As the United Nations begins to gear up for another world conference in 2009 to review the outcomes from its discredited 2001 World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, governments and NGOs have a responsibility to say “not again.” Not again to virulent anti-Semitism, not again to vile demonizing and delegitimizing of Israel, not again to incitement to violence against Jews, not again to the inversion of principles of human rights.
This time there is no excuse; this time no one can say let’s just wait to see what happens. This time the world knows how the noble goals of a world gathering to fight the scourge of racism can be perverted and instead become a cauldron of hate focused on a single country and a single people.
I have often said anti-Semitism is not just a Jewish problem, it is a disease that strikes at the very essence of society. Nowhere in recent history was that virus of anti-Semitism more apparent than on the grounds and in the halls of the 2001 Durban Conference. Another world gathering that is allowed to dissolve into fits of hateful, racist anti-Semitism is simply not worth having.
That is the courageous conclusion reached by the government of Canada which already has announced its decision not to participate in the Durban review conference. In announcing their government’s decision, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Secretary of State for Multi and Canadian Identity noted they “had hoped that the preparatory process for the 2009 Durban Review Conference would remedy the mistakes of the past. We have concluded that, despite our efforts, it will not.” How sad and unfortunate that Canada may be right. The message from Canada is clear, “Not Again.”
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France has tried to present an alternative approach to save the Durban Review Conference. He recently gave notice that France will be leading an effort to “remedy the mistakes” of the 2001 conference when he announced “the Durban conference in 2001 led to intolerable excesses from certain states and numerous NGOs that turned the conference into a forum against Israel, and no one has forgotten. France will not allow a repetition of the excesses and abuses of 2001. Our European partners share France’s concerns. France will chair the EU in the final months preceding the review conference. I say to you: If ever our legitimate demands are not taken into account, we will disengage from the process.” In my most optimistic moments, I am rooting for President Sarkozy to succeed.
Then I face the stark realities of a UN Human Rights Council that time and again evades its responsibility to address the worst human rights violations in the world focusing instead on its obsession with attacking Israel. I cannot avoid a UN Security Council with some non-permanent members who won’t even consider accepting a resolution condemning the deadly terrorism of Hamas. These are dispiriting certainties. Israel itself has concluded that it “will not participate and give legitimacy to the United Nations follow-up conference on racism, what is called Durban II, unless it is proven that the conference will not be used as a platform for further anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic activities.” Canada and France are showing the way for others to follow. They have said loud and clear the world should not give legitimacy to any gathering of nations where hatred of Jews and scorn for the national aspirations of the Jewish people are cloaked in the vernacular of human rights. They have told the world that a conference to combat the scourge of racism is no place to trade in the currency of hatred and bigotry against Jews.
The unwillingness of most in the human rights NGO community and their international funders to confront and denounce the atmosphere of anti-Semitism and demonization of Israel at the 2001 Durban Conference was dismaying and extremely hurtful to the Jewish community. Human rights NGOs have a major role to play in preventing this from happening again. This time, there is no way to claim they don’t comprehend what can happen when they stand by silently and allow a moral vacuum to be filled by irrational hatred. This time they can’t say they don’t understand their hopes to use the World Conference Against Racism as a legitimate high profile platform to have their issues heard depends on a conference environment conducive to civil discourse. And, this time they know it is in their power to ensure that the review conference not be used as a vehicle to promote anti-Semitism or incite hatred against Israel.
Yet, as the 2009 Durban Review Conference preparations begin, we do not hear loudly and clearly the call of “not again” from these groups. If governments and NGOs can overcome the forces who want to have another anti-Israel, anti-Jewish hatefest under the guise of fighting racism, then “not again” will mean a victory for the cause of human rights. If they cannot, “not again” will mean following Canada’s lead.
Abraham H. Foxman is National Director of the Zionist Anti-Defamation League.
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If you wrote an article about life we’d all reach enligthemnent.
Watch who goes to represent their country at this
conference and you’ll see which governments are
infiltrated to the hilt by the jews, the people who
stole Europe’s heritage and replaced it with their own – the bible. It is the heritage of the jew, you know.
