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28 June 2026

Reinstate Our Green Party Suspended Members - Reject the False ‘Anti-Semitism’ Smears

Anti-Zionism IS NOT Anti-Semitism



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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.


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


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.

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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.

Open Letter to the Green Party Council 26.6.26.

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20 April 2026

I Have Been Suspended from the Green Party for Offending Those Who Defend Genocide & Apartheid – The Press Call it ‘Anti-Semitism’

As Predicted We are Seeing the Same Smears That Were Used to Destroy Corbyn Being Deployed Against Jewish & Muslim anti-Zionists & Supporters of the Palestinians


Greens disgraced by suspension
I nearly missed it. It was an innocuous email titled ‘4.8 suspension from the Green Party’. In it Rositta Priestley informed me that I had been suspended.

I was given the email of the co-chairs of the GP Council except that the e-mail bounced back. The malevolence of the suspension is only matched by its incompetence.

Attached to the e-mail was a document from the GP Council which stated that the basis of the decision was a

‘Documented history of antisemitism, including court decisions and recent terrorism charges.’ 

The only problem was that there was no documentation nor will there be any, since none exists, but that did not stop the Green Council which suspended me from going ahead. It raises questions about the calibre of those who are sitting in judgement on others.

It is never a good idea to take the word of Zionists on trust since lying is second nature to them. Of course they might quote themselves as ‘proof’ but that is all they will be able to turn up.


I have written today to Ms Priestly about this abysmal failure to follow due process or supply me with any evidence of the allegations against me.  I term it Kafkaesque. I am expected to respond to allegations about which I’m given next to no information.

Green Party Face Corbyn Test Over Antisemitism; Same Smears, New Target


The decision to suspend me was approved by 11-1 and it named the source of the complaint as the Brighton local party. I immediately replied stating that the Chair of Brighton & Hove Greens Joe Skeaping assured me that the complaint did not originate from the local party. It must have been a Zionist member of the party, quite likely Mark Strong, who was involved in filibustering the Zionism is Racism motion.

This whole process, known as a ‘no fault suspension’, proves that racism is alive and well in the GP. It is also proof that the GP is not a democratic or anti-imperialist party.


Although the GP says it supports the Palestinians it continues to allow Zionists to accuse Palestinian supporters of ‘anti-Semitism’ without fearing any comeback. It is a new low to accuse a leading Jewish anti-Zionist of being an anti-Semite.

The GP has never been involved in Palestine solidarity work. Its policy on BDS has always been a dead letter. It has spent most of its existence facing both ways. Opposing Israeli oppression in words whilst supporting its existence as an Apartheid State in practice.

Israel is a state of Jewish Supremacy even Israeli human rights group B'tselem has concluded. Its very existence is predicated on ethnic cleansing and apartheid. Yet the GP still has policy supporting the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, drawn up specifically to conflate anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.

I am accused of 'anti-Semitism by people who have never lifted a finger to fight genuine racism or indeed anti-Semitism. I suspect that the above review in Brighton's Argus wasn't amongst the documentation referred to 
In my reply I pointed out that far from being anti-Semitic I was the author of the only book about the fight against fascism in Brighton, a founder member of Brighton and Hove Anti-fascist Committee and a long standing anti-racist activist. 

Accusations of ‘anti-Semitism’ today have about as much credibility as Netanyahu’s accusation that the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest for war crimes out of ‘pure anti-Semitism’.

The fact that 11 members of the GP Council bought into these false accusations without questioning them, even though they were made against someone Jewish, demonstrates that support for Zionism  runs deep in the Green Party.

Until the GP deals with their pro-Zionist bias their claim to support the Palestinians will be seen as opportunistic. Whereas Labour Party members could be forgiven for being taken in by the false accusations of anti-Semitism a decade ago there is no excuse today with the Gaza genocide.

To accuse Jewish anti-Zionists of anti-Semitism is like accusing German anti-Nazis in the 30s of anti-German racism or anti-Apartheid activists in the 70s of being anti-White, as Musk and Trump still do.  The GP Establishment seem determined to repeat every mistake of the Corbyn era.

It is time for Polanski to get a grip on the GP and ensure that the Green Zionists and their allies are not allowed to do to him what the Jewish Labour Movement did to Corbyn.

The GP is primarily an electoralist not a campaigning party. It took advantage of the fact that migrant communities, originating from former colonies, in particular Muslims, opposed Labour’ support for the Gaza Genocide, to win the by-election in Gorton & Denton. At the same time the GP Establishment has gone out of its way to appease Zionists.

