Green Party anti-Zionist motion was ‘ill-judged’, says First Minister
The First Minister has described the Green Party’s controversial adoption of a policy branding Zionism as racism as “ill-judged”.
Rhun ap Iorwerth, the leader of Plaid Cymru, told the Senedd on Tuesday that he did “not agree” with the motion, which was backed by Green conference-goers on Sunday, adding that he believed in a two-state solution.
The motion declared the Greens to be an “anti-Zionist party” and set into its policy that Zionism, the movement to develop and protect a Jewish state in Israel, will be “treated as any other form of racism”.
The Greens have two members of the Senedd, both of whom voted for Mr ap Iorwerth to become First Minister after an election in May.
Speaking at First Minister’s Questions on Tuesday, Helen Jenner, leader of Reform in Wales, said: “Just last weekend, the Green Party of England and Wales formally adopted a policy saying Zionism is racism.
“The Greens officially do not want the state of Israel to exist, and Plaid Cymru has shamefully stood shoulder to shoulder with the Greens and their anti-Israel rhetoric.
“First Minister, during the election campaign, you claimed you had the most in common with the Greens.
“But in light of them formally adopting this divisive direction, I would ask: Do you believe that supporting the existence of a Jewish state is in itself racist, yes or no?”
Mr ap Iorwerth said: “I have always advocated the two-state solution, and I think the decision taken at the Greens conference was ill-judged.
“I do not agree with that motion.”
“I stand shoulder to shoulder with the Jewish communities in Wales and make a stand against antisemitism, as I do Islamophobia,” he added.
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Good for you and Cymru Rhun…
No. Not really. It just shows he is a hypocrite when he supports a 2 state solution and the Palestinians are being ethnically cleansed from the land that would have made up their state.
At the least the greens with the exception of Jack have called it out correctly for what it is:
a feeling of inherent superiority over the semitic Palestinians because they were born into the bloodline from the line of prophet Jacob peace and blessing of allah be upon him.
Seems to me we are all hypocrites, full of half truths…
Why did we come down from the trees just to turn into fearful murderous bipeds…
Speak for yourself. I don’t lie.
What day is it…?
Wednesday.
Da iawn Rhun! What an insult to have to face such an insulting intervention from a hate unit directly installed by Hissing Sid the snake, y’know the ‘gas ’em all’ hate unit which is a universal anti Semite against all the Semitic peoples of the world, who by its’ opinion, are the wrong colour, speak the wrong languages and ain’t from ‘around ‘ere’. Being a ‘Break-it’ leader in Cymru carries great danger. One in prison, one arrested and under investigation. Now this one is on the edge having demonstrated grotesque, hypocritical stupidity just reaching for a cheap political point undermined… Read more »
How ironic. Palestinians are semitic themselves.
Of courses zionism is racism as it condones genocidal murder of semitic Palestinians and the wholesale clearance of the semitic Palestinians from their lands by whichever means necessary.
The actions and beliefs of extremists has nothing to do with mainstream support for Jewish self-determination and statehood.
Why have statehood on someone’s else land?
That is utterly false and divisive. You know full well that Jews have also been on that land for thousands of years. Both sides have a right to a state.
Presumably you also support returning Pakistan to India.
The problem is that the Israeli Government and most of the opposition support the ongoing genocide in the occupied territories. Those politicians have been elected by the Israeli people in a directly proportional electoral system. In the forthcoming election the Arab Bloc of parties have been banned.
And Putin is democratically elected but no-one suggests his actions in Ukraine delegitimise the Russian state.
For once I think he is right.
how do we retrieve even the idea of a two state solution after the genocide in Gaza and the annexation of the West Bank. I ask this with a genuine fear for the Palestinian people with smotrich and netanyahu calling for their annihilation. There are many Jews who decrie zionism as a colonial political movement. How can it possibly be fixed while so many isrealis are baying for Palestinian blood?
I hear you but calling for the destruction of another country won’t ever resolve the situation and will cause more suffering and hatred. Jews in this country should never be held accountable for the actions of their government. We wouldn’t hold any other group responsible in this way either.
Shamefully you have not condemned the genocide against semitic Palestinians or their ethnic cleansing from West Bank.
Why then were Muslims told we should all condemn 9/11 or oct 7th, yet Jews should be allowed a free ride and remain silent in the face of over 60 times more deaths than both terrorist incidents combined?
Is that not blatant hypocrisy?
Surely the government of Jewish people in this country is Labour in Westminster and Plaid here in Wales? And Muslims in the UK are regularly blamed for attacks that take place around the world
Ask the God fearing leader of the Tory Party in Wales to explain his Religion’s exclusive exceptionalism…an American affectation or China, France, Britain, etc etc have a claim to it…Homo Superior, the world is riddled with them…
Israel’s actions have been excessive (to put it mildly) but that is no excuse to call for a country to be wiped off the map (which is basically what the Greens are doing). Israel has a right to exist alongside a Palestinian state. Do remember that Jews have been in that region for thousands of years (the first major temple in Jerusalem was founded in 950 BC) and this attempt to eradicate them does nothing but put Jews in the UK in danger.
What 2 state solution are you on about? There is only Zion and the semitic Palestinians will all be eehtnically cleansed and shoved into either their graves or into jordan or even somaliland.
The 2 state solution is just a sound bite used by politicians and media, Israel will never allow it to happen
Once upon a time 30 years ago it was a possibility…
But now there may be little future for either side…
They create a wasteland and call it peace…after Tacitus
Any sensible person can see that the land available for the semitic Palestinian state is being stolen by the marauding settlers supported by the heavily armed idf goons at the command of the evil zionist government. Oh wait….