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A UK Green Party candidate, Tina Ion, posted that “every single Zionist” should be killed from a Threads account using the handle “thereal.anne.frank,” intensifying scrutiny over antisemitism within the party.
Ion, a Green Party candidate in Newcastle, used the account to describe Zionists as “vermin” and “rats.” She also posted an image of an industrial shredding machine labeled a “Zionist juicer.”
In another post, she referred to “Jewish Nazis” as “money grubbing thieves” who had accumulated wealth “over centuries.”
The account used a profile image depicting Anne Frank wearing a keffiyeh, which Ion said she chose “because Ann Frank wearing a keffieh pisses Zionists off.”
Green Party lawmakers condemned the posts in a joint statement issued Friday. They said they were “appalled by the racist material written and shared by Tina Ion.”
Ion later rejected the antisemitism allegations, claiming that “isolated fragments” of her statements were used to distort her views. She argued that her criticism targeted Zionism and Israeli policy, not Jews. However, she acknowledged using “dehumanizing language.”
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism classifies denying the Jewish people’s right to self-determination and invoking Holocaust imagery against Jews as contemporary antisemitism.
The controversy follows police scrutiny of two other Green Party candidates, Sabine Mairey and Saiqa Ali. Both are running for seats in London’s Lambeth borough. Metropolitan Police detained them Thursday on suspicion of inciting racial hatred online.
Mairey reportedly shared a post describing a ramming attack on a synagogue as “revenge.” Ali allegedly posted an image of an armed man wearing a Hamas headband with the slogan “Resistance is freedom.” She also shared additional posts, later deleted, blaming Israel for the September 11th attacks.
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