Jo Bird

Jo Bird is a British Green Party politician and councillor for Bromborough on Wirral Council. She is Treasurer of Jewish Greens and a former member of the Labour Party, from which she was expelled in 2021.

Position on the Green Party “Zionism is Racism” motion

Bird opposed motion A105 (“Zionism is Racism”) at the Green Party Spring Conference 2026. As Treasurer of Jewish Greens she supported the group’s call to vote against it. She personally spoke against prioritising the motion for debate, arguing it should be deferred for mediation and a unifying alternative in the autumn. According to Jim Denham of the Shiraz Socialist (Second Run) blog:

The speech against pushing the “Zionism is racism” up the agenda came not from “hardline Zionists now turning their attention to the Green Party in the way they previously did to the Labour Party when Corbyn was leader” (as the article above claims) but from councillor Jo Bird, a one-time Corbynite Labour councillor in the Wirral and a former leading member of the anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Labour (now Jewish Voice for Resistance). Her speech said the motion should not be discussed so that mediation and further consideration could take place and a new unifying motion be put forward in the autumn.

According to the Zionist aligned Alliance for Workers' Liberty:

The speech against pushing ZiR up the agenda came from councillor Jo Bird, a one-time Corbynite Labour councillor in the Wirral and a former leading member of Jewish Voice for Labour. Her speech said the motion should not be discussed so that mediation and further consideration could take place and a new unifying motion be put forward in the autumn. That may well have had tacit leadership support. Other committed “anti-Zionist” GPEW members have also urged caution. The Jewish Greens called to vote against.

This contributed to procedural delays that prevented a vote.