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It is a historical fact, as @Jonathan_K_Cook points out, that in 1975 much of the world broke ranks with the United States and Europe at the United Nations general assembly to declare that Zionism, #Israel’s founding ideology, "is a form of racism and racial discrimination”.
Why? "To the global south, the great purges of native Palestinians carried out by European Jews in 1948 & 1967 looked all too reminiscent of white Europeans cleansing indigenous peoples in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa." (@Jonathan_K_Cook)
That resolution (3379) didn't last long, as @Jonathan_K_Cook explains: after 16 years & a lot of diplomatic arm-twisting by Washington, including promises that Israel would engage in a peace process with the Palestinians, it was finally scrapped in 1991. Everything changed.
The new trick, says @Jonathan_K_Cook, was to turn the whole thing upside down & treat anti-Zionism as a kind of racism. Now Emmanuel Macron, the centrist French president has gone beyond conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism & has threatened to make anti-Zionism illegal.
So @Jonathan_K_Cook takes that apart. He relates that move to events in the #US & the #UK where @jeremycorbyn is seen as a serious threat by the right, the centre & the #Israel lobby machine. So now we see persistent attempts to crush him & his supporters: mondoweiss.net/2019/02/wester…
