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Green Party Candidate Apologizes for Controversial Posts

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Clarissa Astor, a Green Party candidate with royal ties, apologizes for controversial pro-Hamas posts, including an antisemitic image of Princess Diana. The backlash highlights a growing issue of antisemitism within the party, with other candidates also facing criticism for their views. The partys leader, Zack Polanski, is under pressure to address the problem ahead of local elections.

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Green Party Candidate Apologizes for Controversial Posts

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UK News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now!Green Party Candidate Apologizes for Controversial Posts. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

0:00On May 2nd, a green-party candidate named Clarissa Astor, who's married to Samantha Cameron's step-brother and rubbed shoulders with the elite chipping. Norton Crowd just apologized for sharing some seriously controversial pro-Hamas posts online. This 53-year-old from South Africa, running in Westminster, put up images like an AI-generated one of Princess Diana in a Palestinian. Kephe A. Scarf, plus a fake-time cover, slapping a Hitler mustache on Benjamin Netanyahu. She also claimed British police served Zionism, and shared a pic suggesting an Israeli hostage kissed his Hamas captor willingly. After the mail on Sunday reached out Saturday, Astor deleted the post and said sorry for any offense caused. This comes right after her party leader, Zach Polanski, had to apologize Friday for criticizing cops who arrested a suspect in the golders' green. Attack Folks online pushback hard. Calling out the posts as anti-Semitic holocaust inversion and defending Diana's real legacy

1:01against hostage-taking. Astor's ties to royalty, she even hit Prince William's wedding, make the backlash sting more, highlighting how these views seep into high society. Now, it's spotlighting bigger problems in the greens ahead of local elections, with other candidates comparing Jews to Nazis, praising Hamas, or calling anti-Semitic attacks false flags. Polanski's getting heat to clean house on this poison. Politicians like Kierstarmer, who called him disgraceful, and experts from the anti-Semitism policy trust, say this rhetoric fuels real violence against Jews. The parties got to do better checks if they want credibility.

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