[Tubby Isaacs]

Indeed. Don't worry about this stuff, it's just the sort of people we have in the party! And nothing I've ever said could have given you the impression I believe rubbish like this.

[The Weeping Angel]

Also, any Green politician is going to be asked whether they agree with this policy and other policies members come up with. Meanwhile

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/green-part ... eli-group/

Omdim Beyachad (Standing Together) is a Jewish-Palestinian group which is vehemently critical of the Israeli government and most opposition parties, calls for the creation of a Palestinian state, organises aid convoys for Gaza and operates patrols to try and protect Palestinians in the West Bank from settler attacks. Despite this, the Jewish Chronicle has reported that the Green Party has refused to let UK Friends of Standing Together host a stall or operate a fringe event.

Last year, the Green Party faced calls from its own Greens for Palestine group to ban Sally Abed, a Palestinian with Israeli citizenship who co-chairs Standing Together, from speaking via video link-up at a fringe event. Lubna Speitan, the subsequent author of the “Zionism is racism” motion which is due to return to party conference this September, said that “Standing Together is an organisation explicitly boycotted under BDS guidelines due to its refusal to endorse BDS and its efforts to create partnerships between Israeli and Palestinian citizens without addressing the structures of apartheid, occupation, and colonisation that underpin their relationship.”

Speitan went on to write that “The overwhelming majority of Palestinian civil society, including unions, women’s groups, and human rights organisations, have called for a cultural and institutional boycott of Israeli groups that undermine their struggle. When they say don’t platform FOST, the ethical response is not to question their motives or dismiss them as ‘narrow’ or ‘hardline.’ It is to respect the strategy Palestinians have chosen for their own liberation.”

This position was strongly supported by others in the Green Party, including councillor Hau-Yu Tam, who more recently has become Lewisham council’s Cabinet Member for “Communities, Sanctuary & Healing”.

On Tuesday it was reported that the Antisemitism Policy Trust had been unable to unable to secure an event at Green Party conference, or even advertise an event in the party’s conference fringe programme.