NEW YORK (VINnews) — Britain’s Daily Telegraph reports that activists from the Green Party, a surging party in local opinion polls, used harsh antisemitic slogans in their Whatsapp messages,  describing Jewish people as “an abomination to this planet”.

One member of the Greens for Palestine group, a Left-wing faction in the Green Party, said that Jews “murder, bomb and starve” children. Another claimed that the arson attack on four ambulances owned by a Jewish charity in Golders Green, north London, on Monday had been a “false flag” operation, suggesting it could have been carried out by Jewish people. A Green council candidate shared posts on social media, making the same claim.

The Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) said its lawyers were investigating the activists’ remarks. It said views expressed in the Greens for Palestine group chat were “straight out of Nazi Germany”.

Labour urged Zack Polanski, the Green Party leader, to take action against those involved, saying the growing evidence of anti-Semitism within the party was “deeply troubling”. The Conservatives said the language was “utterly appalling”.

A briefing document shared with Green activists last month had warned members not to post anti-Semitic comments online. In a “call for self-moderation”, Greens for Palestine told supporters not to “take the bait” and ask themselves “what this would look like on the front page of a newspaper”.

It said: “Those who oppose us will be looking for the opportunity to say that we are a bunch of unpleasant, vengeful anti-Semites. They will seek to bait us into making statements emotionally, and smear us whenever they can. Don’t take the bait!”.

The Greens have surged in the polls since Mr Polanski became leader in September. Last month, the party briefly overtook Labour to sit second, and it has seen its membership grow by 150,000 in six months. However, Jewish groups have accused Green Party members of “entryism” – infiltrating an existing political party with the goal of influencing it from within.

Greens for Palestine, a grassroots group founded 18 months ago, has forced through a motion that, if passed at the Greens’ spring conference this weekend, would see the party treat Zionism as a form of racism. Jewish members said this would give the party the ability to expel them simply for engaging in their religious community.

Discussing a video posted on X by Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, a  National Health Service doctor who was suspended last November over alleged anti-Semitic comments, a member defended her description of protesters in Golders Green as Jews rather than Zionists.

They wrote: “No, she is going to call out the people who have destroyed her and her family. They were Jews and we shouldn’t be afraid to say it. They were Jewish supremacists.

“She is using the correct description. It’s us who have been scared into using the word Zionists because of the fear of being labelled anti-Semites. Enough of being scared of hurting their feelings while they murder, bomb and starve children.”