Is it possible to belong to the Green party and be – ahem – Jewish? (Sorry, it feels like a dirty word these days.) I only ask because members risk being reported to the party for racism if they belong to ‘Zionist’ synagogues, under plans being voted on at the party conference this weekend. After amendments to protect Jews were rejected, the party is voting at their conference in Brighton this weekend on a motion to declare all expressions of Zionism – the Jewish desire for self-determination – a form of racism.
This flows directly from Cold War propaganda produced by the Kremlin. In 1975, after a decade of Soviet and Arab lobbying, the United Nations voted to adopt resolution 3379, which likewise determined that ‘Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination’. Writing for The Spectator at the time, the journalist Goronwy Rees despairingly reflected:
The fundamental thesis… was that to be a Jew, and to be proud of it, and to be determined to preserve the right to be a Jew, is to be an enemy of the human race.
The resolution, which prompted British Students’ Unions to ban Jewish societies on campuses, was only repealed in 1991, after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
If the greatest self-hater of our age is too Jewish for his own party, that rather says something, doesn’t it?
But now it is back. Astonishingly, this blatant piece of dezinformatsiya, which was literally dreamed up by Kremlin ‘Zionologist’ propagandists, is rearing its ugly head in the British far-Left.
In a recording of the Green party meeting seen by the Times, Sam Alston, a Jewish member of the Oxford chapter, argued that making members face internal disciplinary procedures for attending ‘Zionist’ synagogues would be ‘indirect religious discrimination’, as ‘the majority of Jewish institutions and the majority of Jews in the UK define themselves as Zionist’. His concerns were brushed aside.
Which returns me to my original question: is it possible, in 2026, to be Green and Jewish? Your answer, I presume, will be yes – with Zack Polanski, the contemptible leader of that contemptible party, as an example.
Not so fast. At a hustings in north London last month, Polanski insisted to a hostile crowd that Zionism was indeed ‘racism’, so long as you gave it a fresh and racist definition, which is different from the one you might find in the dictionary. By those rules, we could plausibly argue that Polanski should be left around the back of the house and only taken out onto the driveway on Tuesdays, so long as you redefine ‘Polanski’ to mean ‘wheelie bin’.
The former breast hypnotist went on to argue that when Jews objected to people falsely claiming that Israel is conducting a ‘genocide’ in Gaza – a weird genocide that warns its victims with leaflets – then ‘when we call that antisemitic, we are making ourselves as Jewish people less safe’.
Right. If they want to be ‘safe’, then, Jews must remain shtum in the face of anti-Semitic demonisation; allow their own identity to be redefined as sinful; relinquish their right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland; and commit to staying away from the vast majority of synagogues. If that’s safe, show me unsafe.
In fact, as Polanski himself will attest, even those measures won’t save you from the witch-hunts of the Green fanatics. A sub-group within the party called the ‘Global Majority Greens’ (GMG), led by deputy leader Mothin Ali – who notoriously appeared to celebrate 7 October before later apologising – has been fomenting mutiny against their Jewish leader because they disapprove of the way in which he suspended some members suspected of anti-Semitism.
To give you a sense of their tone here, one example is the case of Sabine Mairey. Earlier this year, she shared a post that included a picture of a man holding a placard that read ‘ramming a synagogue isn’t anti-Semitism. It’s revenge.’ Just healthy anti-Zionism, right?
More than 30 local election candidates were accused of spreading such venom on social media in May, leading to nearly a dozen suspensions and two arrests. Yet this, the GMG insists, is an example of persecution of ‘Global Majority candidates and those who support Palestinian liberation’, supporting an atmosphere that supposedly ‘demonises migrants and Muslims’ as well as ‘women’. And they blame Polanski for being too sensitive.
Well. If the greatest self-hater of our age is too Jewish for his own party, that rather says something, doesn’t it? Which suggests that the answer to my original question – if it’s possible to be Green and Jewish? – is increasingly a resounding no.
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