Mark Bittlestone is standing for the Greens n next week's elections

Comedian Mark Bittlestone has been exposed for promoting antisemitic messages online.

The stand-up is standing as a Green Party candidate in Lambeth, South London, in next week’s local elections – which attracted the interest of the Daily Mail.

Its journalists went through his social media accounts and found he had reposted material suggesting the October 7 atrocities were a covert 'false flag' attack.

He shared other posts describing Israel as a 'colony of inbreds, rapists and thieves’ and claims that Israel should be invaded as it has no right to exist.

Chortle has approached the Lambeth Green Party for comment – while Bittlestone has deleted all his social media profiles in the wake of the Mail’s exposé.

Bittlestone has previously spoken of coming from a 'privileged' background, attending King's College School in Wimbledon, where fees are around £30,000 a year.

He then went to Cambridge University where he was joined the Footlights comedy troupe, and took master's degrees in business management and film. He now teaches history to sixth form students in Vauxhall.

His profile on the Green Party website tells how he turned to politics when ‘Israel’s genocide in Gaza tore a hole in his conception of the world – a world he didn’t find very funny anymore. ‘

It adds: ‘He felt an unabashed, unrelenting fury that this could happen, 80 years on from The Holocaust, 80 years from when we collectively said Never Again. Howling about it on social media and raising funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians failed to abate his rage and, realising the interconnected nature of struggle, he decided to channel this fury into fighting local injustice. 

‘If elected, he will work tirelessly to improve ordinary people’s lives and undo the damage done by 16 years of unrelenting austerity and 40 years of a profit-first housing system.’

In comedy, Bittlestone was in a double act called Llaugh, which made the Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off final in 2019 and 2020.

He performed his debut solo hour, I Need a Straight Guy at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe, which was shortlisted for Best Newcomer at the ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards. He also previously hosted of the Dirty Laundry podcast, along with Jamie D'Souza.

Published: 1 May 2026