United Nations Resolutions

On 10 November 1975 the United Nations General Assembly Resolution passed Resolution 3379 which determined that “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination”.

On 16 December 1991 this Resolution was revoked by Resolution 46/86. When he introduced the motion to revoke 3379, American President George H. W. Bush said:

No one here can promise that today’s borders will remain fixed for all time. But we must strive to ensure the peaceful, negotiated settlement of border disputes. We also must promote the cause of international harmony by addressing old feuds. We should take seriously the charter’s pledge “to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors.”

UNGA Resolution 3379, the so-called “Zionism is racism” resolution, mocks this pledge and the principles upon which the United Nations was founded. And I call now for its repeal. Zionism is not a policy; it is the idea that led to the creation of a home for the Jewish people, to the State of Israel. And to equate Zionism with the intolerable sin of racism is to twist history and forget the terrible plight of Jews in World War II and, indeed, throughout history. To equate Zionism with racism is to reject Israel itself, a member of good standing of the United Nations. This body cannot claim to seek peace and at the same time challenge Israel’s right to exist. By repealing this resolution unconditionally, the United Nations will enhance its credibility and serve the cause of peace.

This body cannot claim to seek peace and at the same time challenge Israel’s right to exist. By repealing this resolution unconditionally, the United Nations will enhance its credibility and serve the cause of peace.

However it seems that young Israeli nationalists have not heard this message. On 27 May 2025 Le Monde published an article describing how

tens of thousands of young men, activists from Israel’s far-right religious movement, marched for Jerusalem Day on Monday to celebrate the capture and annexation of East Jerusalem in 1967, hurling insults at Palestinian residents.

(T)he teenagers encountered a woman wearing a headscarf – a young adult. They stopped and spat directly in her face. The woman bravely continued, moving against the relentless stream of teenagers. More insults followed. More spit. Hateful stares. Eventually, she chose to disappear down a side street. The Jerusalem “flag march” – which closely resembles a racist pride parade – had yet to begin, but in the hours leading up to the annual celebration of Israel’s conquest and annexation of East Jerusalem in 1967, an act not recognized by the international community, groups of young Jewish nationalist and religious men – almost exclusively male – roamed the Old City’s alleys shouting anti-Arab slogans.

Throughout the day, chants of “Death to Arabs” and “May your villages burn” rang out across the city.

If this is not racism then what is it?

Legally codified racial discrimination

An article published in the international journal Global Public Health in May 2023 found that

Palestinian citizens of Israel (PCI) constitute almost 20% of the Israeli population. Despite having access to one of the most efficient healthcare systems in the world, PCI have shorter life expectancy and significantly worse health outcomes compared to the Jewish Israeli population.

In utilising critical race theory and a settler colonial analysis, we provide a structural and historically responsible reading of the health of PCI and suggest that dismantling legally codified racial discrimination is the first step to achieving health equity.

The article goes on to say, among other things:

One of the most enduring consequences of structural racism in Israel is the systematic and institutionalised policies of land and housing that discriminate against PCI…Since the establishment of Israel, and over the past 70 years, state policies of land nationalisation have been codified in a series of laws that have effectively confiscated and transferred Palestinian land to the state, restricted expansion of Palestinian communities, and denied PCI access to land

The Naqab is perhaps the place where structural racism in land policies is most evident. In an attempt to Judaize the Naqab and concentrate Palestinian Bedouins in crowded and impoverished townships, the state operates alternately between organised violence and organised abandonment … through land confiscations, large scale home demolitions, and lack of planning and recognition

So it seems beyond doubt that legally codified racial discrimination against Palestinians exists in Israel today, just as it did in Nazi Germany against Jews before and during the Second World War.

Video on the West’s racial double standards

See the video below in which AJ+ Editorial Lead Tony Karon breaks down the West’s racist double standards.