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A Green councillor who yelled 'Allahu Akbar' after being elected and claimed Palestinians had the right to 'fight back' in the wake of the Hamas attacks in Israel appeared in an episode of a Marcus Wareing cooking show, MailOnline can reveal.
Mothin Ali, who branded Israelis 'white supremacists' and 'occupiers' in videos posted on social media just 24 hours after Hamas' horrific October 7 attacks, was featured on the BBC show two years ago.
The footage came to light after it was revealed that Mr Ali, who was elected on Thursday, is being investigated by the Green Party for his 'concerning' comments over the Israel-Gaza conflict.
The 42-year-old had branded his victory in the Gipton and Harehills ward on Leeds City Council was a 'win for the people of Gaza' - a territory he has previously called a 'concentration camp'.
It is a far cry from his appearance on Marcus Wareing's Tales from a Kitchen Garden in 2022, where the father-of-three gave the host tips on how to grow chilis and ginger at home.
The campaigner, who still runs a gardening channel that has more than 50,000 subscribers, surprised the TV chef by suggesting that he soak ginger in water for a few days before sealing it in a tupperware box to encourage it to sprout before planting it outside.
He then leaves Mr Wareing impressed by advising him to use leftover tea to help germinate chilli seeds as its acidic nature breaks down the wall coating - warning him to avoid milky tea for fear of them going 'mouldy'.
Towards the end of the segment Mr Ali then brings out a Carolina Reaper chilli - one of the hottest in the world - and laughs when the chef says 'that's death', before joking back 'pretty much'.
Mothin Ali shouted 'Allahu Akbar' when he won a seat on Leeds City Council last week in the Gipton and Harehills ward
Mr Ali, who branded Israelis 'white supremacists' and 'occupiers' in videos posted on social media just 24 hours after Hamas' horrific October 7 attacks, appeared on an episode of a Marcus Wareing cooking show two years ago
In the episode of the BBC series from 2022 the father-of-three gave the host tips on how to grow chilis and ginger at home
As he plants his own chilis Mr Wareing jokes 'you're just trying to kill me', to which the controversial councillor responds 'they're fun. I hope you get as much pleasure as I do out of them'.
Since being elected last week Mr Ali has become shrouded in further controversy after comments from his TikTok account were unearthed from October 8 - the day after Hamas' terrorist attack on Israel killed 1,600 and saw 250 taken hostage.
Yet instead of condemning the horrendous attack, Mr Ali labelled Israel 'white supremacists' and claimed that Gaza was 'the biggest concentration camp the world has ever seen'.
In the clip the Green Councillor went on to suggest the terrorist organisation's actions were justified because 'Palestinians have the right to resist occupying forces' before urging his viewers to 'support the right of indigenous people to fight back'.
He also accused Israel of trying to 'erase the legitimacy of the native population'.
The Leeds Beckett University graduate, who is the director of his own accountancy firm, started his TikTok account just before the war in Gaza began and has since then frequently posted his ramblings on the subject.
'Every single person, every single people have a right to fight back, every single people have a right to live free of occupiers,' he said in the wake of the Hamas attack.
'That includes people who are brown, that includes people who are Muslim, that includes people who are Arab.
The Green councillor is being investigated by his party after the 'concerning' comments came to light
The 42-year-old father-of-three claimed his election to the local council as a Green candidate was a 'win for the people of Gaza '
Mothin Ali out campaigning for his council seat - which he won on Thursday
'Just because they are brown and Arab doesn't mean they don't have a right to fight back.'
In another video on his TikTok account, he said: 'The latest round of hostilities started when Hamas fighters started fighting back against Israeli occupation.
'The land was ethnically cleansed by European settler colonialists - white supremacists. When people wanna talk about it you've gotta remember it is white supremacy.
'White supremacists have always done well at portraying the native population as barbarians, as some kind of bloodthirsty savage.
'That is what they did with the Native Americans, that is how they dehumanised them, that is what they did with the aboriginals, that is how they dehumanised them, that is what they did with the Africans, that is why they were able to take them as slaves.'
Mr Ali also said Israel would use the 'pretext of the fightback by Hamas fighters' to launch an assault on Gaza's civilian population.
He added: 'They [Israelis] are not victims, they are occupiers, they are colonialists, they are European colonialists.
'It's one of the last European colonies in the world and that's why the European people don't want to let it go. They use the weapon of anti-Semitism so effectively that anyone who criticises Israel is labelled as anti-semitic.'
More than 40 councillors were elected in England after making the conflict part of their campaign, analysis of Thursday's vote suggests. Pictured: Councillor Mothin Ali
After the Hamas terror attacks on Israel on 7 October last year, Mr Ali - who runs a gardening blog - branded Israelis as 'white supremacists' in social media videos
Meanwhile in February he 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 he had deliberately attempted to 'kill women and children' in Gaza.
The Rabbi, who is Leeds University's Jewish Chaplain, was forced to go into hiding with his family after threats were made against him when he returned to the university after temporarily serving in the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF).
After his election victory in the Gipton and Harehills seat with 3,070 votes, he claimed people were 'fed up' of being 'let down' by the Labour council and said his phone has been 'ringing off the hook' since the win.
Throughout his victory speech, which has went viral online, there is arguing between the Green members and the other parties at the count - with people heard swearing and told to 'shut up'.
His victory speech led to an outcry from members of the general public with Jewish leaders demanding the newly elected councillor is suspended for spreading 'extremist nonsense'.
Today, the Green Party said Mr Ali is being investigated over his 'concerning' views after the party gained nearly 75 council
