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Zionism is racism

Britain’s Prime Minister Andy Burnham waves goodbye to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky after their meeting at 10 Downing Street in London, October 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
October 15, 2026, 2:56 am
British PM condemns Green Party for ‘Zionism is racism’ motion, rules out partnership
Burnham slams ‘antisemitic’ resolution that also advocates Israel’s elimination by calling for ‘a single democratic Palestinian state across all of historic Palestine’
By ToI Staff
Green Party leader Zack Polanski gives a speech in St Pancras Gardens as he continues his campaign ahead of the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, in London, October 3, 2026. (Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters)
October 9, 2026, 8:17 pm
Bruised by election defeat and anti-Zionism row, UK Greens leader says he’s staying
After heavily losing to Labour in race for former PM’s seat, Zack Polanski will have difficulty presiding over his fast-growing party ahead of next year’s leadership vote
By AP
Britain’s Green Party leader Zack Polanski attends a Green Party conference in Brighton, Britain, October 2, 2026. (Carlos Jasso/Reuters)
October 8, 2026, 5:21 pm
‘Moment of truth’: UK’s Jewish, anti-Israel Green Party leader faces key electoral test in London
Zack Polanski is at a political crossroads as voters in central London go to the polls for a special election during a week in which his party declared ‘Zionism is racism’
By Robert Philpot
A Green Party political sign put up by the householder to show support ahead of local council elections in London, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
October 7, 2026, 10:53 am
In UK, ‘Jewish Greens’ chief mulls quitting party over ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion
Vivien Lichtenstein, Green Party veteran who heads Jewish faction, says policy won’t help Palestinians, could put Jewish members at risk; group’s secretary calls resolution ‘colonial’
By Shira Li Bartov
Britain’s leader of the Green Party, Zack Polanski poses with supporters after speaking at a rally in a park in south London, on June 24, 2026. (Henry Nicholls/ AFP)
October 6, 2026, 9:03 am
European Green Party condemns UK Greens for ‘Zionism is racism’ policy
European group says resolution, which wants Israel replaced by a ‘democratic Palestinian state throughout historic Palestine,’ contradicts its two-state stance; German Greens call it ‘intolerable’; UK’s Amnesty International chair quits party
By ToI Staff, Lazar Berman and Zev Stub
Britain’s Green Party leader Zack Polanski attends a Green Party conference in Brighton, Britain, October 2, 2026. (Carlos Jasso/Reuters)
October 4, 2026, 9:01 pm
UK’s Green Party declares ‘Zionism is racism,’ calls for Palestine to replace Israel
Israel bans Jewish leader Zack Polanski, says party legitimizing terrorists; resolution claims Zionism privileges one group while subjugating others; some Green MPs come out against move
By Lazar Berman
Green Party leader Zack Polanski gives a speech in St Pancras Gardens as he continues his campaign ahead of the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, in London, October 3, 2026. (Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters)
October 3, 2026, 5:56 pm
UK Greens to vote on motion declaring ‘Zionism is Racism,’ calling to dismantle Israel
Far-left party’s Jewish, anti-Israel leader says he will support motion if amended to allow possibility of two-state solution, ensure Jewish members who belong to Zionist synagogues are not expelled
By ToI Staff
Then-Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Chaim Herzog addresses the UN General Assembly on November 10, 1975, at the vote to label Zionism as 'racism,' at the United Nations, New York. (UN Photo/Michos Tzovaras)
December 12, 2025, 8:54 am
How a UN vote 50 years ago equating Zionism with racism forever altered discourse on Israel
In November 1975, the USSR championed a resolution aimed at easing criticism of its own antisemitism at Israel’s expense. It was repealed in 1991, but experts say its effect lives on
By Ed Weinberg
Kenneth S. Stern
November 23, 2020, 2:16 pm
Kenneth S. Stern
Zionism is not racism – BDS isn’t always anti-Semitism
US Sec of State Pompeo’s declaration that the Israel boycott is anti-Jewish by definition is just the kind of false simplification we’ve seen before
Gil Troy
April 8, 2018, 2:30 pm
Gil Troy
It’s time to reclaim the Z-word
If we Zionists don’t stand up for ourselves, who are we? If we let those anti-Zionist haters win, what are we?
Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl (George Schneider)
January 15, 2018, 3:29 pm
New Austrian FM denies having compared Zionism with Nazism
Boycotted by Jerusalem due to her affiliation with the far right, Karin Kneissl says her controversial quote was taken out of context, affirms Israel’s status as Jewish state
By Raphael Ahren
Daniel Schwartz
March 6, 2017, 1:53 pm
Daniel Schwartz
The apartheid state of Tinder
You don’t have to marry him, but do keep talking long enough to have an actual disagreement before you reject him
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemns the December 23, 2016, UNSC anti-settlements resolution in a speech on December 24, 2016 (Channel 2 screenshot)
December 24, 2016, 8:53 pm
Netanyahu says Obama ‘ambushed’ Israel at UN, likens him to ‘deeply hostile’ Carter
PM claims president breached ‘specific commitment’ with Security Council abstention; ‘our friends’ in Trump team promising fight to cancel resolution; cuts funds to 5 UN groups
By ToI Staff
ABC Federal University, in the Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Google Maps)
July 14, 2016, 10:39 pm
Brazilian college seeks lecturer on Zionism as racism
ABC Federal University places ad for educator on ‘racist regimes’ with curricula to include ‘apartheid, Nazism, Zionism’
By JTA
Anti-Israel protesters at a Boston rally held during Operation Protective Edge in summer 2014 (photo credit: Elan Kawesch)
October 27, 2014, 1:21 pm
Bastardization of black feminist theory propels Israel-bashing on campus
Using the theory of ‘intersectionality’ first pioneered 25 years ago, Israel is condemned at universities amid a rise in anti-Semitism for imposing an ‘interlocking matrix of oppression’
By Matt Lebovic
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