Word: zionism
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...Ambassador Moynihan argued in last week's U.N. debate, "Whatever else Zionism may be, it clearly is not a form of racism." The word racism denotes an ideology, such as Nazism or apartheid, which favors discrimination on the grounds of alleged biological differences. Yet few people are as biologically heterogeneous as the Jews...
Some of the nations that voted for the Zionism resolution last week were scarcely qualified to cast the first stone. Idi Amin's Uganda is a notorious example: Asian citizens were summarily expelled and at least 50,000 Ugandans of various tribes have been murdered while Amin has promoted fellow Moslems and his own Kakwa tribesmen...
...Assembly but gravely undermined a very real racism issue important to some nations that voted for the resolution. Apartheid in South Africa was the original target of the U.N.'s Decade for Action to Combat Racism, but that campaign has now been yoked with the bogus condemnation of Zionism. The U.S. and other Western governments are now expected at least to withhold financial support from the program. Apparently realizing that, five African states voted against the Zionism resolution and eleven others abstained -a sign that the week's work may yet backfire against its perpetrators...
...revolutionary." From Pinsk the Mabovitches emigrated to Milwaukee. At the Fourth Street School, still standing in the shadow of a brewery, Golda learned English to complement the Yiddish spoken at home and the Hebrew she would later speak with an accent. She yearned to become a schoolteacher, but Labor Zionism exerted a stronger pull. In 1921 she emigrated for the final time to the Yishuv, the Land of Israel...
...move to frontier Tel Aviv offered her a new citizenship-but cost her a husband. Morris Meyerson, whom she had met and married in Milwaukee, was less positive than his bride about Zionism. The marriage dissolved; the son and daughter remained with Golda and Morris disappeared into the shadows of history. He died in obscurity in Tel Aviv in 1951. Golda, changing her name to the Hebrew Meir ("Illuminate") at David Ben-Gurion's order, developed into "a public person and not a homebody." As the world knows, the former kibbutznik became political worker and global fund raiser...