Joint Tory-Labour motion that 'Zionism is not racism' goes to vote at Westminster council

Conservative and Labour councillors are preparing to bring a joint motion to Westminster City Council declaring that “Zionism is not racism”.

The motion, which is set to be voted on by the full council on Wednesday evening, has been proposed in response to the Green Party’s motion, adopted last month, to declare Zionism a form of racism.

Wednesday’s joint motion by the Tories and Labour says that “Zionism, in its most widely understood sense, is the belief that the Jewish people have the right to national self-determination in their historic homeland.

“For a majority of British Jews, it forms part of their Jewish identity, although Jewish people hold a wide range of views about Zionism, the State of Israel and its government.”