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00:01:02Hello, I'm Chris Williamson and this is Palestine
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00:01:05of Declassified where we focus on the international struggle to liberate Palestine and
00:01:09expose Israel's efforts to
00:01:10of manipulate of the political class and corporate media. In today's show
00:01:14we'll be considering the impact of motion that was adopted by the Green Party of
00:01:18England and Wales at their recent conference in Brighton, which clearly stated
00:01:22that Zionism is racism. The motion also called for an
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00:01:26of administrative detention, the depreption of Palestine Action. as a terrorist
00:01:30organization and the release of all Palestinian prisoners of conscience,
00:01:34including Mawan
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00:01:36of of Baguchi. We'll be discussing the significance
00:01:38of the Green Party's decision after this report on the background to this
00:01:41momentous political milestone and the fallout
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00:01:47Zionism is racism. That was the resolution passed by
00:01:51the Green Party of England and Wales at its autumn conference
00:01:55early October. The binding resolution passed by
00:01:5912. 22 votes to 813.
00:02:03It was proposed by Lubn Speton, a British
00:02:06of Palestinian member of Greens for Palestine. The textum as
00:02:10quote: a political as
00:02:13of quote: a
00:02:14in political ideology, and quote, and sort and now seeks to
00:02:18maintain an ethno-nationalist juist state in historic
00:02:22Palestine to the exclusion and or domination
00:02:26of the non- Jewish population. It says that Zionism
00:02:30privileges one group on the basis
00:02:32of the subjugation
00:02:33of the others and has produced aparthyite
00:02:36regime. the conference resolved that
00:02:39zionism should be treated as
00:02:42of any other form of racism and that the green party is an
00:02:45anti-zionist party. the resolution also
00:02:49supports a single democratic palestinian state across historic
00:02:53Palestine, with al-Quds, Jerusalem as its
00:02:57capital, and the right of return for Palestinian. and their
00:03:00descendants, it reaffirms
00:03:02of the need for
00:03:03of boycott, divestment and sanctions, and a full arms
00:03:07embargo, and it supports the
00:03:09of Palestinian right to resist occupation.
00:03:13Despite over three years of genocide in Gaza,
00:03:15of the green party is the first
00:03:17of mainstream British political party to pass
00:03:20a resolution like this, a sign that attitudes even
00:03:23of in the heart of global imperialism are changing, but the
00:03:27Zionis did not waste any time. in launching attacks
00:03:31just as they had in the
00:03:33of months leading up to the vote. Israel's foreign ministry called the
00:03:37of resolution in
00:03:37a clear anti-semitic text and legitimize Israel's
00:03:42of destruction, banning the green
00:03:44a party's Jewish leader Zach Polansky from entering the zinus
00:03:47entity. furthermore, Briton's
00:03:50of chief rabbi Eframe Mervis called the motion poisonous
00:03:54of anti-semitism and a threat to British Jews. the board of deputies
00:03:58in Israel lobby group. group said the greens had become an extremist
00:04:02party and that the vote was attack on the Jewish
00:04:06in community, more over the European green party,
00:04:09umbrella group for green parties across Europe,
00:04:12unequivocally distance itself from the
00:04:15resolution, but the resolution was not
00:04:18of just opposed by outsiders. four
00:04:21of the green party's five members of parliament had also
00:04:24expressed opposition to the motion before the vote even took
00:04:28place, and other green party... grandes came out to condemn it
00:04:32after it passed. In spite
00:04:34of the intense backlash, the resolution sends a clear
00:04:38message that Zionism is racist
00:04:41of ideology and must be opposed, not just the actions
00:04:44of the zionist
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00:04:47a regime. Well, joining me to discuss this groundbreaking move by the
00:04:51green party, is the author and political commentator, Dr. Ashot
00:04:54Kumar who's a reader in political
00:04:56of economy at Burtbeck University of London, and he's also a... green
00:05:00party activist and I'm joined
00:05:02of as usual
00:05:02of by our resident expert in the UK's leading scholarly critic of Israel David
00:05:06Miller. David
00:05:07is also a co-director
00:05:08of the Lobby Watch Dog Spinwatch and a senior
00:05:10of research fellow at the Center for Islam and global. affairs Istanbul Zaim
00:05:14university. Welcome to the show. Well, I shock. I mean, what's the
00:05:17broader impact that you expect the green party's decision to
00:05:21have?
