Bliss Wylie, the Norwich councillor who claimed the controversial motion had “very little to do with Jewish people”, faces a showdown next Thursday which will decide the Green’s future in the group.

The 21 Green councillors on Norwich City Council will vote on whether to expel Cllr Wylie, impose a suspension or take no action at all.

Bliss Wylie claimed the motion had "very little to do with Jewish people" (Image: Bliss Wylie/Instagram)

Either sanction will need a two-thirds majority to pass.

If expelled, Cllr Wylie would remain a member of the Green Party but would sit in the chamber as an independent - cutting the Greens’ majority on the council to just one.

The vote is the latest chapter in an extraordinary row which has engulfed the Greens since the party’s national conference in Brighton passed the motion earlier this month.

It declared that Zionism - the movement which backs........

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