The loss and suffering that occurred on October 7th and the awful years since has been horrific. We must work tirelessly for an end to the violence, and for peace and justice for all.

The meaning of the phrase Jews Don’t Count is often misunderstood. It means: as a vulnerable minority. A minority that has suffered, like all minorities, extreme violence and discrimination. The assumption remains, despite history, that Jews are too powerful really to be seen in that way. Drawing attention to Jewish suffering is seen as only another example of their power, of Jews' ability to highlight their own suffering at the expense of others. Jews are not granted specificity in suffering: it must always be compared to the suffering of others, and found wanting. And if you want to see that in action, have a look at some of the responses on here - or no doubt, below this message - to the various attempts to commemorate one acute example of Jewish suffering, that took place three years ago today.

If change were the point, those behind the motion might have listened to colleagues concerned about the chaos that would ensue, the opportunity cost of lost votes. A Green insider tells me local parties have been left to deal with the fallout, with little support from the centre. If this was a moment for Polanski to show leadership, he has failed. The motion seems to me typical of his brand of social-media-first politics. It has the logic of a meme, the hollow signalling of a position. Crude and shallow, it is hardly the instrument with which to address the intractable horrors of what has become of Israel and Palestine. Alona Ferber: The Greens' Zionism vote was truly offensive – but it also seems pointless newstatesman.com/internation…

Green Party member behind Zionism motion named as "close friend" of jailed al-Qaeda supporter in court bbc.in/4y9hGwf

My husband has been in @TheGreenParty for 45 years & I have been in for nearly 30. Today we cancel our direct debit & leave.The rot started with “Transwomen are women, no debate “. Now it is an anti semitic, pro nuclear power party. Not a Green Party.

Opposition to racism cannot become conditional on whether the media or the political establishment will approve of it. At a moment when the mainstream is already mobilising against this position, and once again reverting to its much tried and tested tactic of conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism, the answer should be solidarity, not joining the chorus against it. For a cure, you need the correct diagnosis. There is nothing inherently radical about insisting that the cause of Palestinian suffering must be properly identified. 78 years of dispossession and three years into a genocide, recognising Zionism as racism is not only past overdue, but it is fundamental to finally envisaging a system of justice, equality and freedom and not one of subjugation of a people for the benefit of another. @AlnaouqA

The Green Party member behind the recent “Zionism is racism” motion has links to an al-Qaeda terrorist serving jail time in the US. lbc.co.uk/article/green-part…

Jewish man physically attacked just now, by neo-Nazis on the streets of Holborn & St Pancras. They were trying to spray paint a stencil calling @Sagal_AW a 'puppet of genocidal Israel' and I objected. This is what @ZackPolanski @TheGreenParty thugs stand for. @metpoliceuk

The Green Party member, Lubna Speitan, behind the “Zionism is racism” motion is close friends with an al-Qaeda terrorist who plotted to bomb passengers landing at Heathrow from Israel. It can now be revealed that Ms Speitan offered to testify in the defence of Minh Quang Pham, jailed in the US for a plot to detonate a backpack filled with shrapnel dipped in rat poison in the airport arrivals lounge. 🔗: telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…

Haringey Green Party's statement on the 'Zionism is Racism' motion

So, the Green Party voted to brand Zionism as a form of racism - and all hell broke loose in the mainstream media that for years has been tolerating the Palestinian genocide. Now, on the specific issue, of whether Zionism is a species of racism, here is what I can offer: A recommendation for a forthcoming book that I was privileged enough to get a chance to read before it was published. The author is Benjamin Moser, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'Sontag: Her Life and Work'. The book's title? 'Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History'. Below you can find the blurb I wrote when I read it. I think it says everything I want to say on the question "Is Zionism a species of racism?" Benjamin Moser grew up inside the Zionist story. This remarkable book is a record of his slow, painful unlearning of it – its deconstruction. Resembling some character in an Ibsen play, Moser gradually, unwittingly, discovers an unpunished crime at the heart of a storyline he had considered ‘pure’. The result is not a polemic but a resurrection of a fine tradition of Jews who resisted Zionism, whose stories were suppressed, their names erased, their portents dismissed as self-hatred. And yet, as Moser shows with devastating patience, they were right. They were right about the Nakba before it happened. They were right about the settlements before they spread. They were right about the genocide before we watched it unfold. More than any other recent book, Anti-Zionism restores our faith in what Iris Murdoch defined as the Sovereignty of Good. benmoser.com/anti-zionism

My statement on "Zionism is Racism"

BREAKING: Amnesty International UK chair Sandy Ruthven has left the Green Party following the party's adoption of its 'Zionism is racism' motion at its conference over the weekend. trib.al/rinThz4 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

“The Greens are more extreme than mainstream Palestinian opinion - they’re saying violence is now legitimate.” The Green Party's ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion calls for “the eradication of the Israeli state”, says @Freedland. “And they’re happy to see that achieved by violence”.

🚨 NEW: Reform MP Sarah Pochin has called for all Green MPs to be banned from Parliament over the "Zionism is racism" vote "They’ve come out as a set of racists"

Today, the Green Party in Britain ceased to act as a political party and became a body that gives legitimacy to terrorism. The Greens have adopted not only the green of Hamas, but also its ideology: the elimination of the State of Israel through armed struggle. The shocking resolution adopted today legitimises armed struggle, calls for a Palestinian state “from the river to the sea” - meaning the destruction of the State of Israel - and labels as “racist” the aspiration of the Jewish people for self-determination. This goes far beyond the boundaries of legitimate political debate. As long as this resolution remains in place, it will be a stain on the history of the United Kingdom. Every political party in Britain, first and foremost the governing Labour Party, must unequivocally reject this twisted resolution.

this statement doesn't really do anything to explain which parts of the motion you actually disagree with or why. there's a lot in there which isn't controversial, so i would hope you don't disagree with all of it. members deserve better & more detailed arguments than this