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Holocaust survivor Kapos: Zionism inevitably led to the genocide in Gaza
Stephen Kapos, who survived the Nazi Holocaust in Hungary, said Zionist ideology and practice "inevitably" led to the genocide in Gaza, explaining his support for the British Greens’ decision to define Zionism as racism.
Activist Stephen Kapos, who lived through the Nazi Holocaust as a child in Hungary, described events in Gaza as the inevitable outcome of Zionist ideology as he explained his support for the Green Party of England and Wales motion defining Zionism as racism.
"Someone who survived the Holocaust as a seven-year-old child in Hungary," said Kapos, born in Budapest in 1937. "We were all hoping that this genocide will never be repeated to any other people. Watching Gaza, I felt horror and great pain — a strong resonance with our own sufferings, now visited upon the Palestinian people."
"Zionism self-destructed"
"It is the Zionist ideology and practice that led to this, inevitably," he said. "Zionism is linked up with an ultimate conclusion which is a genocide, and therefore Zionism self-destructed. We cannot accept and tolerate it whatsoever — that's why I supported the motion." In his conference speech, Kapos said 15 members of his family perished in the gas chambers and called Israel "a Zionist apartheid regime" that had deteriorated into "open genocide."
First British party to take the step
The party conference in Brighton passed the motion on Oct. 4 by 1,022 votes to 813, making the Greens the first party to define Zionism as a form of racism. In 2024 it had become the first party to recognize Israel as an "apartheid" state.
The decision divided the party: four of its five MPs opposed it, leader Zack Polanski did not take part in the vote, and Jewish Greens head Vivien Lichtenstein said she was considering leaving.
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