Israel has banned Zack Polanski from entering the country after Green Party members voted to define Zionism as racist.
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The party was accused by Israel of giving 'legitimacy to terrorism' after a majority on Sunday agreed with the motion to formally adopt a position against Zionism at the party's conference in Brighton.
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Israel's foreign ministry described the move as a 'stain' on Britain's history and barred Mr Polanski from visiting the nation.
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In an update today it said: 'As a first step, foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar has decided this evening to declare Green Party leader Zack Polanski barred from entering Israel.'
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During the party conference they also rejected a clause that would have prevented the motion being used to 'pressure, proscribe or discipline' party members for their affiliation to Zionist synagogues or other Jewish groups.
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The 'twisted' resolution to oppose a Jewish state and support the establishment of a Palestinian one has already caused a rift within the party.
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Leader Zack Polanski, who was not present at the vote, snubbed the outcome and the Greens' five MPs issued a statement disowning the party's new stance.
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Its former leaders also expressed their shock that the Greens had become the UK's 'first openly anti-Semitic party'.
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Green Party leader Zack Polanski speaks at a Green Party campaign event in Kings Cross, London
Mr Polanski delivers his keynote speech at the Green Party annual conference in Brighton on October 2
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In an earlier condemnation of the vote, Israel's foreign ministry said: 'The Green Party in Britain ceased to act as a political party and became a body that gives legitimacy to terrorism.
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The Greens have adopted not only the green of Hamas, but also its ideology – the elimination of the State of Israel through armed struggle.
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This goes far beyond the boundaries of legitimate political debate.
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As long as this resolution remains in place, it will stand as a stain on the history of the UK.
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Every political party in Britain, first and foremost the governing Labour Party, must unequivocally reject this twisted resolution.'
In a statement with Green MPs and his deputies, Mr Polanski said there is 'no conflict between supporting the rights of Palestinians and the rights of Jewish people'.
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Former Greens co-leader Carla Denyer last night said the resolution risked 'alienating a significant proportion of Jewish people', including those who 'vehemently disagree' with Israel.
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Her co-leader, Adrian Ramsay, and Caroline Lucas, the party's first MP, also voiced opposition.
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And ex-deputy leader Shahrar Ali told the Daily Mail: 'I am deeply ashamed.
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Making Zionism is Racism our official party policy has made us the first openly anti-Semitic party in the UK.'
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Deputy leader Rachel Millward and Motheen Ali pictured applauding at the Green Party conference
The motion, revealed by the Daily Mail, declares that the party is 'opposed' to Zionism – a movement supporting a Jewish state in Israel.
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And it effectively calls for Israel to be replaced by a 'single democratic Palestinian state in all of historic Palestine, with Jerusalem as its capital'.
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It passed after 1,022 voted in favour, with 813 voting against.
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Mr Polanski instead spent Sunday campaigning in Holborn and St Pancras ahead of Thursday's by-election.
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One Jewish Green member said many may now quit the party.
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It comes after a 'safe room' was set up for Jewish Greens in Brighton.
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The Daily Mail can also reveal two members had their passes revoked – a Zionist after silently protesting in a Palestine fringe meeting, and the other, a Jewish Green, for filming it.
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Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: 'One look beneath the surface of Zack Polanski's Green Party shows a party toxic to its core.'
And Labour chairman Bridget Phillipson said the policy was 'shameful'.
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There are suggestions the motion could breach the Equality Act, with Adam Wagner KC writing on LinkedIn last night that it may 'discriminate against' Jews.
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Campaign Against Antisemitism claimed the policy was 'racism in its clearest form'.
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And Luciana Berger, who quit Labour in 2019 after stating it was 'institutionally anti-Semitic' under Jeremy Corbyn, said the Greens 'should be shunned'.
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A Green Party spokesman said it opposes 'racism in all its forms'.
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