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Is Zionism racism? I would say yes. It's a policy that to me looks like it has very many parallels with racism. The effect is the same. Whether you call it that or not is in a sense irrelevant.

Desmond Tutu

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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