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The motion itself identifies Zionism as sustaining an apartheid system between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
By Shula Rosen
A controversial proposal within the UK Green Party labeled “Zionism is Racism” was not debated or voted on at the party’s Spring Conference after a series of procedural challenges consumed the allotted time.
The motion, known as Motion A105 Zionism is Racism, had been introduced in February and was expected to come before members on Saturday.
It characterizes Zionism as a racist ideology, cites its “continued harm to Palestinians,” and calls for the party to formally adopt an anti-Zionist position.
Ahead of the scheduled debate, competing internal efforts reshaped the agenda. Members associated with Jewish Greens advanced a separate measure aimed at limiting the use of the terms “Zionist” and “anti-Zionist” in official party communications.
In response, backers of Motion A105 moved to accelerate consideration of their proposal.
Before any discussion could take place, multiple motions expressing no confidence in the conference chair were submitted in succession.
Party rules required each to be addressed, which took up the remaining time, even after the session was extended. As a result, the motion and its four amendments were not considered.
The proposal remains eligible to be brought forward at a future conference.
The motion itself outlines a position that identifies Zionism as Israel’s foundational ideology and alleges it sustains an apartheid system between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
It also calls for a “single democratic Palestinian state in all of historic Palestine, with Jerusalem as its capital.”
Separately, The Telegraph reported internal messages from a Green Party WhatsApp group in which one participant described Jewish people as “an abomination to this planet.”
Another wrote that Jews “murder, bomb, and starve” children, and a third described an arson attack on four Hatzola ambulances in London as a “false flag.”
Campaign Against Antisemitism said it would review the correspondence. “Their views are straight out of Nazi Germany,” the group said, adding, “Doing nothing will be the real abomination.”
Party leader Zach Polanski also clashed publicly with British journalist Nicole Lampert, calling her conduct “parasitic” and saying he would take “no lectures in antisemitism” from the Daily Mail.
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