Category: Durban Review Conference

Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), a Canadian NGO, reportedly joined the BDS (boycotts, divestment and sanctions) movement against Israel earlier this month. A central element of the “Durban Strategy,” BDS seeks to internationally isolate Israel as a “racist” and “apartheid” state.
IJV was active in their objection to the Canadian boycott of the Durban II conference. IJV [...]

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French philosopher and writer, Bernard-Henri Lévy, attended the Durban Review Conference which he considers a “total failure”. Here he argues that the only condition under which a repeat can be avoided is the dissolution of the Human Rights Council.
After Durban II, the Question of the United Nations, Bernard-Henri Levy, Huffington Post, April 28, 2009
Now the [...]

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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.”
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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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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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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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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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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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In the wake of the Gaza war and in preparation for the Durban Review Conference, BDS (boycotts, divestment, and sanctions) is the campaign of choice for NGOs.
In commemoration of “Land Day”, the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign (PGAAWC) claims that “people in Palestine and around the world are focused on the Palestinian call for Boycott, [...]

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Federal government ends Arab federation funding, Canada.com, March 19, 2009
The government will not renew a two-year, $2.1-million contract, which expires at the end of this month, for immigrant language instruction provided by the federation. A $473,873 contract for immigrant job search assistance may not be renewed when it expires March 31, 2010…
 
“As [...]

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