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Interview · 3 May 2026

Sky News interview with Trevor Phillips: antisemitism and the Golders Green attack

Zack Polanski, Leader, Green Party of England and Wales

Video: YouTube: Sky News (official channel). Retrieved 2 Oct 2026.

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“in the last 6 weeks alone, two people have actually been arrested in relation to anti-Semitic actions towards me”

Claim checkedIn the six weeks before 3 May 2026, two people were arrested over antisemitic actions directed at Zack Polanski.

The figure of two arrests in six weeks comes from Polanski and his team; no police statement confirming it was found.
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Supported80% confidence
“yesterday, The Times newspaper published a vile anti-Semitic cartoon, which we've asked them to apologize for”

Claim checkedOn 2 May 2026 The Times published an antisemitic cartoon, and the Green Party asked the paper to apologise.

The Times published a Peter Brookes cartoon of Polanski on 2 May 2026 and the Green Party asked for an apology. Whether it is antisemitic is his description, shared by some critics.
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Partly supported75% confidence
“We saw three people stabbed this week on Wednesday, one Muslim man and two Jewish men.”

Claim checkedOn Wednesday 29 April 2026, three people were stabbed in London: one Muslim man and two Jewish men.

On Wednesday 29 April 2026 two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green; the attacker had earlier attacked a Muslim friend with a knife in Southwark, who fended him off with minor injuries.
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Partly supported60% confidence
“a Muslim man was stabbed as well as two Jewish men and that seems to have not been in the news coverage”

Claim checkedA Muslim man was stabbed as well as the two Jewish men that week, and news coverage has not reported this.

The attacker did first attack a Muslim man, who suffered minor injuries; that attack was reported in coverage of the case, though less prominently.
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“The commissioner as well in this very studio accepted that this was an unusual use of police force”

Claim checkedThe Metropolitan Police Commissioner, interviewed in the same Sky News studio, accepted that the police's use of force at the Golders Green attack was unusual.

Reports quote the Commissioner calling the post inaccurate and praising the officers; no report was found of him calling the use of force unusual, and the interviewer disputed it.
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Supported85% confidence
“The 50 wealthiest families in this country own more wealth than 34 million people.”

Claim checkedThe 50 wealthiest families in the UK own more wealth than 34 million people combined.

Equality Trust analysis found the UK's 50 richest families held more wealth than the poorest half of the population, about 34.1 million people.
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Procedural claims (the speaker's own dates, petition counts, who said what, background), clear slips of the tongue, and words read out from someone else. They stay on the record and do not count in Accuracy.

Can't verify“a meeting with the commissioner, which I'm pleased I've reached out and he's now agreed to”Procedural: His own diary: a meeting that has been agreed. · Sky News interview with Trevor Phillips: antisemitism and the Golders Green attack, 3 May 2026
Supported“Hannah Spencer, the MP for Gorton and Denton where we took on the billionaire donors and the Green Party won”Procedural: Names an MP and her seat, as background. · Sky News interview with Trevor Phillips: antisemitism and the Golders Green attack, 3 May 2026