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SCHECTER: Isn't the General Assembly resolution equating Zionism and racism going to lead to worldwide antiSemitism...
What this resolution really tries to say is that Zionism, in the process of creating the Jewish state, has discriminated against another people, has denied them their rights. This is a form of racial discrimination. We say the Law of Return and other laws that deny the Palestinians their rights should be removed. This is what the resolution is trying to say. If you read it, you will see it also condemns discrimination against any people on the basis of race, religion or color...
...week for two days of talks with Kissinger and other U.S. officials. Jerusalem is distinctly nervous about the American position, even though it will be put forward by Ambassador to the U.N. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who pleased the Israelis with his stinging attack on the General Assembly resolution equating Zionism with racism. Despite Israeli protestations, the U.S. may, in the end, accept some modification of Resolutions 242 and 338, such as inserting a reference to "the legitimate interests of the Palestinian people," the language first used by Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev in their joint communique of June...
...nation's leaders to start talking back to America's detractors. He made more enemies than friends at the U.N. as he branded Uganda President Idi Amin a "racist murderer" and blamed other African governments for supporting him. Moynihan was equally vehement when he denounced the resolution equating Zionism with racism as "infamous." Soon after he threatened to resign because he did not think he was getting proper support from the State Department. Ford, who could scarcely afford more turmoil in his Administration, had to support Moynihan. Moreover, Moynihan's outspokenness won him a large following...
...Jewish leaders got the public statement last week when Mexico's U.N. Delegate Aida Gonzalez Martinez declared that if Zionism simply meant "the legitimate national aspirations of the Jewish people," then it should not be equated with "colonialism and apartheid." Immediately afterward, however, the Mexicans cast another vote validating an anti-Zionist resolution, this one embodied in the declaration of the International Women's Year Conference. Across the U.S., Jewish groups and even some non-Jewish ones continued canceling millions of dollars worth of group bookings to Mexico...