Comment on Greens’ ‘Zionism is racism’ worse than anything under Corbyn, antisemitism tsar warns
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 5 days ago
I don’t think anyone here is going to object to calling Zionism racism. But is it possible, at all, for the Greens to be a little more… you know… politically savvy about this?
I reckon the leadership of the Greens is fuming their arses off. On the one hand it’s what the members voted on at the conference. On the other hand it’s like handing a grenade to everyone to blow them up with. It plays directly into the victim complex the right wing Israeli politicians have allowing them to justify their campaign of genocide. It also gives the party yet another media mess to manage.
Just a little bit amateurish for not a lot of gains.
Any party like the Greens has to be perfect to gain any chance at taking power. They’ve got the right and far right against them, the neolibs, enlightened centrists, center-left, the establishment, and the vast majority of corporate media all waiting for any sign of weakness.
All of that and they’re far from perfect.
Wait til you hear that the member who proposed the motion has maintained a “friendship” with an Al-Quaeda member serving a 40-year sentence.
As it happens, it wasn’t one person who proposed the motion. Separate people in my local Green Party constituency came to me many months ago (before the previous conference, where the motion was filibustered) trying to get it off the ground.
It’s not agents, terrorists or a small minority of people plotting. A decent chunk of people wanted this motion to pass.
And out of all 700+ names, the party chose hers to be the most prominently connected with the motion. Not the smartest politicos in the cesspit.
Wimopy@feddit.uk 4 days ago
I think it’s appropriately bold. Right-wingers will find fault anyway. People are tired of politicians being cautious and diplomatic all the time, and if you want that you still have Lib Dem and Labour. Meanwhile I’ve seen people say the Greens are just idealists who talk big, but they finally have a chance to show they walk the walk.
Reform is big despite multiple scandals, racism, etc. I think it’s fine to say “look, if you want someone similarly bold, but on the left side of the spectrum: Green can be that”.
mlcgdrhu@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
How many of the Green leadership are landlords again?
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Like that matters.
Most politicians are landlords.
Doesn’t change anything about their policies.
mlcgdrhu@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
What is the E&W Green Party stance on landlords?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy9zqzp44vo
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clykgxp754no
Scandalous, no?