Incomplete Allowance: Jews as a Minority in Mexico

Abstract

This essay presents two historical moments as examples of interrelations between minority and majority groups: the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 and the UN Racism-Zionism resolution in 1975. Both cases illustrate how key political moments can expose the qualitative nature of the relationship between the majority and the minority when these differ on the interpretation of the situation. The tensions and disagreements between the groups underscore the ground principles on which such relations are based and lay bare some of the political and philosophical consequences of their social arrangements.