UN Resolution 3379 Called Zionism a Form of Racism. The Assembly Repealed It in 1991.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 3379 on 10 November 1975, by 72 votes to 35, with 32 abstentions. The resolution considered Zionism to be a form of racism and racial discrimination. It called upon all States of the world to resist Zionist ideology, which, according to the resolution, posed a threat to world peace and security.

The resolution drew on earlier General Assembly actions. It recalled resolution 1904 (XVIII) of 20 November 1963, which proclaimed the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. That declaration affirmed that any doctrine of racial discrimination or superiority was scientifically wrong, morally wrong, unjust and socially dangerous. The Assembly also recalled resolution 3151 G (XXVIII) of 14 December 1973, which had condemned, among other things, the evil alliance between racism in southern Africa and Zionism.

The resolution also took note of several other documents from 1975. These included the Declaration on Women’s Equality and Their Contribution to Development and Peace, proclaimed at the World Conference of the International Women’s Year in Mexico City from 19 June to 2 July 1975. That declaration listed Zionism among the obstacles to international cooperation and peace, alongside colonialism, apartheid and racial discrimination in all its forms. The resolution further noted resolution 77 (XII) of the Organization of African Unity, adopted at its twelfth ordinary session in Kampala from 28 July to 1 August 1975. That body described the racist regime in occupied Palestine, along with the regimes in Zimbabwe and South Africa, as having common colonial origins and a single racist structure.

A political declaration from the Conference of Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Non-Aligned Countries, held in Lima from 25 to 30 August 1975, also condemned Zionism as a threat to world peace and security. It called upon all countries to resist what it described as an imperial racist ideology. The resolution concluded that Zionism was a form of racism and racial discrimination.

The General Assembly later reversed this position. On 16 December 1991, the Assembly repealed resolution 3379 (XXX) by resolution 46/86 of 1991. The source reports that the repeal had the consent of 111 States. It also mentions abstentions and absences, but its figures for those votes are unclear. The source states that Israel had required the repeal in order to take part in the Madrid Peace Conference, a call to peacemaking that Romans 12:18 frames as pursuing peace with all people (Romans 12:18).

Source: Read the original report (translated from Arabic)