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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Group encouraging people to join Green party to back ‘Zionism is racism’ agenda

Zack Polanski speaks into a microphone outdoors, with people gathered behind him
Green party leader Zack Polanski has come under pressure to take a definitive stance on motion to be voted on at party conference. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

An organisation pushing the Green party to equate Zionism with racism has encouraged people to join the party specifically to support that agenda, and has links to activists who say that pro-Israel “infiltrators” must be rooted out of the UK, the Guardian has learned.

Some Green members are increasingly concerned that the party risks being manipulated by extremist outsiders over a motion to be voted on at the party’s annual conference this weekend, which states that “Zionism is racism”.

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