The Green National Committee has adopted a resolution formally declaring the Green Party of the United States an anti-Zionist political party and recognizing Zionism, as defined by the resolution, as a form of racism.
According to results published Monday, November 9, the national committee adopted the resolution by a vote of 77 in favor to four opposed. There were four abstentions. The motion was originally put forward by the Green Party of Colorado in mid-October and was cosponsored by the Maine Green Independent Party.
The sponsors said the resolution follows a November 2025 vote of the Green National Committee designating the Israeli Defense Forces as a terrorist organization. It also references a similar policy adopted by the Green Party of England and Wales just last month.
“This decision established an important precedent for National Committee action concerning Israeli military policies, Palestinian rights, and accountability under international law,” the new resolution’s background section reads. “The present proposal builds upon that decision by addressing Zionism as a political ideology and affirming the Green Party’s commitment to Palestinian liberation.”
The resolution defines Zionism as a political ideology that seeks to establish and maintain Jewish ethnonational sovereignty and political supremacy throughout historic Palestine through the use of policies that systematically privilege one population over another. It recognizes such actions as a form of racism and establishes opposition to Zionism as an official party position.
It also distinguishes anti-Zionism from antisemitism, which it explicitly condemns, along with discrimination and violence directed against Jewish people more generally and efforts to blame Jewish people for the actions of the Israeli government and its supporters.
Beyond that declaration, the national committee once more restates the U.S. Green Party’s support for Palestinian self-determination, the right of return for Palestinian refugees and their descendants, and the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. It recognizes the right of Palestinians to resist occupation, including through armed resistance, so long as it remains consistent with international law. It also rejects intentional attacks against civilians, hostage-taking, and other humanitarian violations, regardless of the offender.
The party calls for the United States government to end military assistance to Israel and cease the use of taxpayer funds to support activities that violate international law. It also encourages its global peers to consider similar positions and its own committees and candidates to advocate for such policies where possibe.
The full text of the resolution is republished and preserved below:
The National Committee of the Green Party of the United States adopts the following position:
1. Zionism Is RacismThe Green Party of the United States recognizes Zionism, as defined in this proposal and manifested through ethnonational supremacy, displacement, dispossession, segregation, occupation, and the systematic privileging of one population over another, as a form of racism.
The Green Party of the United States therefore declares itself an anti-Zionist political party.
GPUS shall oppose Zionism as it opposes other political ideologies and systems based upon racial, ethnic, religious, or national supremacy.
2. Anti-Zionism Is Not Antisemitism
The Green Party of the United States rejects the equation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism.
GPUS simultaneously and unequivocally opposes antisemitism and all hatred, discrimination, harassment, collective blame, or violence directed against Jewish people.
This proposal addresses a political ideology and political system. It does not attribute Zionism collectively to Jewish people.
Jewish identity is not synonymous with Zionism. Not all Jews are Zionists, and not all Zionists are Jews.
No person shall be subjected to discrimination, hostility, or collective responsibility on the basis of Jewish identity, religion, ethnicity, or ancestry.
3. Palestinian Self-Determination and Liberation
The Green Party of the United States affirms the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, liberation, equality, and freedom from occupation, apartheid, colonial domination, dispossession, and forced displacement.
GPUS supports the right of Palestinian refugees and their descendants to return in accordance with international law.
GPUS supports a democratic political future throughout historic Palestine founded upon equal civil and political rights, human dignity, freedom of religion and conscience, and equal protection under law regardless of ethnicity, nationality, or religion.
No political settlement should institutionalize racial, ethnic, national, or religious supremacy.
4. Resistance and International Law
The Green Party of the United States recognizes the right of the Palestinian people, and all peoples living under occupation or colonial domination, to resist occupation and struggle for self-determination and liberation, including through armed resistance, consistent with international law and international humanitarian law.
GPUS does not support intentional attacks against civilians, collective punishment, hostage-taking, or other violations of international humanitarian law, regardless of the perpetrator.
International law and the protection of civilian life must be applied universally and without exception.
5. Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
The Green Party of the United States reaffirms its support for Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) as nonviolent means of applying political and economic pressure to achieve Palestinian rights and compliance with international law.
GPUS calls upon the United States government to end military aid, weapons transfers, and other military assistance to Israel and to end diplomatic protection for Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights and international law.
GPUS supports appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions against governments, officials, corporations, and institutions responsible for or materially contributing to occupation, apartheid, illegal settlement, forced displacement, ethnic cleansing, or other grave violations of international law.
6. U.S. Complicity
The Green Party of the United States recognizes the particular responsibility of the United States government in providing military, financial, diplomatic, and political support that has enabled Israel’s occupation and violations of Palestinian rights.
GPUS calls for an end to the use of American taxpayer resources to finance occupation, apartheid, settlement expansion, forced displacement, ethnic cleansing, or violations of international humanitarian and human-rights law.
7. International Green Solidarity
The Green Party of the United States welcomes the decision of the Green Party of England and Wales to confront Zionism as a political ideology and its relationship to Palestinian dispossession and racial and ethnonational supremacy.
GPUS encourages Green parties internationally and the Global Greens to examine the relationship between Zionism, colonialism, apartheid, occupation, Palestinian liberation, and the Green movement’s commitment to anti-racism and universal human rights.
The Green Party of the United States adopts this position independently as an expression of GPUS principles and policy, rather than as an endorsement or incorporation of another Green Party’s resolution.
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