There was a time when fringe ideas had the decency to remain fringe. The UK Green Party has now decided to put them on their Spring Conference agenda. The Greens for Palestine have tabled a motion (referred internally as Motion 33, and co-signed by over 300 delegates) to declare “Zionism is racism.” This motion is not merely unserious; it is indecent, and calling indecency moral courage does not make it so.

Criticising Israeli governments is ordinary political business. This is something else. The motion seeks to place the very idea of Jewish national self-determination beyond the pale. It takes a movement born of exile, pogrom, and genocide and pronounces it, in the abstract, morally suspect. It is a verdict delivered........

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