Word: zionist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Imperialist Ideology. American Jews were even angrier. At a mass rally in Manhattan, 40,000 people waved Zionist banners, sported buttons proclaiming I AM PROUD TO BE A ZIONIST and hoisted placards charging that the U.N. had succumbed to Nazism. Black Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin cited the Arabs' long involvement in the African slave trade. "Shame on them!" thundered Rustin. "[They] are the same people who enslaved my people...
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...
...anti-Zionist U.N. resolution continued to plague Sadat as he headed for New York to address the General Assembly. Mayor Abraham Beame, who had offered to give Sadat the key to the city, withdrew the invitation when he realized that many of New York's 2.4 million Jews might regard any welcome as bad taste-and worse politics. The insult was compounded by Governor Hugh Carey, who also declined to see Sadat. Then when he arrived at the U.N., he was greeted by cries of "Down with Sadat! Long live Palestine!" from Palestinian sympathizers on Dag Hammarskjold Plaza...
...Bashir, 50, a moonfaced, cigar-smoking intellectual who had served as Egypt's spokesman at the United Nations and as Arab League information officer before Sadat last year named him presidential press adviser. Bashir's first step was to abandon the censorship and tone down the anti-Zionist rhetoric that used to dominate Egyptian press policy. "If anybody photographed a camel in our streets," he says of the xenophobic old days, "it was considered treason...
With detente the Soviet government dropped American imperialism as its perennial evil, substituting world-wide Zionist conspiracy, Goldfarb said...