Mothin Ali

So, and, you know, the same goes certainly for one of the deputy leaders, Rachel Millwood.

Mothin Ali was actually on the other side and supported the motion and I'm not clear if he argued for it in advance or not.

But I think essentially, you know, these leaders ran away from the debate and It's a merit of the Green Party that policy is not set by leaders.

They cannot impose their will, as for instance is often the case in our Labour Party.

So this has been going on for a long time.

There's also the figure of Mothin Ali, who has attracted a fair amount of controversy, let's put it first of all, for chanting Allahu Akbar at his count in Leeds when he became a councillor there.

Also, it was later unearthed that on October the 8th, 2023, pogroms in Israel still essentially going on, puts out videos on social media saying that the Palestinians have a right to resist the occupying forces.

There was also this horrific scandal in Leeds where he led what I think is fair to say kind of online hate campaign against a local Leeds chaplain at the university who was an IDF reservist, was called up to serve in the wake of October the 7th.

Mothin Ali and others were essentially calling for him to be sacked.

Ali called him an animal.

He suggested baselessly that he was going to Gaza to target and kill women and children.

And as a consequence of that, when this rabbi, Zachariah Deutsch, returns from his service, he's bombarded with death threats.

So this has been going on for a long time.

There's also the figure of Mothin Ali, who has attracted a fair amount of controversy, let's put it.

First of all, for chanting Allahu Akbar is count in Leeds when he became a councillor.

Also, it was later unearthed that on October the 8th, 2023, pogroms in Israel still essentially going on, puts out videos on social media saying that the Palestinians have a right to resist the occupying forces.

There was also this horrific scandal in Leeds where he led, I think it's fair to say, an online hate campaign against a local Leeds chaplain at the university who was an IDF reservist, was called up to serve in the wake of October the 7th.

Mothin Ali and others were essentially calling for him to be sacked.

Ali called him an animal.

He suggested baselessly that he was going to Gaza to target and kill women.

And this was supported in spite of attacks, um, and attempts to undermine it by some who issued statements against it just the night before and spoke against it.

But I would like may, to make very clear actually, we have our Honorable Deputy Mothin who, who did stand up and support it.

So I won't say it was all of them.

There were-

Deputy leader of the Green Party, Mothin Ali.

Yes.

Yeah.

There is, I suppose the most likely outcome if he did go is that he would just step down voluntarily.

Uh, and then it would be very interesting to see what happened, because I think Mothin Ali would be the favorite to win, and obviously, uh, I mean, he is emblematic of the sort of Gaza-obsessed wing of the Green Party.

And it, uh, given the antecedents of the Green Party, it is quite incredible that, uh, the environment seems to play not just a secondary role, but a th- a third, whatever the third w- word is

isBut it's tragic.

We mentioned the Greens.

Um, [scoffs] what can we say? Here's their deputy leader, Mothin Ali.

We will not be silent.

We will raise the voice of Gaza.

Allahu Akbar.

Allahu Akbar.

So Mothin Ali wins a council seat in Leeds, and he dedicates it to Gaza, and he roars Allahu Akbar under a Palestinian flag.

Wow.

Because as we all know, that's the sort of position that he has held.

And I suppose given now that there's a lot of questions about what happens next, is Zac Polanski going to remain in his position? Is he gonna be deposed? It is worth remembering what the alternative to Zac Polanski at the top of the Green Party looks like, 'cause it comes in the form, and I believe we've got a clip of this as well, of someone like Mothin Ali, the co-deputy leader, he was making his points about Zionism at the conference.

Think we've got that as well.

The Zionism is racism motion has dominated this conference.

This is the other thing

... uh, the Israeli-

Mothin Ali, and maybe we can sort of let that trail off there, but Mothin Ali is also one where he's presented certainly by the Green faithful as a very cuddly character, and even there he's trying to put up a slightly softer face.

It's complete nonsense.