According to the grassroots community organisation — Hastings and Bexhill Stand Up to Racism (SUTR) — a small group of Reform supporters rocked up to a Green Party rally led by Zack Polanski on 30 April in Hastings to stir trouble. One of them performed three Nazi salutes while others did nothing to stop him.
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The SUTR branch said that Reform has repeatedly shown who they are and that people should believe them.
Hastings Green Party posted a picture of Polanski saying:
Zack smashed it despite a very small number of shouty Reform voters. Proud of our town
Right-wing media’s silence on the incident with Polanski
Britain’s hostile right-wing press, which went after Polanski when he was the target of Nazi salutes, is silent when it comes to this blatant expression of antisemitism by Reform fanboys.
Right-wing TalkTV host, Julia Hartley-Brewer and Telegraph columnist, JakeWallis-Simonshad nothing to say. Both incendiary media personalities claim to champion the rights of Jewish people and have repeatedly used their platform to denounce antisemitism — why the silence now — or is such reporting a quid-pro-quo arrangement.
Their silence, when it concerns Zack Polanksi is deafening, exposing a clear double standard which we’ve repeatedly reported on at the Canary.
As we head into local elections where the Green Party could gain as many as 555, Polanski’s rise threatens the two-party duopoly responsible for corporate state capture, austerity, warmongering, and neoliberal policies punishing the most vulnerable in society. Might this explain MSM’s silence?
If the tables were turned and a Green Party supporter had performed a Nazi salute, it would be headline news.
The same commentators would have elevated their voices and harnessed their platforms to condemn the act. This of course doesn’t apply to the Greens.
This silence sends a clear message. Reform Nazi thugs can “carry on” so long as it serves to punish the Greens and Zack Polanski.
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