Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Durban II

Anti-Israelism = Anti-Semitism

This should be our slogan in response to the upcoming Durban II conference. Anne Bayevsky, of Touro College NY, the American Jewish expert on the UN, is here in Israel to meet with Israeli leaders. In an interview she expressed her surprise that Israel has not reacted yet to the upcoming Durban II conference. You may remember that the Durban Conference of 2004 became an orgy of anti-Isrealism and anti-Semitism. Leaflets given out around the conference were on the level of Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda. A group of Islamist NGOs essentially took over the conference and it was almost entirely focussed on attacking and demonizing Israel, as a racist apartheid State. The Israeli delegation walked out and so did the American delegation. The UN organization that was responsible for organizing Durban I has been completely revised, but it is no better, and in fact probably worse. Guess who is the chair of the conference? Libya! And Iran is on the Committee. In effect the Islamic Conference has once again hijacked the Durban Conference.
The Conference is due to be planned in April, so it is important to make a decision now. As usual the Olmert Government is slow and incompetent. The Canadian Government, a champion of human rights but often anti-Israel, has already decided to boycott Durban II. But, the US in the guise of Secty of State Rice has not yet made a decision. In effect they are waiting for Israel to make its move, they can't be more Catholic than the Pope (or more Jewish than the State of Israel). So where is Olmert and his Kadima followers, once again they are holding back, avoiding making a decision, as in Gaza.
Those of you who can, should write to your Governments, Israeli and American, and ask them to condemn and boycott what will undoubtedly be a further exercise in Israel-bashing and overt anti-Semitism. How is it that 60 years after WWII and the Holocaust such expressions of anti-Semitic racism are sponsored by UN organizations and supported by many countries?

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