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Green Party leader Zack Polanski: 'I'm an anti-Zionist'

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Green Party leader Zack Polanski: 'I'm an anti-Zionist' Submitted by MEE staff on Fri, 09/25/2026 - 15:36 'We cannot hold Jewish people responsible for what happens in Israel,' Polanski tells a hustings for Holborn and St Pancras by-election Green Party leader Zack Polanski pictured in February 2026 (AFP) Off “I’m an anti-Zionist,” Zack Polanski said on Thursday night, becoming the first modern leader of a major British party to make such a declaration. Asked at a Jewish hustings for the Holborn and St Pancras by-election whether he was a Zionist, the Green Party leader said: “I’m an anti-Zionist, which I know is difficult for people in this room to hear… I think countries have always been ideas and I think things change over time.” “If you’re defining Zionism as the displacement and genocide of the Palestinians , which is how in practice Zionism has become in truth, then that is racist,” he said, when asked if Zionism is a form of racism. Polanski is his party’s candidate for the Lond

First report: 'So Look...': El-Sayed Answers Whether a 'Jewish Zionist' Has a Place in the New Democratic Party — westernjournal.com, 1d