Skip to content- WorldGreen Party Motion on Zionism Sparks Controversy; Speitan's Past Ties to Al-Qaeda Figure EmergeA Green Party motion defining Zionism as supporting an ethnonationalist Jewish state has led to internal party friction and external reactions. Lubna Speitan, a British-Palestinian artist who proposed the motion, was identified in court documents as a close friend of Minh Quang Pham, who was jailed for supporting al-Qaeda. Speitan had previously written a letter to the New York judge in Pham's case describing him positively.3 min