UK Green Party Adopts Resolution Declaring Zionism Racist

The Green Party of England and Wales announced today (Sunday) that it has formally adopted a resolution defining Zionism as racism. The resolution was passed at the party’s annual conference in Brighton.

The proposal, called “Zionism is racism,” passed with 1,022 votes in favor and 813 against, roughly 56% support. It makes the party the first major party in Britain to officially define itself as anti-Zionist.

Key elements of the approved resolution: Rejecting a two-state solution, the resolution changes the party’s long-standing policy and replaces it with a call for the establishment of one democratic Palestinian state “from the sea to the river” (across all of historic Palestine), with Jerusalem as its capital.

Defining Zionism: The proposal defines Zionism as “a political ideology calling for the establishment of a Jewish state based on ethnic nationalism, while excluding the non-Jewish population.” The resolution includes a call to remove the radical protest organization Palestine Action from Britain’s list of banned organizations, support for the BDS movement, the release of Palestinian prisoners, and recognition of the “right to resistance.”

British media reported that party members of Parliament, including former leader Caroline Lucas and deputy leader Rachel Millward, spoke out against the measure, calling it “problematic and divisive.” By contrast, deputy leader Mothin Ali actively supported it.

Party leader Zack Polanski, who is Jewish himself, was absent from the formal vote because of a local election campaign. However, he had previously supported efforts to soften the wording and protect Jewish party members, amendments that were ultimately rejected by the conference.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry responded angrily, issuing a sharply worded statement saying that “Britain’s Green Party has ceased functioning as a political party and has become a terror-supporting body that has adopted Hamas’ doctrine and its ideological platform calling for the destruction of the State of Israel through armed struggle.” The ministry called on the kingdom’s other parties, led by the Labour Party, to disavow the resolution.

Jewish organizations in Britain and Europe condemned the move, arguing that it is an inherently antisemitic resolution, a direct continuation of the notorious 1975 UN resolution, which was revoked in 1991, and that it denies the Jewish people their fundamental right to self-determination.