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Hillary Clinton: “This is highly offensive and a distortion of the meaning of the term racism.”

On the recordJanuary 14, 2009
This is highly offensive and a distortion of the meaning of the term racism.
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Hillary Clinton
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Clinton criticizes the equating of Israel's actions with racism.

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