Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HUSSAINI: The question is what kind of Israel. Is it the state for all Jews in the world to go and live there? What boundaries? What kind of state? If it is a Jewish state, what will happen to me as a non-Jew? We are saying Palestine should be for the Israelis and the Palestinians and these two peoples should live with equal rights. I should have a right to live in Jerusalem, run for President if I want...
What this resolution really tries to say is that Zionism, in the process of creating the Jewish state, has discriminated against another people, has denied them their rights. This is a form of racial discrimination. We say the Law of Return and other laws that deny the Palestinians their rights should be removed. This is what the resolution is trying to say. If you read it, you will see it also condemns discrimination against any people on the basis of race, religion or color...
PERLMUTTER: I think the resolution is racist and antiSemitic. For me, Judaism is symbiotic. It is both a people and a religion. If you look at the history of the Jews, you see there could be no Jewish religion without the ethnic group, the Jewish people, and there could not be a Jewish people without the Jewish religion. I argue that an anti-Zionist resolution is anti-Semitic in the following sense: because Israel is central to Jewish experience, and if you delegitimatize Israel, you delegitimatize Jews...
...down this principle in its 1973 National Council meeting, that in any territory that Israel evacuates-meaning the West Bank and Gaza-the P.L.O. will establish national authority. But that is based on a big "if," because what we see in fact is an Israeli policy of building new Jewish settlements in the occupied territories...
...hauteur and old-fashioned eyepiece belong to Actress Faye Dunaway, 35, now at work on a new picture titled Voyage. Based on the true story of Jewish refugees who set sail for Cuba back in 1939, the movie features Dunaway as the starchy wife of a university professor, played by Austrian Actor Oskar Werner. The filming, some of which took place off the coast of Barcelona, caused some seasickness problems among the moviemakers, but Dunaway seemed to have had more worries about costuming than mal de mer. "My problem," she says simply, "was in trying to keep the monocle clamped...