Overview
- Addressing foreign media in London, Zack Polanski said Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s “special relationship” with President Donald Trump is more dangerous for Britons than Vladimir Putin’s actions in Ukraine.
- He contrasted Vladimir Putin with Donald Trump, saying he had never seen Putin threaten genocide and accusing Trump of vowing to wipe out a civilization, while faulting Starmer for not condemning recent US threats against Iran.
- In a New Statesman interview, he said he had apologised to Jeremy Corbyn and, with hindsight, would have supported him, arguing that some antisemitism claims conflated criticism of Israel with bigotry.
- Labour chair Anna Turley condemned his stance and cited the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s finding that Labour under Corbyn broke equality law in its handling of antisemitism.
- The remarks, reported via Haaretz and picked up by UK outlets, land as polling points to Green gains in May’s local elections and as Polanski’s calls to quit NATO and remove US forces from UK bases draw fresh scrutiny.