The United Nations was right to declare ZIONISM a form of racism .November 10, 1975

The United Nations was right to declare ZIONISM a form of racism .November 10, 1975

The United Nations passes U.N. Resolution 3379, which defines Zionism as a form of racism and racial discrimination, by a vote of 72 in favor, 35 against and 32 abstentions. The Soviet Union had originated the idea of equating Zionism with racism during the 1960s during the debate in the U.N. leading up to the passage of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. It was published in 1965 and went into effect in 1969. During that debate, the United States and Brazil had wished to include in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, a clause denouncing anti-Semitism. The Soviet Union, fearful that such a clause could be used to rebuke them for their persecution of Soviet Jewry, introduced a counter proposal. The counterproposal read, "State parties condemn anti-Semitism, Zionism, Nazism, neo-Nazism and all other forms of the policy and ideology of colonialism, national and race hatred and exclusiveness" (Troy, Gil, Moynihan's Moment: America's Fight Against Zionism as Racism, New York: Oxford University Press,2013, p. 75). Neither clause was included in the conventions. However, the Zionism is Racism resolution passed with Arab, Muslim, and eastern European Block states voting for it.