British prime minister criticises Green Party’s motion on 'Zionism is racism', says it is 'terrible judgement'

The UK Prime Minister has criticised the Green Party's motion declaring Zionism a form of racism, calling it "completely wrong" and a "terrible judgement". The motion, passed at the Green Party's conference in Brighton, defines Zionism as an ideology supporting an ethnonationalist Jewish state and backs a single democratic Palestinian state in all of historic Palestine.

According to the BBC News, Green leader Zack Polanski, who is a candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, has said he would not accept anyone being excluded from the Green Party because of their religious or communal body. The motion has sparked controversy, with four of the five Green MPs opposing it and the Green deputy leader in Wales resigning.

The Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, has called on Polanski to reverse the motion, saying that all political parties in the UK should support the two-state solution between Israel and Palestine. Polanski has declined media interviews since the motion was passed and did not answer questions from a BBC reporter about the motion ahead of Burnham's comments.

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