UK Green Party Leader Zack Polanski branded Israel’s actions in Gaza “genocide” and criticized Keir Starmer’s proscription of Palestine Action as an attack on freedom as he sought to challenge the UK prime minister’s Labour Party from the left.
Speaking at his party’s annual conference a day after a terror attack on a synagogue in Manchester left two people dead, the 42-year-old Polanski, who grew up in a Jewish family in Manchester, said his “heart is with the community” in the wake of the assault, committed by a British citizen of Syrian descent.