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The Owen Jones Podcast

They’re SMEARING Zack Polanski. Here’s Why.

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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0:00.0

It is beyond disturbing what's currently going on and it exposes big questions about British democracy.

0:06.0

There is a transparent smear campaign being waged by the British media and the political establishment,

0:12.0

the Uni Party, if you will, against the Green Party and its leader Zach Polanski.

0:17.0

We'll talk about why that is, but let's go through it. Let's start with Zach Polanski on Sky News, hosted by Trevor Phillips, who was best man at Peter Mandelson's wedding, and who was previously suspended by Labour over Islamophobia before being readmitted to the party under Kyr Starmer.

0:36.6

We'll talk more about this, but let's just watch the clip.

0:39.7

The person who is conflating anti-Semitism

0:42.5

in the racist of Israeli government is Benjamin Netanyahu.

0:45.2

No, no, no, no, let's not get onto that.

0:47.6

I asked you about the feelings of the Jewish community in this country.

0:53.8

Of which I'm one of them.

0:55.0

Almost nothing to do with what you just started to go on to.

0:59.0

And you seem still unsure whether you believe Jews in Britain are unsafe,

1:06.0

or whether you think actually it's not as bad as some people are making it out?

1:13.8

That's not what I said at all, and that's not what I said last week.

1:17.7

I said there are people who are unsafe, Jewish people, and that's clearly true.

1:21.6

There are also people who feel like the marches are hate marches.

1:26.6

I'm saying as a Jewish person who marches with many Jewish people against the occupation in Palestine, when people say that makes them feel unsafe, that's a distortion of what the marches. As I repeat, as a Jewish person, I march with many Jewish people on those marches. Now, there are already laws to deal with. But you're not all Jews. I'm just saying that currently the policy is... But why is my Jewish identity being erased from this conversation? No, I'm not erasing it.

1:45.0

I'm so many people on those markets.

1:47.0

Don't try that one on me.

1:48.0

My point is that currently the policy is that if somebody believes that an incident is a hate crime,

1:57.0

whether they are a victim or not, it is recorded as such by the police. It is regarded as

2:03.2

such by the courts. What you are saying is because you don't think it's a hate crime, it shouldn't be.

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