What Are the Arguments That Zionism Is Racist? Reading the 1975 Resolution, Israel’s Statutes and the Named Scholarship

The best-known argument that Zionism is racist rests on UN General Assembly Resolution 3379, adopted on 10 November 1975 by 72 votes to 35 with 32 abstentions and revoked on 16 December 1991 by 111 votes to 25. The other arguments point to Israeli statutes: a 2018 Basic Law that reserves national self-determination to the Jewish people, and a 1950 immigration law whose eligibility runs by descent or conversion. The charge is racism, but the texts it cites sort people by religion and nationality. Whether “racist” is the right word for what those texts do is the question the rest of the record keeps returning to.

Key Findings

• UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 (1975) determined that “zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination” by 72 votes to 35 with 32 abstentions. Resolution 46/86 (1991) revoked it by 111 votes to 25 with 13 abstentions. The governmental Durban Declaration of 2001 does not contain the word “Zionism”.
• Israel’s Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People (2018) states that national self-determination in the state “is exclusive to the Jewish People”. The Israel Democracy Institute’s explainer records that it passed the Knesset 62 to 55.
• Israel’s Law of Return, as amended in 1970, extends the right to the child and grandchild of a Jew and their spouses. It defines a Jew as a person “born of a Jewish mother or has become converted to Judaism”.
• Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (2026) counts 2.157 million Arab residents, 21.1% of a preliminary 10.244 million. In Sammy Smooha’s 1995 survey of 1,200 Arab citizens, 50.3% regarded Zionism as racist.
• Moon, Barlev and Neuberg (2026) ran three preregistered experiments with 979 US participants. Liberals liked a person expressing antisemitism more when the antisemitism was justified by disapproval of Israel.

What arguments are made that Zionism is racist?

The argument with the firmest textual footing rests on an enacted statute. Israel’s Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People passed the Knesset 62 to 55 on 19 July 2018. Clause 1(c) states that the right to national self-determination in the State of Israel “is exclusive to the Jewish People” (Knesset, 2018). Three other families of argument cite a 1975 UN determination, regime-type scholarship and a settler-colonial framing.

The arguments fall into four families, and each rests on a named text. The vote count is carried as the Israel Democracy Institute’s explainer records it, though the explainer dates the vote to June.

The enacted-text argument reads Israeli statutes directly. Clause 1(b) of the 2018 Basic Law calls Israel “the nation state of the Jewish People”. Clause 7 states that “The State views the development of Jewish settlement as a national value.” The law contains no equality clause and no individual-rights clause. That absence is a fact about the text, not a finding about how the state treats anyone. The argument pairs this law with section 1 of the Law of Return, 1950: “Every Jew has the right to come to this country as an oleh.”

The intergovernmental argument cites the General Assembly’s operative line of 10 November 1975: the Assembly “Determines that zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination” (United Nations General Assembly, 1975). This is the only text in the series that uses the word racism about Zionism in an adopted instrument.

The regime-type argument comes from political geography. Oren Yiftachel’s 1999 article in Constellations is titled “Ethnocracy”: The Politics of Judaizing Israel/Palestine. It describes ethnocratic regimes as “states that maintain a relatively open government, yet facilitate a non-democratic seizure of the country and polity by one ethnic group.” Yiftachel did not coin the term; his own footnote traces it to Linz, Stepan and Mazrui.

The settler-colonial argument is represented by Tariq Dana, writing in Middle East Critique in 2024. Dana argues that Israeli settler colonialism is exceptional within settler-colonial studies because of its Zionist ideological roots and the absence of a conventional metropole. Alan Dowty’s 2022 essay for the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington argues the opposite.

These four families use three different words: racism, ethnocracy and colonialism. The sections below take each text in turn and ask what category it actually names.

Is it often said that Zionism privileges Jews over non-Jews?

Yes. The premise appears in UN, non-governmental and scholarly texts from 1975 onward, and Israel’s own statutes do distinguish by Jewish identity. The distinction reaches 2.157 million Arab residents, 21.1% of a preliminary 10.244 million. That is the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics’ own count on the eve of Independence Day 2026.

It is often said that Zionism privileges Jews over non-Jews. The claim has dated holders:

• The General Assembly (1975) framed it as racism.
• The NGO Forum of the 2001 World Conference against Racism wrote in Declaration paragraph 162, “We declare Israel as a racist, apartheid state.”
• Yiftachel (1999) titled his argument around “Judaizing” Israel/Palestine.

On the texts, the premise is directionally accurate. Clause 1(c) of the 2018 Basic Law and section 1 of the 1950 Law of Return both confer something on Jews as Jews.

