A motion against Zionism and in support of the Palestinians was filibustered at the UK Green Party’s Spring Conference held this weekend. Fewer than 1,000 members, out of 220,000, took part in the online event.

The motion, “Zionism is racism”, identified Zionism as a “racist ideology”, called for a “single democratic Palestinian state in all of historic Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital”, and backed “the right of the Palestinian people to resistance and liberation from Israeli occupation, domination and subjugation”.

Opponents never even engaged in a debate on the issues. They began by trying to have the motion ruled out of order, with Eleanora Folan, who runs the X account Stats for Lefties, arguing that the call for a single Palestinian state could not be moved because it contradicted the party’s previous support for a “two-state solution”.

A vote was delayed by problems with the party’s online system, which the Canary suggested might have been the result of a deliberate denial of service attack. Participants were eventually able to block the effort to rule the “Zionism is racism” motion out of order by an overwhelming majority.

All of this will be very familiar to those who lived through five years of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party.

The Labour witch-hunt was able to gain traction because Corbyn and his allies capitulated, to the point of becoming active accomplices. First, they turned a blind eye to their allies being targeted, refusing to name the Blairite slander campaign for what it was, then they endorsed the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, then they began organising and encouraging suspensions and expulsions themselves.

Zack Polanski’s leadership has shown this weekend they will act no differently. Polanski took the excuse provided by the Together Alliance march in London not to be present, consummating a series of evasions on the question of Zionism in the lead up to the conference.