UN conferences throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s often passed resolutions denouncing Zionism . These conferences often did not have anything to do with Middle East politics . UN documents of the period denied the existence of the Jews , Israel ancient history , the Holocaust , and the notion that Jews deserve the same rights granted to other groups . Wistrich described the 1980 World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women in Copenhagen in his book , '' A Lethal Obsession '' : " Jewish feminists heard truly chilling comments , such as ' The only good Jew is a dead Jew ' and ' The only way to rid the world of Zionism is to kill all the Jews . ' One eye-witness overheard other delegates saying that the American women 's movement had a bad name because its most prominent founding figures ... were all Jewish . The feminist activist Sonia Johnson described the anti-Semitism at the Copenhagen conference as ' over , wild , and irrational . ' ... The psychologist and author Phyllis Chesler recorded the savage response when one Jewish woman mentioned that her husband had been shot without a trial in Iraq and that she had to escape to Israel with her children . The place went wild : ' Cuba si ! Yankee no ! PLO ! PLO ! ' they shouted . ' Israel kills babies and women . Israel must die . ' " The most infamous example of this trend was the passage of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 , which equated Zionism with racism , on November 10 , 1975 . It was the first postwar ideology to ever be condemned in the United Nations ' history . The resolution was internationally condemned in the media ( especially in the media of Western countries ) . Many observers noted that the resolution was passed on the thirty-seventh anniversary of Kristallnacht , the pogrom historians agree marked the beginning of the Holocaust
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Criticism of the United Nations