U.K. Green Party conference debates controversial 'Zionism is racism' motion
The party voted to treat Zionism as any other form of racism. The Green Party stated it considers Zionism an ethnonationalist political project.
- The UK Green Party adopted a motion equating Zionism with racism, with 1,022 votes to 813, and affirmed support for a single democratic Palestinian state in historic Palestine.
- The Green Party described Zionism as an ethnonationalist political project.
- The motion called for a single democratic Palestinian state in historic Palestine and reaffirmed support for Palestinian liberation and the BDS movement.
- The Israeli government now views the Green Party as legitimizing terrorism and banned Green Party activist Zack Polanski.
- Three British Jewish groups and the Israeli foreign ministry criticized the motion, calling it antisemitic and beyond legitimate political debate.
- The Israeli government issued an entry ban against Zack Polanski and banned the Jewish leader of the Green Party.
- Four of five Green Party MPs publicly rejected the motion.
- The Green Party has five MPs in Britain's 650-seat parliament.
- The UK government considers Israeli settlers' actions in the West Bank to be ethnic cleansing.
- Israel's foreign ministry said the policy exceeds the boundaries of legitimate political debate.
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