The Jewish Greens called a meeting Sunday tonight of their members, of which I am one. But I and Israeli anti-Zionist Haim Bresheeth were barred from the meeting. The Jewish Greens are Zionist Greens and are anything but a liberation group.

This follows on from the sabotage of the Zionism = Racism motion at its Spring Conference by the GP establishment. They were desperate to prevent a debate on a motion condemning Zionism, the ideology of Israeli Apartheid.

As the GP has risen in the polls so the ‘anti-Semitism’ smear campaign has resurfaced. There have been numerous articles targeting mainly Muslim Council candidates. Instead of pushing back against these smears, the GP leadership has tried to appease its critics in the press.

Polanski faces a choice, he can emulate Corbyn and appease the media racists and Islamophobes and attack his own members or he can fight back. He can’t do both.

One easy thing to do is to say there will be no trawl of social media. What counts is behaviour not what is posted on X. Racism is state violence and discrimination not what people write in a tweet. A tweet is here today and gone tomorrow. A racist attack does not go away so easily. Contacting a Council candidate’s employer as happened to Muslim Green candidate Aziz Hakimi demonstrates the depths of our opponents venomous racism and McCarthyism.

If people sometimes misspeak and make comments that are deemed anti-Semitic that might be because the self-proclaimed leaders of the Jewish community, the Board of Deputies, go out of their way to support genocide.  Is it any wonder that some people believe them and blame Jews?

Instead of focusing on ‘anti-Semitism’ we should focus on the racism that counts, state racism which is anti-Black, anti-Muslim and anti-refugee. The Jewish community in this country is overwhelmingly White and is arguably the most racist section of the White population in Britain precisely because the majority of Jews are still Zionists.

Anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism is extremely high amongst Jewish Zionists, many of whom, like Sussex Friends of Israel, are in bed with Tommy Robinson’s racists.

We should be clear. Zionism is not Jewish but Christian in origin. When Zionism was adopted by British imperialism, in the form of the Balfour Declaration, the only member of the war cabinet to vote against it was its only Jewish member, Sir Edwin Montagu. The idea of a Jewish ‘return to Palestine’ was a Protestant idea based on the idea that Jews did not belong where they lived. It was anti-Semitic.

Zionism was seen by Jews as a form of Jewish anti-Semitism because it accepted the canard that Jews were strangers in their own countries of birth. As Isaac Deutscher wrote:

The most fanatical enemies of Zionism were precisely the workers…. To them anti-Semitism seemed to triumph in Zionism, which recognised the legitimacy and the validity of the old cry ‘Jews get out!' The Zionists were agreeing to get out.

Zionism is the ideology that drives Israeli Apartheid and Genocide. Anyone who hasn’t condemned the genocidal statements of Israeli Ministers from Prime Minister Netanyahu to Smotrich and their open boasts of exterminating Palestinians has no right to talk about anti-Semitism.

Those in the GP who define their Jewish identity by reference to Zionism must accept that the vast majority of Israelis are supporters of genocide and even the expulsion of Israeli Arab citizens. 

82% of Israeli Jews support the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, 56% support the forced expulsion of Arab citizens of Israel and 47% believe that the IDF

when conquering an enemy city, should act in a manner similar to the way the Israelites acted when they conquered Jericho under the leadership of Joshua, namely, to kill all its inhabitants?

In fact the latter figure rises to over 60% when taking into account those who also believe that Amalek is relevant.

In a 2007 poll of 500 Israeli Jews, 75% disapproved of Arabs and Jews sharing apartments. Over half considered marriage between Jews and Arabs ‘national treason’. About 40% agreed that “Arabs should have their right to vote for Knesset revoked.’ Over half agreed that Israel should encourage its Arab citizens to emigrate and 55% said “Arabs and Jews should be separated at entertainment sites”.

When asked what they felt when they overheard someone speaking Arabic, 31% said hatred, while 50% said they felt fear. Over 56% said they believed that Israel’s Arab citizens posed both a security and a demographic threat to the country. When asked what they thought of Arab culture, over 37 percent replied, “The Arab culture is inferior.”

Or as the ‘moderate’ Opposition Leader Yair Lapid, put it:

My principle says maximum Jews on maximum land with maximum security and with minimum Palestinians.

Israel is not only the most racist society on Earth, its Jewish citizens are far more racist than the Germans in 1933. 

