"The Greens are more extreme than mainstream Palestinian opinion." | The News Agents

By all available means, they mean armed struggle. So in this resolution, they have moved now beyond the position, which I think is still probably the majority position of the Palestinian people. It's the position of Fatah and of the Palestinian Authority, the position carved out by Yasser Arafat, which is, we are no longer in the business of armed struggle, of violence, of terrorist violence. We're now in the business of politics and diplomacy. No, the Greens are further to the, if you want to call it the left, they're more extreme than mainstream Palestinian opinion they're saying violence is now legitimate i mean the mainstream Palestinian position mainstream international position is two states two states in terms they spell out they want the elimination the eradication of one of those the Jewish one the Israeli one and they are happy to see that achieved by violence now that's a huge deal but the Green Party of all parties is no longer a party of peace they're a party of of extreme violence uh called for by only a minority of Palestinian people the minority trend or strain represented by Hamas uh they don't talk about for example the self-determination being decided by the people uh in the on the territory they say specifically it has to be a Palestinian state it's up to the Palestinians to decide what happens to seven eight nine million Jews what this motion does do is, I guess, directly impact green Jewish members who are just going about their daily cultural, spiritual, religious needs. The Green Party obviously says it's incompatible to be a Green and a member of a racist organization. We couldn't do that. They have now branded any organization aligned with Zionism as racist. You wouldn't struggle to find a synagogue in the world that wouldn't be defined on their own terms as Zionists, not in the sense that the Greens think, which means supporting the Israeli government or the war in Gaza, but just in terms of an orientation towards Israel and towards Zion, because that's in the resolution. It's in the prayers, frankly. It's literally in the prayers, all through the prayer books. It says Zion, Israel, every other page. Now, does that mean that the prayer book is falling foul of this Green resolution? It's racist. It's racist because it's Zionist. This is the morass they've got themselves into because the word Zionism does not mean to Jews what they think it means, but they've decided to define it. This doesn't just extend to members of the Green Party. This will have an effect on British Jewish life. It sounds fanciful until you reflect that the proposer of this motion just two months ago said synagogues in Britain need to be, quote, confronted, unquote. This is a very dark development.