April 30th, 2009 | Category:
Badil,
Durban Review Conference,
Ittijah,
UN
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Jan Lonn, head of the Swedish-based World Against Racism Network, is active in many radical NGO activities. Lonn has recently implied that Jewish groups sabotaged the DRC in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) saying “there has been very strong opposition from some NGO circles, some interest groups, against the Durban Review Conference.”
The [...]
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April 22nd, 2009 | Category:
Durban Review Conference,
UN
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At two Durban Review Conference NGO side-events on Tuesday, April 21, 2009, participants called for a minute of silence, but the two moments could not have been more different.
In the first, “Racism: The road to genocide” organized by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and other groups, panelist Prof. Charles Small called for the audience to rise [...]
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April 21st, 2009 | Category:
Durban Review Conference,
UN
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News sources the world over have reported on the mass walkout, namely by European states, during Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hateful speech at the UN yesterday.
Delegates walk out on Ahmadinejad, Tovah Lazaroff, Jerusalem Post, April 20, 2009
Upon hearing his opening barbs against Israel, the French delegation stood up and walked out. Some 40 diplomats from [...]
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April 20th, 2009 | Category:
Badil,
Durban Review Conference,
Ittijah,
UN
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On Sunday, April 19, 2009, the Simon Wiesenthal Center reported from Geneva on the Israel Review Conference and the Civil Society Forum – two NGO-organized parallel events designed to demonize Israel in the fashion of the first Durban conference in 2001 which notoriously embarrassed the UN for its blatant anti-semitism. (See Durban parallel slams ‘Israeli [...]
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April 19th, 2009 | Category:
Durban Review Conference,
UN
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The US, Australia, and Holland have all announced that they will not attend the Durban Review conference out of fear of anti-semitism, attacks on the West, and the singling out of Israel. The UK and Switzerland however, have said they do intend to participate.
The US announced that it could not participate because “the text still [...]
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April 7th, 2009 | Category:
Badil,
Durban Review Conference,
NGO Monitor,
UN
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The absence of an official NGO Forum at the Durban Review Conference has led politicized NGOs to take their anti-Israel message to the streets of Geneva with a slew of parallel events set to take place before and during the conference.
Pro-Israel activists set to do battle at Durban II, Michael J. Jordan, JTA, April 6, [...]
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April 1st, 2009 | Category:
Al Haq,
Human Rights
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Amnon Rubinstein’s powerful op-ed in the Jerusalem Post, “My own humanitarian crisis,” captures the distressing double-standards that human-rights NGOs apply in the Israeli-Arab conflict:
Any Israeli taken prisoner by terrorists there will not enjoy any human right accorded under international law, and his relatives and friends will not know anything about him. No human rights organization [...]
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