‘Zionism is Racism’: Still haunting the Middle East, 50 years later - opinion

Fifty years later, the genie has not returned to the bottle. And unless the international community confronts the enduring fallout of that moment now, it may never do so.

THEN-PRIME MINISTER Ehud Olmert meets with then-UN secretary-general Kofi Annan in Jerusalem in 2006. Even Annan acknowledged that the ‘Zionism is Racism’ resolution left a stain on the UN, says the writer.

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ByALAN BAKER

NOVEMBER 27, 2025 03:01

‘Zionism is Racism’: Still haunting the Middle East, 50 years later - opinion

Fifty years later, the genie has not returned to the bottle. And unless the international community confronts the enduring fallout of that moment now, it may never do so.

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‘Zionism is Racism’: Still haunting the Middle East, 50 years later - opinion

Fifty years later, the genie has not returned to the bottle. And unless the international community confronts the enduring fallout of that moment now, it may never do so.

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