British Green Party in Brighton, England, Reportedly Adopts Policy Classifying Zionism as Racism

The British Green Party held its annual conference in Brighton, England, on October 4, 2026, where members considered a resolution declaring Zionism a form of racism. Reports agree on the result: the resolution was approved by 1,022 members and opposed by 813. Reports differ on how to describe the decision. One says the party “officially adopted a policy” defining Zionism as racism, another says it “formally adopted” such a policy, and a third says the party “voted to classify” Zionism that way. One report puts the vote “last week,” without a specific date.

Before the vote, Israel Hayom reported that the party was preparing to vote on a proposal that defines Zionism as a form of racism and calls for the elimination of the State of Israel. That outlet attributed the measure’s details to the Daily Mail, which it said had published the text. According to that account, the proposal seeks a single democratic Palestinian state covering all of historic Palestine, with Jerusalem as its capital. The reports supplied here do not include the Daily Mail’s own text, so these terms rest on Israel Hayom’s description of it.

Al Jazeera reported that the Green Party’s decision declared opposition to Zionism, and described it as the first major European political party to take that position. Al Jazeera’s headline quotes the phrase “The Zionists are racist” and asks how the Israeli press read the decision, but the material supplied does not include the Israeli coverage itself. Israel Hayom’s headline refers to a “safe room” for Jews, but the excerpt provided does not explain what that refers to. Neither report’s details on Jewish members’ concerns are available in the material supplied.

Several outlets also placed the decision in a wider political context. Hadfnews noted that the Green Party secured approximately 6 percent of the vote in the 2024 British general election. Arabic-language outlets presented the decision as evidence for their own views on Israel and Arab governments, but those framings are opinion and are not reported as fact here. The Newsweek opinion piece, titled “The righteous racism of the British Greens is a warning to America,” discusses the Brighton resolution, but the text supplied is cut off before it states its argument.

Because the accounts vary in wording, timing, and emphasis, readers should weigh each claim against its source, particularly the characterization of the proposal’s contents (Proverbs 18:17).