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  • "Global Antisemitism: Assault on Human Rights," Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism; Working Paper No. 3, 2009
  • Jean Kirkpatrick, "How the PLO was Legitimized", Commentary Magazine, July 1989. She shows in detail how all the same sorts of claims, and agendas, including the South African apartheid claims, were present back in the 1970s in the UN (actually the Soviets fiercely pushed such defamation in the 60s in the UN and world arena, and internally as far back as the 30s, as a permissible expression of raw antisemitism) in the course of which the leading global terrorist organization of that generation, the PLO, was enthusiastically legitimized by the UN General Assembly, while, under Soviet sponsorship, the support of the Arab block, the Islamic Conference, and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), the same GA pushed through the "Zionism is racism" resolution delegitimizing Zionism and Israel (later rescinded with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991). Her detailed analysis of the legal process is very revealing of ramifications and agendas. This has very contemporary relevance for the current fight world-wide against terrorism. As the treatment of the Jews goes today, so the treatment of others goes tomorrow. So this certainly belongs in a revised version of the proposed contribution.
  • Sharansky Clarifies the distinction between legitimate criticism of Israel and antisemitic criticism.

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Irwin Cotler, a Canadian MP and anti-apartheid activist who was once a lawyer for Nelson Mandela said "The second manifestation [of anti-semitism] is the indictment of Israel as an apartheid state [involving] more than the simple indictment of Israel as an apartheid state. It involves a call for dismantling Israel" He links this to other forms of delegitimization of the Jewish state by Palestinians, such as their attempt to deny any Jewish historical or religious links to the Holy Land as such, and especially to Jerusalem itself.[1]

Benny Morris, a historian of the Arab-Israeli conflict, has said that those that promote the equation of Israeli efforts to separate the two populations to apartheid are effectively trying to undermine the legitimacy of any peace agreement based on a two-state solution.[2]

Some critics of the apartheid analogy have considered "delegitimization" to be the key intention behind the apartheid accusations against Israel.[3]

  1. ^ ["Global Antisemitism: Assault on Human Rights," Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism; Working Paper No. 3, 2009, at: http://www.yale.edu/yiisa/irwincotlerworkingpaper10209.pdf.
  2. ^ Morris, Benny: One State, Two States (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), pp. 203-4, n. 1.
  3. ^ E.g., see Sabel, Robbie: "The Campaign to Delegitimize Israel with the False charge of Apartheid," at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 2009. Global Law Forum, at: http://www.globallawforum.org/ViewPublication.aspx?ArticleId=110; David Matas, Aftershock: Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism (Toronto: The Dunburn Group, 2005), pp. 53-55; Alan Dershowitz, The Case Against Israel's Enemies: Exposing Jimmy Carter and Others Who Stand in the Way of Peace (New York: John Wiley, 2009), pp. 20-25, 28-29, 36, 44-48; etc.