Zionism, the political ideology behind the State of Israel, is racist. This simple statement of fact, voted upon at this weekend’s Green Party Conference, has sent the British establishment into a fit of hysteria.
As well as correctly describing Zionism as a racist political ideology, the motion also calls for ending arms sales to Israel, the right of return for Palestinian refugees, the reversal of the British state’s ban on Palestine Action, as well as a single, democratic state throughout historic Palestine.
In response, a dozen Labour MPs have reported the Green Party to Sussex Police and the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Labour minister Angela Rayner alleged that the motion “crosses a line” and insinuated that Jews were under attack because of the Greens. Prime Minister Andy Burnham, meanwhile, is coming under pressure from right-wing Labour figures to rule out any future coalition with the Greens.
The hysteria has even spread beyond Britain. Israeli Prime Minister and war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu subsequently banned Zack Polanski from entering Israel, which one astute online commentator correctly dubbed a “badge of honour”.
Die-hard anti-racist Donald Trump, meanwhile, has even had his ‘Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism’ make formal “representations” to the UK.
Meanwhile the leadership of the wider Green movement across Europe – which is dominated by liberalism and open Zionism – is in complete shock, with the German Green Party co-leader Felix Banaszak denouncing the ‘Zionism is racism’ policy as “intolerable and unacceptable”.
Revelations
The motion passed reveals a few things: first and foremost the real attitude of the British establishment and its allies which – after three years of genocide and destruction in Gaza – continues to back Israel to the hilt.
Despite the horrific images and knowledge of maimed children, starvation, and destruction, they’ve had no change of heart – no matter what Andy Burnham and Ed Miliband might cynically pretend.
For these crooked politicians, the plight of the Palestinians and their struggle for a homeland is at best a fig leaf to exert pressure and influence upon Israel, and score points among voters at home. But that is all.
Secondly, this furore has revealed, once again, that the British establishment lives in a cocooned bubble, completely removed from ordinary people. This is why they feel so confident to blurt out their insane absurdities like a petulant child.
In reality, the laughable smears against the Greens have been viewed with disgust, derision, and mockery by many ordinary people – especially the younger generations who have been deeply radicalised by the issue of Palestine.
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— Matt Zarb-Cousin (@mattzarb) October 4, 2026
The notion that the Green Party should take lessons on racism from Daily Mail journalists, GB News anchors, or members of parliament is the height of ridiculousness.
Might we remind our readers of a YouGov poll earlier this year which found the Greens – the only party in Britain currently led by a Jew – ranks among the least antisemitic political parties in Britain!
Two parties
The final key revelation concerns the Green Party itself. Former Green Party leaders like Caroline Lucas and Adrian Ramsey both – predictably – opposed the motion, with the latter stating he was “deeply upset”.
In fact, four out of the five Green MPs voted against the motion, as did party co-leader Rachel Millward. Gorton and Denton MP Hannah Spencer, who was voted into parliament on the back of a prominently pro-Palestine campaign, abstained on the motion. Polanski – likely on purpose – was absent from the vote, busy campaigning in Holborn and St Pancras.
To his credit, party co-leader and Leeds City councillor Mothin Ali gave enthusiastic support to the motion, expressing the sentiments of the thousands of primarily new, radical Green Party members who are celebrating this result.
This whole debacle has exposed what we have explained from the beginning. Since last year’s ‘Green surge’ there has really been two Green Parties existing side-by-side: an old guard of liberals, who stand for a nicer, greener form of capitalism; and the tens of thousands of radicalised workers and youth, who were galvanised on the basis of anti-imperialism, fighting for Palestine, radical wealth redistribution, and taking on the political establishment.
There had been an uneasy coexistence between these two camps ever since Polanski’s victory. The Green leader himself has done all he can to smooth over this divide – much in the same way that Jerermy Corbyn tried (and failed) to do in the Labour Party in the 2010s.
The pressure has been building between these two sides all year, over questions like whether to stand in the Makerfield by-election, and how to relate to Burnham’s Labour. Eventually, something had to give. The fallout of this motion has served to bring this rift out into the open.
Palestine continues to be the best litmus test to see which side of the class divide politicians and public figures stand on. The Green Party old guard now finds itself on the same side as the British state, the media, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Donald Trump.
Such people channel all the pressures of the establishment into the Greens. They cannot co-exist within a party claiming to fight for radical change. Unless the Green Party left wing wages a struggle against this conservative layer, they have no chance in hell of taking on the smears, attacks, and subterfuge of the ruling class – let alone of transforming society.
