{"id":384949,"date":"2026-10-05T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/green-party-zionism-vote-sparks-tensions-at-party-conference\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T22:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:00:08","slug":"green-party-zionism-vote-sparks-tensions-at-party-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/green-party-zionism-vote-sparks-tensions-at-party-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Party Zionism vote sparks tensions at party conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/wZ30_0WDRy0\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Green Party Zionism vote sparks tensions at party conference\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wZ30_0WDRy0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Green Party leader Zack Polanski has been barred from entering Israel, in response to the party\u2019s conference in Brighton voting to define Zionism as racism.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the Green Party of England and Wales passed a motion that declared the Greens to be an \u201canti-Zionist party\u201d and said that Zionism will be \u201ctreated as any other form of racism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 1,022 Green Party members voted in favour of the motion, with 813 voting against it.<\/p>\n<p>It has highlighted a deep division within the party, as one of its deputy leaders backed it while the other opposed it &#8211; as did four of the party\u2019s five MPs.<\/p>\n<p>Polanski, who is Jewish, wasn\u2019t present for the vote. He had voiced concerns about the motion\u2019s wording but also recently said he was an \u201canti-Zionist\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>We spoke with Green Party advocate Ashok Kumar and the party\u2019s former co-leader Adrian Ramsay MP.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nGet more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/<br \/>\nSubscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<br \/>\nFollow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Party leader Zack Polanski has been barred from entering Israel, in response to the party\u2019s conference in Brighton voting to define Zionism as racism. On Sunday, the Green Party of England and Wales passed a motion that declared the Greens to be an \u201canti-Zionist party\u201d and said that Zionism will be \u201ctreated as any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":384950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128813],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-384949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-4-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Green Party Zionism vote sparks tensions at party conference | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Green Party Zionism vote sparks tensions at party conference for free, here on News ISC. 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