The head of the Jewish Greens has said she may leave the party after it voted to adopt a policy that equates Zionism with racism and calls for Israel to be replaced by a single Palestinian state.
Vivien Lichtenstein said that while opinion among Jewish members of the party was split on the motion passed at its annual conference in Brighton on Sunday, she said she believed it was unhelpful and it was “possible” she might quit.
The motion says Zionism – the movement for a Jewish state – should be “treated as any other form of racism”. It calls for Israel to be replaced by a single Palestinian state “with equal rights for all”.
Some Jewish Greens have expressed concern that this will mean they could face disciplinary action for belonging to Jewish organisations that officially support Zionism, even synagogues. Supporters of the motion, which was led by a group called Greens for Palestine, have said this would not happen.
Armand1@lemmy.world 5 days ago
If you can’t separate Judaism from Zionism, and condemn the latter, perhaps we don’t want you in the party.
It should be noted that the motion doesn’t say that Jews cannot live in Palestine (including what is currently Israel), but rather that it cannot be theirs exclusively. It states that Zionism, the belief that there should be a state exclusively for one people, is racism.
Zionists, it’s seems, cannot or refuse to see that nuance.
Jews are welcome in the party, Zionism is not.