Meet Three of the Green Party Hopefuls

The Green Party in the U.K. is running candidates for councillors all over the country, and sad to say, a Tory psephologist predicts the Greens will gain 500 more councillor positions than it currently possesses. These candidates are a wretched group of far-left lunatics and antisemites (anti-Israel division), and if you are a British voter, you need to fully inform yourself about them. You can find out more about them here: “An anti-Semitic terrorist was a ‘martyr’, the October 7 attack was a ‘false flag’ and Israel is a colony of ‘rapists’… say the Green Party hopefuls running for election,” by Tom Kelly and Natalie Lisbona, Daily Mail, April 30, 2026:

Their job has been to nurture and educate the next generation. But now they are cultivating their own political ambitions by standing in the local elections – prompting alarm over their views and fears for the young people they are influencing.

A Daily Mail investigation has discovered that a primary school governor, secondary school teacher and recently retired university professor who are all Green party candidates in next week’s polls, face accusations of ‘gross anti-Semitism’.

They have posted or shared shocking images on social media variously including claims that the October 7 atrocities were either a ‘false flag’ [a covert Israeli operation] or self-defence on the part of the perpetrators and that a terrorist who stabbed two Jews to death in 2016 was a ‘martyr’.

As Kemi Badenoch warned of an ‘epidemic’ of anti-Semitic attacks after this week’s Golders Green knife rampage, major questions are being raised over the decision to select these prospective councillors in an election in which the Greens are expected to make substantial inroads.

The latest poll from Lord Hayward, the Tory peer and election expert, predicts that the Greens will gain 500 councillors next week.

Lord Polak, the peer who led Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) for 25 years, told the Daily Mail: ‘Either the Green Party has not done any due diligence on their candidates – or if they have, then the people of Britain should have no doubt about the abhorrent views of individuals who are endorsed by and are representing the Green Party.’

This comes as the Greens’ leader is criticised for retweeting a post on X, suggesting the policemen who disarmed the terror suspect in the Golders Green attack after he stabbed two Jews had been too heavy-handed – ‘repeatedly and violently kicking a mentally ill man in the head’.

Ms Ifhat Shaheen is a Green candidate in Stoke Newington, north London. She has pledged that if elected she will put ‘kindness at the forefront of decision making’

A Green Party spokesman said: ‘Where there are examples brought to our attention that do not fit in with the views of the Green Party, we are looking into them.’

So who are the educators whose views will offend so many?

Primary school governor, ‘parent advocate’ and board member at her local Sure Start [a government initiative to help the development of children under five], Ms Ifhat Shaheen is a Green candidate in Stoke Newington, north London.

She has pledged that if elected she will put ‘kindness at the forefront of decision making’ and ensure ‘compassion permeates every aspect of support for residents’.

So “kindness” is her watchword, her talisman, her goal.

Her social media suggests a very different story. On the day of Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, Shaheen – using an account in the name Ifhat Smith – defended the ongoing killing of almost 1,200 people, the rape of women and the kidnapping of 240 civilians, as Palestinians trying to ‘defend themselves’….

Lambeth Green Party candidate Mark Bittlestone, a privately educated Cambridge graduate who now teaches history to sixth formers at a South London school, has reposted material suggesting the October 7 atrocities were a covert ‘false flag’ attack.

Bittlestone, a part-time comedian, has also shared other individuals’ posts describing Israel as a ‘colony of inbreds, rapists and thieves’.

“Inbreds, rapists, and thieves”? C’mon, Mr. Bittlestone, tell us what you really think. And while you are on the stump, how about giving us a sample of your comedy? I’m told you are a zany laff riot.

He [Bittlestone] has also reposted claims that Israel should be invaded as it has no right to exist and that Labour’s lack of criticism for it is a ‘silence bought by donations’….

Israel has “no right to exist” and ought to be “invaded”? Yes, that’s exactly what Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and ISIS all think. Bittleston is in the same ghastly galère, but apparently that doesn’t bother him.

Recently retired Professor Kamel Hawwash spent over 36 years teaching civil engineering at Birmingham University where he says he interacted with ‘thousands of students and staff’.

Now he is standing as the Green Party’s candidate for Stirchley in Britain’s second city.

But in 2024, while still lecturing students – commenting on a news story about an Israeli strike in Lebanon that killed children – he claimed on Twitter that Israel slaughtered civilians to ‘demonstrate Jewish supremacy fed by Zionism’.

At the time of the October 7 attacks he described the atrocities as an ‘operation’, adding ‘occupied people have the right to resist the occupation’.

What “occupation”can he possibly mean? Every last Israeli left Gaza in 2005. Gaza has not been “occupied” for more than 20 years. And as for that “right to resist,” remember that the “resistance” he is referring to consisted of the torture, mass rape, mutilation, and murder of Israelis, mostly civilians. He is referring to the family members tied together with wire and burned alive, the babies who were beaten to death, the girls subject to multiple rapes who then had their vaginas repeatedly stabbed, the women who had their breasts sliced off before they were killed, the men who had their genitals cut off and their eyes gouged out, again while they were still alive. That’s Bittlestone’s “resistance.”

In 2016 he described Islamic Jihad terrorist Mohand Halabi, who was shot dead by police after knifing two Israeli men to death and injuring a woman and toddler, as a ‘martyr’ carrying out an ‘act of revenge’….

At the time, Prof Hawwash told the Daily Mail he was using Halabi as an example to show that, if there was to be any way to find peace, people needed to understand the wider context and what drove him to carry out the attack.

He said he did not ‘condone or approve of actions like his, which resulted in the death of innocent civilians.’

More lying. Of course he approved of what Mohand Halabi did, stabbing two Israeli civilians to death, and wounding a woman and a small child. Hawwash called him a “martyr.”

The Green Party is supposed to be all about saving the planet from climate change. The word “Green” bespeaks environmentalism. But it turns out what most interests many of its members, including its leader, Zack Polanski, who is both Jewish and anti-Israel, is the continued existence of Israel, the tiny Jewish state that refuses to lie down and die but keeps fighting, and winning.