Trevor Phillips criticised for Sky interview with Zack Polanski
Trevor Phillips faced criticism after his Sky interview with Green Party leader Zack Polanski, where Polanski pushed back on questions about Jewish safety. Critics said Phillips used aggressive, leading questions and distorted Polanski's argument that policing alone cannot address the roots of antisemitism. The exchange matters because Phillips is a former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and his framing influences public understanding of race, safety, and political responses.
Sky News is blatantly lying about hate crimes. Trevor Phillips said that ONLY jews are being attacked, despite Essa Suleiman attacking a Muslim man in Golders Green THAT MORNING. The interview with Zack Polanski was PURE MISINFORMATION.
Dom Wakerley6The Muslim man was attacked in South London (and had been known to the assailant). Suleiman then travelled to Golders Green and attacked two Jewish people not known to him - it's reasonable to think that the attack on the Jewish individuals could be a hate crime.
Holly Brigstocke5The same money behind Israel is the same money behind transphobia. The same money behind Starmer's leadership bid and Labour Together. Starmer's appeasing the genocide of trans people and genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is causing hate crime!
Tristram Hicks3This was an excellent deconstruction of the interview, well done! Also superb restraint by @zackpolanski.bsky.social in the face of such questioning.
Aliza Adi (she/her)3That Phillips invokes the memory Steven Laurence in his twisted attempt to lecture a Jewish man on antisemitism is pretty obscene, too Especially as it was the McPherson report that laid the foundation to Non Crime Hate Incidents, a policing tool that Phillips is ideological opposed to
soupdragon65.bsky.social3Sky news journalism is appalling
PhysicsChris2That interview was terrible. Another mainstream media fail. There is plenty to tackle our politicians about without making things up.
Given that Heidi Alexander thinks Keir Starmer IS fit to hold office, should we really care what she thinks about Zack Polanski
kenndosan.bsky.social5That interviewer has some dodgy mates . Mandelson
MikeReid4#StarmerIsUnfit to lead either party or state. His loyalties are not with the #LabourMovement or our nation.
Sky Bloo 🏴3This for me is the straw that broke the camel's back. Heidi Alexander's interview helped me to make up my mind about how to vote in the #Senedd election on Thursday. #Labour no longer reflects my values or deserves my support. I'm done.
Nigel K2Zack Polanski's being criticised by Labour because he's not the kind of Jew they like, you know the type who support Israel's murderous and illegal activities, a country led by a bloke with an international arrest warrant against him. Labour's leadership has an antisemitism problem.
Laura Kuenssberg, "What's your message to former Green party members who don't like your new approach?" Zack Polanski, "They're wrong"
Maria Norwich🏴🇵🇸4The way she pronounces "left-wing, overtly pro-Palestinian" as if it was something completely abhorrent to her (which perhaps it is), makes me smile, as I cancelled my BBC licence a long time ago. How far & wide did the BBC researchers hunt for a negative view of Polanski from a Green Party member?
Gideon Mitchell3One of the qualities of Polanski that I like is that he is NOT ideologically driven, unlike for example people like Jeremy Corbyn. Polanski's approach on everything from NATO to the cost of living crisis is pragmatic.
London Times has been a far right newspaper for over a decade, consistently moving rightwards in the 21st C. The cartoon of Polanski, Green Party Leader, is antisemitic - not least as it doesn’t look like him. Editorial cartoonists are fully aware of racist tropes. Murdoch should sack the editor.
Dr Robert Bohan15The cartoonist put a Green Party ribbon on his depiction of Polanski because he knew, by introducing a stereotype of a hooked nose, that the figure was not identifiable IMHO. So why did he give the figure a hooked nose?
Matt Farrow5Quite an extraordinary choice re the hook nose. You can't be a political cartoonist in 2026 and do that by accident.
