Leading French political and cultural figures have joined the country’s Jewish leadership in denouncing the 1975 United Nations General Assembly resolution which equates Zionism with racism.
Messages by the dozens branding the resolution “an immoral aberration” were received at a conference convened here yesterday by the Representative Council of Major French Jewish Organizations (CRIF), the World Jewish Congress, B’nai B’rith and the Federation of French Zionist Organizations.
The major personalities who addressed the conference or sent individual messages included former President Valery Giscard D’Estaing, former Premiers Jacques Chirac, Raymond Barre and Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Louis Mermaz, President of the National Assembly and Socialist leader Michel Rocard.
They denounced attacks on Zionism as an obvious form of racism. Speakers condemned the UN resolution and warned against a possible attempt to pass a similar resolution at the forthcoming UN-sponsored conference on women’s rights scheduled to be held in Nairobi, Kenya next fall.
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