UK Greens Adopt Zionism-Racism Policy

What happened

The Green Party adopted a motion treating Zionism as a form of racism, passing it by more than 1,000 votes to 813. The motion backs a single democratic Palestinian state throughout historic Palestine, which would replace Israel as a state with a Jewish national character. The decision exposed a party split: four of its five MPs opposed the motion, while leader Zack Polanski missed the vote. Supporters say Zionism involves Palestinian displacement and domination; British Jewish organisations say Zionism is an anti-racist movement shaped by Jewish persecution. Israeli officials condemned the vote, and members are consulting lawyers about a possible equality-law challenge.

How each side covered it

From the left

Left-leaning outlets framed the vote as an equality fight inside the Greens, while stressing the party split and backlash from Jewish groups and Israel. Al Jazeera centered the party’s wording that Zionism is an “ethnonationalist political project”. The Guardian lingered on Polanski’s absence and criticism of his leadership during a divisive dispute.

From the right

Right-leaning outlets framed the vote as a hard anti-Israel turn, focusing on the threat to Jewish identity and Jewish members. The New York Post stressed that the one-state policy would end Israel as a Jewish state. Breitbart News tied the rejected protections to possible discipline for Jews in Zionist religious settings and cast the shift as Islamo-populism.

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