Zack Polanski Smeared As “Hitler” For OPPOSING Genocide
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🗓️ 24 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | The Green Party leader, Zach Polanski, is being smeared over his opposition to Israel's genocide, |
| 0:05.3 | by former Tory Cabinet Minister Michael Gove, and by the Daily Mail columnist Sarah Vine. |
| 0:11.7 | And this really is just gross, really vile. |
| 0:14.7 | The only Jewish party leader in Britain, one of only five Jewish party leaders in our history, |
| 0:22.8 | has been compared to Adolf Hitler by one daily male columnist. We'll come on to that. And the former Tory cabinet |
| 0:28.4 | minister Michael Gove has accused him of exploiting prejudice against Jewish people in order to |
| 0:34.4 | win an election. These absolutely vile attacks, and they must, will be confronted. |
| 0:39.8 | It comes after Zach Polanski shared an article from the right-wing pro-Israel newspaper, |
| 0:44.1 | The Daily Mail, headlined, Israel condemns hateful and racist greens. |
| 0:48.8 | Well, there is no better compliment than being smeared as hateful and racist by the Israeli state. |
| 0:54.0 | Every accusation being a confession, |
| 0:57.6 | this being a really striking example. I mean, the Israeli state, which is so hateful and racist, |
| 1:02.3 | it is committed genocide against the Palestinian people, which is the most racist and hateful act as possible to commit. |
| 1:08.9 | Now, Zach Polanski shared the headline with the comment, |
| 1:11.6 | for years we've seen an ongoing genocide. |
| 1:14.5 | It's been backed by Wrightwood Papers, the US president, |
| 1:17.5 | and by this Labour government. |
| 1:19.3 | Enter stage right, Michael Gove, |
| 1:21.6 | who served as a cabinet minister |
| 1:22.9 | throughout the 14 catastrophic years of Tory rule, |
| 1:26.7 | which left this country ruined. He was in the cabinet which, for the first nine months of Tory rule, which left this country ruined. |
| 1:28.6 | He was in the cabinet which for the first nine months of Israel's genocide, armed and backed |
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