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U.N. anti-racism plan stalls over
inclusion of anti-Zionist phrases
The U.S. and Israel strongly oppose the wording. "On certain issues very close to our heart in Israel and to the Jewish people there's been no movement at all in a positive direction," said Yaakov Levy, Israel's U.N. ambassador. This includes the attempt to have the main declaration of the World Conference Against Racism, starting Aug. 31 in Durban, South Africa, revive a 1975 U.N. resolution that equated Zionism, the movement behind the creation of the modern state of Israel, with racism. The resolution was rescinded in 1991.
China holds another U.S. writer
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