Zack Polanski's PRAISE for jailed Palestine Action activists EXPOSES who he really is - 'HYPOCRITE!'

Smash a sledgehammer over an innocent police officer's back. Fracture her spine. Yeah, and while you're at it, drive a van into a building. Destroy private property and threaten innocent people. Just look at these people here. Look at them. Let's not forget while you're at it, openly do all of this in support of what is now a terrorist organisation. That's what four deranged Palestine Action Terrorist Group members committed here on British soil. They have been locked up for it. All of them, after a retrial, found them rightfully guilty. And I say good riddance. Yet, Zak Polanski, here in his tweet, Green Party leader, called the sentences gut-wrenching and praises their violence as taking direct action. Can you believe it? And far-left commentators like Owen Jones have amplified outrage by calling it a hideous injustice that the criminals were sentenced for trying to stop a genocide. Many would argue that comments like theirs lead to scenes like these. Have they fanned the flames of violence, perhaps? Isn't this what they accuse the so-called far-right of doing over the Belfast riots? Didn't they all condemn what happened in Belfast just a week ago? These same people are stinking hypocrites, dangerous sellers of two-tier justice and are, in my opinion, excusing severe criminal acts of grievous bodily harm and many other things that those deranged people did there and actions you'd expect to see from terrorists. How dare they ever comment on crimes or violence in Britain ever again? They have forever been exposed. They have exposed themselves for what they are to everyone in this country. We must never let these politicians or those people who are the single greatest threat to our democracy right now ever near the door of number 10. And their ideology has got to be destroyed, hasn't it? Now death can feel like a taboo subject when in reality it's a certainty for all of us. 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Leila I'll start with you on this one. I was shocked by what you said. I don't know many people that look at a police officer who's put on that uniform to save the public, has a fractured spine with a sledgehammer slammed on it and feels sorry for the perpetrator. It is remarkable and that person wants to run our country. I've prosecuted a lot of assault against emergency workers which ends up being police officers. They live with that trauma for life. It affects their job, it affects their confidence when they go out on the street the next day. Police officers put their life at risk to keep us safe and rightly so. It's an aggravated offence when you attack them and Parliament recognises the extra risk that they take and yet we have a police officer who has her spine broken and unlike the whole public, Zak Polanski feels sympathy with the criminal. I mean it just tells you everything. That man is dangerous. It's shocking Seb. It's shocking because just a week ago these same people were losing their minds over what they called racist riots in Belfast yet when violence happens on their own side, which I called out about violence by the way, I don't mind people telling me and criticising me. I will always call out violence from whoever it is. It is unacceptable in Britain. We do not solve our differences or take political actions through violent means. But it doesn't say something about the sort of people that were willing to criticise that but when their own people are locked up for a heinous attack on a private property, on a police officer, they fail to condemn it in its whole. I mean I suspect this is going to be part of the show of who will agree with each other. There is no excuse for violence, there is no excuse for criminal damage and I think the crux of the debate really is around going back a step whether Palestine action should be prescribed because a lot of the people who are trying to defend these people are saying they shouldn't have been prescribed therefore they shouldn't have been treated as a terrorist offence. But the fact of the matter is if you were a judge you were dealt the facts in front of you and you have to make a decision based on those. So the judge was in no position to discard that nor should they have. What do you make of it Will? I'd first like to say that I'd like to reiterate the comments made. Violence is never the answer whether you're on the right or the left. Whatever issue it is you should never go out and attack police officers. You may have criticisms of the institution but you can't have criticisms of individual police officers or public sector workers who are just doing their jobs. I think Polanski and people like him are dangerous and I think they've been actually pushed off the deep end to some extent by this Gaza-Israel issue. Now you're more than welcome to have your opinions on that. Foreign policy in that area is not really my area of interest or knowledge but when they're praising direct action which in reality means violence against innocent people, violence against police officers, violence against property and that shows you that when it comes to their subjects and their issues using violence is completely fine because you're stopping a genocide because you're doing this. No no you need to have a consistent abhorrence and opposition to violence across the board not just when it's your side doing it. Well especially if you're a leader of political parties. Who wants to be Prime Minister. And I bet you he wouldn't say that to the officer's face. No. You know he should try looking at the officer and saying I don't think the guy who broke your spine with a sledgehammer should go to prison. Yeah exactly and like you said her life has been ruined. I mean I was reading