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The controversial claim that '''Zionism is racism''' attempts to say that [[Zionist]] or a belief in a [[Jewish]] [[ethnic]] homeland, is somehow equivalent to [[racism|race-based]] discrimination. The slogan's use, despite its oversimplification of the issues within the [[Israeli-Palestinian conflict]]     
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In the 1967 [[Six Day War]], [[Israel]] emerged victorious and the Soviet Union's proxy nations lost; as a response, the Soviet Union increased its anti-Zionist campaign. Soviet television stations, radio stations and newspapers ran hundreds of editorials and articles stating that "Zionism is racism"; these ideas were pushed in all Soviet client states, including many third world nations and Arab nations.


(''More here needs to be written on how Arab leaders and nationalists accepted as factual European and Russian conspiracy theories, and came to believe that Zionism was part of plot to rule thr world, and how this ties into the social phenomenon in which many Arabs came to believe that all Zionists were racists.'')
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In some circles, the phrase has become an [[idiom]] or [[stock phrase]] to signal rejection of this occupation and demands for [[Israel]] to withdraw to the UN-mandated "Green Line".  It seems to arise in part from a long [[history of anti-Zionism]], and the unique claims made by the people, nation or state of Israel regarding its history and religion, in which they are a "chosen people" claiming a "promised land".

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[[Danial Moynihan]] said:

:"In logic, the State of Israel could be, or could become, many things, theoretically including many undesirable things. But it could not be and could not become racist unless it ceased to be Zionist." [http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/zisr.html]
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*[http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_un_zionism_racism.php Background on original resolution]

See: [[Ethiopian Jew]]s