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Watchdog Group Demands Removal Of Libyan Human Rights Investigator By: Brian Teegarden | “AP/Foxnews.com U.N. Watch, an organization that monitors the world body, says Libyan envoy Najat Al-Hajjaji should be the ‘last person’ investigating human rights abuses, as Libyan jets drop bombs on rebel forces in her homeland. A watchdog group is asking the U.N. to immediately remove a Libyan envoy from her post as an investigator on human rights violations by mercenaries, saying that as a mouthpiece for a regime that’s “deploying hired guns to massacre its own people” it’s “outrageous” to have her in that position. But it’s...

Convening on the anniversary of Adolf Hitler's Birth, the Durban II conference, officially known as the Durban review conference was four days of AntiSemitism and Anti-Israel rhetoric. Lead off by a key-note speech by Iranian President Ahmadinejad. It is interesting to not that while many Western Nations walked out of the Iranian Presidents tirade, the UN Secretary General and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay sat glued to their seats. After the conference the UN High Commissioner (which sounds very close to Supreme Leader) praised the conference for having only ONE paragraph in its final statement that...

IRANIAN President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have shot himself in the foot. Ahmadinejad gave a vitriolic anti-American and anti-Israeli speech at the "Durban II" anti-racism conference in Geneva April 20 as part of an effort to launch his re-election campaign with a big bang and to bolster the claim that he is the global standard-bearer of anti-Western movements. The speech was designed to shock and provoke, and it did that -- but it also highlighted the Islamic Republic's increasing diplomatic isolation. Ban Ki Moon, who briefly pulled off his earpiece so as not to hear the translation of Ahmadinejad's incendiary claims,...

The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) member-states at the Durban II gathering in Geneva is pushing for "a new world order" that would expand and impose "nondemocratic and illiberal values on the West," says the Danish editor who in 2005 commissioned and published a series of cartoons, one of which depicted the prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban that led to worldwide Muslim rioting.... Flemming Rose, editor of Jyllands-Posten, Denmark's largest-circulation newspaper, is visiting Israel under the auspices of the Hebrew University's Shasha Center for Strategic Studies, headed by former Mossad director Efraim Halevy. He's here to...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a speech to open the misnamed UN World Conference Against Racism causing many of the European Union attendees to walk out for the entirety of the speech. The vile racist rant made by Ahmadinejad went so far it caused one nation, Czechoslovakia, to withdraw completely from the Durban II Conference, joining Canada, Israel, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United States. My disappointment is that there are only ten countries that found the venue of Durban II so disgusting and hateful to refuse to validate the conference with their attendance. As...

The Iranian President's racist speech at the Durban II conference in Geneva made big news yesterday. Ahmadinejad spewed the same kind of Anti-Israel, Anti-American, Holocaust-denying venom that he has done so many times; as he spoke forty delegates from twenty-seven countries left the room. Watching the media, I was quite surprised at the coverage. The news reports weren't biased; they simply reflect a complete lack of understanding about the conference, its background, and what went on today. Allow me the opportunity to clear up some of the misinformation aired across the news channels today:

The big international story today was the Iranian President's racist speech at the Durban II conference in Geneva. Ahmadinejad spewed the same kind of Anti-Israel, Anti-American, Holocaust-denying venom that he has done so many times, as he spoke forty delegates left the room (see video) Watching the coverage, I was quite surprised at the coverage. The news reports weren't biased, they simply reflect a complete lack of understanding about the conference, its background, and and what went on today. Allow me the opportunity to clear up some of the misinformation aired across the news channels today:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Israel of being the "most cruel and racist regime," sparking a walkout by angry Western diplomats at a U.N. racism conference and protests from others. In a rambling speech, Mr. Ahmadinejad on Monday pointed the finger at the U.S., Europe and Israel and said they were destabilizing the entire world. Some European diplomats immediately walked out of the room when Mr. Ahmadinejad said Israel was created on the "pretext of Jewish suffering" from World War II. A wigged protester shouting "Racist! racist!" threw a soft red object at Mr. Ahmadinejad, hitting the podium and interrupting...

British delegates joined a dramatic diplomatic walkout today when President Ahmadinejad of Iran told a major UN conference against racism that the state of Israel had been founded "on the pretext of Jewish suffering" during the Second World War. Around 20 delegates, including envoys from the UK, France, Canada and Finland stood up and left the room at what was considered an anti-Semitic remark by the Iranian leader, who has repeatedly called for Israel to be wiped off the map. Nine Western countries including Israel and the United States had already decided to boycott the conference entirely because its draft...