Hitler got a maximum vote of 37% in July 1932 dropping to 33% in November.  Between 1930 and 1933, Hitler downplayed anti-Semitism in order to get elected because anti-Semitism was not respectable. In Israel the far-right commands over 60% of the vote.

Israel not only has neo-Nazi Ministers in government it has a population with a Nazi-like mentality. This is the background to the debate on Zionism. When some Jewish Greens say that Israel and Zionism is part of their Jewish identity my response is simple. ‘Get rid of that fucking identity and swap it for a positive Jewish identity’.

This is another fake story - there have been all too many Zionist False Flag Attacks whereby Zionists attacked themselves and shouted 'antisemitism' - nothing anti-Semitic about this - in the 1950s they bombed synagogues in Iraq and today in Teheran

The Politics of the Green Party

The problem with the GP is that it is a petit-bourgeois party with no class politics. It is not naturally left-wing still less socialist. It sees no connection between capitalism and the destruction of the environment. That is why Green Parties in Germany and Ireland have moved to the right and far-right.

The Sunday Times - which is never concerned about racism against Black or Muslim people - is apparently concerned about racism against Jews - NOT

Pro Israel Groups Cornered Over Tehran Synagogue Attack; Their Silence Speaks Volumes

The GP has nothing to say about who controls the levers of production in society. It is filled with people who want to green capitalism not change it.

Synagogue in Tehran ‘completely destroyed’ in US-Israeli attack

The new members who Corbyn recruited to the GP will be among the more radical members but the politics of the GP are unlikely to change significantly based on my own experience in Brighton.

Brighton was where the GP first elected an MP and it is a large party, over 5,000 members but it is tightly controlled. It is possible that the GP in Brighton is more conservative.

Joe Skeaping

In my first two weeks in the GP I was removed from the Green Discussion group by the moderator Joe Skeaping, who describes himself as a teacher of history and ‘critical thinking’ though there is little evidence of the latter.

I also managed to rack up two official complaints! Cllr Sue Shanks took exception to remarks I made about the i360 disaster and the Green Administration which proposed it.  The i360 was an elevated lift to the sky on the seafront that meant the Council taking out a loan of £40m which ballooned to over £50m by the time the company went into Administration.

To cut a long story short the Council owes the Public Works Loan Board over £32m which will be paid back at £2.2m a year until 2041.  The current Labour Council is proposing to close Wellington House Day Centre for Adults with Learning Disabilities saving £400,000 in order to try and find the money to pay for this White Elephant. See here.

The Green Administration under Jason Kitcat approved the i360 on 6 March 2014 with the Tories voting with them and Labour opposing.

It wasn’t hard to see that the project would fail. I said that in Argus Comment in July 2015 but by then the damage had been done. It seemed obvious that projected visitor numbers were too optimistic, based as they were on the Eiffel Tower. I was not alone. There was even a petition on Change.org calling for the PWLB to refuse to lend the £36.2m.

But when I said this in the discussion group Shank’s reaction was ‘can we stop greenstein slagging us off?! who moderates this??’

Not satisfied with this inane comment Shanks then proceeded to enlighten people that ‘tony greenstein never agrees with anything. i will publicly defend that administration if needed!’ Which was indeed a threat!

Skeaping had no problem with these remarks which were clearly personal and offensive. Shanks continued saying that ‘i am officially vomplaing about tony greensteins comments on here. will send to you seperately’

One of those who welcomed my suspension from the GP was the notorious racist, warmonger and Blair/Starmer supporter, former Times ‘journalist’ Oliver Kamm. Kamm wrote about the Islamic Human Rights Commission’s Islamophobe of the Year Award that ‘if any reader wishes to nominate me and I am successful, you can be sure I'll turn up to collect the award and express my reasons for pride in it.’ 

Kamm had good reason to believe he was in with a good chance of winning the award. However he lost out again in his search for a journalistic award!

Kamm was a founding signatory of the Henry Jackson Society which numbers amongst its associate directors Douglas Murray, who is an advocate of the neo-Nazi Great Replacement and Cultural Marxism Theories in The Strange Death of Europe.

Shanks has a way with words. I assume that ‘vomplaing’ is Green for ‘complaining’. Either way Skeaping was more than willing to entertain this bogus complaint. Skeaping said that he didn’t want to ‘relitigate’ i.e. learn from past mistakes.

