Why Jews fear Zack Polanski
The article expresses concern that the Green Party, under Zack Polanski's leadership, has shifted from a marginal environmental movement to a politically ambitious force with troubling undercurrents. It suggests that Polanski's Jewish background is used to deflect accusations of antisemitism within the party, despite alleged anti-Jewish sentiment. The author frames this transformation as a longer-term threat due to the Greens' youthful base and growing influence.
- ▪The Green Party is portrayed as having evolved from a benign activist group into a more menacing political force under Zack Polanski.
- ▪Polanski, a Jewish leader, is accused of enabling antisemitism by allowing the party to claim it cannot be antisemitic because its leader is Jewish.
- ▪The article claims the Greens have become intensely focused on Gaza to the point of obsession, contributing to a climate of hostility toward Jews.
- ▪The author questions Polanski’s name change from David Paulden to Zack Polanski, implying it reflects a disingenuous personal reinvention.
- ▪It contrasts the Greens with other opposition groups, arguing their youth and ideological appeal make them a more enduring threat than older, more transparently xenophobic movements.
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Why Jews fear Zack Polanski The Greens present a deceptively benign countenance The time is out of joint. (Guy Smallman/Getty) The time is out of joint. (Guy Smallman/Getty) golders greenhamletThe Green PartyZack Polanski Howard Jacobson May 2 2026 - 12:30am 5 mins Indulge me a fantasy:– Early morning. The battlements. Deprived of sleep, the once Director of Public Prosecutions, now mere Prime Minister, steps out in dread and smells the air. A cold Elsinore-like wind blows in, ruffling the laundered lace collar of his hero shirt. He speaks, knowing no one is listening. ‘The time is out of joint. O, cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right.’ He has my sympathies. Compare the calamitous disorder confronting Hamlet and Keir Starmer and we have to say Hamlet had it easy.
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