Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday commemorated the 50th anniversary of his father’s iconic performance at the United Nations, when then-ambassador to the world body Chaim Herzog ripped apart a U.N. resolution that labeled Zionism a form of racism.
“Fifty years have passed since that defining speech, chosen as one of the speeches that changed the world,” the president tweeted, referring to Chaim Herzog’s address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York City on Nov. 10, 1975.
“For us, the Jewish people, this is nothing more than a piece of paper, and we will treat it as such,” Herzog famously declared from the podium, tearing Resolution 3379 in half.
The president drew parallels from the anti-Israel atmosphere back then to the hostility toward the Jewish state today in the wake of the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
“Fifty years have passed, and antisemitism has not vanished. Once again, new faces and voices join the march of hatred and ignorance. Once again, we hear with trepidation, all the more since the massacre of Oct. 7, [2023], voices seeking to undermine our people’s right to self-determination and self-defense in our ancient homeland,” Herzog stated.
“In every generation we see how Jew-hatred takes on new forms, and in every generation we are called upon to stand tall against it,” he continued.
The president called on Israelis to put their differences aside and unite against the delegitimization efforts “directed at us all.”
“We must stand strong and continue presenting the justice of our path, grounded in the Jewish and democratic values at the heart of Zionism and the State of Israel,” Herzog said.
“For us, the Jewish people, this is nothing more than a piece of paper, and we will treat it as such.”
With these words, exactly fifty years ago, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, my father Chaim Herzog, stood before the family of nations and tore apart the resolution… pic.twitter.com/c642PqKAo5
— יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog (@Isaac_Herzog) November 10, 2025
General Assembly Resolution 3379 was repealed in 1991, but the international body’s bias against Israel has remained intact.
No country has more U.N. resolutions adopted against it, with the UN Watch NGO recording 154 resolutions against Israel and 71 against other nations from 2015 to 2023.
Chaim Herzog (1918-1997) was an Israel Defense Forces major general, author, lawyer and politician. He served as Israel’s president from 1983 to 1993.