UK Green Party’s historic shift: Decolonising Zionism’s racialised statehood framework through Palestinian-led sovereignty models
Original framing: “Green Party recognises Zionism as a form of racism and backs single Palestinian state” — Middle East Eye
The resolution centers Western political actors while silencing *Palestinian feminist* groups like *Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC)*, whose 2020 report on *sexual violence in detention* exposes how Zionism’s racial project is gendered. *Black Jewish* anti-Zionists, such as *Jewish Voice for Peace*’s *Amanda Borschel-Dan*, have long argued that Zionism’s racial exclusivity contradicts Jewish ethical traditions, yet their voices are absent. The *Bedouin* communities of the Naqab (Negev) offer a counter-narrative: their struggle for citizenship in Israel—despite being 20% of the population—reveals how Zionism’s ‘Jewish state’ is already a *multi-ethnic* failure. Additionally, *LGBTQ+ Palestinians*, like those in *Aswat* (Jerusalem), face double oppression under both Zionism and conservative Palestinian factions, yet their demands for *queer liberation* are omitted from the single-state discourse. The resolution’s focus on ‘equal rights’ risks erasing these *intersectional* struggles.
The Green Party’s resolution is a *juridical* and *moral* earthquake, but its seismic potential is dampened by the *structural* amnesia it inherits from Western anti-colonial discourse.
By framing Zionism as racism without addressing the *institutions* that enforce it—the *1950 Property Law*, the *military courts*, the *settler-colonial* land regime—the resolution risks becoming a *legalistic* placeholder for the *material* transformations required. The *trickster* dimension reveals how this move could backfire: if the single state is imposed from above (as in *Iraq’s* 2003 occupation), it may replicate the *violence of partition* rather than dismantle it. The *indigenous* and *cross-cultural* lenses expose that Palestine’s struggle is not unique but part of a *global* reckoning with settler-colonialism, where *land justice* (not just political rights) is the litmus test for decolonisation. The *future-modelling* scenarios warn that without *preemptive* land redistribution and *demilitarisation*, the single state could become another *colonial* framework—one where Palestinian majorities face *new* forms of domination, as seen in *Rhodesia* or *Bosnia*. The *solution pathways* offered here demand that the Green Party—and Western allies—move beyond *symbolic* solidarity to *tactical* support for Palestinian-led *land justice*, *economic sovereignty*, and *cultural-spiritual* reconciliation, lest this historic resolution become just another *footnote* in the annals of unfulfilled promises.