Skip to playerSkip to main content
  • 3 minutes ago
Green Party leader Zack Polanski criticises the government's response to the antisemitic attacks that have taken place in the UK in recent months, saying "it's outrageous to see the Labour government in Westminster politicising this attack against the Jewish", accusing them of "selling arms and sharing intelligence with Israel". Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Transcript
00:00What I'm being very specific about is an arson attack is clearly a group of people being unsafe.
00:06That's an attack.
00:07At the same time, we've got groups like the Reform Party who put out a picture of me online
00:11where I'm dressed as a Nazi, an artificial intelligence picture.
00:15That makes me feel unsafe. That's very different to actually being unsafe.
00:19So what I'm talking about, and it's easy to clarify,
00:22is there are experiences of physical harm to people or to buildings.
00:25That's unsafety.
00:26And then there's a general feeling around Jewish communities right now,
00:29of which I'm a person in a Jewish community,
00:32a perception of unsafety because of a rising rhetoric that's happening towards Jewish people.
00:38Putting all of that aside, I think it's outrageous to see the Labour government in Westminster
00:44who are often politicising this attack against the Jewish person.
00:48I've been very clear, as have the Scottish Greens,
00:50that what we're seeing in Israel for the past few years is an ongoing genocide.
00:53And we have a Westminster government that's been selling arms and sharing intelligence with Israel.
00:58That's very different to anti-Semitism.
01:00And I know that you're better at this in Scotland,
01:02but being really clear about the difference between anti-Semitism
01:05and legitimate criticism of the Israeli government.
Comments

Recommended