My Question to Caroline Lucas and the Green MPs is simple: ‘How many more Palestinian men, women and children have to die before you accept that Zionism is Racist & Must Go? 6 million?’
On October 4, the 90th anniversary of the
great anti-fascist victory at the Battle
of Cable Street, the Green Party became the first mainstream European party
to officially
become an anti-Zionist party. The symbolism is significant.
In 1936 the combined forces of anti-fascism
confronted the attempt by the Metropolitan Police to force thousands of
fascists through the Jewish East End. Up to 300,000 anti-fascists defied the
advice of the Board of Deputies, the Zionists and the Jewish Chronicle and took
to the streets. Most of the demonstrators were non-Jewish.
Elad Barashi is an Israeli media professional affiliated with Channel 14, a far-right television network widely seen as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s favored platform for interviews and messaging. Barashi serves as a researcher and producer on shows such as “Story Night” and “Israel Morning,” helping shape the narratives broadcast to Channel 14’s national audience. This is the English translation of a post published by Barashi on X (Twitter) on February 27, 2025: “I want to give a huge thank you to the Uvda team and to Ilana Dayan. (Even though I despise her and her opinions.) Tonight, I feel full of appreciation for her. I watched the Uvda episode about Eli Sharabi, who returned from Hamas captivity, and I simply screamed inside—thank you, Ilana, for not letting us ‘cool down’ towards the Nazis in Gaza. And I ask—who is the man who doesn’t want to see Gaza burned to the ground by the IDF’s fire? Who is the man who defends and has mercy on these Nazis? Who is the fool who says there are ‘innocents’ in Gaza? Who is the despicable scoundrel who wants to let them flee to Arab countries or Europe freely? Gaza is death. The 2.6 million terrorists in Gaza deserve death!! They deserve death!! They deserve death! Men, women, and children—by any means necessary, we must simply carry out a Shoah [Holocaust] against them—yes, read that again—H-O-L-O-C-A-U-S-T! In my view—gas chambers. Train cars. And other cruel methods of death for these Nazis. Without fear, without weakness—just crush. Eliminate. Slaughter. Flatten. Dismantle. Smash. Shatter. Without conscience or pity—children and parents, women and girls—all of them are marked for a cruel and harsh death. And to those who will read this post and start responding with nonsense and drivel—just refresh your weak memories with the torture Amit Susanna endured. With the beatings Eli Sharabi took. With the executions of Hersh and Ori. With Ariel and Kfir being slaughtered. And many more horror stories our captives are going through right now. Who is the brave man who will decide to bring a total Holocaust to Gaza, so that rivers of blood will flow from it, so that rotting Gazan corpses pile up in mounds and are then burned? And that an Israeli flag will be raised from every window in Gaza. That Yarden Bibas, Elia Cohen, Eli Sharabi, Liri Elbag will walk proudly through the streets of Gaza with their chests puffed out and truly believe in the phrase ‘Never Again.’ Gaza is death. Let there be a Holocaust in Gaza. Thank you, Ilana.”
— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) May 3, 2025
On October 4, 2026 the Green Party Conference
declared that a genocidally racist state, whose policies towards the
Palestinians resemble those of Nazi Germany towards the Jews, was illegitimate.
The Conference went on to brand Zionism, today’s equivalent of Nazism, as
racist.
The Daily Mail,
a paper that supported Hitler in the 1930s, branded
the Green Party the ‘the first openly
anti-Semitic party in the UK.’ In fact that accolade went to Sir Oswald
Moseley’s British Union of
Fascists, which added ‘and
National Socialists’ to its title in 1936.
And who supported the BUF? Why
none other than the Daily Mail with
its infamous headline ‘Hurrah for the
Blackshirts.’
