… due to being the leader of a party whose official policy is that the State of Israel has no right to exist, which is, regardless of what weasel-worded apologists might try to claim, purely and simply all that Zionism is. The belief in the existence of a nation state called Israel.
If you are a member of the Green Party, and also a Jew who is a member of a synagogue that believes Israel has a right to exist, you are now subject to censure by your political party. The optics are … troubling.
It’s going to make the run-in interesting this week while he tries to get elected to Starmer’s former seat in Holborn. I notice that he and several others are trying to distance themselves from the motion passed at their party conference this past weekend, but thanks to the way the party operates, it is now policy. A policy he might not have voted for, but then he didn’t stand and speak or vote against it either, despite being party leader.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6jdm5n1vy7go
Anyway. Newsflash for anyone who still thinks the Green Party is for tofu-knitting environmentalists. It is a hard left nut hatch inhabited by people with an unhealthy interest in a very specific form of racism that was popular in parts of Europe in the 1930s and sadly, never seems to have quite gone away.
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