Hundreds of British Jews accuse Board of Deputies of 'genocide denial'

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Hundreds of British Jews accuse Board of Deputies of 'genocide denial' Submitted by MEE staff on Tue, 11/10/2026 - 14:09 Open letter challenges Jewish community body over its…

Hundreds of British Jews have accused the Board of Deputies of British Jews of “genocide denial” in an open letter condemning its decision to declare the Green Party racist over its stance on Zionism.

The letter, released on Tuesday by Jews Against Genocide Denial, accuses the prominent Jewish representative organisation of shielding Israel from accountability and silencing criticism within its own ranks.

Historian Avi Shlaim, former South African MP and arms trade campaigner Andrew Feinstein, and human rights lawyer Margaret Owen are among the more than 250 signatories listed in the document.

The intervention follows the Board’s decision on 25 October to declare that the Green Party of England and Wales had become a racist party after adopting a conference motion treating Zionism as a form of racism.

The Board’s resolution, passed by 118 votes to one, argued that the Green policy stigmatised a connection to Israel that forms part of many British Jews’ religious, cultural and national identity.

The letter’s signatories rejected that interpretation, while stressing that they did not all share the same view of the Green motion’s merits.

“Some Jewish Greens supported it, some opposed it, some thought it unnecessary, given the party’s already strong stance against Israel’s oppressive regime and war crimes,” they wrote.

They accused the Board of targeting the party and its Jewish leader, Zack Polanski, because of their opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

“Your allegations of institutional antisemitism against the Green Party are false, use antisemitism as a political weapon, and are therefore an abuse of Jews.”

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