Zionism and racism - Soviet influence

Zionism maintains that the Jewish people constitute a nation and are entitled to a national homeland. Its focus is on governing the Land of Israel or Zion (a synecdoche for the Land of Israel). Jewish people have historically understood themselves to be part of a nation distinct from the non-Jewish nations. Like most nations, offspring of members are likewise considered members. However, common ancestry is not required and new members are admitted based upon prescribed criteria. None of the criteria incl ...

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• Zionism and racism - History
• Zionism and racism - The demographic change
• Zionism and racism - Zionism and Israel
• Zionism and racism - Discrimination
• Zionism and racism - Viewed as anti-Semitism
• Zionism and racism - Soviet influence
• Zionism and racism - UN Resolution 3379

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Political Zionism was officially stamped out for the entire history of the Soviet Union as a form of bourgeois nationalism. As early as 1918 the Bolsheviks established Yevsektsiya to suppress both Zionism and Judaism. Without changing its official anti-Zionist stance, the Soviet Union briefly supported the establishment of Israel in 1947. Before voting for the 1947 partition, Andrei Gromyko stated: "As we know, the aspirations of a considerable part of the Jewish people are linked with the problem of Palestine and of its future ...

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Zionism and racism - The demographic change. Despite the history of violence against the Jews, there is no evidence of any interruption in the Jewish presence in the Land of Israel for more than three millennia. In addition to traditional religious Jewish communities known as the old yishuv, the second half of the 19th century saw a new kind of Jewish immigrant, the generally left-wing socialist who aimed to reclaim their land by working on it. Mikveh Israel was founded in 1870 by Alliance Israelite Univer ...

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According to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Jews were at one time the "Chosen people" of God; in Judaism, this is still believed to be the case. Some have argued that this means Jews believe themselves superior to all other peoples, and thus that Judaism is racist; this belief was one facet of a variety of competing anti-Semitic conspiracy theories believed by varying numbers of Europeans since the 1700s and 1800s, accordin ...

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Main article: United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 The Soviet Union began the "Zionism is racism" campaign in the United Nations in response to United States proposals for UN resolutions against bigotry, which criticised the Soviet Union. On November 10, 1975 the United Nations General Assembly adopted, by a vote of 72 to 35 (with 32 abstentions), Resolution 3379, which stated that "Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination." The resolution was revoked on 16 Decem ...

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Zionism and racism, Zionism and racism - History, Zionism and racism - The demographic change, Zionism and racism - Zionism and Israel, Zionism and racism - Discrimination, Zionism and racism - Viewed as anti-Semitism, Zionism and racism - Soviet influence, Zionism and racism - UN Resolution 3379

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