Zack Polanski, the leader of the Green Party, may say that he is proud of his Jewish heritage, but his actions differ from his words.

Just last month, his own relatives said that his politics have left them alienated from him and fearful of what would happen if he were to reach Downing Street. One relative reportedly went as far as to say, “He’s currently the leader of the future Islamic party of Britain, that’s what the Green Party is fast becoming. And there would be no place for Jews in an Islamic state of Britain.”

If the “Zionism is Racism” motion he backed had passed, which would have equated Zionism with racism and called for the abolishment of the sole Jewish state in favour of the establishment of a “single democratic Palestinian State in all of historic Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital,” he would have branded his own mother, among other close family members, as racists. (Polanski’s mother has openly expressed support for Israel across several social media posts; his own sister has voiced support for pro-Israel organisations and events.)

But that is not all that the Zionism is Racism motion would have accomplished. The proposed motion backed the right of the Palestinian people to “resistance and liberation from Israeli occupation, domination and subjugation,” asserting that “the........

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