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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Aletha Adu, Peter Walker and Deborah Cole

Green party of England and Wales facing ostracism over ‘Zionism is racism’ vote

Mothin Ali, who wears a tweed cap, a T-shirt reading Global Majority Greens plus a Palestinian flag badge, stands between a man who wears a keffiyeh scarf on his head and a woman with one over her shoulders.
The deputy Green leader, Mothin Ali, talks to delegates during a break in the vote on Zionism at the party’s conference. Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian

The English and Welsh Greens are facing international ostracism after adopting a policy declaring Zionism as a form of racism, which has drawn dismay from the group representing European Greens.

The co-leader of the German Greens separately said the policy was “intolerable and unacceptable”, running contrary to its belief in the right of Israel to exist.

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