by Eric Utter
The Green Party of England and Wales voted about a week ago to classify Zionism as a form of racism, understandably annoying Israel, and once again showing itself to be comprised of spectacularly ignorant tosspots, many of whom still live in their parents’ flats and worship Greta Thunberg.
According to Reuters:
Britain’s Green Party voted to class Zionism as a form of racism, drawing criticism from British Jews and from the Israeli government which said it now viewed the party as “a body that gives legitimacy to terrorism”.
The Greens – who received 6% of the vote in a national election in 2024 and have around 10% support in recent opinion polls – said they regarded Zionism as “an ethnonationalist political project” and repeated their call for Britain’s Labour government to end all arms trade with Israel.
Here is my definition of Zionism: (noun) a movement for (originally) the re-establishment of a Jewish nation in Palestine and (now) the development and protection of Israel.
Key word, re-establishment.
If Zionism is racism, than so is nationalism in any form and any nation. So is “America First,” “Oh, Canada,” and the desire of any nation to develop and protect itself.
Everything can’t be racist or else nothing is racist.
But wait, isn’t the last sentence I just typed RACIST? I must have had nefarious reasons for writing it. Am I a racist?
How I long for the time when racism meant dislike or abuse of someone because of their race. Those were simpler times!
Now, reading is racist, as are kindness, punctuality, intelligence, highways, weather, history, national parks, Legos, toast, and breathing. Among countless other things. And the color of one’s skin matters far more than the content of one’s character. But wait, isn’t that racist? Wouldn’t Martin Luther King, Jr., himself deem it so? (Did I make a mistake in assuming King’s preferred pronouns? If so, I deeply apologize!)
In truth, it is usually the people who casually hurl accusations of “RACIST!” at everyone — and everything — else who are the actual racists.
If the Green Party of England and Wales wants to equate an historically demonized and persecuted people’s quest for a tiny country of their own, a safe space if you will, with racism, they have it backwards.
I detest the Green Party, not because its members are green, or any other color, but because their beliefs and preferred policies would necessarily lead to needless hardship for the vast majority of citizens of … planet Earth. Ergo, I would call them not just plain old, garden variety racists, but multi-race racists. (Equal opportunity racists?)
I have seen the idiocy, hatred, and hypocrisy on local college campuses. There were Palestinian flags at my daughter’s graduation ceremony. And I have seen it in the eyes of folks such as Tucker Carlson (whom I used to respect) and Candace Owens.
Zionism isn’t racism. Is unfounded hatred of the Jewish people racism? Technically no. But it is nonetheless despicable, hypocritical, and idiotic.