Polanski challenged over whether he thinks Israel has right to exist

Green Party leader Zack Polanski defended his decision to miss a debate at his party's conference on a controversial motion declaring Zionism a form of racism. He stated he was campaigning in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election and did not deliberately avoid the debate. The motion, passed by party members, described Zionism as an ethnonationalist ideology supporting a Jewish state and backed a single democratic Palestinian state encompassing present-day Israel.