Opinion: Durban’s 10th anniversary is no cause for celebration

Published on September 12, 2011

Which nation doesn’t let women drive? Jails dissenters by the thousands? Beheads minors?

The United Nations, Durban III and Israel [VIDEO]

Published on September 6, 2011

UN, Durban iii and Israel

Black, Jewish cyclists ride together to Durban

Published on August 22, 2011

Young black and Jewish cyclists from South Africa joined for a 400-mile journey to Durban as part of the Cycalive outreach program.

South African group aims to put Israel on trial—again

Published on July 24, 2011

Ten years after the notorious U.N. anti-racism conference in Durban, South Africa, that devolved into an Israel-bashing frenzy, anti-Zionist forces are mobilizing again to hold another anti-Israel conference in South Africa.

U.S. won’t participate in Durban III, State Dept. says

Published on June 1, 2011

The United States will not participate in Durban III, this September, the State Department said. In a letter to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Joseph E. Macmanus, acting assistant secretary for legislative affairs, confirmed the United States would not attend the conference, which in its previous iterations has been a forum for anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment.

Exclusive Durban II Blog -  Day 4: Twisted Tongues

By David Weiner
Published on April 23, 2009

Exclusive Coverage from DURBAN 2 - DAY 3: Bring Popcorn and a Tissue

By David Weiner
Published on April 22, 2009

Exclusive Coverage from DURBAN 2 - DAY 3: Bring Popcorn and a Tissue

By David Weiner
Published on April 22, 2009

Diplomats Make End Run With Early Ratification of Final Durban Document

Published on April 21, 2009

A day after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s tirade against Israel triggered a walkout by the European delegation and generated headlines around the world, diplomats at the U.N. forum scrambled to ratify the conference’s final document on Tuesday -- three days before the parley’s close, when the document was scheduled to be adopted.

Day 2 of our Exclusive Coverage from DURBAN 2: Our Way or Norway

By David Weiner
Published on April 21, 2009

Ahmadinejad Accuses Israel of Genocide, Europeans Walk Out [VIDEO]

Published on April 20, 2009

In a speech at the U.N.-sponsored anti-racism conferencein Geneva, the Iranian president first blamed the West for injustice, then went on the offensive against Israel, calling it the “racist perpetrators of genocide.”

U.S., Other Democracies Should Shun Durban II

Published on March 11, 2009

The 2001 World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, otherwise known as the Durban Conference, was a parley hijacked by radicals betraying the real purpose of the event — the confrontation of racial discrimination worldwide.

From Durban to Beersheba

By Harold Brackman
Published on September 30, 2004

What went wrong at Durban three years ago, and why is it still important?

Foundation to Stop Funding Hate Groups

By Edwin Black
Published on November 27, 2003

In a stunning reversal, the Ford Foundation has admitted it erred in funding anti-Israeli Palestinian groups and has vowed to establish tough new guidelines to stop its funds from being used for anti-Semitic action anywhere in the world.

The foundation said it was "disgusted" by anti-Israel and anti-Semitic agitation action taken at the 2001 U.N. Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, which the foundation helped finance.

"We now recognize that we did not have a clear picture of the activities, organizations and people involved," conceded foundation President Susan Berresford in a letter this month to U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.).

Durban, the Sequel

By James D. Besser
Published on November 29, 2001

Geneva and Ann Arbor, Mich., may be a world apart, but they now have something in common: both are settings for a reinvigorated effort to undercut the very legitimacy of Israel.

The same folks responsible for turning this summer's Durban conference on racism into an anti-Israel free-for-all are getting set for an encore performance in Geneva next week. And in college towns like Ann Arbor, Arab and Muslim student groups are using spurious comparisons with South Africa to discredit Israel.

Political Pot Boils Over

By Michael J. Jordan
Published on September 6, 2001

On a cool and drizzly night in this Indian Ocean port city, a vast white tent standing in the middle of a cricket field seemed to fit in with the circus atmosphere of the U.N. World Conference Against Racism, one Jewish observer said.

This was no regular circus that had come to town, however, but a viciously anti-Israel, anti-Jewish circus that had carried on all week and was about to reach its apex.

It got so bad on Monday, just halfway through the official governmental conference that began Aug. 31 and ends Sept. 7, that the United States and Israel recalled their delegations.

The U.S. delegation said it would not continue working in such a "racist," anti-Semitic atmosphere.

A statement by Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Melchior

By Michael Melchior
Published on September 6, 2001

The following is excerpted from a statement by Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Melchior, read Monday at the World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa, by Ambassador Mordecai Yedid, the head of the Israeli delegation.