In reality I was removed because ‘old  guard’ Greens were horrified at my presence, as demonstrated by Skeaping’s deference to Shanks.

In 2018 12 Green Councillors, including Shanks, voted alongside Labour and the Tories to support the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism whose sole purpose was to brand anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism. It had no other purpose.

The Green councillors who voted for the IHRA issued a statement that adopted a codicil which stated that

It is not anti-Semitic to hold the Israeli Government to the same standards as other liberal democracies.

Since when has Israel been a liberal democracy?  It is an ethno-nationalist state. It implements the British Emergency Regulations that were called ‘Nazi like’ by the Zionists when applied to them.



This image of an armed Zionist settler in army uniform intimidating and threatening a frightened Palestinian woman harvesting olives has gone viral in Italy - the Israeli Ambassador protested 

The Genocide in Gaza, the settlement terror in the West Bank and now the Death Penalty for Palestinians has educated people about Israel’s ‘liberalism’. But it was obvious then too.

What they didn’t mention was that they ignored the views of every Black group in Brighton & Hove in favour of the opinions of White Jewish councillors. They didn’t even think of consulting Palestinians and the leader Phelim McCafferty refused even to meet Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

Anti-Semitism today is not a form of racism. It is a marginal prejudice. It is the only form of ‘racism’ that the Met Police is concerned about. When the State opposes racism you can be sure there’s a catch. ‘Anti-Semitism’ is the false anti-racism of the Right.

To compare Israel to Nazi Germany is automatically anti-Semitic under the IHRA. This means I should be expelled for having written a book explaining the links and collaboration between Zionism and the Nazis!

Brighton and Hove Greens Discussion Group

My first clash with the GP was in the Discussion Group. I was quickly removed from it, ostensibly on the grounds that I accused one of the Zionists on it, Harry Cohen, of not wanting to discuss Palestine and covering for Israel’s racism. Apparently calling into question the motivation of those who seek to divert or prevent discussions is not allowed.

You had the situation where anybody who tried to raise anything to do with Palestine or which contradicted the Zionists on the Group was met with the accusation that this is irrelevant, not Green or was affecting their mental health.

I have included some of these discussions so that people can see the ‘logic’ and racist paradigm that operates. Is it local, is it relevant to elections, does it disturb anyone. There are a few people who complain about censorship but if you call out the motivation of those seeking to censor others then Skeaping will step in.

In private discussions Joe did not dispute that he had discussed my removal with others in the local establishment. His deference to Shanks and others, who I tangled with over a decade ago, led to my removal.

In 2012 I was representing a worker at the Deans Youth Project. See here and here. The case involved the dismissal of the office manager for Whistleblowing. There had been a conspiracy to dismiss her by Tory councillor Dee Simpson and New Labour hackette Linda Newman.

Three conservative councillors, former Council leader, the late Mary Mears who died a sad death, David Smith and Geoff Wells testified for the worker.

We won the case but agreed to accept reduced damages because of the charity’s overall finances.  I tried to discuss it with Shanks who had responsibility for the voluntary sector but she was completely unhelpful.

All previous Green administrations have caused disputes with the Refuse Workers who are the strongest and most militant section of Council workers.  Green councillors see themselves as managers and their radicalism dies away very quickly.

To Jacqueline the reason for censorship can be summed up in 'overwhelm' - I just hope the children of Gaza appreciate this!

The first Green leader, Jason Kitcat, opened the Israeli shop Ecostream that PSC spent two years picketing before it closed. The Green councillors gave us no support. The only thing that can be said for the local GP councillors were that they weren’t quite as bad as those in the Labour Party!

My suspension is a sombre indication of where the GP nationally is heading. Unless it stands up to the ‘anti-Semitism’ accusations it will be forced in a Zionist direction.

Imagine if, before the last war, German anti-fascists had been suspended from a party because they offended Germans who happened to be Nazis. That actually happened at Columbia University when Robert Burke was expelled in 1936 for leading protests against the University’s links with the Nazis. That is what Green Council has done. My ‘crime’ is to have offended racist members of the GP who happen to be Jewish.

this comment on Brighton's Green Discussion Group is the majority view - Israeli Apartheid is reduced to 'international relations' and should be kept out of mainstream  discussions

Among the other accusation against me is ‘terrorism’. This shows how out of touch Green Council is. The case against me is about free speech. It has nothing to do with terrorism. In the words of John Dugard, a Judge at the ICJ, ‘The label of ‘terrorist’ is a bid to discredit and silence opponents.’

