A group of mainly non-Jewish activists challenging British antisemitism by standing with Israel launched a new campaign next to the Winston Churchill statue in Parliament Square on Saturday, titled “Some people are Zionist! Get over it!”
Mark Birbeck, founder and director of Our Fight, told The Jerusalem Post that the group launched the campaign in response to the Green Party conference’s vote on October 4, by 1,022 votes to 813, to pass a motion declaring “Zionism is racism.”
🚨 SOME PEOPLE ARE ZIONIST. GET OVER IT! We’d love you to join us for the launch of a new “Get over it!” campaign. 📍 Winston Churchill’s statue, Parliament Square 🕥 10.30am 📅 Saturday 10 October Since the Green Party passed its “Zionism is Racism” motion on 4 October, “Zionism” has been much in the headlines. And with so much hostility towards Israel at the moment, we’re launching a new campaign that says “Some people are Zionist. Get over it!”. If you’re proud to support Israel we’d love you to join the launch. We’ll be taking photos so wear your “Some people are Zionist” t-shirt if you have one, and bring Israeli and British flags. Some people are Zionist. Get over it! Press and photographers have also been invited. #GetOverIt
— OurFightUk (@OurFightUk) October 9, 2026
During the Parliament Square launch event on Saturday, activists wore branded t-shirts displaying the campaign slogan, held signs reading “PROUD ZIO,” utilizing a term that originated as a derogatory slur for Zionists, and carried Israeli and British flags.
Explaining the motivation behind the initiative, Our Fight activist Kurpa Patel stated to GB News, “We’re here to stand as proud Zionists, after the Green Party adopted their motion saying ‘Zionism is racism.’ We’re saying: some people are Zionist. Get over it.”
Birbeck also spoke with GB News, stating, “There are many people who support the right of Israel to exist, and that’s all Zionism is: the right of Jews to have a homeland. In response to the hysteria we’ve been seeing around the country for the last year or two, anti-Israel hysteria, we’re saying get over it. Israel’s not going anywhere.”
Birbeck told the Post that Our Fight plans to repeat the photo opportunity next month. “We’ll be asking people to come and show their support for Israel next to Churchill’s statue again,” Birbeck said.
Launch is part of “broader mensch campaign”
Birbeck said that this launch is part of their “broader mensch campaign” and that they “are organizing a conference on January 17 called ‘Be a #MENSCH,’” the campaign aims to encourage non-Jewish allies in the UK to show public, visible solidarity with the Jewish community amid rising antisemitism.
“We’ll be bringing together activists, academics, and writers to discuss the crisis of antisemitism, and broader issues relating to the nation and community,” Birbeck told the Post.
📹 On Sunday, the Green Party adopted a motion declaring that ‘Zionism is Racism’. The day before, they removed me from the auditorium and took my badge for wearing a t-shirt that said ‘Some people are Zionist—Get over it!’. I wore it during Ilan Pappé’s panel ‘Palestine: The Golden Thread that Unravelled Britain’. Pappé has built a career around casting Israel as so evil that it must be dismantled, giving an air of academic justification to the bigots and extremists who want to see an end to the world’s only Jewish state. A Green Party organiser approached me and said the message was “inappropriate” for the setting. I pointed out that the party hadn’t yet voted on whether to become the UK’s first anti-Zionist party, so the message wasn’t yet at odds with any party position. By Sunday, it was. Before long, 3-4 security guards and assorted Green Party personnel were involved in removing me from the auditorium. Another organiser took my badge and told me I couldn’t return on Sunday for the vote. The Green Party is irredeemable. At the conference, attacking Israel was the dominant issue in the corridors, on the panels, on the badges, and draped on the shoulders of delegates. This is no longer a party of the environment.
— Mark Birbeck (@markbirbeck) October 5, 2026
During the Green Party’s conference, Birbeck stood facing the audience at the front of the room wearing a t-shirt inscribed with the campaign slogan. Our Fight shared a video on social media showing conference organizers approaching Birbeck.
According to the group, conference organizers told him that the messaging was inappropriate before security guards and staff escorted him from the auditorium and took away his pass to block him from attending subsequent votes.
