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

Kneecap, who you referenced, are in Northern Ireland, not Ireland.

There is a lot more sympathy for the 'send them all home' narrative than you would expect in a group that usually supports open borders.

RTE, who I just linked to, are an Irish newspaper, and Kneecap identify as Irish.

Just look at the Jewish people! How many times have they been genocided, enslaved, and ethnically cleansed throughout history? How many innocent civilians are they endlessly terrorising in response? The obsessive bloodlust and revenge fantasies against the Jewish people are psychotic.

Yes, it’s to do with history for Ireland, as the article says. Nobody is claiming to be experiencing the same conditions presently, as you suggested they did.

The Prada brand ambassador Saint Levant publicly praised the pogrom in Amsterdam and said 'it's not the first time they came to a land that wasn't theirs and started trouble.' The irony...

Oh the rainbow flags are definitely an issue

Since we started to see more of those starting during lockdown I know parents with certain ideology that ban their kids from having anything with a rainbow on. Basically the LGBTQ community have ruined the joy rainbows from millions of children whose parents won't let them enjoy them.

A friend that I walk with told me off once for wearing a rainbow striped jumper whilst we go walking. She was worried people in her community would think I as a lesbian, therefore she was too. I worn that particularly jumper ever single time we went walking after that!⁹

I didn’t say that. I said they’ve been saying they know what it’s like for Palestinians. Which is what they are saying from their quotes.

Please don’t be overly sensitive and accept this straightforward criticism of some of your countrymen. Ireland isn’t too special for criticism, nor are its people.

So intolerant. Some students objected to the Pride flags being displayed at our school. They were very voluble in their disgust.

If you have a look at how she campaigned in Gorton and her subsequent social media videos, this can hardly be a surprise.

@WinterGold Germany and Japan were Axis powers why would they be overly defensive after losing a fight they started? Not the same at all. Are you aware of the basic facts of WW2?

Because they are Irish. But they live in NI, part of the UK.
RTE is a public service broadcaster in ROI.

There’s a big difference between NI and Ireland (ROI), but people on MN conflate them all the time. Very exasperating.

So you’re arguing Kneecap’s views come from a place of Britishness and their UK background..? That seems nonsensical to me.

Some insects, lie the Emerald Cockroach Wasp who take over cockroaches as their host, look for weak hosts.

That's just one example of dangerous parasites in nature who destroy a host in order to further their own species.

Humans do this too, in a more metaphorical sense and the Green Party is a dire warning of what can happen when an official body becomes a host.

The Green Party is being eaten alive but all we hear from it is the occasional dying bleat as they succumb.

I’m not arguing that.
I’m saying their views are a product of their upbringing in NI.
Being brought up in NI during the Troubles was very different to being brought up in Ireland.
It’s not the same. That’s what I’m saying.

But it’s also very different to the experience of Palestinians.

It makes the same sense as me drawing parallels with them because we suffered a prolonged aerial bombing campaign in the Blitz.

Aka none. There’s a few very broad similar facts but otherwise completely different.

I do think Ireland has become a little smug in assuming it’s always ‘on the right side of history’. You are, until you’re not. I admire their stance on lots of things, but this isn’t one of them.

Just preface your tunnelling Jews with ‘The (Hamas-run) Health Ministry reports…’ and it would be a definite fact.

This; and pointing at GERMANY as an example of ‘not reacting’ when THEY perpetrated the Holocaust agains Jews is fucking deplorable!!

Plus they had their army removed and were neutered until very recently, so hardly ‘not reacting’ out of choice were they??

Basic history wouldn’t go amiss here

Put that on a banner and some clueless idiot will wave it on the next hate march.

Add an AI photo of it happening and it will make be used by certain politicians and certain national media as a serious debate point

(We have seen them do this before a few times now)

I’m not sure re NI, but in Ireland it’s not the Troubles that are being referenced when people speak of sympathy or empathy, it’s the older history of oppression.

Very evocative!

I was thinking more hypocrisy.

Darwinism in action. That's the bit that worries me most.

Gad Saad uses a very similar metaphor for his concept of ‘suicidal empathy’.

He talks about how a hairworm parasite hijacks the brain of a wood cricket, forcing it to jump into water and drown itself to complete the parasite's life cycle.