Revealed: Green councillor who yelled 'Allahu Akbar' on election night appeared on Marcus Wareing BBC cooking show two years ago - as party launches probe after he said Palestinians had right to 'fight back' in wake of Hamas attacks

A Green councillor who yelled 'Allahu Akbar' aft being elected and claimed Palestinians had the close to 'fight back' successful the aftermath of the Hamas attacks successful Israel appeared successful an occurrence of a Marcus Wareing cooking show, MailOnline tin reveal.

Mothin Ali, who branded Israelis 'white supremacists' and 'occupiers' successful videos posted connected societal media conscionable 24 hours aft Hamas' horrific October 7 attacks, was featured connected the BBC show 2 years ago.

The footage came to airy after it was revealed that Mr Ali, who was elected connected Thursday, is being investigated by the Green Party for his 'concerning' comments implicit the Israel-Gaza conflict.

The 42-year-old had branded his triumph successful the Gipton and Harehills ward connected Leeds City Council was a 'win for the radical of Gaza' - a territory helium has antecedently called a 'concentration camp'.

It is simply a acold outcry from his quality connected Marcus Wareing's Tales from a Kitchen Garden successful 2022, wherever the father-of-three gave the big tips connected however to turn chilis and ginger astatine home. 

The campaigner, who inactive runs a gardening transmission that has much than 50,000 subscribers, amazed the TV cook by suggesting that helium soak ginger successful h2o for a fewer days earlier sealing it successful a tupperware container to promote it to sprout earlier planting it outside.

He past leaves Mr Wareing impressed by advising him to usage leftover beverage to assistance germinate chilli seeds arsenic its acidic quality breaks down the partition coating - informing him to debar milky beverage for fearfulness of them going 'mouldy'.

Towards the extremity of the conception Mr Ali past brings retired a Carolina Reaper chilli - 1 of the hottest successful the satellite - and laughs erstwhile the cook says 'that's death', earlier joking backmost 'pretty much'.

As helium plants his ain chilis Mr Wareing jokes 'you're conscionable trying to termination me', to which the arguable councillor responds 'they're fun. I anticipation you get arsenic overmuch pleasance arsenic I bash retired of them'. 

Since being elected past week Mr Ali has go shrouded successful further contention aft comments from his TikTok relationship were unearthed from October 8 - the time aft Hamas' violent onslaught saw 1,160 Israelis killed and a further 250 taken hostage.

Yet alternatively of condemning the horrendous attack, Mr Ali labelled Israel 'white supremacists' and claimed that Gaza was 'the biggest attraction campy the satellite has ever seen'.

In the clip the Green Councillor went connected to suggest the violent organisation's actions were justified due to the fact that 'Palestinians person the close to defy occupying forces' earlier urging his viewers to 'support the close of indigenous radical to combat back'.

He besides accused Israel of trying to 'erase the legitimacy of the autochthonal population'. 

The Leeds Beckett University graduate, who is the manager of his ain accountancy firm, started his TikTok relationship conscionable earlier the warfare successful Gaza began and has since past often posted his ramblings connected the subject.  

 'Every azygous person, each azygous radical person a close to combat back, each azygous radical person a close to unrecorded escaped of occupiers,' helium said successful the aftermath of the Hamas attack.

'That includes radical who are brown, that includes radical who are Muslim, that includes radical who are Arab. 

'Just due to the fact that they are brownish and Arab doesn't mean they don't person a close to combat back.' 

In different video connected his TikTok account, helium said: 'The latest circular of hostilities started erstwhile Hamas fighters started warring backmost against Israeli occupation.

'The onshore was ethnically cleansed by European settler colonialists - achromatic supremacists. When radical wanna speech astir it you've gotta retrieve it is achromatic supremacy.

'White supremacists person ever done good astatine portraying the autochthonal colonisation arsenic barbarians, arsenic immoderate benignant of bloodthirsty savage.

'That is what they did with the Native Americans, that is however they dehumanised them, that is what they did with the aboriginals, that is however they dehumanised them, that is what they did with the Africans, that is wherefore they were capable to instrumentality them arsenic slaves.'

Mr Ali besides said Israel would usage the 'pretext of the fightback by Hamas fighters' to motorboat an battle connected Gaza's civilian population.

He added: 'They [Israelis] are not victims, they are occupiers, they are colonialists, they are European colonialists.

'It's 1 of the past European colonies successful the satellite and that's wherefore the European radical don't privation to fto it go. They usage the limb of anti-Semitism truthful efficaciously that anyone who criticises Israel is labelled arsenic anti-semitic.'

Meanwhile successful February helium created a video that branded a Jewish Rabbi 'this creep,' calling him a 'kind of animal,' an 'absolute low-life,' 'absolutely disgusting' and 'shameful'.

He falsely claimed that helium had deliberately attempted to 'kill women and children' successful Gaza.

The Rabbi, who is Leeds University's Jewish Chaplain, was forced to spell into hiding with his household aft threats were made against him erstwhile helium returned to the assemblage aft temporarily serving successful the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF).

After his predetermination triumph successful the Gipton and Harehills spot with 3,070 votes, helium claimed radical were 'fed up' of being 'let down' by the Labour assembly and said his telephone has been 'ringing disconnected the hook' since the win.

