Stephen Pollard writes that the Green Party voted to ban individuals who support Zionism from membership during their conference. The motion passed with 1,022 votes in favor and 813 against, declaring Zionism as racist. This decision effectively excludes most Jews from joining the party since supporting Israel's right to exist aligns with Zionist ideology. Pollard argues that this move is inherently anti-Semitic and criticizes the Green Party for integrating Jew hatred into their core principles under the guise of progressive politics.
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Green Party members adopted a motion equating Zionism with racism at the party's annual conference in Brighton. The motion passed by 1,022 votes to 813 and defines Zionism as an ideology supporting "an ethnonationalist Jewish state." It also calls for the establishment of a single democratic Palestinian State with equal rights for all citizens.
Deputy leaders were divided on the issue: Mothin Ali supported it, while Rachel Millward described its wording as problematic. The motion has caused significant internal division within the party and was criticized by some Jewish groups, including the Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership Council. Party leader Zack Polanski missed the vote to campaign in Holborn and St Pancras.
Supporters argue that Zionism inherently dehumanizes Palestinians and calls for an end to arms sales to Israel's government. Critics warn the policy could alienate many Jewish members, making it impossible for them to join or remain in the party if they affiliate with synagogues that consider themselves Zionist.
Despite concerns, the Green Party maintains it remains committed to opposing racism in all its forms and will protect Jewish members. The new stance emphasizes calling out Zionism as racism but does not impose disciplinary measures against those who support it within the party.
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Yesterday afternoon, the Green Party voted to ban me from membership.
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Party → vote → membership
Not just me: they have also voted to ban the vast majority of Britain’s roughly 300,000 Jews from joining the party.
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they → vote → party
They didn’t put it like that, of course.
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They → put → course
Indeed, the Greens’ racism is couched in the language of progressive, ‘anti-racist’ politics.
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racism → couch → politics
As is so often the case, it is these self-proclaimed progressives who turn out to be some of the most dangerous, bigoted and racist people alive.
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who → proclaim → people
On the final day of their conference, the Green Party debated a motion which declares that Zionism – the notion that the Jewish people have the right to self- determination in their historic homeland – is racist and should be ‘treated like any other form of racism’.
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people → debate → racism
It passed by 1,022 votes to 813.
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It → pass → 813
Following the vote, the party announced that ‘this motion will be implemented by the anti-racism policy working group as appropriate and in accordance with its ordinary practice’.
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motion → follow → practice
Since the Greens do not allow people they consider to be racists or members of racist organisations to belong to the party, this effectively means that the overwhelming majority of Jews – including anyone who is a member of almost any synagogue or Jewish organisation – will be barred from Green membership.
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who → allow → membership
When you label the very existence of Israel as racist, you not only label Israelis as illegitimate – you label Jews worldwide as racist, because Israel is our spiritual home.
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Israel → label → Jews
The Jews were known for centuries as Am Yisrael – the people of Israel – long before we were described as Jews.
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we → know → Jews
That is why almost every Jew, beyond the tiny number of self-caricaturing ‘anti-Zionist Jews’ who are regularly wheeled out by the Israel-haters, is a Zionist.
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who → wheel → haters
But singling out the Jews’ right to self-determination is itself a form of racism and thus uniquely immoral and illegitimate.
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singling → single → racism
It is a tactic for Jew haters to dress up their hate in the language of ‘anti-racism’ – a grotesque warping of what is an ostensibly admirable concept.
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what → dress → warping
The party’s deputy leader, Mothin Ali, cried ‘Allahu Akbar’ on being elected a Leeds councillor
We live in dark times.
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We → cry → times
The Greens’ average poll rating may have fallen in recent months but it is still around 10 per cent – and they are in control of councils where thousands of Jews live.
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thousands → fall → Jews
With every possibility that the next election could lead to a hung Parliament, the Greens cannot be dismissed as irrelevant.
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Greens → lead → Parliament
Labour under Jeremy Corbyn was a form of political petri dish in which anti-Semitism was allowed to grow and infect the Left.
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Semitism → allow → Left
Now Labour backbench MPs fear the rise of the sectarian Muslim vote and today’s Greens have built on Corbyn’s foundations and turned Jew hate into one of their party’s basic principles.
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Greens → fear → principles
The party’s deputy leader, Mothin Ali, cried ‘Allahu Akbar’ on being elected a Leeds councillor.
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leader → cry → Akbar
And the day after the October 7 massacre he wrote that ‘indigenous people have the right to fight back’ and called for an end to ‘white supremacist European settler colonialism’.
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people → write → colonialism
Meanwhile, Greens For Palestine, the group which is behind yesterday’s motion, has recently published a booklet, ‘Zionism is Racism: Why it matters’, urging members to support the motion and the ‘inalienable right’ to ‘armed’ Palestinian resistance against the ‘monstrous state’ of Israel.
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it → publish → Israel
Wednesday sees the third anniversary of just such armed Palestinian resistance – the massacre of 1,200 Israelis by Hamas.
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Wednesday → see → Hamas
This is what they defend.
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they → defend → what
The Muslim Vote, an umbrella group for independent Muslim candidates who backed 56 Green candidates in 2024, says it wants a ‘grand deal’ with the party.
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it → back → party
The irony of yesterday’s vote is that no such deal is needed.
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deal → need → vote
The Greens are already an Islamist party, with Jew-hate embedded in its core.
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hate → embed → core
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