Overview
- Polanski, in an ITV interview on Thursday, said no country has a right to exist and that only people do.
- He described Israel as a genocidal apartheid state over its war in Gaza.
- He linked the dispute to the 1917 Balfour Declaration, a British pledge for a Jewish home that helped set the path to Israel’s creation.
- Robert Peston pressed him on whether that logic denied Britain’s right to exist, and Polanski focused on colonial gatekeeping rather than retracting his stance.
- The Independent reported the comments as fresh controversy for the Green leader after his poll ratings fell following criticism of police in a Golders Green stabbing arrest and an admitted false claim of being a British Red Cross spokesman.