the story on this earlier and it was heartbreaking to read what she was saying in court about how she wakes up in the middle of the evening, she's permanently damaged for life, she's had to resign her position inside of the police, her rank. Her life has been ruined by this act that never needed to happen. But people don't realise I've prosecuted many minor and officers get horrific abuse. They are spat at constantly and spitting is really disgusting. They're spat at in their faces and it is the duty in my opinion of any political leader to fully fully back the police. Of course there are rotten apples but in this instance in any time when they're subjected to violence it has to be no doubt that I support you. This is the thing right, for me it's not that they can make their case about the prescription of where the Palestine action should have been a prescribed terrorist group. They can make that case but what I think they've done here Seb is hide behind that. They've used that to rather than to condemn these people who have driven into a building, who have damaged and ruined someone's life, an innocent officer doing her job. They have taken direct action because they've been inspired to do it because this whole movement has got out of control. This whole thing has got out of control. Do you not think this is the failure of governments to crack down on this? It's become and that's why I guess the prescription took place in the end is because this movement itself has become so riled up by people who feel like they are. There's people who are on Twitter today who are saying this is an acceptable form of resistance. This is stopping a genocide. These are people writing to me. These people are heroes. They're saying they're heroes. They're saying this is stopping a genocide. Is there any truth to that? I don't think it's necessarily stopping a genocide. I think it's perfectly possible to hold the point of view where you can be appalled by what's going on in Palestine. You could also support the right of the Jewish people to a homeland. Those are two interoperable points of view and you could also not go around smashing equipment or supporting those who do. That is all perfectly possible and what concerns me is that there are lots of people who are on the left. I don't think they came into politics to do this. Often if you are on the left and you come into politics you are advocating peace. You are often a pacifist. You do not go down those routes and I would just encourage people who are supporting this to stop and think about the journey they've been on whether it's one they want to continue with. Do you think they should have been prescribed the terrorist organisation Palestine Action? So it's hard because the reason they were prescribed was never fully disclosed. Because it attacked the military base. I can't remember what the base was called. You cannot attack our sovereign military base and not be deemed a terrorist. That is a terrorist act. I agree. What I seem to remember from the time and I could be wrong was that Yvette Cooper who was the Home Secretary at the time said there was other intelligence we're acting on. So it's one of those weird moments where you're asked to trust the government and I do and look there are many people who walk around in Palestine Action t-shirts who are obviously not terrorists. But you have to respect the law. You can't go trying to find a way around it. What do you think Will? Other intelligence could have been possible. Other attacks on military bases. It could have been other attacks on other things. I think it's a really depressing state in a liberal democracy that we are. That we have groups and indeed politicians who want to be prime minister not just condoning it but almost encouraging this kind of violence because of the cause they believe in. I feel very strongly about a variety of things tax and spend issues but I would never ever call for violence to be used against treasury officials against the chancellor because anyone like that because that's not how you deal with issues. You deal with facts reason debate arguments and voting at the ballot box not violence. Well for those of you tuning in tonight may have seen some exchanges on X the social media platform. I did invite and my producer did reach out to Owen Jones today to invite him on the program to defend his comments. Here's what he sent back to us. He said GB news is his tweets. He took screenshots of what my producer was saying and then put it on his ex feed. He said GB news presenter Alex Armstrong is not just a hateful little man he's a pathetic little man. I have a feeling I might be taller than you Owen. What are you five foot seven. Anyway and then he moved on because he was so rattled because everything he said I just sort of batted it back. So he was very rattled and then he went and said this that's really kind and if I ever decide this is to my producer Ben that's really kind that if I ever decide to cancel my plans with someone who if his if his IQ were a few points lower would need watering daily I'll definitely consider Alex Armstrong. I mean look nice try at the wit Owen. However you know slandering our channel which is another thing he did he said imagine being the sort of person who spends Saturday night watching GB news. If that's you seriously get help get some friends. Our time on this earth is so short and precious make some difficult choices. Well if you are watching GB news happy birthday to all of you that have been watching us for five years. We are the number one news channel unfortunately Owen so you are not in your own company at least they're not winning. We know you're rattled and he of course called us losers. I think Owen Jones is already a loser and says we're not a news channel we are an Ofcom