The base rate shows who is on the other side of that line. In its release for Independence Day 2026, the Bureau reports 7.790 million Jews and Others (76%), 2.157 million Arabs (21.1%) and 296,000 foreigners (2.9%). Its figures are preliminary and based on the 2022 census. The foreigner data relate to the end of 2025.

The premise is also held within the population the statutes distinguish. Smooha’s survey of September to October 1995 interviewed 1,200 Arab citizens within the pre-1967 borders, excluding East Jerusalem, face to face. In that survey:

• 50.3% regarded Zionism as racist.
• 35.3% rejected Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish-Zionist state.
• 6.8% denied Israel’s right to exist.

These are 1995 figures from one survey, and no comparable later reading appears in the sources used here.

Is eligibility under the Law of Return defined by descent?

In part. Since 1970, section 4A of Israel’s Law of Return has extended the right to “a child and a grandchild of a Jew, the spouse of a Jew, the spouse of a child of a Jew and the spouse of a grandchild of a Jew.” That is eligibility by descent. Section 4B, added the same year, defines a Jew as a person “born of a Jewish mother or has become converted to Judaism.”

That opens a second route through conversion.

The full text of section 4B, in the English published by the Knesset, reads: “For the purposes of this Law, ‘Jew’ means a person who was born of a Jewish mother or has become converted to Judaism and who is not a member of another religion.” The definition has three limbs:

1. Maternal descent.
2. Conversion.
3. A religious exclusion.

Section 4A carries its own exclusion as well: the right does not extend to “a person who has been a Jew and has voluntarily changed his religion.” Section 4A(b) makes it immaterial whether the Jewish ancestor “is still alive and whether or not he has immigrated to Israel.”

The two readings of this text turn on different clauses. The descent reading rests on 4A and on the maternal limb of 4B, under which eligibility can pass through three generations without any act by the claimant. The competing reading rests on the conversion limb, which is open to a person of any ancestry, and on the religious exclusion, which removes a person of Jewish descent who has adopted another religion. The same 1970 amendment inserted section 3A into the Population Registry Law. That section imports the 4B definition into the Registry, so the definition reaches identity documents as well as immigration.

The asymmetry argument sets this law beside the 1948 refugees. The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine’s Technical Committee estimated approximately 711,000 “refugees from Israel-controlled territory” in a report dated 7 September 1949. The estimate was published in the Commission’s 1950 report. The Commission counted refugees; it did not attribute a cause to their departure. How the statutes treat that population is set out in the report on Palestinian refugees and the discrimination record.

Is the legal line drawn by race, religion or nationality?

On the official texts, it is drawn by religion and nationality. Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics reports residents in three categories: “Jews and Others,” “Arabs” and, since 2023, foreigners. It defines “Arabs” as Moslems, Arab Christians and Druze, a grouping by religion and nationality. The 1948 Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel uses the word race only once, and only as a basis on which equality is promised.

In the Knesset’s English text, the Declaration pledges that the state “will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its citizens irrespective of religion, race or sex.” The Foreign Ministry’s English has “inhabitants.”

The Rabbinical Courts Jurisdiction (Marriage and Divorce) Law, 5713-1953, draws its line by religious community. Section 1 states: “Matters of marriage and divorce of Jews in Israel, being nationals or residents of the State, shall be under the exclusive jurisdiction of rabbinical courts.” Section 2 states: “Marriages and divorces of Jews shall be performed in Israel in accordance with Jewish religious law.”

In Ka’adan v. Israel Land Administration in 2000, the Supreme Court of Israel held at paragraph 31 that the values of the State “as a Jewish state” do not justify “discrimination by the State between its citizens, on the basis of religion or nationality.” That equality rule is judge-made. Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty, 1992, contains no equality clause.

The legal literature disputes whether a religious and national line can still be a racial one. John Dugard and John Reynolds (2013) hold that “the question of racial groups is a sociological rather than a biological one.” On that basis, the relevant international law “appears sufficiently broad to understand Jewish Israelis and Palestinian Arabs as distinct groups.” Their argument concerns the occupied territory, not Israel within the pre-1967 lines, and Dugard was the UN Special Rapporteur for it from 2001 to 2008. In the same issue of the European Journal of International Law, Yaffa Zilbershats replies that the analysis conflates sovereign territory with belligerent occupation. How the 2018 law reads against the treaty definition of racial discrimination is set out in the report on the Nation-State Law and racial grounds.

Which texts did the 1975 UN resolution cite as grounds?

