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...fanatics. We deplore the genocide the Nazis visited on the Hebrew people. But there is no event in history that parallels it as much as the genocide practiced by imperialism and Zionism on the heroic Palestinian people. --Fidel Castro...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: By Any Other Name | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

WHEN FIDEL CASTRO spoke last week before the United Nations General Assembly, his condemnation of Israel rolled out easily. His attack marked the high point of the savagery levelled at Israel from the rest of the General Assembly. When he bound Zionism to Nazism, Castro mocked two concepts dear to the Jewish people--the integrity of history and the integrity of language. As Castro brandished the term "genocide" he trivialized, for the sake of immediate political gain, the past suffering of the Jews. But far more dangerously, this reckless misuse of the term bodes ill for oppressed all over...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: By Any Other Name | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...P.R.I.'s middle-class supporters, who saw their savings and life-styles threatened. Mexico's support for a 1976 U.N. resolution equating Zionism with racism provoked a short-lived boycott of Mexican resorts by American Jewish tourists, thereby staggering an industry that is the nation's largest employer (460,000 jobs). Echeverria's unpopularity had its impact on the election of his successor. In an expression of discontent with the P.R.I., voters ignored the party's customary flamboyant campaign; only 50% of them bothered to cast their ballots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Macho Mood | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...actions have made zionism "an epithet of disgrace," Dershowitz said. "The UN has classified it with apartheid." he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dershowitz Suggests Blacks Put Palestinians in Perspective | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...passionate Zionism of Friedlander's youth has become the sometimes uneasy commitment of a citizen not always sure that his country is taking the right course. He sees his own past not as that of a victim but as that of some one who took part in the bitterness of humanity. He recalls being bullied in France by Jewish children who did not think that he acted Jewish enough. Later he sneered at Judaism with the rest of his Catholic classmates at Montlu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bitter Roots | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

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