Journalist Matt Kennard has published on X the uncut response to the anti-Zionism motion A105 from Lubna Speitan, Palestinian member of the Green Party.
The ‘Zionism is racism’ motion, as it’s commonly know, has been criticised by raging right wing outlets as ‘antisemitic’…not that old chestnut…the conflation of antisemitism and pro-Palestinian advocacy.
Such outlets use this argument to muzzle and intimidate Israeli dissents and allies of the Palestinian struggle against an institutionalised settler-colonial system. Speitan’s response suggests they’d have to try a lot harder to dissuade the long awaited Green Party motion to recognise Israel and zionism for exactly what it is: a murderous, colonial, racially-stratified project that the West endorses.
Palestinian Green Party member Lubna Speitan, co-author of Motion A105 (Zionism is Racism), has been contacted for comment by Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and Daily Express.
She wanted me to post her response to those outlets in full. Here it is:
"If passed, Motion A105 will…
— Matt Kennard (@kennardmatt) February 24, 2026
Speitan’s response to the antisemitism allegations reads in full:
If passed, Motion A105 will declare the Green Party’s opposition to Zionism.
Zionism is the ideological underpinning of an ethnonationalist Jewish State in historic Palestine, to the exclusion and domination of the non-Jewish population. By contrast, Motion A105 calls a single democratic Palestinian State in all of historic Palestine…with equal rights for all.
Motion A105 opposes racial hierarchy.
Written alongside Jewish colleagues, we refuse to accept the supremacy of any one racial group over any other. We completely reject disingenuous attempts to smear us as “terrorists”, and misrepresent the meaning and purpose of our motion as racist. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Many of those that criticise us, including many in the national press, seek to maintain the status quo. That is a relentless system of apartheid, genocide and war crimes perpetrated by Israel against Palestinians.
A record breaking number of members co-proposed our motion, including Jewish members, due to one simple fact: Zionism is indeed racism.
Speitan: “Zionism is indeed racism”
This response from Speitan, the motion’s co-author, follows multiple and, largely expected, slurs from the Israel lobby which have spent every red penny trying to criminalise people’s right to free speech.
I, myself, as a Green Party candidate were on the receiving end of similar smears in response to our Palestine advocacy.
Therefore, this principled stand from Speitan is crucial and very, very welcome. Going further, the Green Party must stand their ground and not renege further down the line – which across the full British political spectrum has become a daily occurrence under Labour. Britain has caused enough damage during Mandatory Palestine and now we, the British public in conscionable faith, must protest the status quo protecting Israel’s Zionist interests.
Our own Skwawkbox wrote yesterday:
The dishonest framing is quite something to see. The Mail’s is worse, but it’s quite a close-run thing. It claims that the motion would be:
saying that the Palestinians have a right to armed struggle and we should support it.
Not quite. The Palestinians already have an internationally recognised legal right to resist occupation, including taking up arms. This remains true even though UK courts under Keir Starmer have, shamefully, tried to tell juries they must ignore international law. This even means that, while Palestinians have the absolute right to armed resistance, Israel has no right to use violence against them because, as international law expert Ralph Wilde told Al Jazeera, “There’s no defence against defence”:
Skwawkbox further pointed out that this targeted abuse is not dissimilar from that which was aimed at Jeremy Corbyn whilst he was Labour leader. At the same time that Jeremy Corbyn faced criticism for allegedly not doing enough to tackle antisemitism, the Labour Party expelled numerous socialist members and activists because of their anti-Zionist beliefs.
Zack must not make Corbyn’s mistake
We have to have learned from the very real trauma and harm caused by the purge of socialists under Corbyn’s Labour over false antisemitism allegations. Jewish, anti-Zionist members were among those spurned.
Now, Zack and his socialist colleagues are facing the same threat and intimidation. Contrary to capitulation in the general election by the Greens which saw candidates hung out to dry for opposing Zionism, Polanski must now hold firm.
After all, this has taken far too long to achieve, and too many lives hang in the balance.
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