Greens adopt policy treating Zionism as racism

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The Greens have formally adopted a policy which equates Zionism with racism, a move that will dismay the bulk of the party’s MPs and has alarmed some Jewish members.

In a vote on Sunday at the party’s annual conference in Brighton about whether to back a motion which calls for Zionism, the movement for a Jewish state, to be “treated as any other form of racism”, it passed by 1,022 votes to 813.

The motion, which is now formal policy for the Greens in England and Wales, also calls for a single Palestinian state in place of Israel “with equal rights for all”.

Four of the party’s five MPs have condemned the motion, as did Caroline Lucas, the former leader who was the Greens’ first MP.

Adrian Ramsay, who co-led the Greens before Polanski, said in a statement he would vote against it, as it set out what sort of Palestinian state should exist without taking into account the self-determination of Israelis and Palestinians.

Siân Berry, another of the MPs, made the same point.

Carla Denyer, the Bristol Central MP who was co-leader with Ramsay, said the wording “risks alienating a significant proportion of Jewish people, including those who vehemently disagree with the Israeli government”.

Another Green MP, Ellie Chowns, said the motion “risks fuelling division, and risks undermining the party’s ability to advocate effectively for justice and peace”.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/04/green-party-votes-adopt-policy-zionism-racism

Good! Blimey if the European Green party are asking them wtf? they really are in trouble. deservedly.

That's a strong statement.

The resolution “Zionism is Racism” as voted yesterday goes against our agreed positions of the EGP and its Member Parties, therefore as EGP we unequivocally distance ourselves from it.

I won’t be popular for this but here goes.

Gaza has become a mental illness for a lot of people.

Of course there are many moderate, sensible supporters, but there is also a significant crowd who have become frankly demented - to them there is literally nothing that matters aside from Gaza, and this means they have zero empathy for anyone or anything else and fully expect everyone to get on board with them OR ‘you LOVE genocide’.

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Their antisemitism is fucking vile and 1930s-esque. I’ve seen MANY laughing emojis on stories about children murdered on 7/10, icons of rats, people saying Hitler didn’t go far enough or finish the job.

What I’ve noticed is the ‘support’ seems to be clustered around, or radiate from, places that consider themselves ‘victims of colonialism, so we know how Gaza feels’. Like a white middle class man living in Edinburgh, or Dublin, has any idea what it’s like to be bombed, sniped or suffer an amputation without general anaesthetic. This isn’t even about Gaza for them, it’s yet another excuse to vent their bitterness at ‘the English’ and cast themselves as sad victims, via their ‘allyship’ with Palestine. Anyone who desperately wants to distance themselves from ‘colonialism’ hops aboard and together they indulge in a massive moan-fest about how oppressed they feel and how terrible England/Israel are.

OF COURSE I feel empathy and horror at the women and children maimed and killed in Gaza. I abhor all violence toward innocent civilians. I haven’t shielded myself from the more horrifying footage and I think Netanyahu needs to answer for all of it in some kind of court or official inquiry, because we need answers as to what was done and how it was ‘justified’.

But honestly a lot of it is just pure antisemitism by a very vile bunch of people, and the Greens are capitalising.

The party has been 'captured', that is all there is to it.

I think if the leadership had come out afterwards to say they disagreed with the motion and would be working on ways to remove it then it would maybe have dampened down a bit. But they have had no leadership from Polanski apart from him liking a tweet telling people ' you lost, get over it'. Having Salma Yaqoob being the only one saying Jewish Greens wouldn't be disciplined for going to synagogue when she was one of the architects of the motion and presumably one of the people who refused to amend it to make it clear that they would not be. Sinister that she was not willing to put the protecting in writing if she meant it.

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What I’ve noticed is the ‘support’ seems to be clustered around, or radiate from, places that consider themselves ‘victims of colonialism, so we know how Gaza feels’. Like a white middle class man living in Edinburgh, or Dublin, has any idea what it’s like to be bombed, sniped or suffer an amputation without general anaesthetic. This isn’t even about Gaza for them, it’s yet another excuse to vent their bitterness at ‘the English’ and cast themselves as sad victims, via their ‘allyship’ with Palestine. Anyone who desperately wants to distance themselves from ‘colonialism’ hops aboard and together they indulge in a massive moan-fest about how oppressed they feel and how terrible England/Israel are.

I agree with this. It is the only way to explain the sort of support I've seen from people now voting for the Greens who only voted with their pocketbook before and wouldn't have given the Greens a look in, when they were 'only' interested in the environment.

That's how the former Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron put it. And I think it sums the situation up succinctly.

The question is, what can Polanski possibly say about the European Green Party wanting to distance themselves from the UK Green Party as a result of a vote that he allowed to happen?

Might it enter his dim brain that he just might have fucked up...

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He should do a David Cameron and resign because he allowed a vote that had unintended disastrous consequences.

So reading about how people are ‘terrified of the far right’ but hand wave away this inconvenient fact as ‘racism’ is mind boggling.

Couldn’t agree more.
In my mostly left leaning friendship circles people are always eager to criticise Trump/Musk/Farage (fair enough), but not so much ‘From the river to the sea’ chants and ‘anti-Zionism’.

Interesting that in their statement they said that they had expressed their concern before this so many people had expressed concern and the party completely ignored it. They are done.

I’ve just had a tearful conversation with my uni child who has had a horrible conversation with her flatmates who are fully supportive of this motion. This is the reality. It’s horrible.

Yes, he should. I think he's just a useful idiot to them, though. When I've argued about the Green Party people say to me; "they can't be antisemitic and bigoted - their leader is Jewish and gay!"

Oh my god, that's awful. Poor girl, she doesn't need that. Can she move accommodation?.
What uni?

Oh the number of times I've heard that one.

stupid argument.

Best not to ask, we don’t want to add to her problems.

That's so hard for your daughter. I'm sorry she/you are having to deal with this.

shes not a first year. These are good friends of her who know full well she’s Jewish. I’ve advised her she needs to go to JSOC tomorrow for peer support and see how others are coping. She says it won’t affect their friendship but I’ve told her she needs to agree with them it’s a topic they’re not going to discuss as they won’t agree she wants to preserve their friendship. I’m furious and obviously they’re white privileged middle class males who have never met a Jew before her

Oh ffs. Good call to go to the JSoc. Also, could she get support from UJS?
It's a good idea to tell her housemates about boundaries.
Insensitive, ill informed idiots.

Why would it add to her problems to move accommodation? Just a suggestion. She isn't going to anyway.

It really is.

Clueless fucking twats.

Thank you for this post. You have said what I would have liked to, but so much more eloquently.

I might not be Jewish, but I am 100% a Zionist.

Completely agree, it’s third worldsism, Zineb Riboua is excellent generally as an analyst but explains it well.

https://www.hudson.org/politics-government/third-worldist-logic-zineb-riboua

Also yes it is like a mental illness.

Yes, I've heard it each time I expressed concern.