Taking into consideration international events and political fluctuations, it is important to remember fundamentals or to scrutinize the roots of changes surrounding us. With the UN anti-racism conference set to convene in Durban, South Africa, analyzing what has been said about it and the different opinions on whether Zionism is a sort of racism or not, let’s find out the academic definition of Zionism as given in a number of international encyclopedias.
“Zionism is an ideology that takes as a result of race the characteristics and ability of human beings. Race is thus responsible for intellect, morality and social background”.
That means Zionism says that there are superior human beings and inferior ones, and hence, how they are treated varies, especially for certain minorities. Racism, however, is based on the relationship that existed in the past between master and slave — or the relationship between colonialist and subject.
Thus, Nazism in Germany, Imperial Japan (until 1945) the Ku Klux Klan in the US, apartheid in South Africa and Zionism in Palestine are considered the worst types of racism in modern history. Zionism, in fact, is “a racist, religious and occupational movement connected from its inception by international colonialism”.
Moreover, it is dedicated to gathering and resettling the Jews and establishing a single homeland to accommodate the sons of that religion in Palestine. This aim is supported by a mechanism that includes legal and illegal immigration, invasion, violence and ousting the original people of Palestine from their homeland. This endeavor is based on a strong belief that such is the ultimate solution of the Jewish issue.
The truth is however Zionism has another objective. The second is to recognize an ancient mendacious Jewish legend that the Jews are “God’s chosen people” and so they have a right to the promised land.
This way of thinking is conceived by an ill mentality that believed that the Jews are a superior group and that they have the right to have their own entity without other groups considered inferior to them. Is not this racism?
Historically, the Jews believe that they are of a single origin though they were divided into many tribes in the past. They will accept no others among them. Since Zionism is a sort of racism because its objectives oppose equality and justice, it must be eradicated and this objective should be adopted by international humanitarian organizations whether those are part of the United Nations or independent of it.
Regardless of the outcome of the Durban conference and regardless of US pressure on the Third World not to include Zionism as a racist movement in the conference agenda and the compensation matter, Zionism is and shall remain in the opinion of the majority of people a racist movement.
Interestingly, a number of scientists, researchers, geneticists and experts in biology and anthropology have studied the Jewish claims and found them baseless.
It is a positive step for this conference to be in South Africa in order to fight racism in the world and thus to voice a new call for all nations which were under western colonialism and demand their rights — including slavery and looting of natural resources for centuries.
The Third World is still the target for racism. Therefore, we should not forget what minorities suffer such as the Turks in Germany by new Nazi groups, Arabs in France persecuted by the French leftists, Indians and Pakistanis in the UK, blacks and Latin Americans in the United States who are surviving blunt and frank racism.
