Green Party council member and Leeds deputy leader, Mutin Ali, stated that Israel controls sixteen million people throughout the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, half of whom do not have the right to vote, while simultaneously exterminating them in Gaza and displacing them in the West Bank, describing this reality as apartheid.

Green Party council member and Leeds deputy leader, Mutin Ali, stated that Israel controls sixteen million people throughout the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, half of whom do not have the right to vote, while simultaneously exterminating them in Gaza and displacing them in the West Bank, describing this reality as apartheid.