Zionism is Still Racism: 50 Years Later - Revisiting the Drafting of UNGA Resolution 3379

Name: Zionism is Still Racism: 50 Years Later – Revisiting the Drafting of UNGA Resolution 3379
Start: 2025-10-13T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-10-13T17:00:00-07:00

Zionism is Still Racism: 50 Years Later – Revisiting the Drafting of UNGA Resolution 3379

October 13 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Date: Thursday, Novemeber 13th

Time: 5:30 – 7:00pm

Location to be announced to registrants the morning of the event.

On November 10, 1975, the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 3379 declaring Zionism as a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination. A coalition of states introduced the resolution at the start of the 30th session of the General Assembly as an amendment to the Decade Against Racism in the context of Third World Revolt against imperialism; Palestinian liberation was central to this agenda. This lecture will explore the historical context that led to the introduction of this resolution, its drafting history, including racial theories of Zionism that were introduced during the deliberations as well as the intense procedural maneuvers that aimed to subvert it all together. Though a hard won victory, the PLO rescinded the resolution in 1993 as a precondition for entering the Oslo Accords. This discussion will both mark the 50th year anniversary of the resolution as well as its contemporary relevance.

Dr. Erakat is an internationally renowned human rights attorney and professor of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, with research specializations in humanitarian law, refugee law, feminist jurisprudence, and critical race theory. She is a leading voice on Palestine as the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine and the co-editor of Aborted State: the UN Initiative and New Palestinian Junctures. She frequently appears on news programs including CBS News, CNN, MSNBC, PBS News Hour, NPR, BBC World Service, and Democracy Now, and has been featured in many major publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The LA Times, The Nation, USA Today, Al Shabaka, Middle East Eye, Al Jazeera, and Jadaliyya, where she serves as a founding co-editor.

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Date:: October 13
Time:: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm