Making a stand

I would recommend this short clip (under 2 minutes) which shows why Zack Polanski is such a treasure. (Note the white poppy above the red poppy on his lapel, challenging the glorification of war that is a feature of so many collective national rituals.) The background of the clip is that last Thursday all the Establishment parties on the London Assembly ganged together to vote in favour of a motion denouncing the Greens' recent 'Zionism is racism' motion at their party conference. The Assembly motion was proposed by Tory AM Susan Hall, who, along with all the other Establishment parties, deployed the tried and tested rhetorical formula of conflating Jewish ethnic identity with Zionism and support for Israel, the dual loyalty trope that actually makes Jewish people less safe; but then what the hell do the Establishment parties care? Amid the calls to consider the outraged feelings of Zionists, the one thing predictably absent from the debate (except from Zack) was any regard for the feelings of Palestinians who have watched as their children have been maimed, burned, and slaughtered. The motion in the London Assembly was naturally carried by 19 to 3 (the three voting against being the three Green AMs). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9D4u6cOhsE