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Oct 6, 2026
Tessa DunlopHOST
J- j- just to quote Lucas, "I urge you not to support the oversimplification at the heart of this motion, a refusal to accept complexities which is leading to so many Jewish members feeling scared and unwelcome in our party." I think this is the great issue and why it's impossible, why it's such a tragedy that it's turned into a hot button issue for obvious reasons because of the level of complexity, um, that, that binds this to the hearts and minds of so many people in Britain, and at the same time means there's profound and deep misunderstandings and dangers inherent in it.
Tessa DunlopHOST
Uh, I noticed that this, this question of Zionism again is, just to go back to the, the original and the, and the headline-grabbing motion, is, um, hugely divisive because the, the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council have said in a statement, "Zionism is anti-racim- ra- racism, creating a refuge for Jews in their ancient homeland after millennia of persecution outside it." Which speaks, of course, to this double-ended problem, doesn't it-
Iain DaleHOST
Yeah
Tessa DunlopHOST
... about the establishment of the state of Israel.
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British Jewish organizations have universally condemned the conference decision, describing the motion as a direct attack on Jewish identity and self-determination.
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Representatives from the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Jewish Leadership Council, and the Movement for Progressive Judaism issued joint statements warning that declaring Zionism inherently racist creates a hostile environment for Jewish members within the party.
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Although party leadership maintains that safeguards remain in place to protect all members from discrimination, senior commentators caution that the vote threatens to isolate the Green Party from mainstream electoral politics as it navigates ongoing parliamentary by-elections.
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Deborah PardesHOST
The measure was also condemned by many Jewish groups in the UK.
Deborah PardesHOST
In a statement, the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council called the motion an attack on the Jewish community.
Deborah PardesHOST
They said, quote, "It is an antisemitic platform based on a grossly offensive distortion and erasure of Jewish experience and identity." We spoke with Adam Langleben, who's the director of a Labour Party think tank called Progress.
Adam LanglebenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is the most antisemitic and racist motion ever put before a mainstream political party in Britain, and it is that because it seeks to create a test for Jews in that it says that anyone who is a Zionist is a racist.
Wilfred FrostHOST
The Conservatives said it toxic to its core.
Wilfred FrostHOST
Perhaps most importantly is what the Board of Deputies of British Jews, uh, and the Jewish Leadership Council have said.
Wilfred FrostHOST
And just a reminder, by the way, this, uh, this motion also says that a single democratic Palestinian state in, uh, all of historic Palestine, uh, is what they support.
Wilfred FrostHOST
You know, obviously by implication, the removal of, uh, the state of Israel.
David RobertsonHOST
It is the belief that the Jews have a right to return to their own country of Judea, Israel, Jerusalem.
David RobertsonHOST
Zionism, as the British, uh, Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership Council said, is anti-racism creating a refuge for Jews in their ancient homeland after millennia of persecution outside it.
David RobertsonHOST
Well, that is true.
David RobertsonHOST
And look, what the Greens have done, they've become an anti-woman party.
Mark AdderleyHOST
going to go to some really important clips.
Mark AdderleyHOST
The Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Community Security Trust and Jewish Leadership Council wrote a joint letter to the Green Party before today's vote saying that if the Zionism is racism motion were to pass, the party would place itself on the extreme margins of democratic politics.
Nadia SawalhaHOST
And genociding is not extreme.
Nadia SawalhaHOST
To be salivating and rubbing one's hands over hanging people until they are dead.
Deborah PardesHOST
Mahmood framed it as compassion balanced with control, but it's raising concerns among the country's Jewish community.
Deborah PardesHOST
The Jewish Leadership Council, an umbrella group representing UK Jewish organizations, wrote to Mahmood expressing that without effective security screening, the program could make antisemitic views more prevalent and asked what steps the government could take to remove someone if serious security issues emerge.
Deborah PardesHOST
Concerns over Britain's screening procedures have resurfaced after a report in the Sunday Times this week.
Deborah PardesHOST
It was about a bodyguard to a former Hamas leader.
Chris DoyleGUEST
Certainly that change.
Chris DoyleGUEST
But the British Jewish establishment groups like the Board of Deputies, the chief rabbi as well, you know, United Jewish Leadership or Jewish Leadership Council.
Chris DoyleGUEST
they all tried to uh you know state that the british jewish community is united they try to say our view we are the only legitimate bodies who represent british jews but actually what all the debate that has ensued has demonstrated this is far from the truth that actually the british jewish community does have many different strands of opinion and quite passionately held.
Chris DoyleGUEST
And we saw many British Jews going out on protests.