It was really incredible to have Stephen Kapos, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, formally address conference in support of the Zionism is Racism Motion today. He is an inspiration and just an incredible human. According to one speaker for the opposition, 50% of the 'Jewish Greens' interest group were against the motion. Posts like these would have you think the other 50% don't even exist. Let alone acknowledge there are even more Jewish members who are not part of 'Jewish Greens''. It's incredibly disturbing to see Elise cosplay a life Stephen lived. I guess that's what happens when a generational trauma is weaponised to justify the existence of a now genocidal, always settler-colonial apartheid state. So, remember when you see tweets like these, they: 1. report feelings as fact while ignoring Jewish people who disagree 2. weaponise our respect and care for Jewish communities as a shield for Zionist politics 3. rely on racist tropes that insult the character of the deeply humanist people behind the motion 4. make a mockery of democracy Oh, and despite what Jane would have you believe in her other tweets, the motion doesn't affect anyone's right to attend synagogue. Not sure why she's lying to you, you'll have to ask her.
— Lady Sybil (@lie33629) October 4, 2026
Nothing was more fitting than the fact that Stephen
Kapos, a child survivor of the Hungarian holocaust, spoke in favour of the
Zionism is Racism motion at Green Party conference.
And nothing demonstrated the contempt that Zionists
have for the Jewish dead of the Holocaust than the decision of Elise Benjamin,
the Green Party’s most notorious racist Zionist, than to turn her voting card
into a Yellow Star.
Benjamin claims that because her relatives died in
the Holocaust she has the right to abuse their memory and trample over the
memory of those who were murdered by the Nazis.
Most British Jews have lost family members in the
Holocaust but that does not entitle Benjamin to pretend that she is a holocaust
victim. She knows nothing of the torments that those who were forced to wear
yellow stars underwent.
Benjamin’s pathetic self-victimisation should result
in her expulsion from the GP for what is genuine anti-Semitism.
Benjamin was using the extreme persecution of Jews
in Europe in order to justify her support for Zionism and the Israeli state
which rapes Palestinians to death, tortures its doctors and starves to death Palestinian
children. An Israel which prevents the importation of anaesthetics because of a
sadistic joy it takes in making children experience amputations without pain
relief.
Benjamin represents Zionism’s contempt for those who
died in the Holocaust. Zionism has a long history of doing this. The Prosecutor
in the Eichmann Trial, Gideon Hausner, suggested in his questioning of
survivors that those who were exterminated had gone like sheep to the
slaughter.
Jewish holocaust survivors like Stephen
Kapos, who spoke in the debate, Suzanne
Weiss, Hedy
Epstein, Hajo Meyer
and Agnes Kory
have often been the first to call attention to the similarities between Israel
and Nazi Germany.
Shlomo Shmelzman, a
survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, went on hunger strike protesting against the
Lebanon War. He said:
In my childhood I have suffered fear, hunger and humiliation when I passed from the Warsaw Ghetto, through labor camps, to Buchenwald. Today, as a citizen of Israel, I cannot accept the systematic destruction of cities, towns, and refugee camps… I hear too many familiar sounds today…. I hear “dirty Arabs” and I remember “dirty Jews.” I hear about “closed areas” and I remember ghettos and camps. I hear “two-legged beasts” and I remember “Untermenschen.”… Too many things in Israel remind me of too many things from my childhood.
The Zionist movement has exploited the
memory of the holocaust dead in order to justify their Apartheid ‘Jewish’ state.
That was why I wrote: Zionism
During the Holocaust.
If the Zionist movement had been sincere in remembering
the Jewish dead of the Holocaust it would have drawn universal lessons such as
the need to fight racism and fascism. The Holocaust
serves one purpose for Zionism, to justify their settler colonial state. That
is why Zionism rejects any analysis of Nazism that locates it in the context of
fascism, eugenics, racial imperialism or German settler colonialism. It would
be like condemning themselves.
