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…ister.” Having been privileged to live my own life along with the entire modern history of our country, I went further. Zionism, the founding architecture of Israel, was rooted in finding a way to supplant not just the life, but the way of thinking, which hard-pressed Jewish comm...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 The Zionism-Racism resolution was followed by a deluge of anti-Israel sentiment in the General Assembly, the Security Council, and the UN Council on Human Rights. At the 1978 session, “several speakers drew a parallel between Zionism and apartheid,” insisting t...

…itnessed, whose existence I had spent decades defending on the battlefield and which I was ultimately elected to lead. Zionism, the political platform for the establishment of a Jewish state, emerged in the late 1800s in response to a brutal reality. And that, too, was a part of...

…itnessed, whose existence I had spent decades defending on the battlefield and which I was ultimately elected to lead. Zionism, the political platform for the establishment of a Jewish state, emerged in the late 1800s in response to a brutal reality. And that, too, was a part of...

…er 1975 Second Egyptian–Israel Disengagement of Forces Agreement. 10 November 1975 UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 (Zionism–Racism). May 1976 Lebanese President Suleiman Frangieh invites Syrian troops into the country. 17 May 1977 Menachem Begin’s Likud Party wins Israeli nat...

…ities began, the General Assembly adopted the most infamous resolution in its history, resolution 3379, declaring that “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.” 72 countries voted in favor, including, ironically, Cambodia. 35 voted against and 32 abstained. This an...

…as the start of an essential tension in my country’s life, and my own: between the Jewish ethical ideals at the core of Zionism and the reality of our having to fight, and sometimes even kill, in order to secure, establish and safeguard our state. Yet even as a small child, I was...

…ister.” Having been privileged to live my own life along with the entire modern history of our country, I went further. Zionism, the founding architecture of Israel, was rooted in finding a way to supplant not just the life, but the way of thinking, which hard-pressed Jewish comm...

…1991 book, Chutzpah, I predicted the end of mainstream, top-down anti- Semitism in America, and its replacement by anti-Zionism. I also predicted “a sharp decline in support for Israel among college and university students,” who will be “tomorrow’s leaders.” I should have, but di...

the rejection of Zionism by the Israelis

published the foundation text of Zionism in 1896. It

the OIC states intervened to couple anti-Semitism with the phrase ‘racist practices of Zionism

…as the start of an essential tension in my country’s life, and my own: between the Jewish ethical ideals at the core of Zionism and the reality of our having to fight, and sometimes even kill, in order to secure, establish and safeguard our state. Yet even as a small child, I was...

…t, and he compared the prospect of a nuclear Iran to a new “Holocaust,” it struck me as a betrayal of the core tenet of Zionism: an state in which Jews were in control of their own destiny. “We are in that position now,” I said. It was nonsensical to argue we were so threatened b...

…with Jewish refugees that tried to break the British blockade of Palestine in 1947 and helped sway world opinion toward Zionism. Others are struck by the insistence on transporting basic aid — food and cement — when it is no longer needed. Still others note the way the Israeli au...