And Zionism, the Jewish national liberation movement, did not arise in competition with Arab nationalism.
By his lights the Jewish national liberation movement is just as bad as the Jewish annihilation movement.
The declaration was made in a statement posted online by the secretary general of the Azawad National Liberation Movement (MNLA).
Jews were singled out and condemned as the only nation in the world whose national liberation movement - Zionism - is racist.
Whereas Israel was established and repeatedly defended by the Jewish national liberation movement against the wishes of Arab imperialists, with European assistance, the Arabs have inverted history.
Perhaps emboldened by liberation in Tunisia and Libya, in January 2012, the National Liberation Movement of Azawad (MNLA) and Ansar Dine, the most prominent Tuareg armed groups, launched a rebellion that pushed the government from northern Mali.
In the action plan approved by the various non-governmental organizations that participated in the conference, activists were called on to bring about the international demonization of Israel as a racist state, and of Zionism - the Jewish national liberation movement - as a form of racism.
But the alliance quickly collapsed, and the Islamists drove out the Tuareg separatist group - the National Movement Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) - from the main cities and towns in the north.
Shortly after the protest the regime banned the African National Congress and another liberation movement, the Pan Africanist Congress.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela at first advocated peaceful opposition to white rule in early work with the African National Congress, a liberation movement.
Our correspondent says French forces who entered Kidal found members of the secular National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) there.
BBC: French troops in Mali take Kidal, last Islamist holdout
The Islamists formed a broad and loose coalition in northern Mali, but only after they had allied with, and then turned against, the Tuareg separatists of National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA).
Late last year Ansar Dine, a jihadist group constituted largely of local Tuareg, even joined the peace talks that the government had already started with the secular Tuareg rebels of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA).
By the time the first group of rebel fighters carrying the flag of the National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad drove past her house on April 1, the two had been seeing each other for several months.
While the main Tuareg rebel group, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (known by its French acronym, MNLA), did much of the early fighting, Ansar Dine took control of cities such as Timbuktu as government forces fled.
Besides the crucial city of Kidal, which is now under the de facto rule of the rebel National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad, numerous towns and villages are still not fully under the government's control, making it unclear how they will carry out the vote.
Leaders of Ansar Dine and the secular National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad, or MNLA, even with their divergent agendas, may be coming to an accord on ruling the north, according to Flood, adding Ansar Dine may be connected to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
The outgoing government of Fidel Ramos had similar hopes of success, and in 1996 signed a peace deal with the Moro National Liberation Front, the main independence movement.
Ms Bokova also laid wreaths at Shaheed Minar, a national monument commemorating those killed during the Language Movement demonstrations of 1952, and at the National Memorial honouring the martyrs of the Liberation War of 1971.
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