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May 6, 2021 Australia joins United States in boycotting the UN’s Durban Conference on racism, known to be a hornet’s nest of virulent anti-Semitism. By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel Australia is joining the United States in refusing to participate in the 20th anniversary events for the UN’s World Conference Against Racism in Durban, which singled out Israel for anti-Semitic resolutions, the Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. “We will not associate Australia with one-sided and conten...

Photo Credit: A panel at the World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa, from Aug. 31 to Sept. 8, 2001. Jewish leaders on Wednesday praised the Biden administration for announcing that the United States will not participate in upcoming events commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Durban Declaration and Program of Action. On Wednesday, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations chair Dianne Lob, CEO William Daroff and vice chair Malcolm Hoenlein issued a jo...

A pro-BDS demonstration. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Leading Jewish organizations welcomed the Biden administration’s decision to stick to the US policy of not attending any events to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Durban Declaration in September due to their “anti-Israel sentiment.” A US State Department spokesperson told The Jerusalem Post Monday that the US would not take part in planned Durban anniversary events, saying that it “remains deeply committed to combating antisemitis...

The Biden administration will not take part in events at the United Nations in the fall marking the 20th anniversary of the deeply controversial World Conference on Racism and the declaration it produced, a State Department official spokesperson confirmed on background in response to queries on Tuesday.

The conference had two elements, an NGO Forum and a Governmental Conference. The NGO Forum – with the enthusiastic participation of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch  – was where the BDS strategy started. It attacked every Jewish organization in attendance. Its final declaration called Israel a “racist apartheid state” guilty of “war crimes, acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing.” Statements denouncing attacks on Jews and synagogues were removed from the final declarat...

May 2, 2021 Share The world is coming together, and we are no more socially aloof. The great philosopher Aristotle said, “Man is a Social Animal”. Indeed, this statement has time and again been proved appropriate. Human beings, from time immemorial, have worked their ways to become more and more involved together. Human beings have indeed come a long way. Once we had no clue who lives beyond our rivers. Our society was limited to only one side of the rivers. Some dared to cross thos...

Joe Biden ‘embraces anti-Semitic agenda’ revealing ‘hardcore leftist’ colours 02/05/2021|8min President Joe Biden has proved himself to be a “dangerous hardcore leftist” whose emerging anti-Semitic ideology should be “shunned and avoided at all costs” according to Sky News host Rowan Dean. Radical action undertaken by the president includes efforts to re-join the Iran Nuclear Deal, funding for the UN Human rights Council and participation in a UN conference known for its anti-Se...

How Biden is smashing America’s moral compass and dragging the West behind it Featured Column How Biden is smashing America’s moral compass and dragging the West behind it Former President Barack Obama repudiated the “Durban Declaration and Program of Action” on the grounds of its unjust demonization of Israel and the “hateful and anti-Semitic displays” around its creation. The Biden administration has embraced it. (April 29, 2021 / JNS) For eight years, the administration of former...

The United Nations plans to celebrate this September the twentieth anniversary of its so-called “World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance” held in Durban, South Africa in 2001. The Durban Declaration and Program of Action served as the conference’s agreed-upon output. The 2001 conference, and the two that followed in 2009 and 2011, turned out to be nothing more than global platforms for the world’s most vicious anti-Semites, ...

Thursday, 18 March 2021, 7:49 am Geneva – Thousands of migrant workers have left the UAE after losing their jobs, as they were subjected to discriminatory measures during the economic crisis caused by the Coronavirus pandemic considering lack of appropriate government support measures, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor and IRDG said in joint speech at the Human Rights Council 46th session. Making up about 90% of the total workforce in the country, migrant workers have been sufferin...