The Green Party is backing candidates with “no place in British politics”, the Board of Deputies of British Jews has said, after a social media post emerged that claimed “it takes serious effort” not to be an antisemite. Other messages from Green candidates found by The Times spread pro-Putin conspiracy theories and implied the victims of the October 7 attack on Israel were “not ‘innocent’”. Green officials have struggled to vet their more than 4,500 candidates for the May local elections. Last week the party said it was investing in tighter background checks after a councillor was found to have...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
