriotic Alternative again. One of the chief spreaders of hate and lies about Southport.

I want to vote Labour. I really do. They are my people. I prevaricate over basic moral issues every week. But the fact is that under the current electoral system voting Labour would let Reform in. That's why I'm voting tactically Green, like I've done at every election the past 10 years

Jenrick's comment on the burqa are just the latest in an ever-lengthening list of rage-bait statements from the Conservative front-bench aimed at fostering racist divisions in our communities. What women decide to wear is for women to decide – not this or any other man.

If Lam's immigration plan was applied to the 1930s - not only would she set strict limits on Jewish refugees, condemning hundreds of thousands to death (as Britain actually did) but she would seek to deport Jews who settled in Britain.

It should be taboo to state that voluntary organisations that you are part of should do something if you are not prepared to take any part in making it happen.

Fellow Greens - please do sign the below. We didn't have time to debate this emergency motion - on the Yom Kippur murders at a synagogue in Manchester and the arson attach at a mosque in Peacehaven - and I really wish we had.

I wrote this initially about a week before conference. At that time Green Party membership was 72,000. I am now hearing that it's 92000.

This is my neck of the woods. There’s now a gofundme to raise money for the mosque in Peacehaven I just chucked a fiver their way. Maybe others can do the same? gofund.me/4a015baea

This @zackpolanski.bsky.social guy sounds terrible. I've heard people want to hear what he's got to say

Delighted to give @radixuk.bsky.social a preview of some of the big issues that we're going to be thinking about at Green Party conference today.

Great news about Dr Atkinson's excellent thesis — now available to read open access!

Our government must place real material pressure on Israel:

Delighted to see that @martinabrams.bsky.social has joined the Greens. We're clearly now the natural political home of the Jewish left!

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers... I am someone who teaches colonial history and the history of race and have an explicitly left wing perspective on this. Even if I wanted to be - I am not indoctrinating my students. They are already leftists because of society outside of the classroom

Huge thanks to everyone who voted for me in the @greenparty.org.uk Executive elections! Thrilled to carry out another term in the role of Local Party Support Coordinator. It's time to build a movement to stop Farage! ✊

"I am here to offer bold leadership and to fight for a country where no one is left behind." @zackpolanski.bsky.social writing for The Guardian hours after being elected as the new Leader of @greenparty.org.uk www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

jewishgreens.greenparty.org.uk/2025/09/02/j... Our response to the leadership elections - congratulations @zackpolanski.bsky.social! We love you and are very proud.

Proud to have been elected to the Green Party's policy development committee. We need to keep progressive, radical policies which meet the challenges of modern Britain! Can't wait to get started!

Voting in the Green Party leadership election closes at midday tomorrow. Make sure you vote all the way down the ballot - its not just the big glamourous positions like leader, deputy leader and policy development committee that matter!

So there's under 24 hours left in the GPEW elections and I am in almost giddy mood as I get to my last vote, for the five Policy Development Committee positions, for which there are ten candidates -- dominated by men, alas. I will be voting for Fer'ha Syed & Josh Alston & not sure who else. #GPEW

🗳️ right, back to voting in @greenparty.org.uk internal elections, and we’re on the Policy Development Committee! With 5 vacancies, my top votes go to: ✅ Fer’ha Syed; ✅ @joshalston.bsky.social; ✅ Francesco Piscitelli; ✅ Matthew Spoors; and ✅ @rayharding.bsky.social 👍 keep voting folks!

A new wave of liberal Zionist criticism of the Israeli government rings hollow without accountability for the genocide, @simonerzim.bsky.social writes. In this piece, she explores what real teshuva would look like within the Jewish world.

Five of Reform's Kent Councillors took a group photograph at a Maidstone protest including this man who attended draped in the flag of the neo-fascist British Movement www.kentcurrent.news/p/kent-refor...

This is what makes the Green Party's approach different - the question isn't adoption vs. opposition - but thinking about what resources the party might need to make good decisions on the subject.

Updated figures - 400,000 were on Tel Aviv this evening and I hear that the police estimates that across the country 2.5 million Israelis protested throughout the day. That's a lot (Israel has just over 10 million citizens. So a quarter of the citizenry was demonstrating today??)

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Really confused about the 'no-one knew he was planning this' line. Everybody kind of did? You don't actually have to be nostradamus to work out that the incredibly popular deputy leader of a political party might stand for leader.

This is a really good piece about writing good policy in the Green Party. And Josh states clearly how he would help people do that if he were on the Policy Development Committee. Happily, he's standing for one of the places on the PDC, so make sure you vote for him!

I wrote about Green Party policy - and how it could be better bright-green.org/2025/08/15/f...

Josh Alston ‪@joshalston.bsky.social‬ Thanks to @rachelmillward.bsky.social @anist.bsky.social , Ani's pet cat, Thomas Daw and @frankadlingtons.bsky.social @alexmace.bsky.social for attending our faith groups hustings. It was great to hear your answers!