WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTISEMITISM? Zionism is racism, British Green Party says:
Zionism is racism, according to a new policy adopted by the Green Party.
Some 1,022 party members cast their votes in favour of the motion, compared with 813 who voted against it.
The outcome means that Zionism, the right to Jewish self-determination in their ancestral homeland, is now considered racist by Zack Polanski’s party.
Israel attacked the Greens shortly after the result, accusing the party of giving “legitimacy to terrorism”.
The motion calls for the abolition of the state of Israel and the establishment of a “single democratic Palestinian state in all of historic Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital”.
It backs the “right of the Palestinian people to resistance and liberation from Israeli occupation” and recognises the right of “oppressed colonial peoples to defend themselves against foreign oppression”.
Supporters of the motion, which was voted on at the Greens’ party conference on Sunday, have also called for the “removal of Palestine Action from the list of proscribed organisations”.
On Sunday, a spokesman for the party said: “This has been a serious and deeply felt debate within our membership. Our members value the ability to bring forward and decide party policy, and conference has now made its decision.
Flashback:
“It is time,” [Pat] Moynihan wrote in a widely noted article, “that the American spokesman came to be feared in international forums for the truths he might tell,” such as the fact that most of the Third World regimes that tub-thumped for various human rights resolutions at the U.N. didn’t show the slightest respect for human rights at home. So weak was American prestige at the U.N. at that time that the United States couldn’t even get South Korea’s application for membership in the U.N. General Assembly considered. A New York Times headline captured the mood: MOYNIHAN CALLS ON U.S. TO START RAISING HELL IN U.N. Ford and Kissinger agreed, and Moynihan was appointed U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. in April 1975, the very month Vietnam and Cambodia fell.
Hypocrisy is perhaps the last moral failing in the modern world that has not (yet) been transmuted into an alternative lifestyle, and Moynihan relished shining the spotlight on Third World hypocrisy at the U.N. Observing that the median length of time since the government of the average U.N. member nation had been overthrown was just 11 years, Moynihan declared that “We are not here to hear totalitarian dictators lecture us on how to run a democracy.” More: Perhaps U.S. aid to Third World nations that voted against us at the U.N. should be cut. “Let the Tanzanians get their aid from the same capitals from which they got their politics,” Moynihan said. When a U.S. mission officer passed along to Moynihan a query from a delegate from a Third World nation asking, “Are you threatening us?” Moynihan replied: “Tell him yes.” Moynihan’s tenure coincided with the nadir of the U.N., the infamous resolution equating Zionism with racism. If the Third World couldn’t get directly at the United States (though not for lack of trying, such as a resolution condemning U.S. colonialism and repression in Puerto Rico), and couldn’t expel Israel outright, a resolution that amounted to a de facto equation of Zionism and Nazism would do nicely as a humiliation for the West. It passed by a wide margin, after which followed “a long mocking applause” by the Third World nations that had engineered the vote. Moynihan walked over to the Israeli U.N. Ambassador and said, “Fuck ’em.”
—Steve Hayward, in his 2001 book, The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order: 1964-1980.
