Green Party Resolution on Zionism Linked to Al-Qaeda Terrorist Associate

A British-Palestinian artist, Lubna Speitan, who spearheaded a resolution by the UK's Green Party labeling Zionism as racism, is a close associate of an Al-Qaeda operative who planned a suicide attack targeting travelers from Israel and the US at London's Heathrow Airport. The resolution, adopted at the party's conference in Brighton on Sunday, calls for a single Palestinian state across all of historic Palestine, effectively replacing Israel, and declares the Green Party anti-Zionist. Speitan confirmed her continued close friendship with the terrorist, Minh Quang Pham, stating that their relationship has not changed and that he was targeted by 'the system.' Pham, originally from Vietnam, joined Al-Qaeda in Yemen and planned to detonate a backpack filled with poison to harm returning travelers. His plot was foiled in 2011, and he was extradited to the US in 2015. Although he initially claimed the attack was a ruse to leave Yemen, he was later sentenced to 44 years in prison after admitting to planning to kill hundreds. Court documents from 2015 indicate Speitan agreed to testify that Pham was a 'peace-loving individual with cognitive limitations' to support his defense of insanity. Speitan, who joined the Green Party last year after leaving Jeremy Corbyn's new party, has previously called for Zionists to be 'hunted down' and argued against defining Hamas as a terrorist organization. She stated her aim in joining the Greens was to challenge accepted definitions of antisemitism.