Green Party press officer denied Hamas 7 October rape, calls Zionists ‘demons’

The Green Party has declined to take a position on revelations that one of its recently hired press officers referred to Zionists as “demonic” and repeatedly denied that rapes were carried out on 7 October during Hamas’s mass terror attack against Israel.

Abi Wilkinson, who joined the Green Party operation last month after previously working for Zarah Sultana of Your Party, previously said regarding rapes which took place on 7 October: “There’s absolutely no new evidence, there is not a single identified victim. It wouldn’t justify this genocide if it was true, but there’s absolutely no evidence whatsoever that it is.” Another tweet from Wilkinson on the same subject said: “there is no victim testimony, not a single one”.

There are eyewitness testimonies of Hamas fighters raping women and subsequently shooting them. In 2024, the UN’s Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten, described how her team “conducted confidential interviews with 34 individuals, including survivors and witnesses of the 7 October attacks, released hostages, first responders and health and service providers.  It visited four attack sites — as well as the morgue to which the bodies of victims were transferred — and reviewed over 5,000 photographic images and some 50 hours of footage of the attacks.

It was scrupulous in its reporting, saying that while some incidents of rape could not be verified and two reports of sexual assaults at Kibbutz Be’eri were unfounded, “The team also found convincing information that sexual violence was committed against hostages, and has reasonable grounds to believe that such violence may still be ongoing against those in captivity.  While there are reasonable grounds to believe that conflict-related sexual violence occurred in the Nova music festival site, Route 232, and kibbutz Re’im”

A Green Party spokesperson said: “We do not comment on individual staff members.”

Wilkinson also responded to a tweet by an individual which said: “Why do ALL Zionists look like this?” It included four pictures – including one of Liri Albag in the immediate aftermath of her capture by Hamas. Wilkinson’s quote tweet said: “Some of them are pretty and it’s [sic] doesn’t make them less demonic.”

Joani Reid MP and chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group against antisemitism told The Mail that Wilkinson’s comments were “repellent” and “disgraceful”.

The Labour MP went on to say that “Zack Polanski should sack her [Wilkinson]. He won’t, and that tells you a great deal about the standards he is willing to live with.

“We should not be handling them with kid gloves because they wrap themselves in the progressive label.

“If a party harbours extremism, it should expect to be called out.’