What happens when the world’s top diplomatic body declares a nation’s founding ideology to be a form of racism, and then reverses itself years later? In this episode, we unpack United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379, the explosive 1975 measure that declared Zionism “a form of racism and racial discrimination,” and the dramatic 1991 vote that revoked it.

We trace how the resolution emerged from the geopolitical machinery of the Cold War, anti-colonial voting blocs, Arab League strategy, and Soviet alignment, and how it triggered one of the most dramatic moments in UN history when Israel’s ambassador, Chaim Herzog, tore the resolution in half at the General Assembly podium. Along the way, we examine the global backlash, the Western response, the diplomatic symbolism of the vote, and the surprising ripple effects that extended far bey ...