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Zionism is racism

Then-Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Chaim Herzog addresses the UN General Assembly on November 10, 1975, at the vote to label Zionism as 'racism,' at the United Nations, New York. (UN Photo/Michos Tzovaras)
December 12, 2025, 8:54 am
How a UN vote 50 years ago equating Zionism with racism forever altered discourse on Israel
In November 1975, the USSR championed a resolution aimed at easing criticism of its own antisemitism at Israel’s expense. It was repealed in 1991, but experts say its effect lives on
By Ed Weinberg
Kenneth S. Stern
November 23, 2020, 2:16 pm
Kenneth S. Stern
Zionism is not racism – BDS isn’t always anti-Semitism
US Sec of State Pompeo’s declaration that the Israel boycott is anti-Jewish by definition is just the kind of false simplification we’ve seen before
Gil Troy
April 8, 2018, 2:30 pm
Gil Troy
It’s time to reclaim the Z-word
If we Zionists don’t stand up for ourselves, who are we? If we let those anti-Zionist haters win, what are we?
Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl (George Schneider)
January 15, 2018, 3:29 pm
New Austrian FM denies having compared Zionism with Nazism
Boycotted by Jerusalem due to her affiliation with the far right, Karin Kneissl says her controversial quote was taken out of context, affirms Israel’s status as Jewish state
By Raphael Ahren
Daniel Schwartz
March 6, 2017, 1:53 pm
Daniel Schwartz
The apartheid state of Tinder
You don’t have to marry him, but do keep talking long enough to have an actual disagreement before you reject him
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemns the December 23, 2016, UNSC anti-settlements resolution in a speech on December 24, 2016 (Channel 2 screenshot)
December 24, 2016, 8:53 pm
Netanyahu says Obama ‘ambushed’ Israel at UN, likens him to ‘deeply hostile’ Carter
PM claims president breached ‘specific commitment’ with Security Council abstention; ‘our friends’ in Trump team promising fight to cancel resolution; cuts funds to 5 UN groups
By ToI Staff
ABC Federal University, in the Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Google Maps)
July 14, 2016, 10:39 pm
Brazilian college seeks lecturer on Zionism as racism
ABC Federal University places ad for educator on ‘racist regimes’ with curricula to include ‘apartheid, Nazism, Zionism’
By JTA
Anti-Israel protesters at a Boston rally held during Operation Protective Edge in summer 2014 (photo credit: Elan Kawesch)
October 27, 2014, 1:21 pm
Bastardization of black feminist theory propels Israel-bashing on campus
Using the theory of ‘intersectionality’ first pioneered 25 years ago, Israel is condemned at universities amid a rise in anti-Semitism for imposing an ‘interlocking matrix of oppression’
By Matt Lebovic
PC(USA) study guide, Zionism:Unsettled (photo credit: Times of Israel)
June 30, 2014, 12:05 pm
Anti-Zionist tract no longer for sale on Presbyterian site
‘Zionism Unsettled’ declared at recent general assembly as ‘not representative of the views of the Presbyterian Church’
By JTA
Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans (photo credit: CC BY-Partij van de Arbeid, Wikimedia Commons)
March 19, 2013, 7:13 pm
Dutch FM slams Erdogan over anti-Zionist comment
Just before Turkish leader arrives in Amsterdam, Frans Timmermans criticizes statement calling Jewish national movement a ‘crime against humanity’
By Raphael Ahren
US Secretary of State John Kerry (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)
March 1, 2013, 5:05 pm
Kerry to bring Erdogan to task for ‘offensive’ remark
As US secretary heads to Ankara, official says Turkish premier’s branding of Zionism as ‘crime against humanity’ has a ‘corrosive’ effect on US-Turkey ties
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (photo credit: AP/File)
February 28, 2013, 9:34 pm
Netanyahu blasts Erdogan for ‘dark and slanderous’ remarks on Zionism
The Turkish prime minister on Wednesday described Zionism as a ‘crime against humanity’ on par with anti-Semitism and fascism
By Adiv Sterman
Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the opening of the UN Alliance of Civilizations Global Forum (photo credit: screenshot webtv.un.org)
February 28, 2013, 11:09 am
Erdogan calls Zionism a ‘crime against humanity’
Turkish PM slammed for juxtaposing Jewish self-determination with anti-Semitism, Islamophobia; UN chief called out for remaining silent
By Raphael Ahren
Alan M. Dershowitz
December 10, 2012, 11:41 pm
Alan M. Dershowitz
An urgent need for pro-Israel unity
Do the B’nai Jeshurun rabbis intend to pray at the Kotel next time they visit Israel?
(global computer network image via Shutterstock)
November 7, 2012, 2:55 pm
Founding Fathom: Why do we need another journal about Israel?
On launching a global intellectual space for serious bi-partisan debate about Israel
By Alan Johnson and Toby Greene
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