Language:
English
Year of publication:
2011
Titel der Quelle:
The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs
Angaben zur Quelle:
5,3 (2011) 75-92
Keywords:
United Nations
;
World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
;
Anti-Zionism
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
Abstract:
The ongoing war of delegitimization against Israel knew two main landmarks: the passage of the "Zionism=racism" resolution by the UN's General Assembly in 1975 and the UN World Conference against Racism held in Durban in 2001. Notes that the UN resolution of 1975 originated in fact in 1964, when the USSR blocked the adoption of a formula recognizing antisemitism as a form of racism by the Third Committee of the UN, warning that in this case it would submit its own amendment condemning Zionism and Nazism as racism. The developments of 1964 established the precedent for linking Zionism with Nazism and prepared the Soviet-sponsored resolution of 1975; they also prevented the recognition of antisemitism as a form of racism and an actual issue. The 1975 resolution forged the alliance of the African and Arab blocs inside the UN, which was directed against both Israel and South Africa. The Durban conference of 2001 was the culmination of a long campaign under UN auspices to turn Israel into an illegitimate, pariah state - the new apartheid South Africa - and to deny antisemitism as a human rights issue of our time. Despite this, the Working Definition of Antisemitism, adopted by the European Union Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia in 2005, represents a step forward.
DOI:
10.1080/23739770.2011.11446473
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