Anti-Zionism IS NOT Anti-Semitism
As the first Jewish
member of the Labour Party to be expelled as a result of the ‘anti-Semitism’
smear campaign, I experienced a sense of déjà vu when on April 16 I was
suspended from the Green Party.
After I joined the
Green Party on March 31 I was the subject of articles in the Jewish
Chronicle and Telegraph
whose theme was that the Corbyn ‘anti-Semites’ were now crossing over to
the Green Party. By April 13 a complaint had been submitted against me.
But if members of the
Labour Party, including some on the left, could be forgiven for thinking that
there was no smoke without fire in 2016 when I was suspended, no such excuse
can be made today. ‘Anti-Semitism’ has been the sole response to allegations of
Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing.
When a warrant was
issued by the International Criminal Court for Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant,
Israel’s Defence Minister, Netanyahu proclaimed
that this was ‘pure anti-Semitism’. Because
we all know that the Israeli Defence Forces is the most
moral army in the world.
There have been nearly
three years of genocide in Gaza. It is estimated that hundreds
of thousands of Palestinians have been killed. There is no war crime or
atrocity that Israel has not committed.
The UN’s Report on
Israel’s treatment of Palestinian Children makes shocking reading. It
concluded that:
‘The Commission found that much of the harm suffered by Palestinian children was not incidental but intended to destroy the existence of the Palestinians in Gaza as a group. Since children embody the biological and social continuity of the group, the Commission has reasonable grounds to conclude that these acts form part of a deliberate strategy to destroy the future of the Palestinians in Gaza by targeting their children.
In other words the IDF
was deliberately killing Palestinian children knowing that they are the future
of the Palestinian people. Israel was exterminating children to kill off a
future generation. The quintessential definition of genocide. Unsurprisingly Israel
refused to co-operate with the Commission as it does all independent inquiries.
Former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked Described Palestinian Children as 'Little Snakes'
The ideological
groundwork for this extermination had been done by neo-Nazi Rabbis such as Eliyahu Mali of Bnei Moshe Yeshiva in Jaffa who openly advocated the murder of children. Mali justified
exterminating Palestinian children because he saw them as the future generation
of fighters.
Rabbi Mali who trains religious Jews for the Israeli army advocates
killing Palestinian children
Today's terrorists are the children of the prior [military] operation that left them alive. The women are essentially the ones who are producing the terrorists,... It's not only the 14 or 16-year-old boy, the 20 or 30-year-old man who takes up a weapon against you but also the future generation. There's really no difference
On October 4, 1943
Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS which was responsible for implementing the
Final Solution, told a meeting of senior SS Generals that:
‘I did not assume to have the right to
exterminate the men… and have the avengers personified in the children to
become adults for our children and grandchildren.’
Israel’s
hasbara (propaganda) rests on accusations
of anti-Semitism. This is the context for the ‘anti-Semitism’ allegations
against Green anti-Zionists. The Green Party Council [GPC] cannot claim
ignorance or that it was unaware of what was happening.
The Genocide in Gaza is
staring people in the face as are the false accusations of ‘anti-Semitism’. Not
just by Israel but its supporters, including those in the Green Party such as
Elise Benjamin and Mark Strong.
How the Media Creates a False Antisemitism Panic as Opposed to the Attack on Muslims in Edinburgh Which was Ignored
The suspension, not
just of myself but at least 30 Green Party Council candidates in the recent
local elections was not just a panicked reaction by Green Party officials. Certain
members of the GPC, such as Laura Eccott, took advantage of the press barrage
in order to try and take out Green Anti-Zionists.
The media
attacks on Zack Polanski, the party’s Jewish leader and Green Party
‘anti-Semitism’ gave the game away. They took the form of anti-Semitic cartoons
which would not have been out of place in the Nazi paper Der Sturmer.
Historically
support for Zionism and anti-Semitism went hand in hand. The founder of
Political Zionism, Theodor Herzl explained
in his Diaries on 12 June 1895 that ‘The
anti-Semites will be our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic our allies’ and
so it has proved.
In October
last year Tommy Robinson, the founder of the English Defence League, was a guest
of the Israeli government. Although the Zionist Board of Deputies of British
Jews condemned the invitation it knew very well that the Israeli state has long
had an alliance with anti-Semites.
