Leaked messages have exposed a senior member at the heart of the Green Party’s Disciplinary Committee using a Zionist WhatsApp group to potentially target anti-Zionist members.

Green Party ‘Zionism is Racism’ motion

At the centre of this is Rachel Collinson, a long-term Green Party member who just so happens to sit on the Disciplinary Committee. This is the same committee that dealt with the suspensions of anti-Zionist local election candidates like Mark Adderley and the expulsion of Jewish anti-Zionist scholar Tony Greenstein.

The leaked WhatsApp messages appear to show Collinson organising against the motion Zionism Is Racism before the Green Party Spring Conference. Conference attendees have long suspected that certain factions are using internal processes to silence debate. These leaks suggest Collinson might have conspired to use arcane rules to attempt to kill the motion before it even got started — subverting the massive grassroots support it had among the membership:

Messages seem to show Collinson liaising with a member of the Green Party Standing Orders Committee — “Scott” — on the order of events:

This lines up with an open letter from another committee member, Hamza Egal, who claimed Green Party MPs were trying to influence speaker order to sabotage the motion (referred to as E12 below). Specifically, Bristol Central MP Carla Denyer reportedly planned to speak against it on behalf of leadership, excluding Deputy Leader Mothin Ali.

MPs involved?

And what happens next? Another member of the group, “Deb”, says she has direct contact with someone in Bristol called Carla.

Could this be Green Party MP Carla Denyer? Are party MPs working hand-in-glove with this group? As Egal, chair of Global Majority Greens and convenor of the Greens’ racism policy working group, said in his open letter on the situation:

The coordination of opposition to E12 is itself instructive. On the day of the conference vote, Carla Denyer, a Green MP, wrote to SOC claiming to speak on behalf of all Green MPs, Green Peers, Zack Polanski, and Rachel Millward — two-thirds of the leadership — to influence the order of speakers against the motion. The email explicitly stated that the speech was being coordinated with Jewish Greens and requested that Jewish Greens speak first against the motion, followed by the Green parliamentarians. This was not individual members exercising their democratic rights in good faith.
This was the organised weight of the parliamentary and political leadership deploying itself against a motion brought by members — many of them Palestinian, and Black and Brown — who had worked for months to get it to the conference floor.

One name was absent from that email. Mothin Ali — Deputy Leader of the Green Party, equal in that role to Rachel Millward, and the only GMG member of the senior leadership — was not mentioned. In a communication claiming to represent the whole of the Party’s parliamentary and political leadership, coordinated to oppose a motion about Zionism and racism, the Deputy Leader did not exist. That absence is a precise illustration of who counts in this Party’s leadership when the subject is race, Palestine, and the Global South — and who does not.

The Racism Policy Working Group RPWG Anti-Racism Platform motion, passed by Conference in October 2025, has not been implemented. That motion required named Party bodies to integrate anti-racist practice into operations, establish codes of practice, publish annual progress reports, and create an implementation and monitoring structure. Months later, none of that has happened. A motion passed by the sovereign decision-making body of this Party has been treated as optional, and its delay in implementation seems like a refusal to operationalise anti-racism.

However, the story doesn’t stop there. Leaked messages show Collinson involving herself in matters relating to two local election candidates viciously smeared by the right-wing press.

Worrying questions

First up is Mark Adderley, TV director and husband of Nadia Sawalha. He was suspended after attacks by the Jewish Chronicle and Daily Mail. Then there’s Bernard Mani, forced to drop out of the local elections after coming under fire from Labour’s Ellie Reeves for challenging the Israeli narrative around 7 October.

The messages show Collinson asking the Zionist Greens Against Antisemitism group to feed her evidence about people’s involvement with these candidates. She informs them that she has been directly assisting Green Party members in the drafting of complaints and requests assistance in gathering evidence specifically around Adderley and Croydon Green Party:

Collinson is then relieved — “Phew” — when Mani’s withdrawal is announced via Zionist publication Jewish News:

A response

The Canary approached Rachel Collinson for comment. She told us:

The WhatsApp screenshots you have provided have been judiciously extracted to miss out some vital extra messages. These messages would show that I habitually state that if anybody accepts my offer of help with complaints, I have to recuse from all future decision-making on, or even discussion of, such complaints.

Any respondent to a complaint where I assisted the complainant can be assured that I will neither investigate such a complaint, nor be on any hearing panel, nor even discuss the complaint with my colleagues on Disciplinary Committee.