00:05:21I mean, there's been quite a strong backlash in certain quarters, but despite
00:05:25that, do you think the tide is turning against zinanism as an
00:05:28idea? Yeah, I mean, I guess the purpose of
00:05:32this uh,
00:05:34was, essentially to get to the
00:05:38core the problem. You know, this is, we didn't want to
00:05:42take... piecemeal approach, we felt like the
00:05:45approach of just simply identifying either our role in arms
00:05:49or our role in surveillance and that's a peacemeal approach and we
00:05:53wanted to talk and and instigate a conversation in the public
00:05:57arena uh about the
00:06:01ideological uh basis for
00:06:05the occupation
00:06:07but also it wasn't just it was also to reanimate
00:06:11the motion from the UN in the 1970s
00:06:13and it was also about
00:06:17um there were other bits to it
00:06:20you know like that were very important like we becoming an official kind of
00:06:24um a anti-zionist party uh
00:06:28was doing the first in the western world that we wanted to initiate that because we
00:06:32wanted to basically say there's no middle
00:06:35ground here you know there's colonialism is evil
00:06:39slavery is evil settler colonialism is... is evil,
00:06:43racism is evil, and therefore this
00:06:46zinism, as it's materialized in
00:06:49Israel, is racism and therefore must be
00:06:53condemned
00:06:55as an ideology, so it became very important for us
00:06:59to be very lucid and clear in that
00:07:03approach, and even beyond that that
00:07:06definition and that identification, and I think these are
00:07:10quite important things, but they were always, they were being. missed as a um
00:07:14abstract uh, even by some people that
00:07:17recognize the importance these so-called abstract discussions,
00:07:21so it's um, it goes beyond that by
00:07:25saying we believe a single
00:07:28state uh
00:07:30from the river to the sea with equal rights for all, the right to
00:07:33return, that's what it identified here, which isn't trying to the
00:07:36UN, and um uh the
00:07:40recognizes the UN core conventions right and
00:07:43like um, you know, element that
00:07:46says that uh, occupied people have a right to
00:07:50resist, and stands in full
00:07:54solidarity with Palestinian prisoners and calls for the deprescription of palestian
00:07:58action and the release of those prisoners, so there is no sort
00:08:01of um middle ground for us on this,
00:08:05it's it's very clear that we in part
00:08:09want to shift the um, the... the
00:08:12levels of solidarity and humanity that we
00:08:15recognize in Palestinians, all of which is really sort of
00:08:19entirely defendable under the UN core conventions, and
00:08:23even refugee conventions, etc., so international
00:08:26law, so it's not outside the bounds of
00:08:28that, but it's become unacceptable even talk
00:08:31about that, and we also wanted to make sure that we separate Judaism from
00:08:35zionism, that conflation to us, hurts
00:08:39Palestinians, hurts Jewish peop
00:08:44um and so this was actually in so many direction attempting to do that
00:08:47and is is attempting to do that um and
00:08:51we we think that we want to have a real conversation about the source
00:08:55the violence and that source isionism. well David, I mean
00:08:59the resolution that's been adopted by the green party defines
00:09:02Zionism as an ethnonationalist racist project that
00:09:06should be obvious obviously to everyone now, but I mean this is a pretty
00:09:10big step isn't it for the green party. to
00:09:12take, well, I guess it's been coming a long time, hasn't
00:09:16it? I mean, we saw about year and a half ago
00:09:20now, maybe two years ago, um, aza
00:09:24Sultana issuing the declaration, I'm an
00:09:27anti-zionist, and then of course we saw uh,
00:09:31Jeremy Kobin refusing to say he was an anti-sign, and then later on quite
00:09:34quite quietly saying that he was an anticionist, then we saw Zak
00:09:38Kowanski even saying that he was an antisignist at the same time as
00:09:42he... effectively said that he wasn't going to vote for the motion,
00:09:46so it's been a long time coming and but it is historic, it's the first
00:09:50mainstream is party to take such a position,
00:09:53and of course the uh the whole world is collapsed in
00:09:57horror and pearl clutching as result, so yes it's a it's a
00:10:01first step, it's the beginning and it's a serious motion, it's not just
00:10:05motion which says we are antisignist without having
00:10:08any content to that motion, which of course was the criticism leveled.
