据《卫报》报道,有一个组织一直在鼓动绿党将“锡安主义”与“种族主义”划等号,并鼓励人们加入绿党以支持这一立场;该组织还与一些激进分子有联系,这些激进分子主张必须将那些支持以色列的人从英国驱逐出去。
An organisation pushing the Green party to equate Zionism with racism has encouraged people to join the party specifically to support that agenda, and has links to activists who say that pro-Israel “infiltrators” must be rooted out of the UK, the Guardian has learned.
越来越多的绿党成员担心,由于本周末党代会将讨论一项提案(该提案认为“锡安主义就是种族主义”),绿党可能会被外部极端势力操纵。一些犹太党成员私下表示,如果该提案获得通过,他们将很难继续留在绿党内。
Some Green members are increasingly concerned that the party risks being manipulated by extremist outsiders over a motion to be voted on at the party’s annual conference this weekend, which states that “Zionism is racism”.
负责英格兰和威尔士地区绿党事务的扎克·波兰斯基(Zack Polanski)面临着巨大压力,他需要就这一提案明确表态。人们担心这场争议会损害绿党在下周举行的霍尔本(Holborn)和圣潘克拉斯(St Pancras)补选中的形象,因为波兰斯基正试图争夺基尔·斯塔默(Keir Starmer)之前的选区。
Some Jewish members have said privately they fear it will be difficult for them to remain in the party if the policy passes. Zack Polanski, who leads the Green party in England and Wales, has come under pressure to take a definitive stance on the motion amid worries the controversy will harm the party in next week’s key Holborn and St Pancras byelection, where Polanski is seeking to win Keir Starmer’s former seat.
这项提案在布莱顿举行的党代会上被列为成员们需要讨论的政策议题中的首要议题。提案主张建立一个统一的巴勒斯坦国家;如果获得通过,支持锡安主义(即支持建立犹太国家的运动)的成员可能会因此被认定为“种族主义者”并受到纪律处分。
The motion came top of a members’ ballot of policy issues to be debated at the event in Brighton. It calls for a single Palestinian state and, if passed, it would mean members who support Zionism – the movement for a Jewish state – could be disciplined for racism.
这场争议反映了关于“锡安主义”定义的长期争论:锡安主义的支持者认为这是为犹太人建立家园的必要斗争,而批评者则认为这是一种殖民主义行为,最终导致了巴勒斯坦人的流离失所。与此同时,反犹太主义者有时会将“锡安主义者”一词用作“犹太人”的同义词。
The controversy reflects a longstanding debate about the definition of Zionism, the political movement whose supporters see it as the necessary struggle for a Jewish homeland, and whose critics see it as a colonial project that has inevitably led to the dispossession of Palestinians. The term Zionist is, meanwhile, sometimes used as a synonym for Jew by antisemites.
推动这一政策的行动主要由“绿党支持巴勒斯坦组织”(Green Party for Palestine, GfP)主导。近几个月来,该组织在社交媒体上多次发文,呼吁支持这一观点的人注册成为绿党成员,以便让该提案在党代会上得到讨论并最终被采纳。
Efforts to push the policy have been led by Greens for Palestine (GfP), a group not formally affiliated with the party. In repeated social media posts over recent months, GfP has urged backers of the idea to sign up as Green members specifically to get the motion debated at the conference and then adopted.
波兰斯基上周宣称自己反对犹太复国主义,并指出犹太复国主义是一种种族主义形式,因为它涉及对巴勒斯坦人的驱逐和种族灭绝。不过,他支持对相关提案进行修改,以缓和其激进色彩。该提案的联合起草者之一卢布娜·斯佩伊坦(Lubna Speitan)则拒绝接受这些修改意见。
Polanski last week declared he was anti-Zionist, adding that Zionism was a form of racism because it involved the displacement and genocide of Palestinians. But he has supported amendments to tone down the motion. Lubna Speitan, a leading member of GfP who co-authored the motion, has rejected the amendments.
“领导层的看法并不重要,”斯佩伊坦在最近的一段视频中表示,“我们绝不是来与任何压迫者谈判我们的解放或受压迫条件的。”GfP(GfP)与斯佩伊坦都与一个名为“反犹太复国主义运动”(Anti-Zionist Movement, AZM)的组织有关联;该组织主张废除所谓的“犹太国家”,以及英国及其他地区的所有犹太复国主义组织。
“It doesn’t matter what the leadership thinks,” Speitan said in a recent video, adding: “We are certainly not here to negotiate the terms of our liberation or oppression with any of our oppressors.”GfP and Speitan have links to a group called the Anti-Zionist Movement (AZM), a more militant campaign group that argues that the “so-called Jewish state” should be dismantled, along with “Zionist organisations” in the UK and elsewhere.
