EYEontheUN reports that Iran has become a member of the “Group of Friends of the Chair”, an informal group of states charged with taking the first steps towards producing a Durban II manifesto. Anne Bayefsky, Editor of EYEontheUN says: “the travesty of Durban II as a vehicle for getting serious about combating racism is more obvious than ever, as a regime whose President is a Holocaust-denier acquires an important role in shaping the result.” Durban II – known formally as the UN Durban Review Conference – will be held next April in Geneva. It is charged with implementing the notorious
Read More +From Ford Foundation Still Funding Anti-Israel Groups: Many of the anti-Israel activists at the UN anti-racism conference in Durban, South Africa, in 2001 were egged on by Ford Foundation-backed, pro-Palestinian groups. Hoping to head off a similar debacle, Ford says it will not pay for any organization to participate in the follow-up conference to Durban, slated for April in Geneva. Yet Ford today is funding several organizations that engage in the “Durban strategy” – to paint Israel as a “racist, apartheid” state and isolate the Jewish nation through boycotts, divestment and sanctions – according to a months-long JTA investigation. A
Read More +Muslims continue to dictate public policy by throwing temper tantrums about the so-called “defamation of Islam” while ignoring its own 100 year long villification of Jews and Israel. Via UN Watch: A “non-paper” published by the planners of next year’s UN conference on racism already singles out Israel and breaches Europe’s red lines, UN Watch told the UN Human Rights Council this week. The Durban Review Conference, set for next April in Geneva, will be a highly visible, amply funded, well-advertised and well-attended gathering that will focus the world’s attention on the West’s defamation of Islam and racial discrimination against
Read More +Durban II and the Egyptian Bully Egypt is running circles around the states in the European Union, while the Islamic Conference now controls the African Regional Group. And nobody is prepared to stop them.
Read More +Via EyeOnTheUN: Israel-bashing agenda emerges as substantive discussion of Durban II gets underway in the first meeting of the Intergovernmental Working Group On May 27, 2008 states negotiating the substance and procedure of the Durban Review Conference/Durban II revealed the anti-Israel agenda in the first “non-paper” outlining issues intended to be discussed.The non-paper was released in Geneva during the first meeting of the “Intersessional open-ended intergovernmental working group to follow up the work of the Preparatory Committee for the Durban Review Conference.”Under the subject “Victims of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”, the “victims identified” by an intergovernmental working
Read More +Eye on the UN Presents Durban Review Conference – Durban II, #4 in a series of videos. Click here for all Durban II videos Preparatory Committee First substantive session, Geneva, 21 April-2 May 2008 Durban II PrepCom, April 22, 2008 – The Undeniable Agenda (I) April 22, 2008:Themes: Redefining antisemitism; gearing up for another assault on Israel and America; a step backwards for human rights, redefined by Islamic states: Click here to watch video Durban II PrepCom, April 23, 2008 – The Undeniable Agenda (II)April 23, 2008:Themes: Redefining antisemitism; defeating democratic rights, including freedom of expression; gearing up for another
Read More +Planning meeting opens with Islamic-led attacks against free speech, Western democracies and a Canadian Jewish NGO. Via UN Watch. According to diplomatic sources, South Africa has now dropped its offer, announced by President Mbeki in February, to host next year’s UN sequel to the controversial 2001 Durban conference on racism, reported UN Watch, a Geneva-based human rights monitoring organization. Instead, the event is now slated for a European city in April or May 2009. “The expected adoption of a controlled UN headquarters as the venue, be it Geneva, Paris, or Vienna, is something we fought for, as one of many
Read More +Durban II is the next UN “anti-racism” conference – certain to be a global platform for antisemitism and the demonization of Israel. Planning for the 2009 hatefest is already underway. Here are two more videos from Eye On The UN. The first is of the Libyan Chairperson, Najat Al-Hajjaji, silencing criticism of efforts to redefine antisemitism at Durban II. Click here to watch video. The next video is of the Algerian representative; watch as he (inadvertently) confirms the attempt to redefine antisemitism at Durban II. Click here to watch video.
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