Family members of Greens leader Zack Polanski fear they will be forced to leave the UK if he ever became prime minister.
The party, which stormed to a surprise by-election victory last month, is holding its spring conference on Saturday where it will debate and vote on a controversial motion alleging ‘Zionism is racism’.
Under Mr Polanski’s watch, the Greens have attracted an army of alleged Islamists and far-Left activists, moving away from its traditional roots.
Born into a Jewish family in Salford, he has constantly said he is ‘proud of my Jewish heritage’, but family members believe he has put his ambition and politics ahead of his community.
The Daily Mail has spoken to three members of Mr Polanski’s extended family – none of whom now talk to him.
‘He’s currently the leader of the future Islamic party of Britain, that’s what the Green Party is fast becoming,’ said one. ‘And there would be no place for Jews in an Islamic state of Britain.’
The motion, which is set to be debated today, would see the party formally declare itself an anti-Zionist party and would ignore definitions of anti-Semitism, including those Mr Polanski once tried to get the Greens to adopt, which equate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.
It also calls for sanctions on Israel and support for ‘resistance and liberation from Israeli occupation’, effectively backing Hamas attacks.
Green Party leader Zack Polanski talks with supporters outside the campaign headquarters in Manchester, United Kingdom on February 20
Mr Polanski, pictured, running into Green Party Conference in Bournemouth to deliver his speech has constantly said he is ‘proud of my Jewish heritage’
The Jewish Greens – which Mr Polanski was once a member of – say the motion would ‘for many Jews, come across as an attack on that very basic right of aspiring to lead a safe and secure life’.
The Campaign Against Antisemitism said the Green Party was ‘not only tolerating but amplifying some of the worst rhetoric that we have seen in British politics in a generation’.
The only member of the Greens leader’s family still speaking to him was his mother, Ava, relatives said. She is said to tell the wider family that while she does not agree with his politics, she loves him as her son and is proud of what he’s achieved.
But family members have described their shock at how the former actor and hypnotist has become leader of a party expressing hatred for Israel.
‘If the Zionism-is-racism motion is passed it will make the Greens the most anti-Semitic party in British history since Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists,’ said a second relation. ‘The idea of it is one of the most sickening things I’ve heard in a long time.’
A third family member said: ‘The mad thing is that he’s gay, he’s Jewish but he’s cosying up to people whose ideology is the complete antithesis of everything that he’s supposed to stand for. It’s like he’s a chicken, telling us to vote for KFC.’
Just 5 per cent of motions submitted to the Green Party’s conference actually concern protecting the environment.
Instead, they include abolishing London City Airport, leaving the Nato defence alliance and redistributing funding from policing and prisons to drug consumption rooms.
A Green Party spokesman said: ‘Zack is one of five Jewish leaders of a political party in British history and the harassment he has received since being elected is patently anti-Semitic.
‘Reporting like this demeans the Press and our democracy.’
