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On Sunday, the United Kingdom’s Green Party passed a motion defining Zionism as a form of racism. Within hours of the vote, Israel’s foreign ministry responded, slamming the motion and barring Green Party leader Zack Polanski from entering Israel.

“The Greens have adopted not only the green of Hamas, but also its ideology: the elimination of the State of Israel through armed struggle,” Israel’s foreign ministry posted on X, speciously comparing the left-wing British political party to the Palestinian resistance group.

The foreign ministry also called on the U.K.’s Labour Party to denounce the motion.

The motion passed at the Green Party’s annual conference on Sunday in a vote of 1,022 to 813. In addition to denouncing Zionism, it calls for a single state in historic Palestine with equal rights for all, with the right of return for Palestinians. The motion also acknowledges the right of Palestinians to resist, and reasserts the Green Party’s commitment to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign and a total arms embargo.

Israeli politicians from various political parties smeared the motion.

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