UK Greens motion: zionism = racism?
The UK Green Party is currently holding its annual conference. On Sunday, october 4th, delegates are due to debate an extraordinary motion declaring Zionism to be racism.
If adopted, the party would in effect be condemning the principle of Jewish national self-determination, while at the very same time strongly supporting Palestinian national self-determination.
That contradiction deserves to be confronted head-on.
This old falsehood has once again been dragged out of the cupboard, as though UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 of 1975 and its explicit revocation by Resolution 46/86 in 1991, had never happened.
Perhaps the conference has also invited sympathetic delegations from Armenia, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Pakistan, all states whose national identity is closely tied to a particular ethnic or national people.
The motion was submitted by one Lubna Speitan. She presents herself as a British artist of Palestinian descent and an activist. Judged by this move, one might be forgiven for thinking she is the great- granddaughter of Amin al-Husseini.
She is a deeply poisonous influence within the British Green Party.