Gideon Levy wrote:
I have yet to hear a single teenager come back from Auschwitz and say that we mustn’t abuse others the way we were abused. There has yet to be a school whose pupils came back from Birkenau straight to the Gaza border, saw the barbed-wire fence and said, Never again. The message is always the opposite. Gaza is permitted because of Auschwitz. (Ha'aretz, 2.5.19)
The Zionist movement hates comparisons between other genocides and the Holocaust. If the holocaust is sui generis, then it has no lessons to teach us apart from acting as a justification for Israeli Apartheid.
It is why the empty
headed holocaust monger Karen Pollock, from
the misnamed Holocaust Educational Trust, whined that ‘modern-day
protests on a range of issues, including Gaza, are “trivialising” the
Holocaust.’
Karen Pollock believes comparisons between the Genocide of Palestinians and the Holocaust 'distorts' the memory of the Nazis' victims - far better to use that memory to justify the burning alive of children with their mothers
When the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum posted a message on Instagram, the first slide
featured a drawing of a hexagon formed by six linked arms - with the words ‘Never
Again’ Can’t Only Mean Never Again For Jews.’ There was a furious response
from Zionists. The message was interpreted as referring to the Gaza Genocide.
One commentator wrote that
This post is beyond disgraceful. Whoever created, approved, and
posted this should be ashamed of themselves.
Two days later, the museum deleted the post and published an apology. The LAHM wasn’t alone. Every
single holocaust institution in the world has refused to condemn the Gaza genocide
or compare Israel’s actions to those of the Nazis.
When 50
holocaust researchers asked Yad Vashem, Israel’s
holocaust museum, to condemn the genocidal statements made by Israeli
politicians, its Chair Dani Dayan refused.
Dayan
asserted that the IDF was not conducting a genocide but was acting ‘within
the constraints Hamas imposes on us to comply with the proper moral
standards and the laws of war.’
Dayan was
Secretary-General of the fascist anti-Arab Tehiya party,
and its candidate to the Knesset in the Israeli elections in 1988 and 1992. Clearly Dayan is ideally suited to run Yad Vashem!
During the Holocaust Zionism did its best to ignore
the plight of Jews in Europe while opposing attempts to rescue Jews from the Nazis if their
destination was not Palestine. As Yechiam Weitz wrote:
‘(Ben-Gurion) did not believe in solving the problem by transferring of refugees to various countries: the only possible solution would be Palestine.
When Britain offered in 1938/9 to admit 10,000
German Jewish children to Britain, the Kindertransport, the Zionists opposed it
because they weren’t going to Palestine. In a speech to Mapai’s Central
Committee on 9 December 1938 Ben-Gurion explained why they opposed the
Kindertransport:
If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England, and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Yisrael, then I would opt for the second alternative. For we must weigh not only the life of these children, but also the history of the People of Israel.
The Racist & Reactionary
Opportunism of the Green MPs
The Zionism is Racism
motion faced nauseating opposition from senior figures in the Green Party, like
Ellie Chowns, Adrian Ramsey, Caroline Lucas, Sian Berry and Carla Denyer. They
told us how they were nuanced and it was all too complicated for us simpletons
to understand.
Ramsey insisted the motion
doesn’t reflect Green principles. Presumably his Green principles include supporting
Apartheid, Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing, because that is what Zionism is
fundamentally about.
Denyer explained her opposition to
the motion because it risked ‘alienating
a significant proportion of Jewish people.’
What if there had been a few hundred thousand White
South Africans in Britain 40 years ago. Would Denyer have made the same argument
about Apartheid then?
Even if every British Jew were a Zionist that should
not matter. British Jews today are overwhelmingly conservative. Green MPs
principles are flexible, depending on the audience.
What Denyer did not say was that she was not going
to compromise her anti-racist principles, probably because she doesn’t have
any. Anyone today who supports Zionism or tries to fudge the issue is really
saying they are prepared to compromise their anti-racism.
What the MPs are saying is that even if the Israeli
state is a Jewish Supremacist state, that systematically discriminates, not
only against its own Palestinian citizens but all non-Jews, they are prepared
to accept that.
