Article by David Hirsh & Hilary Miller

Durban Antizionism: Its Sources, Its Impact, and Its Relation to Older Anti-Jewish Ideologies

The antizionism that dominated the 2001 UN “World Conference against Racism” was neither a completely “new antisemitism” nor was it simply the latest manifestation of an ahistorical and eternal phenomenon. During the peace process in the late 80s and 90s, the intensifying focus on Israel as a key symbol of all that was bad in the world had been in remission, but at Durban, the 1970s “Zionism=Racism” culture returned…

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