Word: zionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thoughtful Jews accept the idea that anti-Zionism equals antiSemitism. Some of us feel personally threatened by Zionism and by what we consider to be the backward, tribal, undemocratic, indisputable objective of political Zionism-the ingathering of all Jews into the state of Israel...
...announcement, Wallace criticized New York as a "prime example of what the ultra-liberals can do to a city." But he indicated that he would not oppose some kind of federal assistance, partly because default would have wide-ranging economic consequences. He also attacked the United Nations resolution condemning Zionism as racist (see THE WORLD). "We told you years ago that the U.N. was a no-'count outfit," he said...
...Nations and before the world that it does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act." The target of Moynihan's scorn -and a chorus of bitter outrage throughout the Western world last week -was a General Assembly resolution declaring that "Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination...
Adamant Rejection. In the month since the U.N.'s ill-named Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee approved a draft linking Zionism and racism (TIME, Oct. 27), the U.S. and its Western European allies had lobbied furiously to get the impending vote postponed if not quashed. But Arab lobbying won in the end. The resolution passed easily, 72-35, with 32 abstentions. Two other resolutions directed against Israel were approved by much wider margins. One creates a 20-member committee to try to set up in what is now Israel the sort of "democratic secular state" the Palestine Liberation Organization...
Israelis greeted the resolutions with emotions ranging from mockery to deep anxiety. In several cities of Israel, streets that had been named for the U.N. -which had created the Jewish state in its 1947 partition of Palestine-were retitled "Zionism Street" or "Zion Street." Some young Israelis wore T shirts proclaiming U.N. INTERNATIONAL ZIONISM YEAR, but Premier Yitzhak Rabin denounced the U.N. action as an "offensive aimed at establishing an Arafatist state" on the ruins of Israel...