Carla Denyer, Ellie Chowns, Sian Berry and Adrian
Ramsay, (who knows what Hannah Spencer believes) are prepared to accept the
legitimacy of a state that is the most racist in the world. Why? Because we
have to appease a ‘significant proportion
of Jewish people’ although Jews are electorally irrelevant, comprising less
than 0.5% of the population.
One would think that our MPs were more concerned
about the 4 million Muslims. In fact the number of Arabs in Britain, 356,000 is greater than
the number of Jews.
We should be honest. Most Jewish people today are not
on the left. Many of them either don’t understand what Zionism is or they are outright
racists. Islamaphobia is very high
amongst committed Zionists. The MPs say they are willing to compromise their
principles for the sake of a few votes and that that they will tailor their
views to the desire for votes.
The real
reason that Denyer, Ramsay et al. support Zionism is because Zionism is an
essential part of the British Establishment’s foreign policy consensus. It ties
us to the United States. Israel is there to watch over Western interests in the
Middle East and the MPs want to join their German counterparts.
Zionism is the adopted policy not just of British
but Western imperialism. The insertion of a Jewish settler-colonial state
adjacent to the Suez Canal was the overriding reason in 1917 for the Balfour
Declaration.
We must be consistent anti-imperialists. The
invasion of Venezuela, Trump’s support for the far-right in Latin America, the
NATO proxy war in Ukraine and the war on Iran are all part of the same
imperialist playbook.
The fight for Palestine and against imperialism and
capitalism are inseparable. The Green Party Establishment, represented by its
MPs and Caroline Lucas is wedded to imperialism.
In fact, according to the Institute
for Jewish Policy Research, 44% of young Jews between the ages of 20 and 29
describe themselves anti-Zionist or non-Zionist. Sian Berry, Denyer and co.
would rather appease racist Jews than connect with young anti-racist Jews.
The
Racist Reality of a ‘Jewish’ Ethno-Supremacist State
When Israel was established it was not as if people
were not warned as to how it would turn out.
Ø
Judah Magnes, first president of the Hebrew University, told the UN
commission that partition would mean war on the Arabs.
Ø
Martin Buber, philosopher, argued a
state imposed on the Arab population betrayed the point of the return. He
favoured a shared Arab–Jewish polity.
Ø
Albert Einstein opposed
“a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power.”
Ø
Hannah Arendt warned that a
state built without Arab consent would depend on outside force and could not be
a democracy of equals
Let us have a look at what it is that the Green MPs
are defending. According to last year’s
Pennsylvania University State poll 82% of Israeli Jews support ethnically
cleansing Gaza and 56% support expelling Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Nearly half (47%) supported exterminating all
Palestinians in Gaza. This became over 60% when it included those who believed
in a modern-day incarnation of Amalek, the biblical enemy who God commanded the
Israelites to wipe out.
I suggest that the article Yes to
Transfer: 82% of Jewish Israelis Back Expelling Gazans is required reading
for our 5 MPs on pain of deselection. Then these dimwits could ask themselves
why it is that the levels of racism in Israel today is far higher than the
level of anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, which was largely confined to a hard
core of the Nazi Party.
Nor is this simply a product of October 7 as
some people would have us believe. October 7 was the catalyst.
On 27
March 2007, 16 years before October 7, Israel’s YNet published Marriage to an Arab is national treason
quoting a survey which found that amongst Israel’s Jewish
population:
Ø 75 % don’t approve of shared apartment buildings
Ø Over 50% believe that the marriage of a Jewish woman to an Arab man is equal to national treason. Not their objections weren’t religious but national/racial.
Ø over 75 % did not approve of apartment buildings being shared between Arabs and Jews.
Ø 60 % said they would not allow an Arab to visit their home
Ø 40 % agreed that “Arabs should have their right to vote for Knesset revoked”.
Ø Over half said they would not want to work under the direct management of an Arab
Ø 55 % said “Arabs
and Jews should be separated at entertainment sites”.
