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The 50th Anniversary of the Infamous UN "Zionism is Racism" Resolution
(Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs) Amb. Alan Baker - The world is witnessing a violent, virulent, and unbridled outbreak of anti-Israel and antisemitic activity and Islamic fundamentalist incitement. The antisemitic "genie" that, for many years, had remained restrained, existing under the surface, has now been released, with catastrophic consequences. Its sources had been generated in the infamous 1975 UN General Assembly resolution that equated Israel and its national liberation movement, Zionism, with racism. In adopting this resolution, the UN formally transformed itself into the main international vehicle openly generating, advocating, and sanctioning discrimination against Israel. As then-U.S. ambassador to the UN Daniel Moynihan stated: "The United Nations is about to make antisemitism international law. The U.S. does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act....A great evil has been loosed upon the world." The determination equating Zionism with racism was subsequently formally revoked in 1991, supported by 111 states, with 25 Arab League, Muslim, and African states opposing. But the damage had been done. The equation enabled the creation and continued permanent financing of an extensive bureaucratic apparatus within the UN system designed to amplify and encourage an ongoing Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian campaign aimed at undermining Israel as a sovereign member of the international community. The writer, former Legal Adviser and Deputy Director-General of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is Director of the Institute for Diplomatic Affairs at the Jerusalem Center.