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Green councillors face Labour deadline to disown Zionism policy
The Greens say they reject the motion and want the party’s national leadership to review it as Labour weighs whether to end local deals.
- Labour Party leadership threatened on Friday to end power-sharing agreements with Green Party councillors across 18 councils unless they publicly disown the party's October 4 policy defining Zionism as a form of racism.
- Earlier this month, Green Party members approved the motion by 1,022 votes to 813, declaring Zionism an "ethnonationalist Jewish state" that led to "disenfranchisement and destruction" of Palestinians and supporting a "single democratic Palestinian state in all of historic Palestine."
- Local Green groups are responding unevenly to the ultimatum; some have distanced themselves from the policy to preserve alliances, while Stafford's group told the BBC they were "formulating a response" to Labour's demand.
- Labour's National Executive Committee will decide whether to maintain power-sharing deals after Green groups respond by Sunday, threatening the stability of the "rainbow coalition" in Havant and other local authorities.
- Precedent exists in Lewes, where Labour group leader Chris Collier resigned to sit as an independent rather than enforce the ultimatum, underscoring friction created by mandating national policy alignment on local governance.
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