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for the eradication of Israel as he addressed the United Nations anti-racism conference which opened its week long event in Geneva on Monday. As he spoke, some 23 EU delegates were seen walking out the room when Ahmadinejad said Israel was created on the "pretext of Jewish suffering" from World War II. Ahmadinejad began his speech by pointing the finger at the United States, Europe and Israel and said they were destabilizing the entire world. "Those in authority at the time set off two world wars," Ahmadinejad said, in an accusation directed at Western powers....

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GENEVA (Reuters) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prompted a walkout from his speech to a U.N. racism summit on Monday when he accused Israel of establishing a "cruel and repressive racist regime" over the Palestinians. The summit had already been badly undermined by a boycott by the United States and some of its major allies over concerns that it would be used as a platform for attacks against Israel. The boycott left Ahmadinejad, who has in the past cast doubt on the Nazi Holocaust, as the only head of state in attendance. His speech produced the kind of language that...

Obama said in Trinidad, after attending the Summit of the Americas, that the language of the draft declaration prepared for the conference “raised a whole set of objectionable provisions” and raised the risk of a repeat of the 2001 Durban Conference, “which became a session through which folks expressed antagonism toward Israel in ways that were often times completely hypocritical and counterproductive.” “We expressed in the run-up to this conference our concerns that if you adopted all of the language from 2001, that’s not something we can sign up for. Our participation would have involved putting our imprimatur on something...

Poland pulls out of UN Race Conference 20.04.2009 Poland will not take part in the ‘Durban II’ United Nations review conference on racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia which has opened in Geneva today. A statement by the Polish Foreign Ministry stresses that Poland participated in the preparations for the conference till the last minute, hoping that it would allow to consolidate and strengthen international efforts in the fight against racism in all its forms. There is much to indicate, however – the statement says – that the Geneva conference will become a forum for inadmissible speeches and activities incompatible with...

The Obama administration will "with regret" boycott a UN conference on racism next week over objectionable language in the meeting's final document that could single out Israel for criticism and restrict free speech, the State Department said Saturday. The decision follows weeks of furious internal debate came after fierce lobbying by Israel and Jewish groups against US participation. A final draft of the statements, released late Friday, made changes to sections that had referred to a "hierarchy" among forms of racism, but left intact sections that the US had said would cause it to boycott the meetings. The conference is...

Germany's government said the country will boycott this week's UN racism conference out of concern that it could be "abused as a platform for other interests." Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Sunday that he made the decision after consulting with other European Union nations, and he urged those attending the conference to "stand up for the effective fight against racism and ethnic discrimination." Germany joined the United States, Netherlands, Australia, Canada, Israel and Italy in boycotting the conference out of concern that it could be used by Muslim countries to criticise Israel and to limit free speech when it...

AUSTRALIA will not take part in a controversial United Nations anti-racism conference in Geneva this week. The Federal Government's decision to boycott the Durban Review conference was prompted by the outcome of the original event in 2001, which was marred by claims of anti-Semitism... Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith said the Geneva meeting reaffirms the 2001 outcomes, singling out Israel and the Middle East. "Regrettably, we cannot be confident that the review conference will not again be used as a platform to air offensive views, including anti-Semitic views,"... "...additional concern are the suggestions... to limit the universal right to free...

The United States is likely to sit out next week's United Nations conference on racism or take part only as an observer, diplomatic sources said on Saturday. The United Nations organized the forum to help heal the wounds from its last such forum, in Durban, South Africa. The United States and Israel walked out of that 2001 conference when Arab states sought to define Zionism as racist. The Obama administration has largely kept its distance from preparations for the "Durban II" meeting, that opens on Monday at the U.N.'s European headquarters in Geneva. A formal U.S. announcement is expected later...

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,...

The 2001 World Conference Against Racism conference in Durban, South African also known as Durban I, was an anti-Semitic hate-fest The follow-up conference begins next Monday (believe it or not Hitler's birthday) . It 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. As if to guarantee that this conference will be a sham, the UN Decided who would be running the actual conference. Iran will preside as a Vice-Chair, Libya will serve as the Chair of the “Main Committee” running the conference...