Ex-Greens co-leader urges council groups to reject Zionism policy
by Peter Walker Senior political correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#795TT)
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Adrian Ramsay, the former co-leader of the Greens, has urged his party's councillors to reject the newly adopted Zionism is racism" motion if it will help them stay in power in local government, in a fresh sign of internal dissent over the policy.
Ramsay, one of the Greens' five MPs, said he was pleased that a number of Green council groups had already condemned the policy, which was adopted at the party's conference and also calls for a single Palestinian state in place of Israel.
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