The pro-Israel, so-called ‘Jewish Greens‘ group of the Green Party have followed their pro-genocide manoeuvres to block an anti-Zionism conference motion with an attack on the Canary. The group, which labelled the Greens’ Jewish party leader as ‘antisemitic’ for opposing genocide, successfully filibustered the “Zionism is Racism” motion tabled at the last party conference. Now it is trying to push through a motion condemning the Canary for covering their manoeuvres.
The group, better named ‘Greens for genocide’, has targeted the Canary’s coverage and in particular a guest article by anti-Zionist academic Prof David Miller. Miller is well known for establishing anti-Zionism as a legally-protected philosophy. Unsurprisingly, his thoroughly-sourced dissection of the group’s tactics to kill the anti-genocide motion pulls no punches.
The full, long-winded motion that the group wants the Greens’ conference to pass claims that the Canary’s coverage has been “badly evidenced or unevidenced” and implies, without evidence, that the coverage is misogynistic and will lead to antisemitism. Unsurprisingly, no lawsuits have been brought and no complaints lodged with regulator IMPRESS that the Canary is aware of. Instead, the group has opted for ‘trial by conference’.
als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I know this stuff is important, but I really wish that news outlets stopped reporting on motions tabled by a few rogue members of parties. Many people will see these headlines and think that this is a party policy or something like that.
hiphopheaven@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
If they support genocide and Israel those members should be fired but it seem this is another zionist org pretending to be jewish
als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
“those members should be fired”, they’re not employees, they’re people who have joined the party to vote on policy etc. I assume that the pro-genocide people mentioned here joined the greens just to try and gum up the works.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
What do you mean “pretending”? Are you denying they are Jewish?
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
The Jewish Greens already managed to previously filibuster the Zionism is Racism motion.
Hamartia@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
From what I hear from within the party, it’s just two members that seem to be actively pulling the old hasbara levers. The rest of the Jewish Greens are an even split of ‘moderate’ Zionists and pro-Palestine Jews.
My only only caveat is that this is what I hear through internal gossip. So who knows how accurate that is. From personal experience all of the active members in my constituency are strongly pro-Palestine. Some ran afoul of the spurious antisemitism claims in the lead up to the council elections in May.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
The Canary is basically a sixth form junior common room newsletter. They’re also about to shut down due to financial and managerial incompetence. So they’re being particularly sensitive to any criticism.