Overview
- Conference delegates in Brighton voted 1,022 to 813 on 4 October to adopt a motion that defines Zionism as an ethnonationalist ideology and treats it as a form of racism.
- Norwich City Council leader Lucy Galvin publicly rejected the conference motion and said it will not become council policy, prompting several local Green councillors who backed the motion to call for her resignation.
- Councillors who support the motion, including Bliss Wylie who helped draft an amendment that removed the party’s previous two-state position, say the change centres Palestinian experiences and is not aimed at British Jews.
- The policy has already triggered national fallout with at least one senior resignation, a councillor defecting to the Conservatives, the Green leader losing a by-election and being barred from Israel, and external groups making regulatory and legal referrals.
- Jewish leaders including the Chief Rabbi and the Board of Deputies have condemned the motion as fueling anti-Jewish hatred, a reaction that threatens party unity, local governance stability and the Greens’ wider electoral prospects.