Resolution 3379 passed 72 to 35 with 32 abstentions on 10 November 1975, as the verbatim record of the 2400th plenary meeting records. Its preamble recalls the Assembly’s own 1973 resolution condemning “the unholy alliance between South African racism and zionism,” and then takes note of three political texts from 1975:

1. The Mexico Declaration of the World Conference of the International Women’s Year.
2. Resolution 77 (XII) of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity, adopted at Kampala.
3. The Political Declaration of the Non-Aligned foreign ministers, adopted at Lima in August.

The preamble quotes each ground in its own words:

• The Mexico Declaration held that international cooperation and peace require “the elimination of colonialism and neo-colonialism, foreign occupation, zionism, apartheid and racial discrimination in all its forms.”
• The OAU resolution considered that “the racist regime in occupied Palestine and the racist regimes in Zimbabwe and South Africa have a common imperialist origin.”
• The Lima Declaration “most severely condemned zionism as a threat to world peace and security and called upon all countries to oppose this racist and imperialist ideology.”

Two features of the text shape how it can be used. First, the three 1975 grounds are declarations of political conferences, adopted by bodies whose membership overlapped heavily with the resolution’s majority, and the fourth is the Assembly’s own earlier resolution. None is a finding of fact about an Israeli law, a policy or a population. Second, the resolution defines neither term in its operative sentence. It does not state what it means by zionism or by racism. It places the one inside the other by determination, and the Mexico text lists zionism alongside colonialism and apartheid rather than equating it with any of them.

The vote itself was divided. The 72 states in favour were a majority of the 139 voting or abstaining, and 67 states voted against or abstained. The history of the vote and the afterlife of the word in political speech are traced in the report on “Zionista” as an accusation.

Does any standing UN text still say Zionism is racism?

No. General Assembly Resolution 46/86 revoked the 1975 determination on 16 December 1991 by 111 to 25 with 13 abstentions. It did so in one operative sentence: the Assembly “Decides to revoke the determination contained in its resolution 3379 (XXX) of 10 November 1975.”

The verbatim record of that meeting shows a procedural vote first: the Assembly rejected by 96 votes to 24, with 13 abstentions, a motion by Yemen that the decision should require a two-thirds majority. The governmental Durban Declaration and Programme of Action of 2001 do not contain the word “Zionism” in any of their 153 pages (World Conference against Racism, 2001).

The 2001 World Conference against Racism produced two different documents. The first, the governmental Declaration adopted at Durban on 8 September 2001, speaks to the region at paragraph 63. In its words: “We recognize the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and to the establishment of an independent State and we recognize the right to security for all States in the region, including Israel.” The second is the NGO Forum Declaration of 3 September 2001, which the Conference never adopted. It declared Israel “a racist, apartheid state” at paragraph 162, and its Programme of Action called “for the reinstitution of UN resolution 3379.” The two texts have different authors, different dates and opposite content on this point.

The United States withdrew from the conference on 3 September 2001, five days before the governmental Declaration was adopted. In his statement that day, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said that racism is not combated by “declarations containing hateful language, some of which is a throwback to the days of ‘Zionism equals racism.’” He was describing draft and forum texts current on 3 September. The instrument finally adopted contains no reference to Zionism.

Do antisemitism definitions treat the racism claim as antisemitic?

The three definitions disagree on exactly this point. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition was adopted by the IHRA plenary on 26 May 2016. IHRA’s own adoption roll names 46 UN member states that use it. Among its illustrative examples is denying Jewish self-determination “by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.” The Jerusalem Declaration (2021) and the Nexus Document instead place criticism of Zionism outside antisemitism on its face.

The IHRA definition. The plenary adopted a two-sentence core definition beginning: “Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.” The eleven examples follow on a separate line introduced by “the following examples may serve as illustrations.” The examples carry their own hedge: they “could, taking into account the overall context, include, but are not limited to” the cases listed. The same framing paragraph adds that “criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.” IHRA’s own footnote on the roll says states “adopt, endorse, embrace, recognize, support” it, so the 46 is not a count of identical acts.

The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (2021) defines antisemitism as “discrimination, prejudice, hostility or violence against Jews as Jews.” In its section of examples that “on the face of it, are not antisemitic,” guideline 12 includes supporting full equality “between the river and the sea,” whether “in two states, a binational state, unitary democratic state, federal state, or in whatever form.” Guideline 13 includes comparing Israel “with other historical cases, including settler-colonialism or apartheid.” Its antisemitic examples include guideline 10: denying “the right of Jews in the State of Israel to exist and flourish, collectively and individually, as Jews.”

The Nexus Document, in its June 2024 revision of the February 2021 text, holds under “What is Not Antisemitic?” item 1 that “criticism of Zionism and Israel… should not, as such, be deemed antisemitic.” Under “What is Antisemitic?” item 9, it counts treating Israel differently “solely because it is a Jewish state.”