00:10:27frankly hero of our movement now uh so yes it's it's a very
00:10:31significant step but of course we need to build on it we need to build on it
00:10:35most obviously by just mentally siyenism as an ideology as
00:10:38movement in this country yes and
00:10:41you you alluded to the backlash there the the zionist
00:10:45colon is now banned zat polanski from from entering and
00:10:49yet they quite happy to have all manner of unsavory
00:10:52characters entering the the terror. what do
00:10:55you make of that? well they issued list
00:10:59didn't they the other week when uh Andy Bernum
00:11:03introduced his milk toast sanctions
00:11:06policy issued a list of of MPs who were now banned including
00:11:10Jeremy Corbert of course and the green party
00:11:12MPs some them but of course
00:11:16know you almost all them are I think all them are sionists uh you
00:11:20know only only said he's an antiscionist and it's open to
00:11:23question what that actually means in terms of his understanding of politics,
00:11:27because when he's talked about zionism, he's been one the ones who's who's
00:11:31adopted this affects position, oh there are a variety
00:11:35of sorts of zionism, some people just yearn in their hearts for a
00:11:39homeland, isn't it terrible that the yearning is called racism, well no,
00:11:42it's it's a racist ideology, yearning to replace the indigenous
00:11:46population of Palestine with a Jewish colony, call it a
00:11:50homeland if you like, it's still a racist proposition whether you do
00:11:54it or not, of course, it does require you to do it, and of course that's what the
00:11:58zionist movement did, as people
00:11:59have been saying, it's the practice the Zionist movement which is
00:12:02the important thing, and in practice what they did was they removed the
00:12:06the palestinian population, and of course they continued to commit genocide against them,
00:12:09yes, of course, of course, of course, and I think Zack is probably
00:12:13on something of a journey because his position is is harden, I think over the over the
00:12:17last sort of few weeks or so, and obviously still further to go, but let's see
00:12:21how that to develops, but shock, I mean the the motion,
00:12:25supports the the right of return for palestinians as
00:12:28otherers backing the boycott divestment and and sanctions campaign
00:12:32and also calls for a full arms embargo too, mean do you think
00:12:36these legitimate demands will have an impact on the overton
00:12:39window? well, mean i think that those
00:12:42demands uh, it reiterated
00:12:46some demands, but those most of those
00:12:49existed uh within party policy already, so
00:12:53we had already we have in full embargo is part of our pr, we already call
00:12:57it genocide, we already want a full economic sanctions, we already want
00:13:01divestment, before this motion was heard, there were separate motions,
00:13:04demotions that were about the internal policies the party, so we
00:13:08we also in our own decision making as a party would be would
00:13:12implement bds, boyot devestment sanctions, which passed almost
00:13:16unanimously, and then we also had
00:13:19motion to um prioritize
00:13:23with the councils that we run and... councils across the country that we prioritized
00:13:27divestment in those councils, which passed almost
00:13:30unanimously, so that's existed for years and years, that's a policy that
00:13:34we've been pushing for years and years, and actually central more than any other
00:13:38policy since 2024, i'd say
00:13:41the rise the green party into 2025 and
00:13:45sixfold increase from 50 thousand to about 25000
00:13:49is directly linked to palestine and our policies around palestine
00:13:52and the the grote. policies of this farmer government and
00:13:56now the burnum government is continuing that with some minor
00:13:59adjustments, so those policies already existed, and when
00:14:03you talk about the overturn window, i think the zionism question and
00:14:06the right to resist question and the
00:14:10zinanism is racism and the antisignism as official policy
00:14:14and the like single state and the right of return, those
00:14:18policies are about trying to shift the terms of debate, the
00:14:22overton window as you could call it or the um the
00:14:25part of to make a direct intervention not only in discourse
00:14:29but um the popular imaginary and the popular
00:14:33consciousness, but as much as one can as a party with
00:14:37five MPs, not an insignificant party, large third
00:14:40largest party in the country, but um I would
00:14:44say that if you um and so for those who
00:14:48say oh these are symbolic measures or whatever, we are a
00:14:52party that isn't in government and we're nowhere near government.
