What Jewish communities say Statements from Jewish organisations, and open letters from Jewish communities to Green councillors, about the Green Party's "Zionism is Racism" motion. Each is reproduced in full, in their words, with where it was published.
“ You can't be anti-racist and antisemitic.
“ Zionism is anti-racism.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council National statements Statement from the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council · 4 October 2026
“The motion passed by the Green Party today is an attack on the Jewish community. It is an antisemitic platform, based on a grossly offensive distortion and erasure of Jewish experience and identity.”
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Statement from the Movement for Progressive Judaism · 4 October 2026
“The motion is antisemitic in its formulation and intention. By adopting it, the Green Party has made antisemitism party policy and become a racist party.”
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Statement from the The Chief Rabbi · 4 October 2026
“All decent people will see this for what it is: poisonous antisemitism, a threat to British Jews and to Britain.”
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Letters from local Jewish communities Open letter from the Hastings and District Jewish Community · Hastings
“We are distressed, disbelieving and shocked at the new Green policy that Zionism is apparently racism. This is blatantly antisemitic.”
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