UN General Assembly
1969

United States. It is, therefore, relevant also to the relationship of the United States to the Arab States. Mr. Eban referred to the “odious picture of Israel’s spiritual heritage and Jewish solidarities”. It is now time that that language, also, be examined. In almost every place where the subject of Palestine is debated, any critical evaluation of Israel’s and Zionism’s policies is greeted by the slander of “anti-Semitism” or “anti-Jewish”. It is time, too, that that hypocrisy be ended. 106. This is not a religious question. Let me quote you a few eloquent words of a young Jew, one of Mr. Eban’s own constituents, who sees, and publicly proclaims, the differences between the genuine spiritual heritage of people who are Jews and the much more recently fabricated Zionism-Israeli nationality policies, which are exclusory, discriminating, and therefore in direct contradiction to any spiritual heritage worth the name. In August of this year at an international conference in Jerusalem that young Israeli, a philosopher and a student at the Hebrew University, spoke these magnificently eloquent and accurate words: