The Struggle Against Anti-Zionism,
Anti-Semitism and Racism

1. Training Shlichim to Deal With Expressions of Anti-Semitism

Whereas the current situation has led to a dramatic increase in expressions of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism on campus
be it resolved that:

we call upon the World Zionist Organization to undertake whatever steps are necessary to ensure that Shlichim are fully and properly trained to deal with these issues in a manner consistent with the culture, history, and society of the country in which they will be serving.

2. The Struggle Against Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism and Racism

The Zionist Congress decries the re-emergence of the scourge of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in many countries of the world, especially in Europe, which, only two generations ago, gave rise to the horror of the Holocaust.

The Zionist Congress notes with concern the recently new anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist phenomenon among various groups has been added to the campaign of delegitimization and vilification of, and incitement and terrorism against the State of Israel.

The Zionist Congress is distressed that 54 years after the establishment of the State of Israel, that criminal acts associated with anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are reemerging in new and especially violent ways;

The Zionist Congress calls upon all persons of conscience throughout the world to voice their vehement opposition to a renewal of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism currently rearing its ugly head;

The Zionist Congress calls upon civilized persons everywhere to disassociate themselves from and to condemn those elements in their midst disseminating these pernicious racial views;

The Zionist Congress calls upon all governments, parliaments, and international bodies of the world to effect legislation against this phenomenon, rendering illegal and subjecting anyone practicing such acts to prosecution and punishment.

This Zionist Congress notes and condemns the United Nations Conference Against Racism held in Durban in August 2001, as it became a forum for vitriolic anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. This Congress, therefore, calls upon the United Nations to insure that such a phenomenon is not repeated within any United Nations forums or bodies.

The Zionist Congress hereby resolves:

1. That the Zionist Federations urge all Jewish communities throughout the world to act vigorously against the scourge of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism; and

2. Calls upon the Executive of the Jewish Agency to establish a professional team, based in Jerusalem, to coordinate the fight against anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in an active and dignified way;

3. To set up groups of experts who will work with opinion makers, the communications media (press, radio, and television) and intellectuals to combat the scourge of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism currently widespread in some of these circles and put forward positive, constant, and proactive information about Israel;

4. To establish where necessary in every country working groups which will work with members of the legislature to bring about legislation that will outlaw anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism and Holocaust denial;

5. To form groups of jurists whose role would be to lodge complaints and initiate prosecution against political, media, or other bodies which disseminate anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist hatred;

6. To establish, in conjunction with the World Union of Jewish Students and other Jewish student Zionist organizations, an apparatus to monitor anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist activity on the college campuses and to expose the disseminators of hate propaganda, and to provide students of all ages with information and strategies to respond to anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism on and off college campuses;

7. To form groups of educators who will carry out an extensive and probing examination of textbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopedia, in order to expunge them of all anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist, and Holocaust-denial content;

8. To recruit ethical and moral persons, governments, and parliaments throughout the world in order to warn governments that have demonstrated weakness in combating anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in their countries;

9. By carrying out these actions, the Zionist Movement, its organizations and members will struggle to achieve full cooperation and unity with global and national Diaspora Jewish organizations worldwide.

The Zionist Congress calls upon the Government of Israel to mobilize all its power to assist in realizing these activities and to strengthen its ties with the Jewish communities around the world in the spirit of the dictum that kol Yisrael aravim zeh Bazeh - all Jews are responsible for one another.