To the editors:
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There is no better way to delegitimize a nation than to brand it as racist, thereby placing it outside the pale of civilization. The result is that violence against Israel is not only tolerated, but morally necessary. Scholars have also found a connection between Resolution 3379 and a parallel effort to deprive Jews of their status as victims of racism, replacing that history with the Orwellian image of Jews as Nazis.
“Yesterday’s vote in the General Assembly of the U.N. may well have been the most reckless act in the history of that organization . . . It is not merely that our adversaries have commenced an effort to destroy the legitimacy of a kindred democracy through the incessant repetition of the Zionist-racist lie. It is that others can come to believe it also. Americans among them.”
W. Jerome
