Green Party demands ban on Israeli military as terror group and Balfour apology

The Green Party has voted for the Israeli military to be banned as a terrorist organisation and for Britain to apologise for the Balfour Declaration.

Members voted for the motion at the Green Party's annual conference in Bournemouth on Sunday, making it party policy.

The motion called for the Israeli military to be proscribed, which would make membership of the Israeli military or even glorifying it a terrorist offence under British counterterror legislation.

Party leader Zack Polanski backed the motion, saying in the conference hall that to do so was a "moral imperative".

The motion also said that Britain "should formally apologise to the people of Palestine for the Balfour Declaration", which in 1917 expressed British support for the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

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