A GP below investigation after making anti-Israel social media posts is amongst these behind the Green Party’s controversial ‘Zionism is racism’ movement, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Rebecca Jones, elected as a celebration councillor in Might in Lewisham, south-east London, is one in all 745 ‘supporters’ of the coverage, proposed by Inexperienced member Lubna Speitan.
The movement was handed by 1,022 votes, with 813 towards, on the occasion’s annual convention earlier this month, making it occasion coverage.
It defines Zionism as an ideology supporting ‘an ethnonationalist Jewish state’, and backs ‘a single democratic Palestinian state in all of historic Palestine’, together with modern-day Israel.
Dr Jones, also called ‘The Vegan Physician’, who signed the movement, is dealing with disciplinary proceedings over social media posts, together with one saying, ‘Burn Zionism to the bottom’, with a picture of a burning Israeli flag.
The GP has additionally referred to as Bob Vylan, the punk duo who brought on widespread controversy after chanting ‘loss of life to the IDF’ at Glastonbury Festival final yr, her ‘new favorite band’.
Dr Jones described a studying of the supposed final will and testomony of former Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of the October 7 assaults on Israel, as ‘so lovely’.
The Normal Medical Council, which she has informed her almost 20,000 followers is making an attempt to ‘censor and silence docs’, opened the health to practise investigation in June.
‘It was as a result of I converse up towards genocide and apartheid in Palestine,’ Dr Jones wrote.
When approached for remark, she informed the Mail: ‘Anti-Zionist views represent a protected philosophical perception below the Equality Act 2010… Zionism can legitimately be considered as inherently racist, imperialist and colonial. Supporting Palestinian liberation is each ethical and simply.’
Rebecca Jones, a Inexperienced Get together councillor in south-east London, is the topic of a health to practise investigation by the Normal Medical Council
Additionally among the many signatories are two of six members of Palestine Motion concerned in a foiled plot to break an Israeli drone manufacturing facility in Shenstone, Staffordshire, in March 2021.
Jeremy Parker was discovered responsible of possessing an article with the intent to destroy property – however was spared jail and handed a 12-month jail sentence, suspended for 2 years.
He was additionally ordered to finish 20 rehabilitation days and 150 hours of unpaid work, following a trial at Wolverhampton Crown Courtroom in September 2023.
Parker informed The Mail on Sunday: ‘I’m proud to help actions that work to reinforce justice on this planet.
‘I reject all types of racism, together with Islamophobia and anti-Semitism, and I imagine in the suitable of the Palestinians to self-determination.’
The jury failed to succeed in a verdict on his co-defendant Helen Caney.
She was later re-tried and located responsible of getting articles with intent to destroy or harm property in January 2024 – however spared jail, with a nine-month sentence suspended for 2 years.
The pair had been a part of a gaggle which the choose mentioned would have dedicated greater than £30,000 of legal harm on the web site owned by arms firm Elbit Techniques.
Caney responded to The Mail on Sunday with virtually precisely the identical assertion as that of Dr Jones.
Others listed as supporters of the controversial movement embody Hau-Yu Tam, the deputy chief of Lewisham Council, management of which was received by the Greens at native elections in Might.
She has beforehand confronted a backlash for calling Labour MP David Lammy and the Conservatives’ Priti Patel ‘coconuts’ earlier than apologising.
Ms Tam, who defected from Labour in 2025, additionally as soon as retweeted posts calling Zionism ‘pure evil’, and insisting it ‘have to be abolished’ – in addition to others earlier than claiming it’s ‘unquestionably the Nazism of our time’.
She was later cleared of a conduct grievance by a council investigation.
She additionally as soon as expressed help for a authorized bid to have Hamas, a proscribed organisation, taken off the phobia checklist, saying she was ‘extraordinarily proud’ of a lawyer appearing on its behalf.
Ms Tam is joined on the checklist of backers of the movement by Patrick Thelwell, who was spared jail for throwing 5 eggs at King Charles and Queen Camilla on a go to to unveil a statue of the late Queen Elizabeth II in November 2022.
Thelwell, then 23, was handed a 12-month neighborhood order with 100 hours of unpaid work and ordered to pay prices of £600 and a £114 surcharge at a fee of £5 per week.
He now works as an ‘ecological gardener’, ‘filmmaker’ and ‘Inexperienced Get together activist’, sharing posts together with his greater than 7,000 Instagram followers, and proclaiming in his bio, ‘I egg kings’.
Thelwell informed the MoS: ‘It’s now Inexperienced coverage that we help the institution of 1 democratic Palestinian state with human rights for all folks. We should proudly defend this place.’
The ‘Zionism is racism’ movement is dealing with mounting backlash, with Inexperienced chief Zack Polanski, who has now been banned from Israel, admitting he doesn’t help its present type.
4 out of the 5 Inexperienced MPs have additionally opposed it – as has Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who dominated out a coalition with the Greens following the movement, calling it ‘improper’ and ‘anti-Semitic’.
Labour additionally warned on Thursday it may scrap power-sharing offers with the occasion on native councils in almost 20 areas amid the disaster – and gave councillors per week to reply.
Ms Tam, Ms Speitan and the Inexperienced Get together have been contacted for remark.
