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Green Party at 'crossroads' after Zionism vote, says former co-leader
The Green Party is at a "crossroads" and needs to focus on its "core values", a former party co-leader has told the BBC, weeks after members adopted a motion declaring Zionism a form of racism.
Adrian Ramsay suggested the Greens need their policies to appeal to a majority of British voters if they want to bring the "environmental changes that we need" and advised against taking an approach that risks being "quite divisive".
Green Party leader Zack Polanski responded by saying there was "no environmental justice without social, racial and economic justice".
The motion, which Polanski did not take part in or vote upon, defined Zionism as an ideology supporting "an ethnonationalist Jewish state" that had led to the "disenfranchisement and destruction" of Palestinians.
I would not have voted for Zionism motion, Polanski says
It backed the creation of a "single democratic Palestinian state in all of historic Palestine", which includes modern-day Israel.
Members of the Green Party of England and Wales adopted the policy motion last month.
It led to a backlash from some Jewish groups, as well as criticism from senior Green figures, including Ramsay and other Green MPs.
Israel's foreign ministry said it had banned Polanski, who is Jewish, from entering the country.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission also wrote to the Green Party asking for more information about the motion after concerns were raised by dozens of Labour and Lib Dem MPs and Jewish campaigners.