Nowhere did I suggest that the principle of being against child murder should be abandoned. Sanctions against Israel and critical support for the BDS movement are policies that are not contingent on the passing of a “Zionism is racism” motion, and can be justified on their own terms.
The media will always line up against a left-wing party (or anyone to the left of Thatcher), and part of the job of being a left-wing party is dealing with that, and not giving them easy wins. As much as I liked Corbyn and his policies, he was bad at his job because he could not engage well with bad faith actors. And you just have to be able to do that to win elections. Polanski is actually quite good at that, because he’s able to to bring a conversation back round to what he wants to say without looking like he’s avoiding questions.
Passing the Zionism is racism motion now is essentially the green party shooting itself in the foot with a shotgun. Almost every major Jewish organisation in the UK (the board of deputies and the Jewish leadership council for two) is explicitly Zionist - and to be clear, I think that’s bad, actually - and as a result are now going to denounce the green party as anti-semitic. And now Polanski is going to have spend time justifying that rather than getting his actual messages out while trying to fight a by-election.
If “almost every major Jewish organisation in the UK (the board of deputies and the Jewish leadership council for two) is explicitly Zionist” then they are Racist.
(Mind you, it’s not exactly a shocker that Tory aligned organizations - which most of those are - are racist)
Not pointing it out because of nothing other than their ethnicity is itself Racism: treating people and groups of people differently because of their ethnicity is the very definition of Racial Descrimination.
Racists Jews are Racist, just like Racist Whites are Racist, Racist Blacks are Racist and so on - the actions and the words of a person are what makes them a Racist, and only other Racists would think their ethnicity is relevant in any way form or shape.
So essentially you’re making the case for the Green Party to be unprincipled and practice racial discrimination in order to not be called “racist” by the very people who are so extremely racist that they’re supremacists.
That’s similar to in the 1930 not calling NAZIs racist in order to not have the German diaspora in Britain say you’re “against the Arian race”.
Whichever way you go you lose, so better go down the route of sticking to your principles and not actually act in a racial discriminating way just to soothe people who are rabidly racist.
If indeed you want to make sure that nobody can confuse the Green Party’s principled stand against supremacist ideologies (any supremacist ideology, not just Zionism) with racism against the ethnicity that ideology claims to represent (which in this case those Tory-aligned Jewish organizations will try hard to do) how about openly supporting organizations from that ethnicity which are against that ideology, such as in this case Jews For Peace?!
Nowhere did I suggest that the principle of being against child murder should be abandoned. Sanctions against Israel and critical support for the BDS movement are policies that are not contingent on the passing of a “Zionism is racism” motion, and can be justified on their own terms.
The media will always line up against a left-wing party (or anyone to the left of Thatcher), and part of the job of being a left-wing party is dealing with that, and not giving them easy wins. As much as I liked Corbyn and his policies, he was bad at his job because he could not engage well with bad faith actors. And you just have to be able to do that to win elections. Polanski is actually quite good at that, because he’s able to to bring a conversation back round to what he wants to say without looking like he’s avoiding questions.
Passing the Zionism is racism motion now is essentially the green party shooting itself in the foot with a shotgun. Almost every major Jewish organisation in the UK (the board of deputies and the Jewish leadership council for two) is explicitly Zionist - and to be clear, I think that’s bad, actually - and as a result are now going to denounce the green party as anti-semitic. And now Polanski is going to have spend time justifying that rather than getting his actual messages out while trying to fight a by-election.
If “almost every major Jewish organisation in the UK (the board of deputies and the Jewish leadership council for two) is explicitly Zionist” then they are Racist.
(Mind you, it’s not exactly a shocker that Tory aligned organizations - which most of those are - are racist)
Not pointing it out because of nothing other than their ethnicity is itself Racism: treating people and groups of people differently because of their ethnicity is the very definition of Racial Descrimination.
Racists Jews are Racist, just like Racist Whites are Racist, Racist Blacks are Racist and so on - the actions and the words of a person are what makes them a Racist, and only other Racists would think their ethnicity is relevant in any way form or shape.
So essentially you’re making the case for the Green Party to be unprincipled and practice racial discrimination in order to not be called “racist” by the very people who are so extremely racist that they’re supremacists.
That’s similar to in the 1930 not calling NAZIs racist in order to not have the German diaspora in Britain say you’re “against the Arian race”.
Whichever way you go you lose, so better go down the route of sticking to your principles and not actually act in a racial discriminating way just to soothe people who are rabidly racist.
If indeed you want to make sure that nobody can confuse the Green Party’s principled stand against supremacist ideologies (any supremacist ideology, not just Zionism) with racism against the ethnicity that ideology claims to represent (which in this case those Tory-aligned Jewish organizations will try hard to do) how about openly supporting organizations from that ethnicity which are against that ideology, such as in this case Jews For Peace?!