When the BOD held its march against 'anti-Semitism' they invited 'gas 'em' Nigel Farage of the openly racist Reform Party but failed to invite the only Jewish leader of a major political party, Zack Polanski. Clearly the march was not against anti-Semitism.
I will never attend a march fighting antisemitism, where Zack Polanski isn't invited but 'Gas the Jews' Nigel Farage is.
— Lisa Moorish (@LisaMoorish) May 10, 2026
And well done to the over 2000 Jews who signed a petition to withdraw Farage's invite to this. https://t.co/8MOA5YYqtH
The Board
itself has long had a problem with Islamophobia in its own ranks. Gary Mond,
the former Senior Vice Chair of the Board and a virulent
Islamophobe was forced to resign but many others stayed.
For two
years running Israel’s Diaspora Minister, Amichai Chikli, has organised
a conference ‘Fighting anti-Semitism.’ Who did he invite? Some of the world’s best known anti-Semites
and neo-Nazis. There is a certain logic in this.
Zionist
organisations outside Israel were clearly embarrassed. As they were attacking
anti-Zionists as ‘anti-Semites’ Israel was proving that Zionism has no problem
with anti-Semitism.
Jewish Zionism has always been a form of Jewish anti-Semitism. When
Zionism first arose most Jews saw it as anti-Semitism in Jewish clothing. The
anti-Semites said Jews did not belong in the countries where they lived and the
Zionists agreed. The concept of a Jewish ‘return’ to Palestine was Christian
Zionist in origin based on the idea that European Jews were strangers in their
own lands.
Elise
Benjamin's, the Zionist Green's Victimisation Complex
Indiscrimate boycotts end up harming the very people they're meant to help and risk weakening the very people opposing the current government. https://t.co/Ub3fKxN74B
— Elise Benjamin 🇺🇦 (@EliseDB) May 29, 2026
As I
explained in my Open
Letter to the Green Party Council of 26 June, the disciplinary procedures
in the Green Party are not fit for purpose. They are being manipulated by
Zionist Greens such as the co-chair of the Green Party Council, Laura Eccott
and Elise Benjamin, as part of a war by Establishment Greens against anti-Zionists.
Zack Polanski has upset a number of the old guard such as former MP, Caroline
Lucas who see no contradiction between Green policies and supporting capitalism
and imperialism.
This week
all four MPs failed to oppose the National Security (States Threat) Bill which will
proscribe Iran’s IRGC. There is no evidence that the IRGC has ever operated in
Britain unlike the Shah of Iran’s violent supporters. However this is a way of demonstrating
our support for the United States and Israel in their attack on Iran.
The timing
of the ‘anti-Semitism’ attack on the Green Party was not coincidental. It was
intended, before the local elections, to prevent Green gains. In this it failed
but we can be sure that next year they will try again. The real reason of
course is not anti-Semitism but the Green Party breaking with the imperialist
consensus on supporting Israel.
The GP is
the only major party to condemn outright Israel’s genocide in Gaza, to support
BDS and describe Israel as an apartheid state as well as calling the IDF a
terrorist organisation. When it was a fringe party such positions did not
matter but when it is polling 18% and doing better than the Tories and Labour
then that is a different matter.
The BBC and
our billionaire press all profess to believe in democracy but only in so far as
the differences between different parties are confined to personalities and a
narrow overton window. The possibility of a major party adopting positions that
are seen as ‘anti-Western’ is threat to them. Foreign policy, including support
for Israel, has always been a matter of consensus between the major parties.
A Green
Party that fails to support Zionism is failing to support a major plank of Western
imperialism, which is the alliance with Israel. The old guard in the Green
Party, people like Caroline Lucas and Carla Denyers, have long supported
Britain’s role as an imperialist power. That meant support for NATO, the
imperialist alliance of western powers that has wrecked such havoc in Ukraine.
What is
even worse for these people is that a resolution calling Zionism a form of
racism is questioning the very legitimacy of the Israeli state as a Jewish
state. There were real fears that it could pass and thus the Green Party would
be committed to one unitary democratic state.
Fortunately
for the Green racists and their allies the motion was filibustered by people
like Mark Strong, a Brighton Green Zionist and Laura Eccott. However the motion
is set to return to the autumn conference and that is why the witchhunt of
anti-Zionists and Muslim councillors won’t go away.
