Tell The Greens

On 4 October 2026 the Green Party of England and Wales voted to declare that "Zionism is racism".

Zionism is simply the belief that Jewish people, like the French, the Irish or the Palestinians, have the right to a homeland of their own. Is that racist? No.

By singling out the Jews, the Greens have become racist.

Zionism is the belief that the Jewish people have the right to live as a nation in the Jewish homeland, where Jews have lived continuously for over 4,000 years.

That is not racism. It is national self-determination, the same right every other people claims in its historic homeland. French people have the right to a homeland in France. Is that racist? No. Simple.

You can fiercely criticise any Israeli government and still be a Zionist, just as you can criticise the French government while believing France is the homeland of the French. Neither is racist.

Racism is treating people worse because of their race, ethnicity or national origin, or holding one group to a standard that is applied to no one else.

UK law recognises Jewish people as an ethnic group protected by the Equality Act 2010.

There are nearly 200 countries. Dozens have a majority religion and 43 have an official one. Israel was founded by a United Nations resolution and admitted to the UN in 1949; many countries have far less to show for their founding. Nobody calls any of them racist for existing.

If believing in a Jewish homeland is racist, then believing in a Palestinian homeland is racist too. Nobody says that. Only Jews are told it.

Picking out Jews, and only Jews, for a rule applied to no one else is racism. That is what the motion does. The United Nations said "Zionism is racism" in 1975 and took it back in 1991. The Green Party has brought it back.

Zionism is not racism. By singling out the Jews, the Greens have become racist.

The Equality Act 2010 protects people from discrimination, harassment and victimisation because of race, religion or belief. Jews are protected as an ethnic group, and Zionism, as a belief held by most British Jews, is capable of protection as a philosophical belief.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission's 2020 guidance for political parties is plain: a party must not discriminate against, harass or victimise its members, associates, guests or those seeking membership because of a protected characteristic, including race, religion and belief. A party that declares the core belief of most British Jews to be racism, and treats those who hold it as racists, contravenes the Equality Act and the Commission's guidance. The motion is not only wrong. It is unlawful.

The motion, A105, is not a one-line slogan. It declares the Green Party "an anti-Zionist party". It supports "a single democratic Palestinian State in all of historic Palestine", which means no Israel, and so rejects the two-state solution backed by the United Nations, the UK, the EU, the Arab League and the Palestinian Authority. It affirms Palestinian "struggle ... by all available means", and its own briefing paper spells that out as "including armed struggle". It calls Marwan Barghouti, convicted of five murders, merely a "prisoner of conscience". And it calls for Palestine Action to be taken off the terrorism list. The Greens support proscribed terrorists.

Then it turns inward. Zionism is to be "treated as any other form of racism". So, anyone who believes Israel should exist is to be handled as a racist.

Every clause is quoted, with our response, at zionismisnotracism.co.uk/the-motion.

174 countries have a majority religion and 43 have an official state religion. None of them is told it has no right to exist. Israel, the one Jewish state, is the only country whose existence the Green Party has declared racist.

Jews have lived continuously in the land of Israel for over 4,000 years. Zionism is the belief that they have the same right to self-determination there as every other people has in its own homeland.

Tell them. One polite email to Green Party head office, the leader's office and a handful of Green councillors and local parties, asking them to repeal the motion. It takes two minutes, it goes from your own email, and every one is counted. Then share this page so others can do the same. Pressing "Send your email" prepares the email in your own email app, with Green Party head office and a handful of Green councillors and local parties already filled in. Nothing is sent until you press send.

The Green Party of England and Wales passed the motion declaring that "Zionism is racism" on 4 October 2026. This campaign asks the party to repeal it.