So the sentence “the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor” appears as a possible example of antisemitism in the IHRA text, subject to context. The other two texts place the surrounding category of argument outside antisemitism unless it crosses their own named lines.

Where do scholars disagree about calling it racism?

Four named scholars from 1997 to 2024 place the same institutions in different categories:

1. Sammy Smooha’s “ethnic democracy” (1997).
2. Oren Yiftachel’s “ethnocracy” (1999).
3. Tariq Dana’s settler-colonial reading (2024).
4. Alan Dowty’s 2022 essay arguing against the settler-colonial classification.

None of the four assigns racism as its regime category.

Smooha, in Israel Studies in 1997, defines ethnic democracy as “a system that combines the extension of civil and political rights to individuals and some collective rights to minorities, with institutionalization of majority control over the state.” He separates it from the Herrenvolk type because citizenship extends to all and the minority is not excluded from its benefits. He places Northern Ireland from 1921 to 1972, Poland from 1918 to 1935 and Malaysia in the same category.

Yiftachel treats the same institutions as neither democratic nor authoritarian. His 1999 category rests on settler society, ethno-nationalism and the “ethnic logic” of capital. His 2006 book introduces the term “creeping apartheid,” which is his own coinage inside his own framework, not a legal finding.

Gavison, a jurist rather than a regime theorist, was commissioned by the Minister of Justice in August 2013 and submitted her recommendations on 19 November 2014. She recommended refraining “at this stage” from further constitutional anchoring of the state’s core vision. If a law were passed anyway, she said it should “manifest a fair, generous and inclusive attitude to the Arab minority.” Her Hebrew text adds that it should be a vision law, not a nation law. No government adopted the recommendation. The Knesset passed the Nation-State Basic Law about three years after publication.

Dowty’s essay is signed faculty commentary and was not peer-reviewed. It argues against the settler-colonial classification that Dana (2024) defends in a critical-theory journal.

The dispute these texts record is over which regime category fits: a democracy with an ethnic majority principle, an ethnic regime that is not a democracy, or a settler-colonial state. The word racism enters Smooha’s article as a survey item, in which 50.3% of Arab respondents in 1995 described Zionism that way. It does not enter as the category he assigns.

Does seeing Jews as privileged change how antisemitism is judged?

It can, in one measured setting. Moon, Barlev and Neuberg (2026) ran three preregistered US experiments with 979 participants. Liberals, though not conservatives, liked a person expressing antisemitism more when the antisemitism was justified by disapproval of Israel and the war in Gaza, or by Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights. The measured outcome is how much participants liked the speaker. It is not a finding that criticism of Israel is antisemitism.

Without a justification, people expressing antisemitism were generally disliked, and more so by liberals. The authors attribute the “licensing” effect to two mechanisms:

• Ingroup favoritism: the justification marks the speaker as a fellow liberal.
• Alliance politics: the justification signals that the speaker is not generally bigoted.

The findings come from the published abstract and are associations within an experimental design, not measures of behaviour outside it.

The racism framing casts Jews as the advantaged party, and two further 2026 papers in American Psychologist address that perception. Hadar, Halevy, Cohen, Apfelbaum and Chan define perceived Jewish power as perceived control over valued resources. They report that across six national samples (the United States, Mexico, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany and Poland), perceived Jewish power is associated with antisemitism by two routes:

• Among people who support social hierarchy, it registers as a threat to ingroup dominance.
• Among people who oppose hierarchy, it registers as a threat to egalitarian ideals.

In a review, Bilewicz, Cohen and Feinberg argue that antisemitism does not fit standard models of stereotyping, because the trope attributes high status and hidden power rather than low status.

All three papers are abstract-sourced and correlational. None measures the Zionism-racism framing itself. What they measure is narrower. When a group is perceived as powerful, that perception is associated with hostility toward it from both ends of the ideological spectrum. And in one US design, a justification framed around Israel was associated with liberal participants judging an antisemitic speaker more leniently.