Greens4Palestine
are holding this Wednesday a webinar featuring a number of suspended
Councillors and others who have been under attack, including Mark Adderley, a well know film
producer and recently elected Green Party Councillor. He was suspended according
to the London
News-South
because of a series of online videos ‘which include rhetoric comparing Israel to Nazi
Germany.’
It needs to be said loud and clear that there is nothing anti-Semitic in comparing Israel to Nazi Germany. The
comparisons between the devastation in Gaza and the Nazi destruction of Poland and
Warsaw are too obvious even for the most brain dead Zionist Green.
What’s been happening in Gaza is identical to the Nazi starvation of the
Jewish ghettos in Poland. Israel, like Nazi Germany, is an ethno-nationalist
state where racial supremacy is entrenched in law. The Nuremberg Laws removed
German nationality from Jews. The Jewish Nation State Law confirms that Israeli
Palestinians are not Israeli nationals either. Although there is no Israeli nationality
Jewish nationality functions as that in practice.
There are 65 laws that discriminate
against Israeli Palestinians. 56% of Israeli
Jews want to expel Israeli Palestinians, far higher than the number of Germans
who wanted to expel Jews. Over 60% of Israelis want to exterminate all Palestinians
in Gaza. In many ways racism in Israel against Palestinians is far worse than anti-Semitism
in Nazi Germany.
In some ways Israel is worse than Nazi Germany because the regime in Germany
never commanded majority support. Even in the unfree elections of March 1933
the Nazis never obtained more than 44% of the vote and in the 1932 elections
their highest vote was 37% in July falling to 34% in November.
By way of contrast in Israel the vast majority of the population support
Zionist and Jewish parties and support for Jewish racial supremacy is, at the
minimum, 80% of Israelis.
Heather
Mendick,
who was formerly in the Labour Party until she was expelled by Starmer for having
‘undermined the party’s ability to campaign
against racism’ (as if!) is also speaking as is Lubna Speitan, the British
Palestinian who moved the Zionism is Racism motion at the Spring Conference. I
will also be speaking. People from all parties and none are welcome to register
and attend.
The Zionist Greens
Zionists in
the Green Party have organised primarily around Jewish Greens which were set
up originally by Elise Benjamin, a former Oxford City councillor.
Benjamin
has been particularly prominent in the accusations of ‘anti-Semitism’. Her
Twitter feed has become increasingly racist. She describes herself as an
‘indigenous Judean’, which presumably means that she is entitled to settle in
the West Bank, which Zionists call Judea and Samaria. She seems to think that
DNA has some relevance to Zionist colonisation.
She was
recently quoted in the Jewish
Chronicle as saying about the rise in support for the Green Party and its
influx of new members that “It feels very hollow – almost like a bereavement,” referring to the
party’s surge in the polls.
In a podcast titled Resistance to Antisemitism in the UK Green Party by David Hirsh’s London Centre Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism, a Zionist propaganda body, Elise Benjamin was interviewed, if that is the right word by a Yvonne Maxwell, who claimed to have been on the left of the Labour Party.
I have produced a series of excerpts from this podcast which people may find interesting. In it she calls the Green Party’s Deputy Leader, Mothin Ali, an anti-Semite and to say that ‘if I'm in the same room as him, I walk out now because that's all I can do.’ (43.04)
On the Green Party winning a parliamentary by-election, she said ‘I'm just not able to celebrate because I it
feels hollow.’ 1:00:55 and went on to say ‘it feels a bit like an amputation in a way.... it is a very it's a
very hollow win for me.’ [1:01:14].’
This is no surprise because for Zionists loyalty to
their racist state surpasses their commitment to anything else. Benjamin also
calls Noam Chomsky, who has written many books on US imperialism, a ‘traitor’ which shows that Benjamin is a
died-in-the-wool racist and Zionist who believes that anti-Zionist Jews are
traitors to race and nation.
I think all of these are grounds for Elise Benjamin’s expulsion – as an Islamophobe and an overt racist. I hope to see you on Wednesday.
Tony Greenstein
See:
The Green Party should re-instate Tony
Greenstein’s membership
My Suspension from the Green Party is at
the Behest of Supporters of the Gaza Genocide 17 April 2026
Green Party Suspension Letter 16.4.26.
My Green Party suspension form - Just 11 Words of Nothing
Open
Letter to the Green Party Council and Members From Tony Greenstein 6.5.26.
