In a display of characteristic idiocy, a group of Green Party members assembled at the foot of the steps in its conference hall in Brighton, England, last week to sing “From The River To The Sea” and answer questions from the media about its new resolution, making it official policy that “Zionism is racism." Activists were asked what they would say to Jewish people who were aggrieved at being labeled racists for supporting the existence of Israel. The prevailing response seemed to be that they should “educate themselves” and “read some books." Of course! The Jews need to understand that they’ve been wrong about this.
If only Jews understood being Jewish as well as the Greens. The Greens are the most hardline progressive, woke and Gaza-obsessed major political party in Britain. Their standing in the polls has fallen from 20 to 10 percent nationally in the past year, according to an average of the U.K.'s major polling trackers, though they retain five Members of Parliament in the House of Commons.
The motion “Zionism is racism," proposed by the “Greens For Palestine” group, was passed 1,022 in favor to 813 against at the conference. The party leader, Zack Polanski, described it as an “unhelpful distraction." He and some other senior party figures stayed away from the conference for the debate and the vote, so he can probably add cynicism to his list of dubious leadership qualities. His deputy Mothin Ali was there and voted in favor.
Don’t bet against Polanski being ousted soon for being insufficiently “pure.” This is a party with a candidate (Raja Ateeq) who called Jews “cockroaches” on social media in 2023, after all. As if this wasn’t enough, a proposed amendment to the motion, one that set out to protect Jewish Greens from disciplinary action if they were affiliated to a synagogue or other organization that supported Israel’s right to exist, was voted down 1,026 to 684. In other words, the Greens have designated at least 90 percent of Britain’s Jews as racist, while Jewish Greens (there are still some out there) are guilty of racism by association unless they disavow their links to their place of worship.
This mindset already exists in the United States, and it will be interesting to see if it too becomes “official” among socialist groups. Anti-Israel and antisemitic activism is the funnel into which all progressive beliefs fall. Hardline progressive politics is a Trojan horse for political Islam, and so anti-Zionism performs an essential role as the cause that brings together ultra-left progressives and ultra-conservative Muslims.
These two groups have nothing in common, but anti-Zionism provides that missing special something. In 2019, I interviewed the then co-leader of the Greens. In the seven years since, that organization has disappeared, swallowed by the cranks and Islamists who devoured their host and turned an environmentalist party into one obsessed with Israel.
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