Posts Tagged: Durban Conference
Twenty Years After Durban, What We Still Get Wrong About Left-Wing Antisemitism
JNS.org - Twenty years ago, the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance took place in Durban, South Africa. The goal of...
Durban IV: Time for Some Tough Diplomacy
JNS.org - The fourth Durban Conference, which convenes in South Africa on Sept. 22, is likely to be a reflection of the first Durban Conference,...
Why Was the Jewish Response to Durban a Failure?
JNS.org - Exactly 20 years ago, the egregious proceedings of the Durban Conference illustrated how the international community, and in particular the United Nations had...
Jewish Groups Praise Germany for Skipping UN Anniversary Event Marking Durban Conference
Major Jewish groups applauded Germany’s decision to boycott the event marking the 20th anniversary of the UN’s World Conference Against Racism to be held in...
Jewish Groups Applaud UK’s Boycott of Durban Anniversary Event Over ‘Historic Concerns’ on Antisemitism
Leading Jewish groups welcomed the United Kingdom's decision to join the US, Australia and Canada in staying away from the Durban IV conference to celebrate...
15 Years Since Durban — the Conference That Ushered in an Era of Israel-Demonization
For both supporters and detractors of the state of Israel, no single conference of the past 15 years has had a more enduring impact on the...
From Durban to Los Angeles: The BDS Movement’s Long Trail of Anti-Semitism
JNS.org - Last month, in a breathtaking display of anti-Semitism reminiscent of Nazi Germany, members of the student government at South Africa's Durban University...
Richard Falk’s Gone, But Don’t Expect Change at the UN
For over a month, the U.N.'s top human rights body has been struggling with a major dilemma. How much prior Israel-bashing experience is necessary to...
Palestinian ‘Human Rights’ Groups are Anything But
The misappropriation of the term 'human rights' by political campaigners, and the self-classification of various, often opaquely-funded anti-Israel groups as 'human rights' organizations, has not...
Anti-Semitism to Blame for Double Standard on Israel
This week Israel caved in to European and American pressure to further subject itself to egregious discrimination at the United Nations. The move was in...
BDS – Belligerent, Disruptive and Silly
'Tis the season to cause folly? Hot off the trail of Israel Apartheid Week, a global festival of anti-Israel invective that appears on University campuses...
The UN Secretary-General and Mary Robinson’s Iranian debacle
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon—who is reportedly headed to Tehran for the conference of the "non-aligned movement," beginning Aug. 26—would have been wise to more...
Boycott BDS, Not Israel
Last November, the New York Times published an op-ed that took the demonization of Israel to another, more insidious level. The attack, authored by...
Human Rights Watch’s Lost Credibility
It is always painful to discover that an organization proclaiming liberal and moral values is not what it claims to be, but this is precisely...
