Resolutions Set U.N. Stage for Vote on Zionism as Racism

Associated Press, United Nations, N.Y.

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“UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) — The General Assembly adopted two pro-Palestinian resolutions Monday, drawing heated reaction from Israel, and set the stage for a vote later on a third measure equating Zionism with racism. It appeared, too, would pass.

One of the approved resolutions, adopted by a vote of 93-18 with 27 abstentions, in effect bypasses Security Council decisions about Israel’s right to existence and stresses instead the rights of the Palestinians to return to their homes and property. Israel criticized the resolution as aimed at its destruction.

The other resolution calls for the participation of the Palestine Liberation Organization ‘in all efforts, deliberations and conferences on the Middle East’ held under U.N. auspices. The vote was 101-8 with 25 abstentions. The United States voted against both measures.

In Jerusalem, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin flatly rejected the resolutions, saying they ‘sabotage efforts to achieve peace between Israel and Arab states.’

He added that Israel will not cooperate with any committee set up to enforce an earlier resolution ensuring the Palestinians’ right to sovereignty and a return to land in what is now Israel, and will not talk with the PLO.

Last-minute efforts to block General Assembly approval of the resolution equating Zionism with racism apparently failed, and the anti-Israel coalition at the United Nations claimed enough votes for its approval. They beat back an attempt by Western and nonaligned nations to delay the vote until next year by a vote of 67-55 with 15 abstentions.

One European representative said he feared the expected assembly action would touch off hostile reactions to the world organization in the U.S. Congress, among the public and throughout Western Europe. The U.S. House of Representatives, in a resolution sponsored by 436 of its 437 members, asked the assembly to reject the resolution.”

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"Resolutions Set U.N. Stage for Vote on Zionism as Racism," Daily Oklahoman, 11 November 1975, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1975-002. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1975-002