Jeremy Paxman: What is the difference between Zionism and racism?
Peter Gooderham: Well we see the two as being quite distinct, um, Zionism is clearly a …
Jeremy Paxman: Yeah what’s the difference?
Peter Gooderham: Well Zionism is a political movement, um, relating to the establishment …
Jeremy Paxman (queitly): So are some forms of racism.
Peter Gooderham: … of a homeland, a Jewish homeland, in the er…er, in in what is now Israel, um, and racism is something else. I mean racism is, I think we all know it when we see it and it’s not, it’s not that, and we have fought long and hard at the United Nations to keep that, to maintain that distinction.
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