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Next week, the United Nations is set to reinforce infamy. In the
wings of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York, it is to hold a 20th
anniversary summit of its so-called World Conference against Racism that took
place in Durban, South Africa, four days before the terror attacks of Sept. 11,
2001.
The New York event is outrageous. For Durban was a terrifying
circus of psychotic anti-Jewish hatred whose sole purpose was to demonize and
delegitimize Israel under the Orwellian banner of “human rights.”
The latest summit—called Durban IV—is being boycotted by
at least 16 countries, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the
Netherlands, Hungary, Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States. But
it’s sickening that it is still going ahead at all. For its purpose is to
ratify the program decided in 2001, a meeting that has become a byword for
hatred, intimidation and bigotry against the Jews.
Under the camouflage of attempting to combat racism, Durban’s
initial documentation downgraded the Holocaust, referred ludicrously to
“Zionist racist practices against Semitism” and accused Israel of “ethnic
cleansing of the Arab population in historic Palestine.”
Although these noxious and demonic lies were beaten back, the
conference’s final declaration
nevertheless specifically listed only the Palestinians as “victims of racism,
racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.”
Singling out Israel as the alleged perpetrator of these horrors—a
charge that peddled malign falsehoods while failing to identify any of the
myriad states or groups that are indeed guilty of such behavior, including the
Palestinians themselves—was itself an act of antisemitism.
Yet this governmental part of the meeting was preceded by something
much worse. This was a conference of NGOs that dominated the proceedings by
turning into a Jew-baiting lynch mob.
Jewish delegates were forced to run a gauntlet of antisemitic abuse
and threats. There were shrieked claims that they were murderers, flyers
declaring that “Hitler should have finished the job” and pamphlets with
monstrous caricatures of hook-nosed Jews depicted as Nazis spearing Palestinian
children and dripping blood from their fangs.
Warned that they were in physical danger, these delegates were forced to
take shelter for their safety with the Durban Jewish community.
The final NGO declaration called Israel a “racist nation” and
accused it of genocide. It was all so vile that even Mary Robinson, the UN
human-rights commissioner who was no friend of Israel, recoiled at the language
and unprecedentedly refused to formally hand the declaration to the government
representatives when their part of the conference began.
This shocking hate-fest was certainly not the start of the global
pogrom against Israel and the Jews.
By the time of Durban, the Palestinian Arabs’ Second Intifada had
been raging for a year, blowing Israelis to kingdom come in buses and pizza
parlors. And it was back in 1975 that the United Nations passed its infamous
resolution declaring that Zionism was “a form of racism.”
Although that resolution was revoked in 1991, the venomous belief
at its core—that the Jews alone were not entitled to self-determination in
their own historic homeland, which had only ever been theirs alone and from
which they had themselves been ethnically cleansed—spread through Western
progressive circles.
At Durban, it violently erupted in the diseased body of “human
rights” culture like a global cancer. Under the imprimatur of the United
Nations, Durban embedded and normalized the demonizing of Israel and
Jew-baiting—the apartheid libel, the insane claim that Israel was committing
genocide and the grotesque equation of Israelis with the Nazis, which have now
poisoned much of the Western “progressive” mind.
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