00:14:56"in essence, in essence, other than the stuff we do
00:14:59internally and the stuff we push for in councils and you control a
00:15:03number of councils especially in London, you could say all
00:15:07of our policies are symbolic, we could say that, they're all
00:15:11interventions, they're all public interventions, they're all trying to
00:15:15you know shift the political window,
00:15:18and so this is trying to do that in that in
00:15:21that um in that '
00:15:25tradition: well David, as expected, the the zinish regime
00:15:29as well as its UK assets, including Britain's chief rabbi
00:15:32and the board of deputies swiftly mobilized to attack this
00:15:36move by the green party. didn't they,
00:15:39but it's
00:15:39important isn't
00:15:39it, I think emphasize that, this is just another
00:15:43coordinated smear campaign, and it's
00:15:45not an organic response, is it? well,
00:15:49no, of course it's a coordinated smear campaign, but let's remember
00:15:52that the the majority the Jewish population in this
00:15:56country is zionist of one sort or another, of course there's
00:15:59arguments about how many people are turning away from zionis and whether that's
00:16:03increasing or not, but but all of organized jury is officially and
00:16:07and openly zionist, including of course the board of deputies, the Jewish
00:16:10leadership council and all the other organizations as well, so I saw
00:16:14people perclutching about this saying, oh it's terrible on the day when
00:16:18the largest massacre of jew since the holocaust meeting october the 7th
00:16:22has happened that they are demonstrating against jews, well no, none of that none of that
00:16:26happened, this is not a massacer of Jews on on October the
00:16:297th and whether it's larger or not than
00:16:33anything, and of course the they're not demonstrating against Jews, they're demonstrating against the...
00:16:37board of deputies of british Jews, which is an openly genocidal zionist
00:16:41organization, it says in its own documents that it coordinates closely with the ministry
00:16:45of foreign affairs, with the IDF and and of course with
00:16:49the the the zianist prime minister's office, this is a
00:16:52genocidal organization which ough to be shut down, the chief rabbi
00:16:56himself, he trained in two separate
00:16:59yeshivas in occupied palestine, both of which were
00:17:03hesivas, which means that you you do part of your
00:17:07time, tora and part of your time killing palestinian children in
00:17:11the in training in the to lecture us about to
00:17:14lecture us about no absolutely not, mean i think
00:17:18certainly we know don't we that zianists have have a pontion
00:17:21for hyperboly, mean you mentioned the the the
00:17:25chief rabbi, mean i got a quote from him here, mean he said that this
00:17:29is chief rabbai efram mervis he said that the
00:17:32motion um represented poisonous anti-semitism
00:17:36and a threat. to British Jews, and you mentioned the the board of deputies
00:17:40of well, they're claiming now that
00:17:42the the Green party is an extremist party, and even the
00:17:45European green party, the umbrella
00:17:49organization for green parties across Europe has has sort of distanced itself,
00:17:53hasn't it from unequivocally in fact to distance itself from
00:17:56from the move, so it certainly caused a bit of faulut hasn't
00:18:00it? yeah, I mean it's hilarious, isn't it? right back in
00:18:032018 with the campaign against Jeremy Corbin,
00:18:07campaign against Jeremy Corbin and of course if you remember what happened then
00:18:11was down said nothing, his advisers, his advisor said
00:18:15to all blow over by christmas of course it didn't all blow over and
00:18:19they got rid of him and that of course is the the decision which the
00:18:23activist in the green party and the greens from palestine are going to have
00:18:26to uh uh work on now is are they going
00:18:29to back off try and stay silent see if it'll blow over or are they going
00:18:33to go full tilt uh at the at the z
00:18:37to say no, you are racists, your movement needs to be
00:18:40demobilized and dismantled, and that means not just in Palestine,
00:18:44but in this country to every single one the 400 or so
00:18:48zionist organizations in the UK must be demobilized,
00:18:52dismantled and cease to exist, it's perfectly easy for them to do
00:18:55that, even today any
00:18:59Jewish youth group, any Jewish school, any Jewish synagogue, could say
00:19:03actually the zin have gone too far, the genocide
00:19:07is... calling we resigned from the zionist movement, anyone them could do that, not
00:19:11a single organization has done so in the last three years, the moment is
00:19:14now, no indeed, I mean
00:19:17you think that would be the minimum frankly that that
00:19:21that should be done, but but I shock, I mean the the zinish
00:19:25regime and the German greens and much the British
00:19:28corporate media have have treated the motion as
00:19:31antisemitism as an anti-semitism scandal even, I mean
00:19:35what what do you say about this manufacture? well,
00:19:39I think that that is something we're attempting to
00:19:43um combat directly with confidence and
00:19:46clarity. um,
00:19:49you know, it's it's anti-semitic to
00:19:53blame all Jewish people for the crimes the Israeli
00:19:56government, and that is something zinas attempt to
00:19:59do, because if you attach it to
00:20:03people's identity, it becomes such inbuilt sort of.
