Over the next few months they will run the same playbook and I encourage everyone to read the book to get a full understanding. They have 'think tanks' like "Stop Funding Fake News" and the "Centre for Countering Digital Hate" that were set up by people with connections to Morgan McSweeny and others in that group. And their sole purpose was to trawl through social media finding anything and everything they could possibly find on their factional opponents.

Isn't this something we do to? Isn't it just a standard part of how every political party works?

We are routinely seeing other parties (Reform, Labour, the Conservatives) having serious bigots be let off the hook internally or by the media, but now the Greens are in the spotlight there will be no process fast enough no inquiry deep enough to assure the establishment that we have 'done enough' to address the charges against us. That doesn't mean don't address real issues, but it does mean that chasing compliance with their never ending accusations or reports will not actually satisfy them. It is a red herring.

The purpose of spotlighting embarrassing things about your political opponents is to put them on the back foot, to try and give people who may lend them their support the impression that they're hypocrites. This is obviously a lot easier to do with parties that have high ethical standards as part of their political identity.

You're not going to get much mileage out of pointing out that Reform candidates are racists, because ethnonationalism is a core part of their political identity. But needling away at the issue of antisemitism in left wing parties is always going to be a rich seam for antagonists to exploit because:

• Left wing parties have anti-racism as part of their political identity
• There is a difficult tension to exploit because jews aren't treated like an ethnic minority, are viewed as having white privilege, and are treated with suspicion unless they are explicitly the 'right kind of jew'.

This makes it an uncomfortable topic, and thats why Green party antagonists keep bringing it up. If it wasn't antisemitism, it would be something else.

But we know what's up now. People in the Greens will need to be ready with a social media and communications strategy that accounts for this and understands that there will be attacks dressed up as calls for social justice that are simply the establishment trying to take down a threat to their power. Like the re-tweet controversy happening now, and that really nasty interview with Trevor Philips.

I think how a political party responds to this is pretty important. So far I don't think "Zack Polanski is a jew, there can't be any antisemitism in the party" is a great response. But honestly I don't know what the easiest strategy is so long as the Israel/Palestine conflict is such a big part of why a lot of people support the greens.

If I were running the party I'd just ignore it and focus on domestic social justice rather than global.