Green Party passes landmark ‘Zionism is racism’ motion
This weekend, the Green Party voted that Jews are racists unless they explicitly adopt an extremist purity test set out by the Party. Under that test, Jews belonging to pretty much any synagogue in the UK would fail.
The motion passed with 1,022 votes in favour, and 813 against. It was due to be debated at the Party’s Spring Conference earlier this year, but the debate was scuppered for procedural reasons.
The Green Party Conference’s intentions could scarcely have been clearer. They have adopted the Soviet doctrine that Zionism is racism, meaning that Green Party policy is that all peoples of the world have right to self-determination except for Jews.
Far from being anti-racist, that policy is racism in its clearest form. According to our polling, only 6% of British Jews do not identify as Zionists, and 89% consider anti-Zionism a form of antisemitism.
Three of the four proposed amendments to the motion were rejected, including an amendment to protect Jewish members who attend self-declared ‘Zionist’ organisations like synagogues and Jewish community centres. This result tallied with a vote in a pre-conference workshop, audio of which our investigators obtained and shared exclusively with The Times. You can read more here.
Campaign Against Antisemitism has led the media response to the passage of the disgraceful motion. Our Director of Investigations and Enforcement, Stephen Silverman, has spoken to Sky News, LBC News, Good Morning Britain and Talk TV about the implications of this decision for the Jewish community, and for UK politics.
The motion has also sparked controversy within the Party.
Ahead of the debate, former Party leader Caroline Lucas warned that approving the motion “could be seen as a sign that Jewish people aren’t welcome in the party”. Another former Green Party Leader, Adrian Ramsay, also confirmed he would vote against the motion, calling it “not needed” and “not helpful”, and his former co-Leader, Carla Denyer, stated that she “cannot support” the motion in its current form, as it “risks alienating a significant proportion of Jewish people”.
Astoundingly, whereas three past leaders of the Green Party stepped forward to oppose this motion, the current Leader of the Green Party, Zack Polanski, showed no leadership at all, skipping the vote entirely.
On the advice of our legal team we wrote to the Green Party last week, prior to the adoption of this motion. You can read our letter to Green Party Chair Jon Nott here. We have also asked any Zionist members of the Green Party to contact us.
As the originating complainant in the EHRC’s investigation that found unlawful discrimination against Jews in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party, we have proven before that we will not stand by and let political parties bring antisemitism into the mainstream.
Campaign Against Antisemitism reveals how GMC is proud to sweep antisemitism complaints under the carpet
Campaign Against Antisemitism recently published a groundbreaking documentary on antisemitism in the healthcare sector, titled “Malignant: Antisemitism in the NHS”. You can watch the full documentary here.
The documentary continues to receive extensive coverage in major national and international media outlets.
We worked exclusively with The Times to reveal the appallingly low rates of action by the General Medical Council (GMC) on antisemitism allegations. You can read more here.
In our documentary, we revealed claims by senior GMC official Tista Chakravarty-Gannon that the body has received many more complaints relating to antisemitism than to other forms of hate, but that it is closing them down quickly. We submitted a Freedom of Information request to the GMC, the results of which verified her claims, with the GMC taking action in only 1% of antisemitism cases. You can read our analysis here.
These figures demonstrate just how abjectly the GMC has failed in its regulatory duty, but they are not alone. Heads must roll across regulatory bodies over this deepening scandal.
In addition, we are releasing more examples of extremism from medical practitioners. As part of our investigation into antisemitism in the healthcare sector, we shared examples of shocking rhetoric from select registered medical professionals exclusively with The Telegraph.
These include:
- A General Rheumatologist reportedly posted on X: “The Irony of Jews using gas to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians”.
- A consultant ophthalmologist appeared to post an image on Facebook showing a man holding a poster reading “On Oct 7th Israel killed its own people & covered it up to justify genocide”.
- A consultant cardiologist reportedly commented on a LinkedIn post: “I am sick to the back teeth of these bloody Z!0 lobby groups taking control of our society and asserting their sick morals onto our psyche”.
You can read about the incidents here.
These examples are all in addition to the practitioners referenced in the documentary, underscoring that this is not merely a case of a few bad apples. The findings demonstrate how widespread this problem is and how urgent change is needed.
