Word: zionism
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...vote of the United Nations General Assembly's Social Committee [Oct. 27] equating Zionism with racism is a sickening example of how ideals and principles are bartered for profit. There is nothing in Zionism that hints at racism. To the contrary, many non-Jews, blacks among them, are ardent Zionists. It is the Arabs who call blacks abeed, which means slaves. It is the Arabs who encouraged the pogrom that killed my cousin and hundreds of other Iraqi Jews, and all the oil in the world will not wash that fact away...
...thoughtful Jews accept the idea that anti-Zionism equals antiSemitism. Some of us feel personally threatened by Zionism and by what we consider to be the backward, tribal, undemocratic, indisputable objective of political Zionism-the ingathering of all Jews into the state of Israel...
More than 150 people gathered around the steps of Memorial Church yesterday for a silent demonstration against the United Nations resolution condemning Zionism as a form of racism...
What are the implications of the anti-Zionist resolution? Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people. The Zionist movement asserts the right of that people to determine their destiny in Israel, their homeland. By equating Zionism and racial discrimination, the United Nations denies the right of national sovereignty to one particular people, the Jews, thus subverting their own principles and perpetuating the very practice it purports to condemn. Morever, the United Nations' attempt to deal with the Arab-Israeli conflict through linguistic obfuscation limits its capacity to reconcile the claims of the two vying national liberation movements...
...resolution been accepted in its original form, as a proposal by several African states to condemn apartheid and proclaim a "Decade for the Elimination of Racism," the United Nations might have been commended for achieving a long-sought goal. But the inclusion of the amendment defining Zionism as racism and its passage by an overwhelming majority of member states, not only defames the United Nations' name; as black leaders and church groups in this country have pointed out, it also hampers the U.N.'s ability to pursue its worthwhile goal of eradicating true racism throughout the world...