Zionism Is Racism

In 1975, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 3379, declaring “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.” 

On September 19th, 2025 Philadelphia Parents for Palestine hosted a panel discussion with scholar-activists Noura Erakat, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Emmaia Gelman to commemorate the 50-year anniversary of this key moment in the history of the Palestinian movement. 

Together we reflected, reconnected and got reenergized as we explored how Zionism has depended on racism, from Palestine to the United States, and what we can do to oppose it. 

• Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney, professor in the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice at Rutgers University and the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine.
• Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a professor in the Department of African-American Studies at Princeton University, author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation and a contributing writer for The New Yorker.
• Emmaia Gelman is the director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, a scholar of political history, a queer/antiracist activist and author of The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State, forthcoming from University of California Press in Spring 2026.

Moderator:

• Arun Kundnani, a member of Philadelphia Parents for Palestine, is the author of What is Antiracism? and The Muslims are Coming!

All funds that exceeded the event’s production costs will be donated to causes working for Palestinian liberation:  Palestinian Youth Movement, Bayader Youth Team and CAIR Philadelphia. 

• Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism
• The Philly Palestine Coalition
• The Philly Democratic Socialists of America
• Jewish Voices for Peace
• Making Worlds Books
• ReThinking Schools
• UPenn Faculty for Justice in Palestine,
• W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction
• CAIR Philadelphia
• Philadelphia Educators for Palestine 
• Philly Writers Against the War in Gaza 

• Unitarian Society of Germantown 
• Philly Childcare Collective 
• Red Rabbits 
• Heather Tenzer
• Renata’s Kitchen 
• phlAIR