Word: zionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Filmed in handsome chiaroscuro and with an austere camera zest, this Russian film makes for a poignant humanist fable. So does the story of its making and suppression. Writer-Director Alexander Askoldov finished his film in 1967. But the Soviet authorities, accusing Askoldov of "promoting Zionism and . . . imperialist chauvinism," shelved Commissar, and Askoldov has never made another picture. Only last year, as glasnost was opening the door of artistic freedom, was the director able to free his kidnaped film. Commissar won a Silver Bear at the 1988 Berlin Film Festival, though the Soviet press neglected to mention it. A true...
...Gaza, the P.L.O. once again seemed to be bouncing back in Arab estimation. Earlier in the week, the Palestinian cause (though not the P.L.O.) received a boost from Secretary of State George Shultz during a five-day tour to promote a U.S.-sponsored regional peace plan. "The fate of Zionism and Palestinian nationalism are interdependent," he said in Cairo. A day later, Shultz berated Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir for Israel's failure to consider Palestinian rights. "The continued occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and the frustration of Palestinian rights is a dead-end street," he argued...
More recently Jackson called Zionism a "poisonous weed". In 1984, he labelled New York "hymietown", and pledged support for Louis Farrakhan, who calls Judaism a "gutter religion". No other white candidate could have gotten away with such words and actions and remained in the race. Are these the views the American people want in the presidency...
...similar to South Africa, we would not be subjected to bias in the press, because the foreign press would be banned altogether. The Israeli army is controlling an occupation it never wanted. Arabs in democratic Israel are given equal citizenship and voting rights and Jews. Whereas the goal of Zionism is peace and equality with the Arabs, that of apartheid is suppression of an "inferior" race. Have the Afrikaaners been oppressive because there haven't been any legitimate Black leaders willing to negotiate with them? Is Moses comparing the ANC to the PLO or P.W. Botha to Yitzhak Shamir? Such...
Whenever the topics of UNESCO, the U.N.'s condemnation of Zionism as racism, or the organization's continued support for Pol Pot come up in discussion, U.N. apologists usually start talking of the U.N. as the champion of law in the nasty and brutish international arena...