Word: zionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Russian Orthodox Church wins grudging praise for gradually surrendering to "the strengthening of Soviet power" and for denouncing "fascist aggression" during the "great patriotic war" (World War II). Still, its essence is defined as "reactionary." Judaism comes off less well, though the lexicon avoids antiSemitism. Zionism is dismissed as "an ideology of chauvinism and a policy of anti-Sovietism by the big Jewish bourgeoisie closely connected with imperialistic circles of capitalist countries...
...Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, the stridently abrasive spiritual leader of Iran's revolution, called for international help in opposing "Zionist Iraq and the U.S." At the same time, the official newspaper of Iraq's Baathist ruling party blamed Iran's unruly actions on "the U.S., international Zionism, the Sadat regime and all the signatories to the Camp David accords...
...wake up and topple this corrupt regime in your Islamic country before it is too late." With comparably strong provocation against the Iraqi government, headed by President Saddam Hussein, Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr said that Iran welcomed the opportunity of "liberating the people of Iraq from this puppet of Zionism and U.S. imperialism...
...Protestant and Eastern Orthodox denominations, is controlled by liberal-minded churchmen who, once upon a time, were lockstep allies with the Jewish organizations in domestic social-justice crusades. But there has been increasing criticism of Israel from Protestants sympathetic to the Third World, where most regimes support the "Zionism equals racism" formula. The N.C.C. is influenced as well by U.S. churches with links to Protestant and Orthodox Arabs in the Middle East...
...internal affairs" of that country. Casting about for an explanation of this massive Muslim repudiation of Soviet policies, TASS declared that the vote was the result of "arm twisting" by the U.S., which was seeking to" distract attention from the "threat posed by the forces of imperialism and Zionism...