We are proud to have worked with two of the most prestigious newspapers in the country to raise awareness of these issues in the wake of our documentary. There are more stories to come. Hate in healthcare is spiralling out of control, and employers and regulators are asleep at the wheel.
Activists hijack 90th anniversary of Battle of Cable Street
Yesterday, Unite the Union held what it said would be a commemoration of the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street — when, in 1936, thousands of Jews and their allies stood together to stop the British Union of Fascists from marching through the area.
Ahead of the event at the weekend, we wrote to Unite about the place of Jews at their commemorative event. We received no reply. Unite had previously excluded the Jewish community from a page on its website advertising the event and then acknowledged its error, but the union seemed to take no interest in extremists’ plans to exclude Jews from the event, exemplified by a third-party WhatsApp group announcement calling on activists to join the march in protest against the presence of “Zionist groups”.
It increasingly felt like the occasion was going to be an event commemorating not the Jews and allies but those they fought against.
Furthemore, police told a group of Jewish descendants of those who participated in the Battle of Cable Street who intended to commemorate the event to stay away from Unite’s march.
We published footage from the event here.
Instead of commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, those marching hijacked it. In 1936 the British Union of Fascists sought to drive Jews from the streets, and in 2026 at the Unite the Union march attendees shouted “Zionist scum off our streets”. Like back then, the police facilitated the march of these vile bigots rather than taking action.
Ninety years ago, brave Londoners recognised anti-Jewish racism and stood with their Jewish neighbours against it. Ninety years ago, they did not pass. This weekend, despite the efforts of a valiant few, they did.
A few days before the march, Elie travelled to the Cable Street Mural in East London, where he asked members of the public what they knew about the event. You can watch the video here.
Student protest plans for 7th October show how radicalised campuses have become
Campaign Against Antisemitism has confirmed that student-led societies at fourteen British universities have raised money for Zayir UK, an unregistered fundraising vehicle with alleged links to proscribed group Hizballah.
Campaign Against Antisemitism was previously alerted by a student at Royal Holloway that the Friends of Palestine Society — a society affiliated with the University Students’ Union — had fundraised for Zayir UK. We subsequently compiled evidence showing further fundraising by groups at the Universities of Hertfordshire, Kent, Manchester, Sheffield, Surrey and Westminster, as well as Imperial College London and Queen Mary, Aston University and Kingston University. The Charity Commission has announced that it has issued guidance to King’s College London’s Students’ Union on the same issue. You can read more here.
The Commission must now take action regarding student groups on the other campuses as well. Counter Terrorism Policing must also investigate.
This is just one example of how radicalisation is becoming embedded on British campuses. At the UCL graduation ceremony, a student held up a sign on-stage which read “UCL funds genocide”. The room cheered. Even the Vice Provost clapped – but clearly he doesn’t feel strongly enough to resign from the institution he leads and apparently believes is funding a crime against humanity. You can read more here.
Campaign Against Antisemitism’s Stephen Silverman spoke to Julia Hartley-Brewer on Talk TV about rising antisemitism at universities.
This radicalisation is coming to a head this Wednesday, with student-led pro-Palestine hate marches planned for 7th October, the anniversary of the Hamas massacre.
Organisers have announced their intention to march between various London universities, including King’s College London, University College London, SOAS and the London School of Economics.
We are taking action.
Campaign Against Antisemitism has written to the Met Police Commissioner and the relevant universities and we are also writing to the Charity Commission regarding three of the student organisations involved, which are affiliated to students’ unions that are registered charities.
Organising a march on the anniversary of the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust is an outrageous provocation. It is impossible not to remember how Palestine activists demonstrated on the day of the attack back in 2023 before Israel had even responded. That’s because the motivation of these hate marches has always had less to do with solidarity with Gaza than with hatred for the world’s only Jewish state.
Almost 60% of Jews would not feel comfortable disclosing their Jewish identity at university, according to our representative polling. This event will do nothing to alleviate those concerns.
Amid the torrent of hate, the Jewish community will be coming together on 7th October to honour the victims of that terrible day. The Board of Deputies of British Jews will be holding a vigil for the victims, and you can find out more here.
Met Commissioner should resign in light of 7th October debacle
Following our letter to the Met Police about the plans for the 7th October hate march, the force released a statement urging organisers of the event to hold their protest on a different day.
