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| Forty years on: "Zionism is Racism" UN resolution 3379. |
| 2015-11-11 |
| [LI] On November 10, 1975, the United Nations General Assembly passed the infamous "Zionism Is Racism" Resolution 3379. The Resolution was revoked in 1991, but the theme remains the same among those who want to destroy Israel. You can attend just about any Boycott Divestment and Sanctions rally, "Jewish Voice for Peace" protest, "Campaign to End the Occupation" conference, and you will here vile rhetoric similar to that of Resolution 3379. You'll also hear it at some faculty associations where BDS resolutions have passed, such as the American Studies Association, and other associations where it is under consideration, such as the American Anthropological Association. "Zionism is Racism" in words or concept is the rallying cry of Students for Justice in Palestine and a host of other anti-Israel campus groups, as well. The oldest hate endures, taking new forms but never changing its tune. So it's worth considering the words of Daniel Patrick Moynihan in opposition to that Resolution, which we covered before in my December 15, 2013 post, American Studies Association about to pass odious equivalent of Zionism is Racism resolution. Here is an excerpt from his speech could just as easily be given today, tomorrow or any other day: The United States rises to declare before the General Assembly of the United Nations, and before the world, that it does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act. Not three weeks ago, the United States Representative in the Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural Committee pleaded in measured and fully considered terms for the United Nations not to do this thing. It was, he said, "obscene." It is something more today, for the furtiveness with which this obscenity first appeared among us has been replaced by a shameless openness. There will be time enough to contemplate the harm this act will have done the United Nations. Historians will do that for us, and it is sufficient for the moment only to note one foreboding fact. A great evil has been loosed upon the world. The abomination of anti-semitism -- as this year's Nobel Peace Laureate Andrei Sakharov observed in Moscow just a few days ago -- the Abomination of anti-semitism has been given the appearance of international sanction.... As this day will live in infamy, it behooves those who sought to avert it to declare their thoughts so that historians will know that we fought here, that we were not small in number -- not this time -- and that while we lost, we fought with full knowledge of what indeed would be lost.... The United States of America declares that it does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 King played by a dissolute Ute Or mute, fruit Latina? That's cute! But cast a caucasian And racists are raging, "The character-murdering brute!" |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2015-11-11 20:31 |
| #5 you can only be racist if you are white, everyone knows that |
| Posted by: anon1 2015-11-11 16:33 |
| #4 Because you know calculus? That stuff is like totally white privilege, man. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2015-11-11 14:19 |
| #3 I used to be racist because zionism = racism. Now I'm a racist because...? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-11-11 13:22 |
| #2 Racism is racism. We will always be at war with Eastasia. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-11-11 11:25 |
| #1 I thought constitutionalism is racism? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-11-11 10:40 |