00:20:08defense mechanism, one, it makes people
00:20:11defend crimes even if they know them to be
00:20:14wrong, and two, you, it allows for people to
00:20:18say any criticism of zinanism is in effect of
00:20:22criticism of Judaism, and so that's essentializing, it's, it's,
00:20:26it's, it hurts palestinians, but it also
00:20:30hurts Jewish people, so we're trying
00:20:33really as patiently and as deliberately as
00:20:37possible. well to draw that distinction out and that was one the goals the motion as
00:20:41well. um, it's difficult to combat
00:20:45these, we're trying to learn from the past, we're trying to
00:20:48learn from the past.
00:20:51and not be apologetic for
00:20:54our anti-racist politics, that's what this is, this is
00:20:58anti-racist in every direction. well, David, I mean, what, what
00:21:02do you make the other political parties in Britain, and I mean we've talked about
00:21:06the, the fallout across Europe and all the rest of it, but the political
00:21:10parties in Britain have been falling over themselves, haven't they to condemn the Greek
00:21:13party for officially acknowledging that Zionism is
00:21:17racism, um, I mean, what do
00:21:19you think? what says about
00:21:21the the limits of electoral anti-signism in britan? the of
00:21:25course this is a full court press, all the mainstream media and indeed some the
00:21:29independent media uh attacking this, this is wasn't the right time, it's a
00:21:32diversion, let's not talk about racism, all this is academic
00:21:36discussion, all this nonsense that is coming out the mouths of people who should
00:21:40know better as well as the ones who of course don't know better uh,
00:21:44but that's the same with the the political system, the political system
00:21:47is uh is bought and paid for by the zionist movement, there is
00:21:51no MP in the house of commons who is standing
00:21:54up on regular basis dening zionism, and
00:21:58of course most the parties are almost all the parties are are
00:22:02zionist, we've even had green party MPs effectively condemning the
00:22:06motion and not supporting it, and of course that that's what will happen as
00:22:09we go forward, if the the movement allows it or it fails to
00:22:13combat them effectively, the MPs in charge the green party
00:22:17will quietly abolish this policy by and of course that's not
00:22:21that's not within the rules the party, but that's what they'll do, but every other
00:22:24party is sist party, is explicitly signed up
00:22:28designism, and that that's what you expect, the whole the whole
00:22:32system is now coming down on the greens and if they can withstand this pressure
00:22:36then we will will start to see the growing of antionist
00:22:39ideas, of course in my case you will recall
00:22:42we we won the position at the court case and then an appeal at that court case
00:22:46establishing the legal principle that it's illegal to uh minate
00:22:50against antizionis and now we're seeing this moving through the political system,
00:22:53antizionism is newly popular, newly respectable, and people are starting to
00:22:57understand what it means, of course what will happen is
00:23:00that they will throw their throw toys out the prim and
00:23:03say this woman, this woman who drafted this this motion
00:23:07is calling for us all to be killed, well she's only calling for us all to be killed if you
00:23:11misquote what she says and don't understand what she's saying, it's a nonsense, but of course that's
00:23:15what they all try and do no, i'm sure they will and indeed
00:23:19- uh trying to already do that, but
00:23:23I mean this has all very strong echos of of what happened
00:23:27to the labour party under Jeremy Corbin when he
00:23:31was the the leader, I mean that you know the furori, the manufactured
00:23:34furori that was created, the whole anti-semitism scam is is
00:23:38kind of it's on repeat isn't it, they're trying to do the same thing here, I
00:23:42suppose the difference with the green party is
00:23:45that the the uh the members seems to be more democratic
