He said of Rabbi Deutsch in a separate video: “This is Rabbi Zecharia Deutsch. This creep, that’s the only way I can describe him politely, is someone who went from Leeds to Israel to kill children and women and everyone else over there.”
Mr Ali made a number of pro-Palestinian posts on his Facebook page during the course of the campaign, including videos and photographs in which he wore a beanie hat bearing the Palestinian flag.
On March 21 he shared a post from the Nottingham branch of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign urging activists to contact the vice-chancellor of the University of Nottingham to complain about Tzipi Hotovely, the Israeli ambassador, being invited to a private event.
The Green Party called for an “immediate end” to the violence in Gaza two days after the October 7 attacks, when it called on Israel to urge its “illegal occupation”.
In a separate statement last month, Carla Denyer, the co-leader of the Greens, accused the British Government of being “complicit in the deadly assault on Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces”.
Calling for the immediate suspension of arms sales to Israel, Ms Denyer said: “Six months on from the horrific Hamas attacks on Israeli citizens, it is clear that the Netanyahu government’s response has been totally disproportionate.”
The Green Party and dozens of independent candidates look to have benefited at Thursday’s elections from a pro-Palestinian stance, while support for Labour among Muslim voters after Sir Keir Starmer initially refused to call for an immediate ceasefire last autumn.
Sir Keir’s party lost two councillors in Rochdale to George Galloway’s Workers Party of Britain.
Mr Galloway was elected MP for the Lancashire town at the end of February having run on a campaign on pro-Gaza and anti-Labour ticket, even rebranding himself as “Gaza George” to appeal to the town’s large Muslim population.
Mr Ali was approached for comment. He has previously said: “I have received hundreds of death threats from those on the far-Right and supporters of what the Israeli government is doing, many of which have been reported to the police. I understand very well the emotional turmoil threats of violence can have and would not wish that on others... the video in question has absolutely nothing to do with violence.”