Zionism is racism
The Israeli state has carried out a genocide against the Palestinans in front of the entire world. Just last week, they continued to kill more innocent Palestinians in both the West Bank and Gaza. Yet this all continues to be ignored by the mainstream media and politicians.
In Israel, Palestinians cannot walk down certain roads, whilst Israelis can. Arab political candidates are banned, whilst ones calling for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians head the government.
Zionism is not only racist – it is imperialist: in practice, it means segregation, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and perpetual war against the Palestinan people.
This is reality. But simply to describe this reality for what it is will have you labelled an antisemite, a racist, exclusionary, or worse. You can be investigated and charged by the state, and even banned from Israel – maybe that last one isn’t so bad.
And so the world is turned upon its head, and reason becomes unreason.
The media and political storm over this motion will blow over, as previous antisemitism smears have done, precisely because the reality is so undeniably obvious – so in-your-face – that it cannot be twisted in any other way.
Where this leaves the Greens remains to be seen. A battle will soon open up. If Polanski comes out swinging, he could easily turn these attacks to his advantage, by appealing to his tens of thousands of radical supporters. But his record of equivocation means this is far from guaranteed.
Greens going through the motions
Rahul Mehta, Finsbury Park
Elected on a wave of popular hatred towards the main political parties, Green Party councillors are now embracing the harsh logic of managing capitalism: making the workers pay through swinging cuts.
If the Greens continue in such a direction, they will face a collapse in their support.
In October 2025, Zack Polanski explained the root cause of the poverty and hardship facing millions of British families: “an economic model built on austerity and privatisation”. This September, Green Mayor of Hackney Zoe Garbett organised an ‘anti-austerity summit’ of community activists, trade union reps, and councillors.
It was on the basis of this opposition to austerity at home (and imperialism abroad) that the Greens were able to rise in the polls. But now, elected Green representatives are breaking many of their campaign promises, and tarnishing their anti-establishment appeal.
Councils and cuts
Only six months into the role, Garbett has already started to implement austerity measures to fund social care. In order to “address a budget shortfall”, a £250 weekly cap has been removed for those receiving non-residential social care. Some residents will see their care costs increasing by 25 percent as a result.
The Green-led Hackney Council may try to justify their cuts as the result of the £67 million budget shortfall they inherited from the Labour administration. But it’ll still sting the thousands who voted for the Greens as an anti-austerity alternative to Labour.
In nearby Haringey Council, Green councillors voted unanimously alongside the Lib Dems and Labour to back cuts recommended by KPMG. Their recent refusal to engage with striking teachers in Highgate Wood is also a sign of where things could go.
Political party or pressure group?
Over the weekend at the Green Party conference, Polanski encouraged voters to support the Greens and “watch Labour move”. Labour, the party of genocide, apparently changed its stance on Palestine thanks to “sustained pressure” from the Greens.
Whether Polanski genuinely believes his party is responsible for Burnham’s weak and tokenistic sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements, or whether this is a cynical attempt to frame this nothing-policy as a Green victory, connecting the Greens to Labour would be a disaster for the party.
In Europe, left-wing parties like Die Linke in Germany claim to act as a left counter-weight to the loathed traditional parties they work with in coalitions against the reactionary AfD. But instead, they are tainted by this association. As the saying goes, when you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
Rearming the party
The Greens’ electoral surge came off the back of their most anti-establishment politics: making the rich pay for the crisis instead of the workers, an opposition to British imperialism’s support for the genocide in Gaza and the US-Iran War.
In Holborn and St Pancras, the last MP – Sir Keir Starmer – has a popularity rating of -45. Yet the possibility of a Green victory is anything but certain.
It is precisely their bending to the interests of the British ruling class which has cut across their popularity. By being soft on austerity and soft on genocide, the Greens have failed to differentiate themselves from Labour.
Polanski’s announcement of a three-year rental cap should be welcomed, though there is likely far more appetite in Britain for the expropriation of the corporate landlords – a demand that is currently being floated in Spain.
To cut across the ‘Burnham bounce’ and Reform’s populism, the Greens need to assert themselves as a genuine anti-establishment party of the left., and certainly not a pressure group for Labour. This can only happen if they are armed with a clear and consistent programme of anti-austerity, anti-imperialism, and anti-capitalism.
