Green Party wants to twin Manchester with Palestinian city

Elsewhere in the manifesto the Green mayoral hopeful says she plans to engage the Greater Manchester Pension Fund in order to “press for divestment from oil and gas and companies complicit in illegal aggression, war crimes or genocide”.

Section of the Greens' Manchester mayoral manifesto dealing with their candidate's position on Israel (Image: Green Party)[Missing Credit]

Guidance from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government prohibits councils from boycotting Israeli companies or those that trade with Israel. Companies are able to sue any council practising boycott, divestment and sanctions under procurement laws.

The Greens are third behind Labour and Reform UK in the first mayoral election poll.

However, they will hope they can repeat their success at the February by-election in Gorton and Denton – a constituency in Greater Manchester – when Hannah Spencer became their fifth MP.

The JC obtained a dossier of exchanges between Greens for Palestine and Jewish Greens revealing deeply concerning attitudes towards Jews within the party.

Many of the emails suggest Jews are being held responsible for the actions of Israel and other matters over which they have no responsibility. The exchanges took place within the context of a row over a proposed motion branding Zionism as racism.