This is a controversial opinion but I do think there's merit to it which I'll explain.
Adam Langleben is the executive director at progress - a labour thinktank.
I've followed him on twitter since I think 2017 when it was all kicking off in the Labour party with Corbyn and anti-Semitism. He's Jewish and stressed how bad it was for Jewish party members and the impact it was having.
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My prediction:
The loony Green motion will pass tomorrow. The Green MPs rightly will vote against this (the most antisemitic proposition put to a political party outside of the far right ever). Greens will lose Holborn & St Pancras.
The nutters will blame the leadership/MPs for not being pure enough. Polanski & the MPs will all face threats of deselection. Polanski will be challenged by Ali at the next scheduled leadership election. The remaining MPs will face an almighty choice on what to do next.
Let me explain why its a far right motion. The impact on the Gov of Israel is Zero. Netanyahu couldnt give a toss about the GPEW. But the impact on British Jews is this: it becomes official policy of the Green Party to crudely decide which Jews are good and which Jews are bad. /1
That Green Party control councils that have tens of thousands of Jews who identify as Zionist (many with no political views apart from a belief post the Holocaust that Jews need a safehaven). /2
It has impact on synagogues, schools and the ability of any Green politician to speak to a Jew without conducting a crude test on whether this or that Jew meets a test that 90% of Jews cannot reach because of history. /3
It assumes every British Jew wishes harm on Palestinians, which is so far from the truth. Forget any politics. For 2000 years Jews pray facing east and our liturgy contains references of a return to Zion (Jsrusalem). Do our prayer books need to be changed? /4
It creates a modern situation almost akin to the Crusades. The only way for Jews to be safe is to accept their wrongdoing (there was none) and convert to Christianity, or else. In this case its an ideological purity test that cannot be met.
All this for one of the smallest minority communities in Britain. That has thousands of years of majorities in countries that they have lived demanding such mad tests. Google: Oath More Judaico, the inquisition, the anti-cosmopolitan campaign in the USSR or Poland in 1968.
Other examples are available. But broadly. History is littered with demanding such tests. Normally only for Jews.
Lastly. It will create an inquisition within the Green Party. Loads of Green politicians will take a liberal read of this document and still meet with Jews, visit school or attend synagogues (if those places will have them after this).
But for those more hardcore in the group pushing this motion, their reading is far more conservative. The next step will be to accuse those Greens of betrayal. There will be complaints and in time pushes to make this outlawed.
But the extreme elements pushing this believe that Zionists (Jews) control everything. They are angry and obsessed. And for them it isnt just Israel that needs to be "dezionised", but Britain too (as per David Miller's writing).
We already know that there a purity test going on with regards to TWAW so I don't actually think this is that wild in his assessment. He's generally been a fairly moderate and consistent voice for left wing Jewish voters in the UK and is anti Netanyahu.
There's something else that fits here too.
Over the last few years there's definitely been moves across the country with a "Muslim vote". There were the accusations of Family Voting by a election observation group which didn't get upheld but there's other stuff too.
There's been a number of constituencies where independents have stood as Muslim candidates largely on a Gaza platform and were elected. They then formed a parliamentary group with Jeremy Corbyn to work together but not actually have a political party. These are Shockat Adam (Leicester South), Iqbal Mohamed (Dewsbury and Batley), Adnan Hussain (Blackburn) and Ayoub Khan (Birmingham Perry Barr).
We've also had George Galloway in this space - and he's actually standing in the Holborn by-election against Polanski so this is particularly relevant in terms of what might happen. He could well split the vote - allowing Labour to retain the seat and put Polanski in a difficult position. By all accounts Polanski had a late jitter about standing and wanted someone else to because he had a wobble over winning. I think Polanski is in danger of FAFO over the whole By-election. (The Communist Party are also standing are critical of both btw).
Galloway has long occupied this infamous space where the far left meets the far right and tbh isn't easy to conclusively place in the political spectrum. His history of being pro-russian and pro-iranian and doing interviews for TV networks in both is somewhat notorious.
What's happening with the greens could well be something of a consolation of these forces within the party. It would tie in with the Gorton By-election voting too.
I would argue there's definitely a base for this within British politics at this point which should be acknowledged rather than dismissed as a 'far right alarmist fear' as it's unlikely to just disappear. Religious sectarian political parties are always bad news imho. Doesn't matter what religion.
My question would be whether there'll ultimately be room within the green party for the trans rights activists a little further down the line given Ali refused to express support for LGBT+ rights in his deputy leader campaign. He has said that the far right are after both and their fight is one but if this does evolve in this direction, he will have less need to keep support of trans activists.
So yeah I think it's a see what happens thing because I think the future of the Green Party is being battled over and it's not about environmentalism as it's primary direction.
I do think there's going to be significant political changes in the UK over the next couple of years because it's likely energy prices and other economic factors are going to create another economic crisis - this puts social pressure most on those at the bottom of the economic food chain and that tends to be immigrants and the white working class so I can only see increased rising tension and polarisation happening along these lines because of the economic underpinnings.
Trans activism has a major problem in that it's a bunch of people asking for money for their transition and that just isn't going to fit with people struggling to feed families. It's a movement for the middle classes who are going to get squeezed hard - I think it will be increasing less of a priority to virtue signal. Food banks are a hard sell as a photo op for wealthy celebrities so that'll be interesting in terms of where the celebrity cause goes. I think there may be a few out of work, hit hard times celebrities who use them to try and promote themselves and get a job though.
So yeah. I think it is pretty fair to see this as something of an existential vote for the green party and one that puts Polanski in a very difficult position.