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St. Louis Jewish Light · 11 May 2022

CP-2022-049

The UN’s antisemitism problem won’t be solved by simply ignoring it

By Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS

The UN’s antisemitism problem won’t be solved by simply ignoring it — St. Louis Jewish Light, 11 May 2022
St. Louis Jewish Light · 11 May 2022

Transcribed from the clipping

“For decades, supporters of Israel have debated what to do about the United Nations. Should they ignore it as a talking shop that makes a lot of noise but can’t impact events on the ground in the Middle East? Or should they treat its growing efforts to smear Israel as an ‘apartheid state’ a genuine threat to the Jewish state?… The world body’s bias against the Jewish state is baked into the cake due to the dominance of Islamist, Marxist and Third World nations that buy into the lie that Zionism is racism. That bias has been expressed in many ways over the years — from the General Assembly’s passage in 1975 of the infamous ‘Zionism is racism’ resolution to its role in convening the 2001 Durban Conference on Racism, which became an anti-Semitic hatefest.… The U.N. Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) is solely focused on ensuring that the descendants of Palestinian Arabs who fled the country during Israel’s 1948 War of Independence remain stateless refugees to be used as propaganda to delegitimize the existence of a Jewish state.”

Photograph caption

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building in the southern Gaza Strip on July 26, 2018.

Context added by this archive

The editor in chief of a Jewish news syndicate joins 1975 to Durban in a single sentence and adds apartheid to the list of words the United Nations is accused of misusing. He uses the phrase the administered territories, which is the same phrase a reader in Iowa City had used in 1992.

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"The UN’s antisemitism problem won’t be solved by simply ignoring it," St. Louis Jewish Light, 11 May 2022. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2022-049. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2022-049

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This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American and Anglophone newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1812 to 2022. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.

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