Ø Over 56% said they believed that Israel’s Arab citizens posed both a security and a demographic threat to the country.
Ø Over 37% believed that “Arab culture is inferior.”
This is the meaning of a 'Jewish' State. By definition it means treating non-Jews and the indigenous population as despised outsiders, an untermenschen.
The 2016 Pew Report, Israel’s
Religiously Divided Society found that 79% of Israeli Jews believed that Jews
should be given preferential treatment. It also found that 48% supported
expelling Arabs compared to 46% who opposed this.
Moshe Yaalon, ex-Likud
Defence Minister describes Smotrich & Ben Gvir as 'Mein Kampf reversed'
Israeli Knesset rejects bill to ‘maintain equal rights
amongst all its citizens’
In December
2008 the Knesset voted down, by 71-38, the Basic
Law: Equality bill, tabled by MK Mossi Raz (Meretz). The text of the bill
was clear and concise: “The State of Israel shall maintain equal political
rights amongst all its citizens, without any difference between religions, race
and sex.”
I am a Zionist. I believe in the Jewish people’s right to a state in our homeland, in our right to live in peace and security. As we prepare to mark three years since the October 7th massacre, the UK Green Party has chosen to side with terrorists and antisemites. It is not Zionism that’s racism, it is the Green Party.
— יאיר לפיד - Yair Lapid (@yairlapid) October 4, 2026
The Israeli Labor Party’s support for a two state
solution was posited on the
need to separate Jews from Palestinians in order to maintain a Jewish
majority in Israel. Only then could Israel be both democratic and Jewish. In
the words
of Israel’s main opposition leader, Yair Lapid:
My principle says maximum Jews on maximum land with maximum security and with minimum Palestinians.
Zionism, which achieved dominance among diaspora
Jews post-45, rewrote the history of Jewish people and wrote out of that
history the Jewish left and the opposition of most Jews pre-WW2 to Zionism.
Stephen Pollard, the former Jewish Chronicle editor, who accused Zack Polanski of antisemitism, leapt to the defence of Poland's antisemitic Euro MP, Michal Kaminski because he was a 'friend of Israel'
Christian Zionism preceded Jewish
Zionism by four centuries. The idea of a ‘Jewish Return to Palestine’ was the
product of the Reformation and Renaissance. It was the anti-Semites who were
the most ardent supporters of Zionism. That was the basis of the collaboration
between Zionism and the Nazis.
Zionist novelist AB Yehoshua, in a lecture to the Union of Jewish Students, explained to those
who had been reared on the propaganda lie that anti-Zionism = anti-Semitism
that:
‘Anti-Zionism is not the product of the non-Jews. On the contrary, the Gentiles have always encouraged Zionism, hoping that it would help to rid them of the Jews in their midst. Even today, in a perverse way, a real anti-Semite must be a Zionist.’ (Jewish Chronicle 22.1.82.)
Francis Nicosia, the Raul Hilberg Professor of
Holocaust Studies at Vermont University wrote that:
‘whereas today non-Jewish criticism of Zionism or the State of Israel is often dismissed as motivated by a deeper anti-Semitism, in Herzl’s day an opposite non-Jewish reaction, one of support for the Zionist idea, might have resulted in a similar reaction.’
The motion at Green Party conference is part of a growing
realisation that Israel and Zionism are not about providing a refuge against
anti-Semitism but colonialism, ethnic cleansing and the extermination of the indigenous
Palestinians.
The political poverty of the motion’s opponents was shown
in their hostility to the idea of a unitary non-racial democratic state. We
were told that this was for the Palestinians to decide as if the Palestinians
today have any agency.
The hypocrisy of the motion’s opponents is evidenced
by the fact that until the motion passed, the Green Party supported a two state
solution. Clearly racist solutions are
acceptable to Caroline Lucas and the Green MPs.
The protest outside the conference on Saturday by
Jewish and Christian Zionists was a bonus. It demonstrated how racist Zionism is.
