绿党领袖扎克·波拉斯基因对党内一项将犹太复国主义视为种族主义形式的动议所作回应，以及该党在补选中的失利而面临巨大压力。作者：克里斯·梅森通常在补选结束后，人们的关注点都会集中在获胜者身上。但这次却有所不同。
The Green leader faces pressure over his response to a party motion declaring Zionism a form of racism, as well as his by-election loss. By Chris Mason In the aftermath of a by-election, the focus is usually on the winner. Not this time.
毋庸置疑，新任伦敦北部霍尔本及圣潘克拉斯选区议员的萨加尔·阿布迪-瓦利有着一段相当励志的人生经历。
Make no mistake, the new MP for Holborn and St Pancras in north London, Sagal Abdi-Wali, has quite the story to tell.
上世纪90年代，她作为索马里难民儿童来到英国，在卡姆登区长大。四年前她成为区议员，今年5月又出任区议会领袖，如今则接替基尔·斯塔默成为该选区的议员。
She arrived in the UK as a child refugee from Somalia in the 1990s, grew up locally in Camden, became a councillor four years ago, the council leader in May and is now Sir Keir Starmer's successor as the MP.
然而今晨三点，在卡姆登区议会办公室里，包括我在内的众多媒体记者关注的焦点却是英格兰及威尔士绿党领袖扎克·波拉斯基——我们都在等待选举结果。
But in the offices of Camden Council at three o'clock this morning, the focus of the press pack, me included, was on Zack Polanski, the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, as we waited for the result.
这一选区长期以来都是工党的稳胜之地，曾是前首相以及前内阁大臣弗兰克·多布森的政治大本营。因此，工党在此获胜对唐宁街而言更多意味着“松了一口气”，而非“欢欣鼓舞”。
This constituency has long been a safe Labour seat – the political home of the former prime minister and before that the former cabinet minister Frank Dobson. So a Labour victory here falls in the column marked "relief" for Downing Street rather than "jubilation".
尽管如此，今年5月绿党在伦敦地方选举中表现优异，这得益于波拉斯基一年前出任党领袖后所引发的民意浪潮。
Nonetheless, the Greens did very well in local elections in London in May, riding the crest of a political wave which began shortly after Polanski became the party's leader just over a year ago.
倘若此次未能获胜，难免会有人质疑绿党的发展势头是否有所放缓。不过该党完全有理由引以为傲：自大选以来，其支持率大幅提升；此次补选结果也堪称绿党在威斯敏斯特补选中取得的史上第二佳绩。
His failure to win here would have prompted questions from some about stalling momentum, but the party can and does point to the big swing to them since the general election and a result that was by a long way the second best ever result for them at a Westminster by-election.
值得一提的是，此次保守党获得第三名，这也是大选后该党在英格兰地区的补选中首次击败改革英国党。看来在这样一个对两党均不太友好的选区里，Restore Britain党获得了近乎改革英国党一半的选票，从而影响了后者的表现。
Incidentally, in finishing third the Conservatives have beaten Reform UK for the first time in an English by-election since the general election. It seems likely that Reform's result was hampered by Restore Britain, who managed almost half as many votes as Reform did, in a constituency not very favourable to either party.
不过，当晚众多记者带着摄像机、麦克风蜂拥而至，争相采访波兰斯基的真正原因其实与这次补选并无太大关系——完全是因为上周末在布莱顿举行的绿党大会上通过的一项决议。
But the real reason for the nocturnal scramble of cameras, microphones and questions for Polanski had little to do with the by election – and everything to do with a vote at the Green Party's conference in Brighton last weekend.
与会活动人士通过了一项动议，将犹太复国主义定义为一种种族主义形式。
Activists there passed a motion declaring Zionism as a form of racism.
该动议将犹太复国主义界定为一种支持“建立以犹太人为主体的民族国家”的意识形态，同时支持“在整个历史上的巴勒斯坦地区建立一个统一的民主巴勒斯坦国”，这一范围涵盖了如今的以色列。
The motion defined Zionism as an ideology supporting "an ethnonationalist Jewish state" and backed a "single democratic Palestinian state in all of historic Palestine", which includes modern-day Israel.
