A Green candidate who is also a GP has repeatedly attacked ‘Zios’ and called on people to ‘burn Zionism to the ground.’
Rebecca Jones, a vegan activist and NHS doctor, is standing for the Greens in Blackheath, where she lives. She has the personal support of the party leader, Zack Polanski.
She posted a video of someone reading the purported last will and testament of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who masterminded the October 7 attacks. Her view: ‘This is so beautiful’
Jones says on her Facebook page, ‘The Vegan Doctor’: ‘I’ve often said that Zios seem to use doublethink and doublespeak a lot… I’m still amazed by the way they, the media and the colonialists try to make us believe that anti-zionism [is]….extreme. There’s only one side showing hate here, and it’s definitely not from this love-filled, vegan anarchist.’
For such a committed vegan and supporter of love, Dr Jones does occasionally seem a little too keen on violence, posting that Bob Vylan’s chant at Glastonbury (‘Death, death to the IDF’) was ‘amazing.’ A reel of her listening to them the next day is captioned: ‘When right-wing media helps you find your new favourite band that you didn’t even know you were looking for.’
She posted a video of someone reading the purported last will and testament of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who masterminded the October 7 attacks. Her view: ‘This is so beautiful. It also reminds me of why the fight for Palestine is so important.’
In 2024, Jones posted: ‘Burn Zionism to the ground.’ The image below the words, of a masked Palestinian holding a burning Israeli flag, was produced by a Plymouth-based graphic designer called Krime. This person also designed Jones’s own ‘Vegan Doctor’ logo, a balaclava-wearing figure with a stethoscope around her neck and a chicken cradled in her left arm.
It’s not quite clear what role the IRA/bank robber headgear plays in either veganism or medicine but Dr Jones bravely attempts to make a previously-unsuspected connection between meat-eating and Zionism. She claims that ‘non-vegans and Zionists have something in common,’ namely ‘the discomfort they feel when I’m talking about animal rights or the rights of Palestinians… You feel angry with me because you know deep down something has to change.’
As for the hate side of the equation, Jones does appear to hate some people, calling Tories ‘scum,’ a Sky News journalist who questioned George Galloway a ‘pathetic little weasel’ and saying: ‘I’ve yet to see a Zionist act in kindness or with love and compassion.’
As well as being a potential councillor, Jones’s medical career means she’s already in a public service role of trust. Last year, she posted that doctors have a ‘duty to speak up for and to their patients.’ Even though doctors are ‘discouraged from talking about politics, religion and morals with patients,’ she says, ‘I’m getting fired up to do more for my community and for oppressed groups everywhere.’
In the same post, she quoted the ‘amazing anarchist’ Pyotr Kropotkin: ‘You doctors…come with your scalpel and dissect for us, with an unerring hand, this society of ours, hastening to putrefaction. Tell us what a rational existence should and might be. Insist, as true surgeons, that a gangrenous limb must be amputated when it may poison the whole body.’
Jones adds that ‘maybe I’ll wait until after the CQC [Care Quality Commission] inspection [of her GP practice] is over, though.’
In another ‘Vegan Doctor’ post, she says: ‘I can’t be a safe space for anyone excusing Israel’s actions. I’ll never be unsafe for/ towards anyone, but I can’t hold space for you if you think that Zionism and the resulting atrocities are ok.’ What, if anything, does this mean for a ‘Zionist’ or Israel-supporting patient who needs treatment from Dr Jones?
At least one of Jones’s campaigning pro-Palestinian videos appears to have been shot in a consulting-room or medical setting. Was it her practice? If so, did they know she was using the premises?
Explaining in a Substack post why she is a Green candidate, Jones says: ‘My political leanings are definitely more towards the anarchistic… I would love to see the end [of] capitalism.’ She adds: ‘Nobody can deny that we need a revolution, but if we rely only on those who are fighting for an anarchist future to free us, I think we’ll be waiting for a very long time…. So instead, I foresee a mini revolution, one which uses the momentum and energy which the Greens are riding… For all intents and purposes, many of the things that the Green party are fighting for are anarchistic at their core.’
In a response to a comment on another of her posts denying charges of anti-Semitism that ‘I’ve received today from Zios,’ Jones says that ‘the word anti-Semitic has lost all meaning.’ For the Greens, at least, that may actually be true. Of the four candidates previously exposed by The Spectator for promoting extreme views, all continue to be backed by the party.
Jones declined to comment. A Green party spokesman said: ‘Some of these posts do not represent Green party values. This has been discussed with the candidate and the posts have been deleted.’
