Word: zionistic
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...both a people and a religion. If you look at the history of the Jews, you see there could be no Jewish religion without the ethnic group, the Jewish people, and there could not be a Jewish people without the Jewish religion. I argue that an anti-Zionist resolution is anti-Semitic in the following sense: because Israel is central to Jewish experience, and if you delegitimatize Israel, you delegitimatize Jews...
PERLMUTTER: I am disturbed by reading what [P.L.O. "Foreign Minister"] Farouk Kaddoumi said: "I am sure that we can find a formula for peaceful coexistence, but this Zionist ghetto of Israel must be destroyed." Will you say that the Zionist state of Israel should exist, and you should negotiate with it like Egypt negotiated with it? I would agree with that, if it is constructive...
...accident" that Amin was chairman of the Organization of African Unity (O.A.U.). Moynihan thus in effect denounced moderate African leaders along with the infamous "Big Daddy"?a mistake that may have cost crucial votes on a motion to postpone, and thus possibly consign to oblivion, the notorious anti-Zionist resolution that the General Assembly passed in November (see chart...
...return to the land of Zion. Since the birth of the Jewish state in 1948, 1.6 million Jews have settled in the country, and Jerusalem encourages others to come by offering generous financial and moral support. Last week, speaking in New York to the annual convention of the Labor Zionist Alliance, former Premier Golda Meir asked for the aliyah (immigration) of 2 million Jews to Israel in the next two years. "It is the one answer the Arabs understand," she said, referring to the constant threat of Arab-Israeli hostilities...
...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...