波兰斯基并未参与此次投票，他称自己当时选择在霍尔本和圣潘克拉斯地区开展竞选活动。而随着外界对他的压力不断增大，至少直到今天，他一直多次拒绝接受采访。
Polanski didn't take part in the vote because, he said, he chose to campaign in Holborn and St Pancras instead. And – until today at least – he has been repeatedly declining to do interviews, as the pressure on him as ratcheted up.
一位绿党人士这样向我描述：“他制造了一个自己无法控制、也不愿去控制的‘怪物’。”此人只是众多对此事怒不可遏的绿党成员之一。
"He has created a monster he either can't or won't control," was how one Green figure put it to me - this person one among many left furious at what has happened.
过去一年里，绿党党员人数增长了两倍多；党内批评波兰斯基的人士指出，这些新成员中有不少是专注于中东问题而非环保事业的极左派活动人士。
Party membership has increased more than three fold in the last year and internal critics of Polanski say this includes hard-left campaigners focused on the Middle East rather than environmental concerns.
如今，这场争议正在党内及党外愈演愈烈。身为犹太人的波兰斯基已被禁止进入以色列。英国犹太领袖委员会以及英国犹太人代表委员会均对绿党提出了批评，欧洲的多个绿党组织也持相同立场。
Within the party and beyond it, a row is now boiling. Polanski, who is himself Jewish, has been banned from Israel. The Jewish Leadership Council and the Board of Deputies of British Jews have criticised the party, as have sister Green parties in Europe.
值得注意的是，前绿党领袖、同代人中最具影响力的环保运动领袖之一卡罗琳·卢卡斯在接受BBC《新闻之夜》采访时指出，波兰斯基未能在这一问题上展现出应有的领导力，同时也没有表态支持他继续担任党魁。
And – significantly – the former party leader and one of the most important figures in the Green movement of her generation, Caroline Lucas, told BBC Newsnight Polanski had failed to show leadership over the issue. She also failed to back him carrying on as leader.
补选结果公布后，面对记者关于他能否继续担任党魁的提问，波兰斯基坚称：“我当然可以继续担任。”
Asked by reporters after the by-election result if he could continue as leader, Polanski insisted "of course I can carry on".
他并未明确否定绿党通过的这项动议，只是表示“目前巴勒斯坦人民正遭受种族灭绝，流离失所”。他补充道：“我认为这显然属于种族主义行为。”以色列一再否认其在加沙的行动构成种族灭绝。
He did not explicitly reject the motion his party has passed, saying there was an "ongoing genocide and the displacement of the Palestinian people". "I believe that is clearly racist," he added. Israel has repeatedly denied its actions in Gaza amount to genocide.
当被问及是否认同“两国方案”——即以色列与巴勒斯坦两个国家和平共存时，他回答道：“我认为做出这种决定并非我们的职责所在。”他重申：“我的职责是安抚民众，确保我们政党内部团结一致。”“在绿党内部，没有人会因为信仰或宗教而被排斥，”他说道。
And asked if he believed in a two-state solution – an Israeli and Palestinian state existing peacefully alongside each other – he said "I believe it is not our role to decide". He repeated that "it is my job to reassure people and make sure that we bring our party together". "No one will be excluded in the Green Party based on faith and religion," he said.
然而如今，波兰斯基正面临其执政生涯中最为严峻的危机。党内高层公开质疑他的决策能力，党外也有众多人士对他持批评态度。
But Polanski now confronts the greatest crisis of his leadership so far. He faces open, public insurrection about his judgement from senior figures internally and opprobrium from plenty of others beyond the party.
霍尔本与圣潘克拉斯地区的竞选活动或许已经落幕，但对波兰斯基而言，考验远未结束。
The campaign in Holborn and St Pancras might be over. The questions for Polanski certainly aren't.