Israel lashes out as UK’s Green Party formally defines Zionism as ‘racism’

Israel has reacted with anger after the United Kingdom’s Green Party voted to define Zionism as a form of racism. Israel, as well as British Jewish groups, lashed out on Sunday following the vote by the small political party. The Israeli government declared that it now views the left-leaning Greens as giving “legitimacy to terrorism”. The Green Party, which received 6 percent of the vote in the UK’s national elections in 2024, said ⁠it regarded Zionism as “an ethnonationalist political project” and repeated its call for Britain’s Labour government to end all arms trade with Israel.