FN: Zionisme er en form for racisme

HISTORIE: Den 10. november 1975 stemte FN’s generalforsamling en resolution igennem, som slog fast, zionisme er ligestillet med racisme og racediskrimination.

Baggrunden for resolutionen kan føres tilbage til den zionistiske stat Israels behandling af palæstinenserne i landet siden grundlæggelsen i 1948. Resolutionen blev støttet af blandt andet Cuba, Egypten, Irak og flere andre mellemøstlige stater.

Resolutionsteksten lyder:

The General Assembly,

Recalling its resolution 1904 (XVIII) of 20 November 1963, proclaiming the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and in particular its affirmation that ”any doctrine of racial differentiation or superiority is scientifically false, morally condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous” and its expression of alarm at ”the manifestations of racial discrimination still in evidence in some areas in the world, some of which are imposed by certain Governments by means of legislative, administrative or other measures”,

Recalling also that, in its resolution 3151 G (XXVIII) of 14 December 1973, the General Assembly condemned, inter alia, the unholy alliance between South African racism and zionism,

Taking note of the Declaration of Mexico on the Equality of Women and Their Contribution to Development and Peace 1975, proclaimed by the World Conference of the International Women’s Year, held at Mexico City from 19 June to 2 July 1975, which promulgated the principle that ”international co-operation and peace require the achievement of national liberation and independence, the elimination of colonialism and neo-colonialism, foreign occupation, zionism, apartheid and racial discrimination in all its forms, as well as the recognition of the dignity of peoples and their right to self-determination”,

Taking note also of resolution 77 (XII) adopted by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity at its twelfth ordinary session, held at Kampala from 28 July to 1 August 1975, which considered ”that the racist regime in occupied Palestine and the racist regime in Zimbabwe and South Africa have a common imperialist origin, forming a whole and having the same racist structure and being organically linked in their policy aimed at repression of the dignity and integrity of the human being”,

Taking note also of the Political Declaration and Strategy to Strengthen International Peace and Security and to Intensify Solidarity and Mutual Assistance among Non-Aligned Countries, adopted at the Conference of Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Non-Aligned Countries held at Lima from 25 to 30 August 1975, which most severely condemned zionism as a threat to world peace and security and called upon all countries to oppose this racist and imperialist ideology,

Determines that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.

Ved afstemningen stemte 72 medlemmer JA, 35 NEJ, og 32 var fraværende. På JA-siden fandtes stater som Sovjetunionen (og østblokken), Brasilien, Cypern, Indien og Mexico. På NEJ-siden fandtes blandt andet USA, Sverige og Israel.

Den israelske FN-ambassadør kommenterede resolutionen således:

[…] yderligere en manifestation af det bitre antisemitiske, antijødiske had som hersker i araberstaterne […] For os, det jødiske folk, er denne resolution, som er baseret på had, falskhed og arrogance, tømt for moralsk og juridisk værdi. For os, det jødiske folk, er dette ikke mere end et stykke papir, og det er hvad vi vil behandle det som.

Den amerikanske FN-ambassadør, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, mente at FN var på vej til at «gøre antisemitisme til international lov». Han tilføjede også, at USA aldrig ville komme til at adlyde en sådan resolution.