DAN HODGES writes an opinion piece criticizing Zack Polanski, the leader of the UK Green Party, for his perceived inaction during a conference where anti-Semitic motions were passed. The article highlights that while Jewish delegates faced hostility at the conference, including the need for a "safe room," Polanski was campaigning elsewhere and did not address the issues directly. Hodges argues that this event marks a significant decline for the Green Party, which previously had an honorable tradition but is now viewed as embracing extremism.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-06,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
It may take a few months.
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But some time very, very soon Zack Polanski, current leader of the Green Party, will find himself consigned to the history books.
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himself → find → books
He will not merit his own chapter.
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But he will merit a footnote.
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And it will recall the following: That he was a coward, a charlatan, an egotist and a poseur, who led his party into political oblivion.
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who → recall → oblivion
Actually, he didn’t lead them at all.
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he → lead → them
He sat back, supine, while a group of naive – but well-intentioned – environmentalists were devoured by a hard-Left monster of his own creation.
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group → sit → creation
The Green Party of the United Kingdom has a long, guileless, but broadly honourable tradition.
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Party → have → tradition
In the 2010 election they won their first parliamentary seat when Caroline Lucas triumphed in Brighton Pavilion.
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Lucas → win → Pavilion
They once even secured the vote of a young commodities trader called Nigel Farage.
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And two days ago, they burnt everything down.
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With the world watching their conference for the first time in decades, Green delegates opted not to present the face of modern progressive environmentalism but instead embrace the face of scowling anti-Semitism.
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delegates → watch → Semitism
A motion stating it was racist to support the existence of the state of Israel was passed with cheers.
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it → state → cheers
Some time very, very soon Zack Polanski, current leader of the Green Party, will find himself consigned to the history books
A second motion, aimed at protecting Jewish members who attended synagogues, was defeated by 1,026 votes to 684.
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As the ballots were cast it emerged that the conference organisers had been forced to arrange a ‘safe room’ for Jewish delegates.
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organisers → cast → delegates
And while all this was occurring, this political pogrom against those whose only crime is wanting a single sanctuary for global Jewry, where was the Green party’s leader?
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leader → occur → Jewry
He ran away.
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As his MPs and senior leadership were fighting, and failing, to turn back the anti-Semitic tide, Polanski was in Camden.
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Polanski → fight → Camden
We know this, because he posted a tweet.
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As those who opposed Jews attending their place of worship without persecution were storming over the barricades, he tweeted ‘Amazing to be out on the doorsteps of Holborn & St Pancras for our final Sunday!
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Just 4 days until people vote on Thursday!’
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people → vote → Thursday
He was referencing the by-election in Keir Starmer’s former constituency.
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Which, thanks to Polanski’s spinelessness, is no longer a mere parliamentary contest but has become a referendum of whether Jews have a right to exist free from oppression in the United Kingdom.
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Jews → become → Kingdom
But in this he deserves credit.
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He was effective in driving out the anti-Semitic flotsam and jetsam that was choking Labour.
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that → drive → Labour
And now we can all see where it has washed up.
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it → see → ?
Zack Polanski had a choice.
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He could have defended his own party, stayed true to its principled stance on progressive environmentalism, and told the hard-Left carpetbaggers to take a hike.
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But he didn’t.
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His ego, his vanity and his lust for attention and power blinded him to the threat bearing down on his party.
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ego → blind → party
Like the ancient Trojans, he threw open his gates to the Corbynite horse.
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And has been consumed as its ideological warriors pour forth from its base.
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Polanski likes to frame himself as an edgy revolutionary.
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He’s a child.
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A political dilettante, who as a passionate Liberal Democrat once heckled Jeremy Corbyn for his ‘passivity and ambivalence for Europe’.
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who → heckle → Europe
I met him once, in the hours after the Gorton and Denton by-election, in which the Green Party’s candidate, plumber Hannah Spencer, won a majority of 4,400.
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candidate → meet → 4,400
I attempted to politely proffer my congratulations on his party’s stunning victory.
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He jumped away like a rabbit caught in the headlights of an approaching SUV.
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Green delegates opted not to present the face of modern progressive environmentalism but instead embrace the face of scowling anti-Semitism
When he was growing up, I suspect the Greens’ absent leader had a poster of Che Guevara on his wall.
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But the famed Marxist at least was prepared to fatefully go toe to toe with his pursuers on that dusty Bolivian hillside.
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…and 30 more, not listed.
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