ZACK Polanski’s Green Party has been branded “racist” by the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
was condemned after they passed the “Zionism is racism” policy motion at its conference earlier this month.
The major organisation overwhelmingly passed the motion by 188 votes to one declaring that “by adopting an antisemitic platform become a racist party”.
The political party says it doesn’t discriminate against those who hold .
They were accused of telling Jews that a “central part” of its identity was racist.
Critics said the motion wrongly conflated Zionism, the movement that led to the creation of as a Jewish state, with the actions of the Israeli government against Palestinians.
president Phil Rosenberg said: “By adopting an antisemitic platform, the Green Party of England and Wales has become a racist party. We will treat it accordingly.
“No political party has the right to tell Jews that a central part of our identity, rooted in thousands of years of history, faith and peoplehood, is racist.
“The Green Party’s policy brands much of our community, including our synagogues and communal organisations, with that slur. It gives prejudice against Jews a political licence.
The Board of Deputies urged other parties not to do deals with the Greens unless they rejected the policy.
A Green Party spokesman said: “The Green Party does not discriminate against or exclude people for holding Zionist views.
“The motion passed at our conference sets out political opposition to the ethnic cleansing and displacement of the Palestinian people.
“We reject the Board of Deputies’ characterisation of this motion and our party, which will not stop us from speaking out against the genocide in Gaza and pushing for stronger sanctions against the Israeli government and its leaders.”