Methodology and limitations

The report assembles the arguments from the texts they cite and labels each by type:

• Primary and official records: the Knesset’s English texts of the 1950, 1953, 1970, 1992 and 2018 statutes; the 1948 Declaration; the Supreme Court’s Ka’adan judgment and HCJ 5555/18; General Assembly resolutions 3379 and 46/86 with their recorded votes; the Durban Declaration; the 1950 Conciliation Commission report; the Central Bureau of Statistics release for 2026; and the State Department statement of 3 September 2001.
• Peer-reviewed research: Smooha (1997), Yiftachel (1999), Dugard and Reynolds (2013), Zilbershats (2013), Dana (2024) and the three 2026 psychology papers. Hadar, Moon and Bilewicz are abstract-sourced.
• Other types: Yiftachel (2006) is a university-press book. Dowty (2022) is an unrefereed academic-centre essay. Gavison (2015) is a commissioned review that was not adopted. The IHRA, Jerusalem Declaration and Nexus texts are definitional instruments. The NGO Forum Declaration is an unadopted text read from third-party copies, because no issuing body publishes it.

Several limits apply:

• Statute texts. The Knesset’s English pages of the Law of Return are marked neither official nor unofficial. The 1950 page is the text as enacted, and a 1954 amendment is not reflected in it.
• Population figures. The Bureau’s 2026 figures are preliminary.
• Survey data. Smooha’s percentages are from a single 1995 survey, and no comparable later reading appears in the sources used here.
• Nexus date. The Nexus text quoted is the June 2024 revision, and the February 2021 original was not available.
• Law of Return date. The Knesset reports the 1950 law’s passage and its gazette publication under two consecutive Hebrew dates, both rendered 5 July 1950.
• Vote record. The Nation-State Law vote count is carried as the Israel Democracy Institute records it.

The unit of analysis throughout is the argument and the text it cites. The charge is examined through those texts and through the measurements attached to them.

Conclusion

Is the case that Zionism is racist a case about race? On the texts it cites, it is a case about Jewishness defined by descent, conversion and religion.

The record supports a clear set of points:

• The statutes confer a status on Jews that the 2.157 million Arab residents counted in 2026 do not share.
• The Law of Return’s eligibility runs three generations by descent and admits any convert.
• The only adopted international text calling Zionism racism stood for 16 years and was revoked by a larger margin than the one that passed it.
• The governmental Durban text of 2001 left the equation out.
• Four named scholars from 1997 to 2024 describe the same institutions as an ethnic democracy, an ethnocracy, or a contested case of settler colonialism.
• The three antisemitism definitions divide over whether calling Israel’s existence “a racist endeavor” is itself antisemitic.
• In 1995, half of the Arab citizens Smooha surveyed called Zionism racist.

What the measurements add is a question about consequence rather than truth. The racism framing names Jews collectively as the privileged party. The 2026 studies find that perceived Jewish power is associated with antisemitism on both the left and the right, and that an Israel-based justification made an antisemitic speaker more likeable to one audience. A resolution revoked in one sentence in 1991 left its word in circulation. Carried into ordinary speech about who holds power, does that word turn a dispute over statutes into a verdict on Jews as a people, and would the speaker who uses it know the difference?

Frequently Asked Questions

Did Israel’s Supreme Court rule on the Nation-State Law?

Yes. In HCJ 5555/18 Hasson v. Knesset, delivered on 8 July 2021, an eleven-justice panel dismissed 15 petitions and upheld the Basic Law. The Court also held that the Knesset is “not all powerful” and cannot, even by Basic Law, deny Israel’s core character as a Jewish and democratic state.

What status does the Nation-State Law give Arabic?

Clause 4(b) states that “Arabic has a special status in the State,” and clause 4(a) makes Hebrew “the language of the State.” Clause 4(c) adds that nothing in the article compromises the status Arabic had “in practice” before the law came into force.

Did Jewish bodies oppose Zionism before 1948?

Several did, on the record. The Pittsburgh rabbinical conference of 1885 declared, “We consider ourselves no longer a nation, but a religious community.” The Reform movement’s Columbus Platform reversed that position in 1937. The Bund’s Fourth Congress in April 1901 called Zionism “a reaction of the bourgeois classes against antisemitism.”

What did Edwin Montagu argue in 1917?

In War Cabinet paper G.T. 1868 of 23 August 1917, Secretary of State for India E. S. Montagu argued that British policy on Palestine was “anti-Semitic in result.” He wrote this “not with a view to suggesting that the Government is deliberately anti-Semitic,” and he was answering a draft, ten weeks before the Balfour Declaration issued.

How did the 1937 Royal Commission describe the conflict?

The Palestine Royal Commission, reporting in July 1937, wrote that “An irrepressible conflict has arisen between two national communities within the narrow bounds of one small country.” It framed the dispute as national rather than racial and recommended partition. The recommendation was never enacted.

Does the Durban Declaration address antisemitism?

Yes. Paragraph 61 of the 2001 governmental Declaration recognises “with deep concern the increase in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in various parts of the world.” Paragraph 58 states, “We recall that the Holocaust must never be forgotten.”

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