The United Nations, Durban III and Israel [VIDEO]

Published on September 6, 2011

UN, Durban iii and Israel

Exclusive Durban II Blog -  Day 4: Twisted Tongues

By David Weiner
Published on April 23, 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

Exclusive Coverage from DURBAN 2 - DAY 1: Arrival

By David Weiner
Published on April 20, 2009

NATION/WORLD BRIEFS: Durban Changes, Iran Strategy, Clinton to Speak

Published on April 16, 2009

The United States commended changes in the draft document for “Durban II” but said more was needed to entice it into joining the anti-racism conference.

Jewish groups had welcomed the U.S. decision earlier this year not to attend the event reviewing the original U.N. conference in Durban in 2001. The South Africa parley had devolved into an anti-Israel and anti-Jewish free-for-all, and the review conference April 20-24 in Geneva promised more of the same. Earlier versions of the “draft outcome document” singled out Israel and called for measures against “defamation of religion,” seen as a nod to Islamist extremists who seek to marginalize their critics.

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.