UK's Green Party adopts 'Zionism is racism' policy

The UK’s left-wing Green Party on Sunday voted to define Zionism as racism at the party’s annual get-together, drawing sharp backlash from British Jewish groups and the Israeli government. Members of the Greens, which has five members in Britain’s 650-seat parliament and which enjoyed a boost in recent local and special elections, backed the motion at the party’s conference, with 1,022 votes in favour and 813 against. According to the motion, Zionism would be “treated as any other form of racism”, and the party supports the establishment of a “single democratic Palestinian State in all of…