The Group's resident Zionist, Harry Cohen, finds discussion on Palestine 'complicated, complex and now 'heated' - but should be relegated to a Philosophy meeting

The Terrorism Act 2000 has long been used against Muslims and now it is being used against Palestine solidarity activists.

The innocence of many refugees from Corbyn’s Your Party is going to be shattered on the rock of the GP’s desire to be accepted by the British Establishment.

Posts from Brighton's Green Discussion Group

The posts are interesting, not for their insights so much as the psychology of the average Green member. The majority of members prefer not to discuss what they call 'international issues’. It is only a minority who are even aware of the causes of the Palestinian refugee question or Israeli Apartheid. 

Rubbish collection trumps Genocide and War, even though the ravages of imperialism seep through in terms of expanded 'defence' budgets, austerity, cuts in the NHS and local authority expenditure.

Indeed if one could sum up the average contributor to the discussion lists it would be that they are almost apolitical and disinterested in what makes society tick.



Judging by the reasons for my suspension, it is clear that members are not interested in racism or the way that 'terrorism' laws operate against ethnic minorities.

A frequent complaint is that talk about the Gaza Genocide is making people feel mentally ill or unwell. There seems to be little or no recognition of the human devastation that Israel and the United States are causing in the Middle East. 


There is some recognition of the dangers of Reform but little recognition that the number of refugees coming to this country is a reflection of the war that we have brought to their countries.

There is the resident Zionist Harry Cohen who has support from the apolitical members. His contributions are largely nonsense. I’ve never heard of a 1 State Zionist before. His role, as a member of the Jewish Greens, is to divert conversations and claim that support for the oppressed is too ‘binary’ and ‘divisive’.  Maybe opposition to Apartheid in South Africa 40 years ago was also divisive.


Zionists employ a number of rhetorical tricks depending on their audience, but always appealing to their most reactionary instincts.



The argument that they are most fond of is that there is no one Zionism. It has many strands. It’s part of Jewish identity etc.


All these arguments were employed by people like Viscount Harmsworth, owner of the Daily Mail in respect of national socialism. After all the Nazi party had a ‘left’ too in the shape of the Strasser brothers.

Apartheid South Africa also had a number of White parties.  All of which were, like Israel’s Zionist parties, on the right or far right.



The Anti-Zionist Zionist

We now have the phenomenon of the anti-Zionist Zionist in the form of Joshua Alston, who writes on the Bright Green website about Why anti-Zionists should oppose the ‘zionism is racism’ motion at Green Party conference.

Alston’s arguments are deliberately confusing and contradictory. I posted a comment but it never appeared. So it is clear that Alston doesn’t want to debate his confusion.

 Indeed no comments have appeared, which suggests that not many people read the blog or perhaps no one who disagrees with the authorised line is ever published. Alston says he has

worked for almost a decade within the Green Party to protect my community from antisemitism, and to protect righteous support for the Palestinian people. 

Given that the level of anti-Semitism is negligible in Brighton there can’t have been much work. Alston’s protection of ‘righteous’ support for the Palestinians is interesting since he has never been involved in Palestine solidarity support.

Alston says that ‘‘Zionism’ is a term that describes the belief in settlement, rather than the violence and dispossession that has resulted from settlement.’ Perhaps this is true of all colonisation? As I pointed out in my unpublished post he should read Jabotinsky's Iron Wall essay where he writes:

My readers have a general idea of the history of colonisation in other countries. I suggest that they consider all the precedents with which they are acquainted, and see whether there is one solitary instance of any colonisation being carried on with the consent of the native population. There is no such precedent.

Settlement without violence could not have occurred so to separate out the two is entirely artificial. It is like saying you can divorce violence from armed robbery!

I guess what is interesting is that Zionism is becoming such a dirty word that some Zionists are now pretending they are anti-Zionists. The same phenomenon occurred in the dying days of Apartheid.

Not that Alston’s sleight of hand did him much good as he was kicked off the Greens for Palestine group!


Tony Greenstein 

See the following:

Exclusive: Greens cave to smears, suspend Jewish anti-Zionist member for ‘antisemitism’ – The Canary

Anti-Zionist Jewish activist Tony Greenstein tells 'Post' he will fight Green Party suspension - Jerusalem Post,

Green Party suspends anti-Israel Jewish activist for antisemitism, other Jew-hating members remain - Jerusalem Post,

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