{"id":505101,"date":"2026-03-31T11:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/505101\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:38:11","slug":"bath-mayor-quits-over-false-posts-about-jewish-ambulance-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/505101\/","title":{"rendered":"Bath mayor quits over false posts about Jewish ambulance charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pankhania remains a Banes councillor, although now sits as an independent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They added he had &#8220;again apologised for his interactions on X, and reiterated that he has spent his life working with all communities, whilst acknowledging the hurt he had caused&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The four ambulances were run by community organisation Hatzola &#8211; the Hebrew word for save or rescue &#8211; and were torched in Golders Green in north London on 23 March. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The incident is now being investigated by counter-terror police, with two men currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx235y7v100o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on bail after being arrested in connection with the offences.<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pankhania shared X posts describing the arson attacks as an Israeli false flag operation, and two further posts claiming the incident was an insurance fraud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx29mrr8gv7o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">issued an apology<\/a>, saying the posts &#8220;have never aligned&#8221; with his values and beliefs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pankhania remains a Banes councillor, although now sits as an independent. They added he had &#8220;again apologised for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-505101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}