I will also recuse from the Croydon complaint that I was assisting a fellow member with. This was not to do with antisemitism but misogynoir.

The background is that I was supporting a queer global majority woman who was deeply embedded in the local community and had been campaigning as a target candidate in Croydon for years. They had, in my personal view, been unfairly and undemocratically deselected as a target candidate, just weeks before the local elections. A few days later, Mark Adderley and other straight white members of the local party committee became target candidates. My name appears in the documentation on this complaint, as I accompanied this person through a series of local deselection meetings. So I would be automatically recused in any case.

I will be more than happy to provide written evidence of all of my recusals, as and when complaints reach Disciplinary Committee. (You also need to be aware that no current members of Disciplinary Committee have been involved in any of the recent suspensions or expulsions that the Canary may be aware of. These were enacted by Green Party Council under powers given to them by section 4.8 of the Green Party Constitution.)

When it comes to policy motions to conference, Disciplinary Members are free to rally support or opposition to any motions they like. In fact, at least 2 current members of Disciplinary Committee are members of Greens for Palestine who support the ZiR motion, and they are free to do so.

In the last nine months, please note that women volunteers in governance and leadership roles in the Green Party have experienced threats and harassment to such levels that they have had to install security cameras in their homes, or move their family to a different country. This is due to a perception that they are Zionists, when they are not.

She added:

At present, the Green Party’s disciplinary system is extremely difficult to understand and navigate for most members, never mind those who are disabled or subject to other forms of oppression. Until our complaints system (which I consider to be inaccessible) is fixed, which I am currently working on, I think it’s entirely appropriate for experienced current or former members of disciplinary committee to assist other members with complaints, as long as they recuse from dealing with that complaint thereafter. Very few people understand how to navigate the system. Those who can, tend to already have a lot of privilege. Helping those who don’t, to level an unjustly tilted playing field, is something I am passionate about. Because of this, I assist people from all sorts of disadvantaged groups in the party, especially working class women, queer people, disabled people and those from global majority backgrounds. If I do so, I always recuse.

In terms of the Greens Against Antisemitism (GAA) WhatsApp group, from which these messages were lifted, Collinson said:

I joined the GAA WhatsApp group partly out of curiosity to see what was being discussed, and partly to learn more about how to recognise antisemitism. Once I joined I was so horrified to see what Jewish members were going through that I pledged to be a better ally to them. (I joined Global Majority Greens for the same reason.) I understand that the group’s stated purpose is to stand against Antisemitism, rather than be pro-Zionist. I believe that you can be anti-fascist, anti-racist and support Jewish people all at the same time. The white supremacist, colonial late-stage capitalist system that we all live in attempts to divide us. I’m not playing along.

What is going on in the Green Party?

Collinson’s defence paints a picture of strict adherence to procedural rules. However, it fails to address the fundamental contradiction at the heart of these leaks. Yes, she could have recused herself from specific complaints. But does that guarantee impartiality? The reality is that remaining on the committee while actively lobbying on politically charged motions seems to undermine any notion of neutrality. The same applies to the complaints she was supporting members with.

Moreover, it fails to address the role of the Referrals Committee. This is made up of members of not only the Green Party Executive but also the Disciplinary Committee. It examines accusations made against members and decides whether they warrant suspension, then investigation. These are the section 4.8 suspensions Collinson refers to. It is unclear whether Collinson, or anyone she associates with, sits on the Referrals Committee.

Meanwhile, anti-Zionist members have faced arrest, loss of their jobs, expulsion from the party, smears by every right-wing press publication, and even being reported to Counter Terror Police.

The Canary approached the Green Party itself for comment. However, we had not received one at the time of publication.

Broken processes?

It’s hard to reconcile her response with the ongoing complaints of antisemitism, the suspension of candidates like Mark Adderley, Bernard Mani, and a party where it seems using disciplinary processes to settle political scores is rife. Collinson forgets that Mark Adderley’s complaint has been made public. Misogynoir is not included in this complaint. Also, her response to us claims that she was collecting information about the situation in Croydon because Mark Adderley had been selected. Yet, in the WhatsApp group she is asking for information after he had been suspended.

So then, what exactly was she collecting in this group? What did alleged misogynoir have to do with a group that is specifically concerned with antisemitism? Why was she so happy to see Bernard Mani suspended?

Ultimately, though, the story raises more questions than it answers about not only Collinson’s role in the filibustering of the Zionism is Racism motion and suspension of members accused of antisemitism, but about Green Party disciplinary processes more broadly.

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