Word: zionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Zionism is a political ideology professing that the Jews of the world, wherever they may be, constitute one nation, one people, a single ethnicity," reads the SAS letter. Unfortunately, the SAS definition of Zionism is flat-out wrong. Many non-Zionists (Simon Dubnow, for example) who wanted to remain in the Diaspora, believed that the Jews are one nation...
...statement of the objectives of Zionism is also completely false. It states that "Jews needed to be separated from their respective countries and transplanted into one territory." Anyone who has taken Foreign Cultures 56 has read Ahad Ha-Am, and knows that he for one did not envision a separation of Jews from their respective countries. He, who was a Zionist, did not even envision a Jewish state, merely a Jewish community. Even so, the territory that Jews would be "transplanted into" is merely the homeland of the Jewish people which they inhabited until their exile by the Romans...
...letter then goes on to say that "Non-Jews needed to be removed from that territory." No respectable version of Zionism advocates the removal of the non-Jews from the land of Israel in order to create a Jewish state. The Israeli Declaration of Independence states that Israel "will uphold the full social and political equality of all its citizens, without distinction of religion, race or sex." The state of Israel has over 700,000 Muslims and Christians who hold full citizenships...
...distribution of such a false and misleading piece of propaganda illustrates little commitment to the current peace negotiations, let alone the quest for greater understanding and peace between all countries in the Middle East. Furthermore, the Zionism-is-Racism Resolution, a resolution which, incidentally, was passed by a nasty coalition of Communist and Third World dictators, compromises the integrity of the United Nations and discredits its participation in the current peace process as a disinterested, unbiased observer...
...looked at the paper in my hand and saw that it claimed to "define" Zionism and explain why Zionism is racism. The flier was prepared and approved by the Society of Arab Students...