Green Party leader Zack Polanski condemns 'vile antisemitic caricature' in The Times
Green Party leader Zack Polanski condemns 'vile antisemitic caricature' in The Times
Green Party leader Zack Polanski condemns 'vile antisemitic caricature' in The Times
Spokesperson for party accuses 'media and politicians' of mounting 'further attacks towards Zack in the wake of a violent attack on his community'
The Green Party said it has submitted a complaint to The Times editor Tony Gallagher over the caricature, which it said displays "tropes so clearly associated with antisemitic depictions of Jewish people".
It said in a statement that it was "astonishing" given the "rising climate of antisemitism in the UK" that a "national newspaper has chosen to publish a cartoon of the only Jewish political leader in the country using tropes so clearly associated with antisemitic depictions of Jewish people".
The cartoon shows Polanski with a hooked nose, kicking police officers who are arresting Essa Suleiman, a 45-year-old Somali-born British national accused of stabbing two Jewish men in Golders Green, a neighbourhood of northwest London with a large Jewish population. Suleiman is also accused of attempting to murder Ishmail Hussein, a Muslim man he had known for about 20 years, earlier that day.