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The following expose the anti-Semitic nature of the Zionism as
Racism formulation:
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan:
We must use the occasion to denounce anti-Semitism in all of its
manifestations. This brings me to the lamentable resolution adopted by the
General Assembly in 1975, equating Zionism with racism and racial
discrimination. That was, perhaps, the lowpoint in our relations; its
negative resonance even today is difficult to overestimate. Fortunately, the
General Assembly rescinded the resolution in 1991.
-- Address to the Israel Foreign Relations Council and the United
Nations Association of Israel, Jerusalem, 25 March 1998
President George Bush
Zionism . . . is the idea that led to the creation of a home for the Jewish
people. . . . And to equate Zionism with the intolerable sin of racism is to
twist history and forget the terrible plight of Jews in World War II and
indeed throughout history.
--Address to the United Nations on September 23, 1991
Ambassador/Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The
UN does not hold antisemitism
in contempt. On the contrary, it is notorious for its antisemitic
position. It has passed hundreds of anti-Israeli
resolutions. When, in 1975, it passed a criminal resolution equating Zionism
with racism,
the
UN delegate from Costa-Rica noted
that the resolution "was an invitation to genocide
against the
Jewish people. . . .
It would be tempting to see in this propaganda nothing more than bigotry
of a quite traditional sort that can, sooner or later, be overcome. But the anti-Israel,
anti-Zionist
campaign is not uninformed bigotry,
it is conscious politics. ...Further, this fact of world politics creates
altogether new problems for those interested in the fate of democacies in
the world, and of Israel
in the
Middle East. It is not merely that
our adversaries have commenced an effort to destroy the legitimacy of a
kindred democracy
through the incessant repetition of the Zionist-racist
lie. It is that others can come to believe it also. Americans among them. ,
--In the introduction to "The Anti-Zionist
Complex", by Jacques Givet
Abba Eban
There is no difference whatever between anti-Semitism and the denial of
Israel's statehood. Classical anti-Semitism denies the equal right of Jews as
citizens within society. Anti-Zionism denies the equal rights of the Jewish
people its lawful sovereignty within the community of nations. The common
principle in the two cases is discrimination.
New York Times, November 3, 1975
Theodor Herzl, Founder of Modern Zionism: On Slavery
There is still one other question arising out of the disaster of nations
which remains unsolved to this day, and whose profound tragedy, only a Jew can
comprehend. This is the African question. Just call to mind all those terrible
episodes of the slave trade, of human beings who, merely because they were
black, were stolen like cattle, taken prisoner, captured and sold. Their
children grew up in strange lands, the objects of contempt and hostility because
their complexions were different. I am not ashamed to say, though I may expose
myself to ridicule for saying so, that once I have witnessed the redemption of
the Jews, my people, I wish also to assist in the redemption of the Africans.
--Source: Golda Meir, My Life
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