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The UK Green Party's conference vote to declare Zionism a form of racism and back a single democratic Palestinian state triggered an international political row. Labour's by-election candidate in Holborn and St Pancras, Sagal Abdi-Wali, condemned the motion amid scrutiny of her own record on Israel-Palestine, while opinion writers clashed publicly over whether the characterization is accurate, with some citing a historical 1975 UN resolution that Britain later lobbied to revoke. The controversy comes amid a broader rise in the UK's pro-Palestine movement, including a 94-year-old Jewish activist arrested for supporting the banned group Palestine Action, and growing public debate over how October 7 and the Gaza war have driven more Britons into Palestinian solidarity activism.