Polanski Challenged over Israel's Right to Exist
BBC News reports on a controversy surrounding Green Party (England and Wales) leader Zack Polanski and his stance on Zionism and Israel.
Green Party Conference Debate
Polanski was challenged on his absence from a debate at his party's conference regarding a motion declaring Zionism a form of racism. The motion, passed by party members, defined Zionism as an ideology supporting an "ethnonationalist Jewish state" and backed a single democratic Palestinian state encompassing present-day Israel.
Interview with Nick Robinson
During an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Polanski denied deliberately avoiding the debate, stating he had been campaigning in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election.
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