UK Green Party members reportedly discussed “killing Zionists” in leaked messages
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UK Green Party activists discussed “killing Zionists” and wiping ‘Israel’ “off the map” in leaked private WhatsApp messages, according to reports first published by The Times.
The messages come from a group called Greens Against Imperialism, set up by Sophus Magill, a Green Party parish councillor in Wootton Bridge on the Isle of Wight.
Members used the chat to coordinate campaigning, conference motions and foreign policy discussions.
In a July exchange, Magill wrote: “Zionism has to go, it’s ultimately an apartheidal, ethnosupremacist ideology.”
When asked what that meant in practical terms, he replied: “That it needs to go. The only solution is one equal state.”
Pressed on whether this meant wanting Israel “wiped off the map, in essence,” Magill answered: “Yes, I would like that,” later adding: “I don’t think it’s violent to want an illegitimate apartheid state gone from all maps, like Rhodesia.”
He also stated that ‘Israelis’ who are not “war criminals” and agree to coexist peacefully should have the right to live there.
One also reportedly wrote: “I suppose an extreme anti-Zionist could mean that you support killing Zionists. But that is not specifically racist any more than believing in capital punishment for traitors or ‘terrorists’ is. Wrong but not necessarily racist.”
The same person continued: “Considering the genocide, it is not surprising some anti-Zionists, particularly those living in, or having relatives in Palestine, are anti Jews, lumping all Jews in with the majority of Israeli Jews as genociders. Wrong but understandable.”
Another said: “I can tell you if a state in the name of an ethnic group destroyed my village and killed my family, I might want to plough into a group of them too.”
One member claimed: “It’s unfortunate, but British Jews are a brilliant weapon for the Israeli state to help with the use of antisemitism as a justification in the UK, one of their strong allies.”
A Green Party spokesperson declined to engage with the specific messages, telling The Times: “We do not comment on internal party forums or discussions on WhatsApp groups that are not official party group channels.”