Throughout his triumph speech, which has went viral online, determination is arguing betwixt the Green members and the different parties astatine the number - with radical heard swearing and told to 'shut up'.

His triumph code led to an outcry from members of the wide nationalist with Jewish leaders demanding the recently elected councillor is suspended for spreading 'extremist nonsense'.

Today, the Green Party said Mr Ali is being investigated implicit his 'concerning' views aft the enactment gained astir 75 assembly seats connected Thursday.

In airy of the arguable speech, erstwhile Labour MP Lord Mann, who is the Government's autarkic advisor connected antisemitism, is owed to sit down with enactment officials.

Other concerns person besides been raised astir different assembly members aft investigation showed much than 40 had made the Middle East situation portion of their campaign.

Leaders of Britain's Jewish assemblage slammed the Green Party arsenic 'breathtakingly foolish, unsafe and insensitive' for selecting Mr Ali arsenic a campaigner and demanded his contiguous suspension for spreading 'extremist nonsense'. 

In an unfastened missive to co-leaders Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay, the president of Leeds Jewish Representative Council, Simon Myerson KC, wrote that Mr Ali had a 'substantial past of views which are concerning to the Jewish community'.

Accusing the Greens of 'hypocrisy' implicit their nonaccomplishment to region themselves from him, Mr Myerson said it was 'wholly wrong' for the enactment to proceed to subordinate itself with Mr Ali.

He wrote that portion the newly-elected councillor was 'perfectly entitled' to explicit his views connected Gaza, it was 'obvious that his entreaty to voters was nakedly based connected that, alternatively than the level your enactment publically espouses'.

Mr Myerson accused Mr Ali of attempting to warrant 'rape, execution and kidnap' and utilizing 'antisemitic tropes'.

He added that for the Greens to nominate him arsenic their campaigner arsenic lawman politician of West Yorkshire liable for policing successful past week's predetermination fixed fears implicit the emergence of antisemitic hatred transgression successful the region was 'breathtakingly foolish, unsafe and insensitive'.

'These matters do, I suggest, telephone the Green Party's ain integrity into question,' Mr Myerson wrote.

'The deliberate exploitation of a peculiar contented which is ne'er going to beryllium addressed by the predetermination of a section councillor arsenic a large origin successful that councillor's predetermination run is nakedly opportunistic.

'Populist policies are usually identified arsenic being adopted by the far-right. It is simply a large pity that you person lowered your ain enactment to behave successful that mode successful my city.

'Because this substance is truthful serious, I americium treating this correspondence arsenic public.

'You person known astir Mr Ali's views for a sizeable time.

'It is 48 hours since helium was elected, and your soundlessness has present gone past the clip during which - I judge - you indispensable person been considering however precisely you header with the disastrous effect of the video of his behaviour astatine his count.

'It is clip for you to halt reasoning astir yourselves, and to deliberation of the radical straight affected by your choices.

'I look guardant to proceeding your explanation. Finally, I americium asking you to formally suspend Mr Ali arsenic a Green Party member.

'It is wholly incorrect that your enactment should question to payment from his views and his behaviour.

'It is antithetical to the morals of which you boast. It is thing much than hypocrisy.

'You should act, immediately, and explicate yourselves thereafter.'

Backing the concerns, Claudia Mendoza, CEO of the Jewish Leadership Council, said: 'At a clip of specified part and fear, we request politicians who volition enactment to unafraid assemblage cohesion, not undermine it.

'Mr Ali's grounds speaks for itself and if the Green Party is superior astir dealing with antisemitism alternatively than conscionable paying articulator work to it successful meetings with assemblage leaders, enactment volition beryllium taken.'

Adding to the tempest of criticism, The Board of Deputies of British Jews said the Greens had 'serious questions to answer'.

'We are appalled by comments recovered to person been made by a recently elected Green Party councillor successful Leeds, successful which helium appeared to observe and effort to warrant the October 7 wide panic onslaught connected Israel,' a spokesperson said.

'While we recognize that the Greens are investigating this, the enactment has superior questions to reply implicit its utter nonaccomplishment of owed diligence, which includes nominating Mr Ali for the relation of lawman politician for constabulary and crime.'

According to the Telegraph, Mr Ali has not been suspended by the Greens and volition proceed representing the enactment arsenic a councillor during the investigation.

A enactment spokesperson said: 'The Green Party is investigating issues drawn to our attraction successful narration to Councillor Mothin Ali, truthful cannot remark further.

'However, we are wide that we ne'er enactment thing that extols violence.'

Lord Mann volition reportedly research the anticipation of the Green Party suspending oregon withdrawing the whip from immoderate elected councillors and improving its campaigner enactment and vetting.

He told The Times helium was gathering the Greens this week 'to sermon what they are going to bash successful absorption to these radical and besides much wide successful their rank and their campaigner selections'.

He suggested 1 effect mightiness beryllium to transcript Labour's absorption to discovering its Rochdale by-election campaigner Azhar Ali had made unacceptable remarks astir Israel.

'If helium had been elected helium would not person been accepted into the enactment structures,' Lord Mann said.

MailOnline has contacted the BBC and the Green Party for comment. Mr Ali declined to remark connected erstwhile approached by MailOnline yesterday.