Greens make ‘Zionism is racism’ policy as Polanski skips vote

• Green Party members voted 1,022 to 813 to define Zionism as racism and declare the party anti-Zionist at their Brighton conference.
• Party leader Zack Polanski missed the vote after leaving the conference early to campaign for the Holborn and St Pancras by-election.
• The adopted motion also calls for the establishment of a single democratic Palestinian state across historic Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital.
• Four of the party's five MPs, including former co-leaders Adrian Ramsay and Carla Denyer, publicly rejected the motion, highlighting internal party divisions.
• Jewish community leaders strongly condemned the decision, warning that the motion creates an overtly antisemitic platform and harms the welfare of British Jews.

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Green Party members pass ‘Zionism is racism’ motion