AZM的核心成员之一是大卫·米勒(David Miller)——他曾是一名学者,因批评以色列而被布里斯托大学解雇,后来通过法律诉讼证明自己因反犹太复国主义观点而受到歧视,并最终胜诉。如今,他在伊朗国家电视台Press TV主持一档节目。
A key member of AZM is David Miller, a former academic who was sacked by Bristol University over his criticisms of Israel, and subsequently won a tribunal case after it ruled he had been discriminated against because of his anti-Zionist views. He now presents a show for Press TV, the Iranian state channel.
在社交媒体上,米勒声称犹太复国主义者作为“渗透者和颠覆者”,不仅控制了英国的所有政党,还渗透到了媒体、娱乐产业、法律机构、金融机构以及英国社会的各个领域。
In social media posts, Miller has argued that Zionists have, as “infiltrators and subversives”, gained access to not just all UK political parties but also “the media, entertainment industries, the law, financial institutions, sports and all sorts of apparently obscure parts of the UK”.
GfP与AZM曾合作发布多篇社交媒体帖子,斯佩伊坦今年也参加了AZM在伦敦举行的一次会议。在AZM发布的关于此次会议的视频中,斯佩伊坦强调反犹太复国主义组织之间的合作至关重要。
GfP and AZM have collaborated on a series of social media posts, and Speitan attended an AZM meeting in London this year. In a video posted by AZM about the meeting, Speitan said it was important for anti-Zionist groups to collaborate.
米勒在同一视频中表示,他的目标是“在全球范围内摧毁所有犹太复国主义组织,包括英国境内的3000到4000个犹太复国主义组织”。
Speaking in the same video, Miller said his aim was to “dismantle Zionist organisations wherever they are in the world, including the 3,000 or 4,000 Zionist organisations in this country”.
一些绿党高层人士表示,他们对这些关联关系感到非常担忧。其中一位人士说:“我真的不明白为什么扎克(Zack)没有在这件事上发挥任何领导作用,尤其是在几天后就要举行如此重要的补选的情况下。”
Some senior Greens say they are deeply worried about the links. One said: “I just don’t understand why Zack hasn’t provided any leadership on this, especially when we have such a crucial byelection just days later.”
绿党的发言人回应称:“绿党是一个民主政党,随着越来越多的人加入并支持我们的完整政策纲领,我们的党员人数也在不断增加。绝大多数成员是在任何具体的动员行动开始之前就已经加入我们的。”他们还补充道:“绿党并不支持‘AZM’的观点。”
A spokesperson for the Greens said: “The Green party is a democratic party and membership has grown as more people join to support our full policy platform. The vast majority of members joined prior to a specific attempt at mobilisation.”They added: “The Green party does not support the views of the AZM.”
GfP(Green Party of Palestine)的发言人提到了米勒(Miller)的就业仲裁案,指出该仲裁案“认定反犹太主义观点属于受法律保护的言论自由范畴”,并强调:“我们坚决反对将反犹太主义与反犹太主义行为混为一谈;同时,我们也坚决反对在巴勒斯坦被占领地区推行的殖民主义政策。”
A spokesperson for GfP cited Miller’s employment tribunal, saying it “concluded that anti-Zionist beliefs constitute a protected belief”, adding: “We reject all conflations of anti-Zionism with antisemitism, just as we reject the settler colonial project in occupied Palestine.”
当被问及与‘AZM’的关联时,他们表示:“我们欢迎所有反种族主义组织、政党及工会采纳我们的立场。”声明中还指出:“GfP坚决支持巴勒斯坦人民根据国际法享有的不可剥夺的自决权,包括通过一切合法手段抵抗以色列的占领、统治和压迫的权利。”
Asked about the links to AZM, they added: “We welcome the adoption of our motion by all anti-racist organisations, political parties and unions.”GfP, the statement added, “affirms the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination, including the right of the Palestinian people to resistance and liberation from Israeli occupation, domination and subjugation” via any means under international law.