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Fifty Years of Gaslighting Israel at the U.N.
David May and Ben Cohen
November 10, 2025

…This gaslighting of Israel — in which no contention is too wild if it contributes to the depiction of the Jewish state as the world’s worst human rights abuser — has been CEIRPP’s sole purpose since it was created by the U.N. General Assembly exactly 50 years ago. The resolution authorizing CEIRPP was passed on the same day — November 10, 1975 — that the General Assembly approved perhaps the most infamous resolution in its history: Resolution 3379, which equated Zionism, the national liberation movement of the Jewish people, with “racism.” Chaim Herzog, the late Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, demonstratively tore up the resolution while standing at the General Assembly podium in New York. The late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., charged that “a great evil has been loosed upon the world . . . the abomination of antisemitism has been given the appearance of international sanction.” READ MORE

NY SUN Editors: The UN’s Worst Resolution Ever Few calumnies have enjoyed more success than the slander that Zionism is a form of racism. That formula was approved in United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379, which passed 50 years ago Monday and ordained that “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.” The tally was 72 votes in favor, 35 votes against, and 32 abstentions. Even in the baleful history of the world body it is difficult to think of a more disgraceful démarche.

Hear Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s Response to the Passing of United Nations Resolution 3379