Green party votes to adopt policy that equates Zionism with racism

Motion that has alarmed some Jewish members is passed by 1,022 votes to 813 at party's annual conference in Brighton

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The Greens have formally adopted a policy which equates Zionism with racism, a move that will dismay the bulk of the party's MPs and has alarmed some Jewish members.

In a vote at the party's annual conference in Brighton about whether to back a motion which calls for Zionism, the movement for a Jewish state, to be treated as any other form of racism", it passed by 1,022 votes to 813.