A GP under investigation after making anti-Israel social media posts is among those behind the Green Party’s controversial ‘Zionism is racism’ motion, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
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Rebecca Jones, elected as a party councillor in May in Lewisham, south-east London, is one of 745 ‘supporters’ of the policy, proposed by Green member Lubna Speitan.
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The motion was passed by 1,022 votes, with 813 against, at the party’s annual conference earlier this month, making it party policy.
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It defines Zionism as an ideology supporting ‘an ethnonationalist Jewish state’, and backs ‘a single democratic Palestinian state in all of historic Palestine’, including modern-day Israel.
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Dr Jones, also known as ‘The Vegan Doctor’, who signed the motion, is facing disciplinary proceedings over social media posts, including one saying, ‘Burn Zionism to the ground’, with an image of a burning Israeli flag.
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The GP has also called Bob Vylan, the punk duo who caused widespread controversy after chanting ‘death to the IDF’ at Glastonbury Festival last year, her ‘new favourite band’.
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Dr Jones described a reading of the supposed last will and testament of former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of the October 7 attacks on Israel, as ‘so beautiful’.
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The General Medical Council, which she has told her nearly 20,000 followers is trying to ‘censor and silence doctors’, opened the fitness to practise investigation in June.
‘It was because I speak up against genocide and apartheid in Palestine,’ Dr Jones wrote.
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When approached for comment, she told the Mail: ‘Anti-Zionist views constitute a protected philosophical belief under the Equality Act 2010...
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Zionism can legitimately be viewed as inherently racist, imperialist and colonial.
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Supporting Palestinian liberation is both moral and just.’
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Rebecca Jones, a Green Party councillor in south-east London, is the subject of a fitness to practise investigation by the General Medical Council
Also among the signatories are two of six members of Palestine Action involved in a foiled plot to damage an Israeli drone factory in Shenstone, Staffordshire, in March 2021.
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Jeremy Parker was found guilty of possessing an article with the intent to destroy property – but was spared jail and handed a 12-month prison sentence, suspended for two years.
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He was also ordered to complete 20 rehabilitation days and 150 hours of unpaid work, following a trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court in September 2023.
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Parker told The Mail on Sunday: ‘I am proud to support movements that work to enhance justice in the world.
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‘I reject all forms of racism, including Islamophobia and anti-Semitism, and I believe in the right of the Palestinians to self-determination.’
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The jury failed to reach a verdict on his co-defendant Helen Caney.
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She was later re-tried and found guilty of having articles with intent to destroy or damage property in January 2024 – but spared jail, with a nine-month sentence suspended for two years.
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The pair were part of a group which the judge said would have committed more than £30,000 of criminal damage at the site owned by arms company Elbit Systems.
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Caney responded to The Mail on Sunday with almost exactly the same statement as that of Dr Jones.
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Others listed as supporters of the controversial motion include Hau-Yu Tam, the deputy leader of Lewisham Council, control of which was won by the Greens at local elections in May.
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She has previously faced a backlash for calling Labour MP David Lammy and the Conservatives’ Priti Patel ‘coconuts’ before apologising.
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Ms Tam, who defected from Labour in 2025, also once retweeted posts calling Zionism ‘pure evil’, and insisting it ‘must be abolished’ – as well as others before claiming it is ‘unquestionably the Nazism of our time’.
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She was later cleared of a conduct complaint by a council investigation.
She also once expressed support for a legal bid to have Hamas, a proscribed organisation, taken off the terror list, saying she was ‘extremely proud’ of a lawyer acting on its behalf.
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Ms Tam is joined on the list of backers of the motion by Patrick Thelwell, who was spared jail for throwing five eggs at King Charles and Queen Camilla on a visit to unveil a statue of the late Queen Elizabeth II in November 2022.
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Thelwell, then 23, was handed a 12-month community order with 100 hours of unpaid work and ordered to pay costs of £600 and a £114 surcharge at a rate of £5 per week.
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He now works as an ‘ecological gardener’, ‘filmmaker’ and ‘Green Party activist’, sharing posts with his more than 7,000 Instagram followers, and proclaiming in his bio, ‘I egg kings’.
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The ‘Zionism is racism’ motion is facing mounting backlash, with Green leader Zack Polanski, who has now been banned from Israel, admitting he does not support its current form.
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Four out of the five Green MPs have also opposed it – as has Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who ruled out a coalition with the Greens following the motion, calling it ‘wrong’ and ‘anti-Semitic’.
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Labour also warned on Thursday it could scrap power-sharing deals with the party on local councils in nearly 20 areas amid the crisis – and gave councillors a week to respond.
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Thelwell, Ms Tam, Ms Speitan and the Green Party have been contacted for comment.
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