Israel's British Zionist Friends Get Caught Red-Handed

Israel and their British Zionist allies in parliament have tried a double gotcha on the Greens, but karma had something to say about it Right, so the Embassy of Israel in the UK has put out a public condemnation of a Green Party conference motion and it has done it in the language of authority, shame, and threat, meant to make a British political party flinch before it even gets to a vote, because within days the row has travelled from a document to a widening dogpile, from Israeli whining into the House of Commons, and then implicating the safety of an elected politician, seemingly forgetting the lessons we supposedly had to learn from before. Motion A105, titled “Zionism is Racism”, is a member motion going to the Greens’ spring conference, and the first problem is that most people arguing about it aren’t reading the motion at all, because the text isn’t sitting in front of the public in one clean official place everyone can point to. So what you end up with instead is a fight over characterisations. One side says it’s an anti-racist statement about a political ideology, the other side says it’s hostile and extremist, and the press picks the most inflammatory paraphrase and sells that as the meaning, because it’s what establishment pro-Israel press will do. The bits that keep getting cited are consistent though: that it calls for the party to adopt an explicitly anti-Zionist stance, that it pushes a one-state position in historic Palestine framed as equal rights for all, and that it includes language about a right to resistance and liberation, with a line about “all available means under international law” being treated as the flashpoint, because that phrase can be framed as either a legal claim or a coded endorsement depending on what the person speaking wants their audience to hear.