An activist group within the Green Party has accused its leadership of prioritising dealing with accusations of antisemitism over other forms of racism.
Despite high-profile examples of Green candidates sharing images one cabinet minister said “could have come from the Third Reich”, comparing Israel to Nazi Germany and saying that a terrorist attack on a synagogue was “revenge”, Global Majority Greens (GMG), which has connections to the Green Deputy Leader Mothin Ali, has alleged that the party has created a “hierarchy of racism”, with antisemitism being prioritised over other forms of discrimination.
According to The Spectator, GMG, a group that exists “to promote the contribution, experience, opportunities, rights, unity, perspective, culture and history of people from African, Caribbean, Asian, Latin American and others of Global Majority ethnic descent in England and Wales”, has created a report that is heavily critical of the party leadership, despite the fact that Ali, GMG’s treasurer, is also the deputy leader.
Their report accuses Zack Polanski’s party of “performing anti-racism”, without following through on his words.
It goes on to say that ethnic minority members – especially Muslims – and supporters of “Palestinian liberation” have been particularly targeted by the party’s disciplinary processes as a result of “media attacks”.
GMG’s report claimed that while “antisemitism allegations are treated with exceptional urgency”, other forms of discrimination are not, and cautioned that “when governance fails, it is disproportionately Global Majority, Muslim and Palestinian solidarity members who bear the consequences”.
While the report states that “antisemitism is racism”, it also says that the party is unfairly cracking down on Green members. It claims that there is an “incoherence” to the party’s actions as the party’s official guidance states that antizionism is not antisemitism and that there must be a resolution to this situation.
This news comes as the JC exposed a row between a pro-Palestine group within the party, Greens for Palestine, and Jewish Greens over a motion to label Zionism as a form of racism that could be debated by the Green Party at their annual conference later this year.
Correspondence published by the JC showed that the Jewish group expressed strong concerns about the motion and that, despite offering to enter into mediation with the pro-Palestine group they were urged to apologise for the actions of the Israeli embassy and to consider “liberating [their] own minds from the supremacist grip of Zionism”.
The Green Party has been contacted for comment.
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