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Herald Statesman · 17 December 1991

CP-1991-012

U.N.: Zionism no longer racism

Vote repeals ’75 resolution against Israel

The Associated Press, United Nations

U.N.: Zionism no longer racism — Herald Statesman, 17 December 1991
Herald Statesman · 17 December 1991

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“UNITED NATIONS — The General Assembly yesterday rescinded its 1975 resolution equating Zionism with racism by a 111-25 vote, giving a major boost to Israel’s global stature as it pursues peace talks with its Arab neighbors. It was only the second time that the assembly had overturned one of its own resolutions. There were 13 abstentions, and 17 members of the assembly didn’t participate in the vote. All former Soviet Bloc countries and many Third World states voted yesterday to overturn the Zionism-is-racism resolution, a reflection of how the collapse of Communism has altered the Mideast equation. In 1975, only 35 nations ventured to oppose the measure. Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence S. Eagleburger, who introduced the resolution, told the assembly, ‘It is more than time to consign one of the last relics of the Cold War to the dustbin of history.’ Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy called the vote ‘the victory of morality over injustice, truth over falsehood and courage over cowardice’… At the United Nations, Arab opponents of repeal said it would impede peace efforts, inflame extremists on both sides and justify what they said were discriminatory laws against Palestinians in Israel and the territories. ‘This resolution is like saying everything is OK,’ said Abdalla al-Ashtal, Yemen’s U.N. ambassador and the Arab representative on the Security Council.… Zionism is the ideology of reconstituting the Jewish nation in its biblical homeland. Arabs said that since Zionism calls only for Jews to return to a land also claimed by Palestinians, it is exclusionary and therefore racist.”

Photograph caption

Israeli envoys celebrate yesterday at the United Nations after a resolution equating Zionism with racism is repealed. From left, Foreign Minister David Levy, Ambassador to the U.N. Yoram Aridor and Deputy Ambassador Ephraim Tari. Man standing is unidentified.

Context added by this archive

Sixteen years and a month after the vote. The photograph is of three Israeli diplomats celebrating, and the caption names all three and then says the fourth man standing with them is unidentified.

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"U.N.: Zionism no longer racism," Herald Statesman, 17 December 1991. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1991-012. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1991-012

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