UN's Durban II Planning Group Gets a Tongue Lashing

Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust /The Lid ^ | 4/17/09 | The Lid

[Shellybenoit]

The UN will do its best to emulate Adolf Hitler, as the Second UN Conference on Racism begins this coming Monday on Hitler's birthday. The first World Conference Against Racism took place in Durban, South Africa, it was an anti-Semitic hate-fest, offering stereotypical, images of "Jews with big noses," references to Hitler not finishing the job, and sales of the blood libel classic, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion."

The follow up meeting was planned by a committee which included "human rights activists" such as Libya and Iran. The conference looks to be even worse than the last one, and one of its first agenda Items will be to "bless" what happened last time.

For more than two months now, the United States has been "teasing" with the idea of attending the conference, thus giving it legitimacy. Finally a few days ago, they assured American Jewish Leadership that we will not be attending, although no formal announcement has been made.

The dance President Obama has made with regards to attending (or not) the Durban II conference is just another example of his lack of a moral backbone. Not only should he have taken a strong stand against going to the conference, he should have spoken out about the hatred that will emanate from the meeting.

[Clive]

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