B’nai B’rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin and Director of U.N. and Intercommunal Affairs David J. Michaels submitted a letter to the Wall Street Journal agreeing wholeheartedly with John Bolton’s guest commentary on the enduring legacy of the 1975 “Zionism is Racism” resolution as a focal point in the sustained effort to delegitimize the Middle East’s only democracy through defamation. In his op-ed, Bolton argues that the “Zionism is Racism” lie remains a driving force behind contemporary efforts to undermine Israel’s legitimacy. Read the full letter below.

From Daniel S. Mariaschin, CEO, and David J. Michaels, Director of U.N. and Intercommunal Affairs:

To the editor:

In “Half a Century of Antisemitism at the U.N.” (Nov. 10), Ambassador John Bolton rightly points to the General Assembly’s 1975 adoption of a resolution equating Zionism with racism as the lowest point in the history of the world body.

This singling out of Jews was no “mistake” but the centerpiece of sustained efforts to delegitimize the Middle East’s only democracy through defamation. That defamation continued at the 2001 Durban conference on racism – whose anti-Israel outcome document continues to be promoted by a dedicated item on the permanent agenda of the U.N. Human Rights Council.

New York City has now elected a far-left mayor with a long history of disparaging the Jewish state’s very legitimacy. On the far-right, Tucker Carlson – chatting amicably with a Holocaust-denier – recently slurred Christian Zionism as “a heresy.”

Zionism means nothing more than support for Israel’s right to exist. Like 50 years ago, anti-Zionists today must be called out as the anti-Jewish bigots that they are.

Daniel S. Mariaschin, CEO, and David J. Michaels, Director of U.N. and Intercommunal Affairs, B’nai B’rith International

Washington, D.C.