Anti-Zionist rhetoric is seemingly everywhere nowadays. But there was a time when Jewish women defeated said rhetoric within the United Nations. Despite the win, Schneider explained the conference was not “devoid of anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic rhetoric.” “According to Barbara Leslie, U.N. representative for the National Council of Jewish Women, statements such as ‘Israel is the root of all evil’ were made frequently during the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) forum,” she wrote. Schneider detailed more than a half-dozen incidents involving antisemitism and anti-Zionist rhetoric at the conference.