Suspension Row Engulfs the Greens; Now They Face The Corbyn Test

Suspension Row Engulfs the Greens; Now They Face The Corbyn Test

From Kernow Damo by Damien Willey

April 19, 2026 · 16 min

About this episode

The episode discusses the suspension of Tony Greenstein from the Green Party and its implications in the context of political pressure similar to that faced by Jeremy Corbyn.

Tony Greenstein’s suspension is not just a Green Party row, but a warning that the pressure politics used against Corbyn is now being turned on them. Right, so the Green Party has suspended Tony Greenstein, a Brighton-based Jewish anti-Zionist activist who had only just joined the party, and the wording reportedly used against him was “documented history of antisemitism, including court decisions and recent terrorism charges.” Put that next to the fact that the party is already in a live row over Palestine and over a conference motion treating Zionism as racism – which it is - and the optics of an anti-Zionist Jew being suspended frankly lands like a ton of bricks. It starts looking rushed. It also starts looking somewhat familiar. It starts looking like certain people, certain bodies who have decided that if they cannot beat a rising Green party politically, they’ll resort to what they know worked before, the same filth that was used on Labour under Jeremy Corbyn, the weaponisation of antisemitism that we saw during his tenure. The important thing is not simply that Greenstein has been suspended. The important thing is that the people trying to make him the problem have exposed…

Topics covered

  • Green Party
  • antisemitism
  • Tony Greenstein
  • Zionism
  • Jeremy Corbyn

Keywords

  • suspension
  • politics
  • activism
  • Palestine
  • membership growth

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Brighton, Palestine

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