Zionists attack Green Party after members vote to brand the ideology racist

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Party leader Zack Polanski has been barred from entering Israel by its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which claimed the resolution “constitutes a clear antisemitic text.”

Mr Polanski, a Jewish man who has been vocal about the genocide in Gaza, did not take part in the vote.

In a statement with Green MPs and his deputies, Mr Polanski said there was “no conflict between supporting the rights of Palestinians and the rights of Jewish people.”

Members in Brighton backed the motion with 1,022 votes in favour and 813 against.

It declares the Greens an “anti-zionist party” and sets out that zionism will be “treated as any other form of racism.”

It also supports a “single democratic Palestinian state in all of historic Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital.”

Supporters chanted “say it loud, say it clear, zionists are not welcome here” following the vote.

Members voted against adding a clause to make clear the motion should not be used to “pressure, proscribe or discipline” party members for their affiliation to synagogues that describe themselves as zionist.

A Green spokesperson said the motion does not have a “material impact on governance or disciplinary procedures.”

The Board of Deputies of British Jews claimed the Greens have become “an extremist party.”

And Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis condemned the vote as “poisonous anti-semitism,” calling it a “threat to British Jews and to Britain.”

A joint statement by senior rabbis Charley Baginsky and Josh Levy said: “By adopting it, the Green Party has made antisemitism party policy and become a racist party.”

Four of its five MPs — Ellie Chowns, Sian Berry and ex-leaders Adrian Ramsay and Carla Denyer — publicly rejected the motion.

The position will become party policy, but the Greens do not require all their politicians to back it.

Lubna Speitan, the member behind the motion, said: “We stand united against all forms of racism and discrimination — no exemptions.”

Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos welcomed the vote, saying: “I felt a strong resonance with our own suffering and it is now visited upon and still visited upon the Palestinian people.

“It is the zionist ideology and tactics that led to this, inevitably.”

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