Britain’s Green Party has just blown any remaining disguise off the past few years of race hysteria. To be a truly “anti-racist” party, they have just announced at their Autumn conference in Brighton on Saturday, you have to be antisemitic. There’s just no other way. The era starting with George Floyd has achieved its most thorough academic qualification to date: to be truly against bigotry, you need to be a bigot.

The motion advanced by a Green Party member, and friend to a convicted terrorist, Lubna Speitan – that “Zionism is racism” – passed by a majority of 1 022 to 813. What the United Nations revoked in 1991 – the only one of two resolutions ever withdrawn – was exhumed in Brighton by some of the angriest, dirtiest, and maddest citizens of contemporary Great Britain.

Zack Polanski, or David Paulden, the leader of the Greens who is himself Jewish, wasn’t around for the vote. He’s been having a rough time of late, campaigning for the by-election of former Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s seat (which the human rights lawyer promised he’d never vacate). Zack or David’s opponent is a Muslim woman born in Somalia. What can you say? North London is nice these days.

Zack or David’s entry into political television worked well initially, where he’d sit smugly opposite the broadcaster and answer every single question with: “Well, because there are no trans people present, I’d just like to say: solidarity with trans people.” Unfortunately he became unstuck when that remark wasn’t able to address the cost-of-living crisis promoted by net zero, something his party weaponised, or its shift toward militant Islam. Unnerved and out of his depth, Zack or David began to snarl, so the Green’s marketing team replaced him on television with the party’s two deputy leaders: Rachel Millward and Mothin Ali.

Omnishambles

The television thing didn’t work well for Rachel either. In addition to being anti-Jew, the party is also anti-landlord, a position that aligns it to the African National Congress’s nil compensation omnishambles. While on the BBC recently, Rachel was asked about landlords, and she became flustered. The immediate suspicion was that Rachel’s husband may have been a landlord, which he was, but an excuse stammered to the extent of, “Well, he doesn’t exploit his tenants” just didn’t wash. Thereafter – obviously – it emerged that in addition to her husband being a landlord, Rachel was also a … landlord.

A clue to why she’s like this could be found in the profile of her extremely rich late father, Maurice Millward. In 1989, Maurice sold his market research company to the marketing behemoth WPP for around £40 million, the equivalent of a Silicon Valley tech deal today. Such an opulent upbringing may explain why Rachel struggles with basic concepts, like water. “Water is unique to our planet,” she told her supposedly environmental party at the conference. Elementary science on the other hand explains that it is one of the most ubiquitous molecules in the universe, which is great for everyone else, but bad for Rachel.

The landlord thing also got up the nose of the party’s other deputy Mothin Ali who, incredibly, and despite campaigning for the rights of tenants, was also revealed to be a …. landlord. Mothin could be the owner of a chain of vape or luggage shops too, or he could be quietly financing a new airport in Kashmir-Pakistan built with the sole objective of serving his Yookay constituents. He is one of the most inscrutable politicians today – just look at the photo of him taken alongside a Green transgender official. He could be thinking peace, he could be thinking misery. You just don’t know.

There are theories that the party’s relentless monkey-ing is deliberate theatre – one madness to undermine another. But these give the party too much credit. Such choreography requires creativity, and this party possesses only impulses. The impulse to condemn the police for incapacitating a terrorist who has just stabbed random people, as Zack or David did. The impulse to reduce the totality of humanity as a racist construct. And the impulse to motion a policy that qualifies the majority of synagogues as racist, prompting an investigation into any party member who attends one.

Chilling

Democratically, the most chilling feature of the Greens, enhancing the threat they pose via influence, is their unwillingness to debate. They are immovable. Four of their five MPs voted against the motion to declare Zionism racism, the fifth abstained. Just this alone – how its methods have alienated its elite from its most serious action to date – surely reveals why certain groups with their own dark objectives see it as an especially useful idiot.

This escalation didn’t appear in a vacuum. It wasn’t a surprise. It is the consequence of prioritising activism in children, not values, and of financial administrations that deferred difficult choices and made poor decisions (e.g., borrowing during the good times). It doesn’t actually matter what motions the Green Party passes, and what impact these have on their electoral prospects, nor how bizarre, hypocritical, or demented their members are. In seeking to love, preserve, and defend, this party has become the acceptable face of hatred. Nothing more.