Stay Up to Date on A105 - Zionism Is Racism

Why Motion A105 Matters
a) Defining Zionism as a Form of Racism

The motion identifies Zionism as a political ideology which, in practice, establishes and maintains a system of racial discrimination and settler‑colonial domination over the indigenous Palestinian population. This is consistent with:

  • International law
  • Contemporary findings by leading human rights organisations (Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B'Tselem) that Israel's policies constitute apartheid, a crime under international law predicated on racial segregation and domination.
  • Scholarly analysis of Zionism as a nationalist movement that privileges one ethnic group over another within the same territory.

Labelling Zionism as racism is therefore a logical and evidence‑based step for a Party committed to opposing all forms of racial injustice.

b) Upholding the Palestinian Right to Resist

The motion recognises the Palestinian people's inalienable right to resist occupation and achieve self‑determination "by all available means under international law." This phrasing is precise and deliberate:

  • It explicitly anchors the right of resistance within the framework of international humanitarian law, which permits the legitimate right of the oppressed to resist against military occupation while prohibiting attacks on civilians.
  • It affirms a universal legal principle applicable to all peoples under occupation, rejecting the exceptionalism applied to Palestine.

c) Rejecting Definitions that Silence Criticism

The motion calls for the rejection of definitions and silencing mechanisms, which have been widely documented as a tool to conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism, thereby chilling legitimate political speech (learning here from the lessons of the Corbyn era Labour Party). This is not a removal of protections but a move towards more effective and precise guidance that can genuinely combat antisemitism without insulating a state from accountability for human rights abuses and war crimes.

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Let's Make History Together

Motion A105 has the potential to be a landmark motion that positions the Green Party as a principled anti-racist party committed to Palestinian liberation. But it needs your vote to get there.


The Motion Declares:


1. The Green Party declares itself to be an anti-Zionist party.

2. The Green Party rejects attempts to normalise the racist subjugation and oppression of Palestinians; to equate anti-Zionism with antisemitism; to deny or minimise Palestinian human rights; to create hierarchies of racism; and to normalise or attempt to justify apartheid, ethnic cleansing or genocide. We affirm that definitions of anti-Jewish discrimination should not equate Jewish identity with Zionist ideology or political practice. As with any ethnicity or faith group, no single political ideology should be ascribed to an entire people.

3. Following from Motion E05, which affirmed that Israel is an apartheid State committing genocide, and Motion E07 supporting reparations and accountability, the Green Party supports the establishment of a single democratic Palestinian State in all of historic Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital, equal rights for all, and the right of return for Palestinians and their descendants.

4. The Green Party affirms the Palestinian people's inalienable right to self- determination, including the right of the Palestinian people to resistance and liberation from Israeli occupation, domination and subjugation, and acknowledges that the struggle to achieve that liberation by all available means under international law is legitimate.

5. The Green Party heeds the call from Palestinian civil society to impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era, and calls upon the United Kingdom Government to impose full embargoes and sanctions against Israel.

6. The Green Party calls for the release of all Palestinian prisoners of conscience (including Marwan Barghouti), the end of the use of administrative detention of Palestinians by Israel, and the treatment of Palestinian combatants in accordance with international humanitarian law, including in particular those provisions dealing with prisoners of war in the First Additional Protocol of the 1977 amendments to the Four Genevan Conventions of 1949 relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts.

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