by Donald Neff

About the author: Donald Neff is the author of 50 Years of Israel and Fallen Pillars.

You don’t need to see racism to recognize it. Unlike pornography, which often is in the eye of the beholder, racism in nations is self-evident. It comes in the form of a constitution, the laws that a nation adopts and the behavior of its citizens toward minorites. Yet the United States failed to recognize racism when the American delegation walked out of the [September 2001] U.N. World Conference Against Racism in sympathy with Israel. Significantly, it was the only country in the world to do so.1

What is it that the rest of the world sees when it looks at Israel that Washington doesn’t? Other nations note that Israel has no constitution. But it has a body...