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Mothin Ali calls Burnham a ‘coward’ over Gaza genocide stance

Post author:Willem Moore
Post published:12 July 2026
Post last modified:12 July 2026

On 9 July, Andy Burnham issued a statement regarding ‘Labour’s stance on Gaza‘. In it, our incoming PM refused to call Israel’s actions a genocide, and did little to differentiate his position from that of Keir Starmer. Accordingly, Canary writer Joe Glenton described the statement as “milquetoast sop“. And he wasn’t the only one to notice Burnham is trying to pull the wool over our eyes: @andyburnham is a coward. He apologised for the position this Labour Government has taken on Palestine but He won’t call it a Genocide, he hides behind international law. He won’t commit to Sanctioning Israel.He won’t…

Mothin Ali calls Lloyds debanking the Canary an ‘attack on democracy’

Post author:Willem Moore
Post published:2 July 2026
Post last modified:3 July 2026

As we reported on Tuesday 30 June, Lloyds have debanked the Canary. Few politicians have acknowledged the issue, but the Greens’ Mothin Ali has now spoken out: Debanking a news outlet is a direct attack on democracy! https://t.co/OM0rfr65i2 — Mothin Ali (@MothinAli) July 2, 2026 Canary debanked We reported on 30 June that: Lloyds has not explained why it has taken this action. Despite multiple communications from us, the bank has not been forthcoming with its reasoning. The Canary is now in a financially precarious situation. We do not know when our money that Lloyds is holding will be returned. Moreover, we…

EXCLUSIVE: hard-right Jewish Chronicle targeting Mothin Ali, anti-Zionist Jew Tony Greenstein

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:29 June 2026
Post last modified:30 June 2026

Notorious hard-right libel-factory the Jewish Chronicle is preparing an attack on Green Party deputy leader Mothin Ali – and well-known Jewish anti-Zionist Tony Greenstein. The article had not yet been published at the time of writing. The rag got itself into a crisis in 2024 after being caught out publishing made-up Israel articles during the Gaza genocide. Before that, it paid out huge sums of cash to a string of left-wingers for blatant libels, mostly penned by ‘doge of phone-hacking’ Lee Harpin. Harpin has now moved on, but the paper hasn’t improved. So its ‘political editor’ wrote to Greenstein asking for…

Mothin Ali condemns firebomb attack on Muslim Green party activists

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:5 June 2026
Post last modified:9 June 2026

Green party deputy leader Mothin Ali has condemned a firebomb attack targeting two Muslim Greens who were working to make the UK a better place for all its people. The West Midlands couple, identified as Farrukh and Salma, saw their car reduced to smoking wreckage by the attack. Ali called for West Midlands Police to treat the matter seriously. He condemned the anti-Muslim speech of Reform and other politicians and for everyone to work together to create an “island of belonging” instead of inciting hate and division: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Green Party of England &…

Mothin Ali tells Labour to stop begging the Greens to stand down

Post author:Willem Moore
Post published:27 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

There are many people attached to the Labour Party who have argued the Greens should do the ‘decent thing’ and stand down in the Makerfield by-election. The counter-argument to this is why would they? And as the Greens’ deputy leader Mothin Ali has now said: If Burnham can't win an election without the Greens giving him an easy ride, how's he going to beat Reform in a general election? — Mothin Ali (@MothinAli) May 26, 2026 Put up or shut up The Makerfield race may be the most decisive by-election in British electoral history. If Andy Burnham wins, he will almost…