Word: zionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rehman continues to present U.N. resolutions condemning Israel under the assumption that the U.N. offers an impartial, reliable perspective on Israeli policy when in fact the body remains tainted by the infamous resolution passed in 1975 equating Zionism with racism. While the U.N. repealed this resolution nearly two decades later, should one not regard the United Nations with wary eye in this arena...
...increasing anti-Semitism in Europe during the 1920s and '30s sent waves of Jewish immigrants into the country. Furious Arab leaders launched a rebellion against the British and a holy war on the Jews. Much earlier than others, Ben-Gurion recognized the depth and rationale of Arab objection to Zionism: he was aware of the tragic nature of a clash between two genuine claims to the same land. His position on this can be described neither as hawkish nor dovish: he saw the creation of an independent homeland for the homeless Jewish people as, first and foremost, a crucial provision...
Breindel, who was a social studies concentrator at Harvard, fervently pursued those issues most important to him, including Zionism and social justice, according to Kaplan...
...revolutionary defiance. And, as trial-watchers have come to expect, that wasn't all. Asking for a microphone so he could play to supporters who had packed the courtroom, Carlos went on to denounce the "McDonalds-ization of humanity," and placed himself on "the side of civilization" against "world Zionism" and the omnipotent American demon...
...soft-spoken Moskowitz does not seem to care, as he determinedly follows his own conscience. One of 12 children of Polish-Jewish immigrants, he was born in New York City and moved as a child to Milwaukee, Wis. His intense Zionism grew out of immense loss: by his count, 120 of his relatives were murdered in the Holocaust. After earning a medical degree, he migrated to California, where he got into the business of buying and building small private hospitals, then selling them to large conglomerates...