However, the Met then released a further statement that was fundamentally disingenuous, with the police complaining that they are powerless to do anything about the march in what was nothing more than another example of two-tier policing. You can read more here about the powers that the Met does have, but refuses to use.
The Met Commissioner keeps saying that the law is inadequate and he needs more powers in order to do anything meaningful, but even now he is not using his existing powers.
What is inadequate is his performance over the past three years, when antisemitic hate crime has risen to unprecedented levels – a clear failure of policing for which he has never been held to account. He must resign over this disgrace and the many travesties that have preceded it.
Heaton Park survivor speaks exclusively to Campaign Against Antisemitism on anniversary of attack
In this week’s episode of our Podcast Against Antisemitism, Elie interviewed Yoni Finlay, a survivor of the deadly 2025 Islamist terrorist attack on Manchester’s Heaton Park Synagogue.
The attack took place on Yom Kippur – the holiest day in the Jewish calendar – and two people were killed in the incident in addition to the terrorist, with three others injured. One of the injured was Yoni, who was hit by a stray police bullet that passed through him and, tragically, killed Adrian Daulby.
In this interview, Yoni recounts that horrific day, his recovery and why he believes that Britain is heading in the wrong direction on antisemitism.
You can watch the episode here, or listen to it on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts.
Gazan migrant with Hamas links facing deportation
Abu Wadei, a Gazan asylum seeker who was involved in a Hamas-linked operation in Gaza and has reportedly called for the slaughter of all Jews, is reportedly facing deportation.
We identified Mr Wadei a year and a half ago using facial recognition, while he was crossing over the Channel on a dinghy. We immediately contacted the Home Office, only to find that they had put him up in a hotel without even realising his Hamas connections. Not only was it left to us to identify him, but only after we threatened to privately prosecute him was he charged with illegally entering the UK. We hoped that the authorities might be trusted to take it from there, but when we wrote to the CPS calling for Mr Wadei to be charged with terrorism offences while he was still in custody on immigration charges, they refused.
He was jailed for the immigration offences, but eventually set free and remained in the UK, earning money online. TikTok removed his account two or three times, but he kept returning, making a mockery of their policies.
But why is this man still in the UK, having been convicted of immigration offences? What is the point of imprisoning someone for being in the country illegally, and then when he completed his sentence allowing him to roam free? Our laws have become a laughing stock.
There is now some suggestion that he may finally be deported, but there is also some indication that this may even be at his initiative.
This is all the more significant in a week when the Home Secretary has announced that she will make it easier for Gazans to settle in the UK with no assurances being provided as to whether they may hold antisemitic views or have a history of terrorism.
Our country desperately needs to get a grip. Our Chief Executive Gideon Falter spoke to GB News and Talk TV about the case.
Campaign Against Antisemitism attends Conservative Party Conference
Representatives of Campaign Against Antisemitism recently attended the Conservative Party’s annual conference.
This is one of a number of a party conferences that we are attending this season, taking meetings with figures from across the country to ensure that they know what needs to be done to tackle antisemitism and extremism in this country.
Politicians from all parties in Parliament, devolved government and local authorities have a role to play in restoring British values and making the UK safe again for Jews. That means going beyond warm words to strong action. We will be explaining how.
On eve of 7th October anniversary, FlyDubai atrocity averted
This week, the Jewish state narrowly averted what media outlets have termed ‘Israel’s 9/11’.
The co-pilot of a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv allegedly stabbed the captain mid-flight in an attempted hijacking. The heroic pilot managed to open the cockpit door and courageous Israeli passengers restrained his assailant before steadying the plane, with a second crew onboard then taking the controls and landing the jet safely in Saudi Arabia.
The incident is being treated as a terror attack, and media coverage suggests the co-pilot intended to crash the plane into Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport or a tower block in Tel Aviv.
Immediately, hostile news reporting downplayed the unfolding incident and drew on conspiratorial tropes to analyse its impact, before eventually giving way to the truth.
For those calling this Israel’s averted 9/11, we would remind them that Israel suffered the proportional equivalent of sixteen 9/11s on 7th October 2023, the third anniversary of which falls this week.
We remember those who were murdered, those who were taken hostage never to return alive, and those who fought back and sacrificed their lives so that others may live. May their memories be a blessing.