regulated and defined news channel and unlike Owen Jones who blocks half of Twitter we want to have him on to have a free speech discussion. That's our challenge to you Owen. I hope you're having fun whenever your night is but I'm sure you'll be watching this in one way or another won't you. You definitely will. He said managed to find my my Twitter account even though he's blocked me won't won't won't speak to me accused me of being everything from an extremist onwards and this is the problem isn't it Layla. We want to have discussions because I believe and I think this channel believes that when we have difficult conversations the best thing we can do is discuss them openly and have a fair and free debate. I hope you always on my panels are always able to say whatever you want to say I never stop you from saying what you want to say and the same for you and the same for you but sometimes the left don't want to have a free speech discussion and it ends up driving the this massive outrage because we're all in our own echo chambers. Yeah 100% and then but then they'll always resort to personal attacks and they'll never you know even how was like with Mick Lynch on on on Newsnight and he starts just they just say lies you want to privatize the NHS he starts saying I'm like no I don't no we don't what they always oh and you want to just literally he lost the argument so he's like oh you know you want to privatize the NHS and make all your friends rich I'm like play grand stuff mate why are you lying to win the argument? Debate the actual facts you know and that that's the problem. But of course we all know these people aren't here to defend themselves tonight hence why we're reading out their tweets giving them a strong defense they can have their defense read out on air which again more than they would ever do for for us at least in this case what do you make of it Will? Yeah I think that GB News is a real channel and obviously it's a pleasure and privilege to be invited on although if I'm a loser Owen that's fine but I think you're possibly more of a loser but nevertheless I actually used to respect Owen Jones back in the day when he was a centre-left commentator at the Guardian and the Independent and while I didn't always agree with him he certainly was polite to people he used to interview people on the right people from the Liberal Democrats people across the political spectrum who maybe disagree with that for a bit but now the issue is the issue is is that seemingly and this is happening not just for Owen Jones but other members of the of the left and indeed on the right they've been radicalized by certain issues and pushed them into their echo chambers and made them quite nasty people like for example the texts that were being sent to your producer there like no producers would be talked to like that and in that way if you just want to say no thank you. Well I think I think what he was doing was quite obvious he wanted to use it for social media and I think that's been proven because he didn't use it but the point is and I'll push this over to you because the point is is that we want to have free speech discussions we want to we will have anybody on this channel that wants to talk to us because that diffuses and it at least gives people different perspectives you cannot you cannot win the hearts and minds of the people if you're not willing to challenge people as you do on this channel as everyone else does here on this program and I always give massive plaudits for people who are on the left who I disagree with politically for coming on GB News because you are going to have a difficult time here perhaps but you will happily challenge my opinions I hopefully you feel that you can do that here. Yeah I think one of the things that going on channels like this does for me is it gets me firmly out of my echo chamber and I end up engaging with a lot of views I disagree with and what I would say to viewers is that if you find yourself thinking god that person's delusional stop yourself and think am I making an effort to understand that person maybe go outside and consume some media that you find a little bit frightening as I did at the party at the beginning you know I was firmly stuck in my echo chamber for a long time um it's healthy it's good for debate it's good for the state of the country. Seb have you ever secretly agreed with someone on this side of the panel? I think he's openly agreed. So my challenge is Owen Jones I know you're watching you know let's put come and have a debate come and have a debate on num on the number one news channel in Britain we're not going anywhere all right uh the leader of the Green Party Zak Polanski has been approached for comment Owen Jones of course was asked to come on the show this evening but instead provided oh here it is the following response he said this Alex Armstrong is an extremist seeking revenge because I highlighted his deleted tweet in which he wrote deport them all nothing else will stop this they have to go the hideous injustice I referred to was the Filton four being sentenced for an act of terrorism after they were convicted without the knowledge of the jury three of the four were not convicted of violence and the other was convicted for grievous bodily harm without intent which he should have been tried for without bogus claims of terrorism and by the way on that tweet I put out just for the record as many of you know who've watched my shows my stepfather is a is a legal migrant to this country my little brothers are mixed race everyone that knows me knows my intentions we're talking about illegal migrants which overwhelmingly 60% when polled the British public agree with me I don't need to clarify it any more than that you all who watch me know where I stand on these issues