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“The resolution suggests that all anti-Zionism—it states—is antisemitism. That’s either intellectually disingenuous or just factually wrong,” said New York Representative Jerry Nadler, who voted present. “The authors if they were at all familiar with Jewish history & culture should know about Jewish anti-Zionism that was and is expressly not antisemitic. This resolution ignores the fact that even today, certain Orthodox Hasidic Jewish communities … have held views that are at odds with the modern Zionist conception.”
I’m not entirely on board with the idea of nations having rights at all. The people living in them do, but I don’t see how an abstract entity should have rights that the people it represents don’t have on their own.
To give a concrete example: the people of Iraq have a right to exist. But it’s a country composed of ethnic groups that don’t especially like each other, so having them all live in a single country isn’t necessarily great. I don’t think Iraq has a right to be a country, especially if it’s interfering with the right to self-determination of the people living there. Maybe as a practical matter it’s better for the country to exist, but rights aren’t supposed to be contingent on practical concerns.
Well… they did make corporations “people” - so there is that kind of lunacy around.