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19 Feb 2026 · 11:43 AM UTC
https://nitter.net/AsaWinstanley/status/2024449725219398040

On LBC, @zachpolanski denies that Zionism is racist: "If you're talking about
the original historical definition, no I don't think it's racist."

Says the problem is "Netanyahu and the Israeli government" and he doesn't
support one Palestinian state.

https://nitter.net/SaulStaniforth/status/2024208363051946486

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18 Feb 2026 · 7:44 PM UTC
Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth

Iain Dale asks @ZackPolanski, do you think zionism is racist?

Zack says the idea of zionism initially was to make sure there was a peaceful
place for the Jewish people, but the version of zionism under Netanyahu is
definitely racist. No. It was always racist (1/4)

Video

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It appears that @ZackPolanski is (in the most generous interpretation) going
down the disastrous @jeremycorbyn route: appeasement of Zionist fanatics by
capitulating and pandering to Israel lobby lies.

See my book, chapter 9, or, e.g., this:
"Labour anti-Semitism" story is a pretext to stage coup against left-wing leader
who supports Palestinian rights.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/jeremy-corbyn-must-stop-pandering-labours-israel-lobby/23731

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But in truth it's likely more than just capitulation: it's ideology.

LBC interviewer Iain Dale (clearly a Zionist fanatic himself) says that
Polanski's mother and sister are Zionists -- Polanski doesn't deny this.

Dale also says Polanksi was the "creator" of the Jewish Greens -- something
Polanski confirms.

Polanksi claims that the conversation "about labels" is "unhelpful" and that
"everyone wants peace." Claims that Zionism "is a very abstract term."

Not for Palestinians it's not.

For Palestinians, Zionism has always meant nothing but racism, colonialism,
violence and dispossession.

The only "two sides" in that equation are the oppressed and the
oppressor. @ZackPolanski will have to pick a side.

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I've been told that the Jewish Greens (founded by Polanski) have been moving
aggressively to scupper a motion (more of which below) within the party
(correctly) defining Zionism as racism.

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This woeful stance by @ZackPolanski comes in the context of Green Party
activists currently proposing an important motion to party conference next
month, namely, A105: Zionism is Racism.

I have seen a copy of the motion. If passed it would:
🟢 Declare the Greens to be an "anti-Zionist party"
🟢 Reject the IHRA mis-definition of anti-Semitism
🟢 Call for unbanning Palestine Action
🟢 Commit to BDS
🟢 Support "the establishment of a single democratic Palestinian State in all of
historic Palestine"

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The deadline for Green Party members to vote to prioritise motion A105: Zionism
is Racism is TONIGHT, at 23:59.

In this video, Green Party activists explain why they are supporting the motion
and why all members should urgently vote to prioritise it:
https://www.youtube.com/live/T_4vPnE9bS0