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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 6h

GazaGenocide is also a slogan.

Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 6h

I've read a lot on this topic over the past couple of days but this captures more succinctly than anything else the mess the Greens are in and why.

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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 6h

Column on Greens, anti-Zionism and why the people who pathologically hate something are not the most reliable people to define it accurately www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Zack Polanski had the chance to show real leadership. He blew it | Rafael Behr

A toxic debate over anti-Zionism leaves the Green leader looking like a passenger in the movement that carried him to the top, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 18h

Thank you. That's the most honest answer I've managed to get!

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 18h

So just to be clear, if a jew supports a two state solution they are welcome and not racist? Are you able to answer yes or no?

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 19h

So is their definition okay?

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 19h

There are lots of people you can link to who will give you an answer you prefer but the facts are straightforward. 66% of British Jews choose to identify as Zionist. It's not for you to question their reasons. Are they racist and are they excluded? Yes or no.

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you for clarifying. 66% of British Jews identify as zionist. And the Green Party says they are all racist and are not welcome. Irrespective of their views on the occupation? Correct?

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 19h

If a jew believes in the right to self determination for jews and identifies as Zionist are they a racist and will they be excluded from the Green Party?

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 20h

Even at the height of Labour's antisemitism crisis, the Green Party motion would never have got Corbyn's support. He has never wavered on this.

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 20h

Or they can be honest and say we're going to set a test for Jews and exclude them if they identify as Zionist.

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 20h

This is about government led actions, which I deplore. They don't define Zionism which for the majority of Jews is simply the right to self determination.

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 21h

Can you clarify, for the avoidance of doubt, whether Jews who are Zionists, which they define as the right to self-determination for Jews alongside a Palestinian state, will be welcome in The Green party or excluded as racists?

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 21h

You have defined Zionism as an 'ethnonationalist Jewish State in historic Palestine to the exclusion and/or domination of the non-Jewish population'. Israel has a 20% non-jewish population with equal rights. This doesn't make sense.

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 22h

This doesn't make sense. If Zionism is racism then Jews who identify as Zionist are racists so you are welcoming racists in the party? Or do you mean Jews who disavow Zionism are welcome? Please clarify.

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 22h

Do you support self determination for the Jewish people alongside self determination for Palestinians? Yes or no? Your party policy is no. Please just be honest. These statements are not helping.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Green MP Adrian Ramsay says he opposed the motion because it didn't align with green values & he cites the partys support for self determination If self-determination requires the dispossession & displacement of another people its not self determination, its ethnic cleansing & colonisation

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also, 'Israel can get away with anything because its supporters control the media' Green 50% agree.

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The view from Coombe Hill on the Ridgeway near Ellesborough, Bucks. If you look very closely, you'll see two things that reflect the very best of England, the country church and the footpath.

Sweeping view over English countryside.ploughed field with footpath running across it centre left, church tower to right.

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 05/10/2026

“The Greens are more extreme than mainstream Palestinian opinion - they’re saying violence is now legitimate.” The Green Party's ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion calls for “the eradication of the Israeli state”, says Jonathan Freedland. “And they’re happy to see that achieved by violence”.

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David Herdson @davidherdson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Polanski not voting on the Greens' 'Zionism is Racism' policy is an abdication of leadership, on such a contentious and high-profile issue. To lead is to choose. To fail to choose is to fail to lead. You cannot vibe your way out of issues marked 'too difficult'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Green Party members back 'Zionism is racism' conference motion

The vote has caused divisions among figures at the top of the party at its conference in Brighton.

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's not true that the Greens new policy supporting the dismantling of Israel and replacing it with a Palestinian state won't make a difference. The difference it makes is to encourage maximalism by Hamas and an equivalent from the Israeli hard right. It is a recipe for more bloodshed.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A statement from the head of the @boell.de Foundation, the political foundation behind the German Green Party. 👇

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It makes a difference to me. What all my Jewish friends say is it's the silence from friends that is stressful. The not knowing what you're thinking about something we have to think about constantly.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something I repeatedly find with far left politicians is that they seem to think that if they say the magic words "antisemitism has no place in our society" this frees them from doing anything tangible about the antisemitism right in front of their sanctimonious fucking faces.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You realise we all saw how an amendment specifically designed to remove the targeting of Jewish Green Party members for Synagogue attendance was rejected, right? These "assurances" are as worthless as your "solidarity".

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Jeremy Corbyn is a racist it seems

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If Greens want to support Palestinians then maybe they should stop misrepresenting them reader.foreignaffairs.com/2026/10/02/p...

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Palestinians Want a Two-State Solution

Why a New Majority—Even in Gaza—Supports Compromise With Israel

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The most recent polling in Gaza and the West Bank shows an increased majority in favour of a two state solution. Maybe the Greens need to get out of their way. reader.foreignaffairs.com/2026/10/02/p...

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Palestinians Want a Two-State Solution

Why a New Majority—Even in Gaza—Supports Compromise With Israel

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'AI poses a threat. It will steal my writing, loot my reportage, rob my intellectual property and embezzle books which took years to write and research. But it will never know what it was like to be there. It will always be faking it.' historyneverended.substack.com/p/in-defence...

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In defence of human journalism

My industry at a time of AI.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not sure how the triple lock change will ultimately play politically. But trapping the Tories and Reform into defending a policy literally none of them support in private is potentially a neat move.

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Given that hacking is a criminal offence are we happy for the AI companies to be exempt from criminal liability? www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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OpenAI Has Gone Rogue

It’s impossible to know the extent of the AI-hacking crisis.  

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fascinating how activists are able to combine free speech and no platform.

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Michele Grant @michelegrant.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Jon Ossoff has the oratory of Obama and the substance of Truman. #Ossoff2028

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/08/2026

A former director of BBC News speaks:

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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026

BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Lest we forget...

Only 22% of people said Burnham becoming PM was the last political news story they could recall - and that was top of the chart!

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