00:23:48organization. more so than what the labour party was, and in spite
00:23:52the some the resistance from senior figures in the party,
00:23:56the members of of parliament, members still pushed this onto the agenda,
00:24:00pushed it up the agenda, there was all sorts of efforts, as I understand it bause I was down at the
00:24:04green party conference to to delay uh discussion of
00:24:08it, but they the members insisted on it being debated, they
00:24:12managed to vote down all the wrecking amendments and
00:24:16and it carried the day, I mean do you... see
00:24:20echoes with with Corbin and do you see the green party being a better
00:24:24position to be able to withstand the the efforts the
00:24:27Zinist lobby to derail the the green party's
00:24:30move unlike the labour party which obviously did fall over as result
00:24:34yeah well yes and no
00:24:36I mean obviously there there are some key differences uh the green party
00:24:40as you say is much younger party hasn't got the
00:24:43accumulated history the labor movement on his shoulders and the procedures and
00:24:47bureaucratic procedures for doing things and that means it's lighter on his feet in
00:24:51some respects, but we we also don't know too much about the
00:24:55internal procedures in the green party, we know that some people have been suspended
00:24:58and expelled from the party for fake antisemitism
00:25:02allegations, and that's a very worrying sign that the same same thing could happen
00:25:06to to others, of course there will be attempts to mass report the people who were
00:25:10involved in the motion including lubna and of course comrade
00:25:13asok who's on the show just
00:25:16now uh so that will have we'll have to see how that's goes because of
00:25:20course what happened in the the corbin case was they appointed people who were
00:25:24convinced zionists to the disciplinary entity so that when the the disciplinary
00:25:28cases came they said well this looks like it's anti-semitism look it's a breach the
00:25:31IHRA look this is left-wing anti-semitism we must have these people out the
00:25:35party and that that was
00:25:37the that was the end because it wasn't just that the the zionists were pressuring from the
00:25:40outside it's that there were zionists inside the party making the decisions as
00:25:44well and that that's the key thing in the case the greens of course the all the
00:25:48mps with the possible exception of
00:25:51uh of um zach palanski are themselves zionists and they're very very weak the
00:25:55question of palestine caroline lucas atrociously weak on it uh the
00:25:59former MP and all the rest the MPs along with.
00:26:03Yeah,
00:26:03well, wel watch this with with interest, but I'm afraid that's all we've got time
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00:29:39from bomb stop falling, casualty figures are tallied, names are added
00:29:43to lists, but numbers cannot measure the lives that unravel
00:29:47after the explosions, wars count those killed by
00:29:50missiles, they rarely count those who survived them and may
00:29:54later die of brief, yes you heard that right,
00:29:58great 31 year old sayid became
00:30:02of those in the early hours of March 26th, a US-Israeli
00:30:06strike reduced her family home a neighborhood
00:30:10to rubble. Her husband, local football coach Hussein
00:30:13Maliki and their two young sons, age five and
00:30:17three were killed. Around them, nine homes were destroyed and
00:30:2124 people died from the US Israely attack. Alham
00:30:24survived for seven hours rescuers searched through
00:30:28concrete and twisted steel before pulling her from beneath
00:30:32the... the fallen sofa had shielded her head from the
00:30:35collapsing building, but her injuries were severe. her
00:30:39greatest wounds however were invisible. weeks later, a
00:30:43video of elham standing on the ruins of her home spread across
00:30:47Iran. in her hands was a handwritten note rescued from the
00:30:50rubble, one her young son had written before the
00:30:54attack.