Their accusations that the Green Party was a racist anti-Semitic party was not
designed to win friends. These same buffoons carried placards denying that there
was a genocide and also denying that Palestinians even existed.
The Zionists were extremely helpful in convincing
delegates that Zionism is a form of racism. As I pointed out to them, those who
deny the Genocide of the Palestinians are no different from those who deny the
Holocaust.
A Genocidal State Has No Right to
Exist
The favourite question of TV interviewers is ‘Do you believe Israel has the right to
exist.’ When I was asked
this question some years ago on BBC’s Big
Questions, I stated that people have
the right to exist, not states. Zack Polanski handled it in a similar way. But
another way of approaching this is to say that no genocidal state has the right
to exist, using the words of Israeli politicians.
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the former Separdic Chief Rabbi who was of the belieft that '"If they don't stop after we kill 100, then we must kill a thousand," said Shmuel Eliyahu. "And if they do not stop after 1,000 then we must kill 10,000. If they still don't stop we must kill 100,000, even a million.
The Genocidal
Statements of Israeli Ministers
Benjamin
Netanyahu: Ha'aretz,
3.1.24,
"remember what Amalek did to you"
Israel
Is Paying the Price for Its Bigmouths, Ha'aretz 12.1.24.
Yoav Gallant,
Israeli Defence Minister:
"there will be no electricity, food, water or fuel in Gaza. It will all be shut down, because Israel is fighting animals. You want hell, you'll get hell."
Israel Katz, now Defence Minister on cutting
off water:
“that's what murderers of children deserve.”
Amichai Chikli,
Israeli Diaspora Minister:
Israel "must find ways to cause suffering in Gaza."
President Isaac Herzog: "the rhetoric about civilians uninvolved in the fighting is incorrect. We'll fight until we defeat them."
Intent in the genocide case against Israel is not hard to prove, Al Jazeera 14.1.24:
Netanyahu: “This is a battle, not only of Israel against these barbarians, it is a battle of civilisation against barbarism,”
Israel, Stop Killing Children in Gaza Ahmad Tibi, Ha’aretz 2 June 2025
MK Michal Woldiger
(Religious Zionism)
“What is being done in Gaza, it's a pity that worse isn't done. There are no innocents. Yes, children should be killed. Because they serve as a human shield.”
Deputy Knesset Speaker MK Nissim
Vaturi (Likud), interview with Radio Kol Barama,
"Who is innocent in Gaza? Civilians went out and slaughtered people in cold blood. The children and women must be separated, and the adult [men] in Gaza must be killed. We are being too considerate."
"Very soon we will turn Jenin [in the West Bank] into Gaza."
MK Moshe Saada (Likud)
“Yes, I'll starve Gazans, yes, this is our obligation; to impose a totally full blockade”
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich
(Religious Zionism)
“We will destroy what remains of Gaza.”
South Africa calls on ICJ to end 'Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza' Al Monitor, 16.5.24
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel
Smotrich, April 2024
“There are no half measures. Rafah, Deir al-Balah, Nuseirat – total annihilation. ‘You will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven’ – there’s no place under heaven.”
Conclusion
Now that the Labour Party is no longer a left party and
because Corbyn destroyed Your Party, the Green Party is where socialists should
be.
But it needs to be an anti-capitalist, eco-socialist
Green Party. The idea that you can green capitalism is a delusion. The profit
motive directly contradicts saving the planet which is why America and Europe
are engulfed by wild fires.
The victory at Green Party conference will have
repercussions world wide, especially in Israel. It is going to meet with
opposition from the British state and its media lapdogs. Jews will be the moral
alibis for Britain’s foreign policy and the bogey of ‘anti-Semitism’ will be
raised despite it being quite clear that opposition to the genocidal Israeli
state has nothing to do with anti-Semitism. See
Green Party recognises Zionism as a form of racism and backs single Palestinian state
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