SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: Robert Rosenthal: Is Zionism Racism?

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Robert Rosenthal: Is Zionism Racism?

'On November 10, 1975, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 3379, declaring that “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.”In 1991, Israel demanded repeal of 3379 as a condition for attending the Madrid Peace Conference, and George H.W. Bush’s administration leaned hard on governments across the world to make it happen. The revocation was a product of raw power, not a moral epiphany. In 1975, the UN General Assembly got it right. Zionism is racism.' 'The 1948 Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel proclaims “the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz‑Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.”It then promises that this state “will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture.” Those lofty words were undercut almost immediately..' 'I grew up in a super pro‑Zionist Jewish community in Northern New Jersey, across the river from Manhattan, during the Baby Boom. I was taught that Palestinians had smaller brains than Jews; that they were inherently violent; that they hated us for being Jews; and that, given the chance, they’d slaughter us all. Decades later, through extensive reading and friendships I developed with Palestinians, I learned that I was terribly misled. .' 'Look at the pattern: •A movement that set out to build a state for one ethno‑religious group on a land where another people already lived. •Founders who openly planned to “spirit” the native poor across the border and become a “rampart of Europe against Asia.” •A state that promises equality on paper while denying millions of Indigenous people basic human rights, and that legally reserves national self‑determination to Jews alone. •Leaders who speak of Palestinians as expendable, hateful, or less human – and a public, generation after generation, taught to see them that way.

Call it colonialism. Call it supremacy. Call it apartheid.The appropriate word for a political project that systematically privileges one group and dispossesses and subordinates another is racism. Though they won’t generally admit it, even as they demonize and dehumanize Palestinians, a very substantial share of Zionists consider Jews superior to Palestinians. .' substack.com/home/post/p-18

9:15 PM · Feb 24, 2026