I won't accept exclusion within Green Party, says Polanski after criticism of Zionism motion (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Zack Polanski has said he will not accept anyone being excluded from the Green Party "because of the religious or communal body they are part of", after members adopted a motion declaring Zionism a form of racism.

The Green leader said "no-one will be made unwelcome because of their background, their faith, or where they worship".

The motion defines Zionism as an ideology supporting "an ethnonationalist Jewish state" and backs a "single democratic Palestinian state in all of historic Palestine".

He added: "As leader I will not accept any exclusion, or refusal to engage with anyone, because of the religious or communal body they are part of."

The motion has exposed divisions between the party's newly enlarged membership base under leader Zack Polanski and its MPs elected at the last general election.

Polanski did not take part in the vote on Sunday and four of the party's five MPs opposed it.

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[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No he's doing what the person above said. Trying to make this about antisemitism when it clearly isn't.

And then saying that Jews who attend Zionist synagogues or are Zionist themselves don't need to worry for getting booted because apparently the Green party can correctly identify racism but doesn't want to kick out racists. You'd think half their party base consists of said racists seeing how afraid they are to lose them. But in reality almost all Zionists are voting Labour or Tory already.

It's great the Green party is moving the overton window ever so slightly but Zack Polanski is trying to put the rabbit back in the hat which is really shameful.

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