That conversion was accomplished only with
their soldiers (the circumcised ones) and soldiers
from the Roman Empire. It started in 313 CE (Google Constantine’s ‘Edict if Milan’), and lasted until the empire no longer existed (when the Goyim mind was completely converted to christianity and was theirs, finally). By then the Gentile had accepted and taught their young the lie without reservation, without knowledge of the hell their ancestors lived through. By this time the church realized they no longer needed the soldiers and quit resupplying their outposts. The soldiers faded away. Their job was done. Outposts became monestaries (vineyards). Without the legions of soldiers the empire was unrecognizable. It morphed into the vatican, a totally jew-governed and jew-owned entity to this day that gave ‘only’ jews the right to operate the powerful banking industry, regardless their claims [lies] of being at odds with each other. The Roman Catholic Church, the vatican, and the HRE are all one-and-the-same, in the final analysis.
No one, neither your nor my ancestors, had a choice for the duration of the dark ages, unless you consider ‘conversion or death’ a choice. The method of death being, of course, the most terroristic and heinous imaginable i.e. burning at the stake, beheadings, etc. (Google ‘Holy Roman Emperor
Charlemange at the River Aller’, or ‘The Bloody Verdict of Verden’ to get the gist of their terroristic methods). It took over 1,000 years to force one generation after the next to convert and accept the lie. If you carry a bible and you are not a jew – you are likely the result of that brainwahing – the lie.
No, you say? Then tell us of your European ancestry, your heritage, of over 1,000 years ago, naysayer. If you have no heritage, neither oral nor written, and you’re not a jew, then how do you explain that? The jew church will have you believe your ancestors wallowed with the swine . . . and, that time began only 1000 years ago (damn science).
They own nearly all media resources in the world: Radio, TV, Newspapers (Rupe [News Corp, FOX News, et al] Murdoch’s mother was jewish. He was backed by powerful jew bankers in his initial media ownership quests).
And when you think “media” don’t forget to include what your children learn in school and the Hollywood movies created by jews that you garner your worldview from (specifically designed for that purpose).
We function every day on the premise of the lies we’ve learned and accepted since birth, and that really screws up things, especially if you believe in the concept of a utopian world.
The jew knows his heritage, why don’t you? Everyone has a personal heritage that goes back to the beginning. But our’s may only exist in the secret archives of the vatican. And we are not welcome there.
Abe sent his jews out into the world to become kings of all nations thousands of years ago. They did not stay on their own land and cultivate it as our European ancestors did. They were warring tribes that, when they came upon a weaker populace, conquered it – Jericho, for instance (“. . . and kill all breathing things”). And when a society was too big to conquer they infiltrated its power structure, pretending to be natives, and used every trick in the book to supplant their own people in key positions. Then they used their military, combined with their warriors, to conquer greater kingdoms.
In the mid 16th century, Martin Luther, a catholic preist, created a breakaway, Protestant religion – Lutheranism. He hated the jew and the jew church
because he saw what they were doing to his beloved country and people: Practising usury, they were taking everything from his countrymen and supplanting their own jews on the richest farmlands of his nation, Saxony, for instance. Google, “Constantine’s Gift”, or the practise of Feudalism to see other ways the church cheated people of their birthrights. Luther wrote the 75,000-word treatise, “The Jews and Their Lies”, in which he advocated the killing of jews. Today, if you ask about this treatise, they’ll tell you he was old and senile. More lies. They’ve done well, infiltrating that church as well.
The USA is infiltrated to the hilt. We are hated as
jews are because our foreign policy seems to be that
of israel’s. Look around. They are there – everywhere,
throughout our government . . . and yours. And they’ll
never be finished until they sit in the highest
positions throughout the world and govern the Gentile like masters over slaves. Although, some are good,
seemingly. But the algebraic sum of their gains is always positive, regardless the ‘seeming’ opposition. A ploy?
Their torah tells them they are “God’s chosen people” and claims the entire universe was created for only his people, the jews – that includes you and your
children et al. It is a delusional arrogance they teach their young. Get a copy of the video, “My Father, My Lord” an award winning, israeli video.
Thirty minutes in you’ll learn ‘The lesson of the Cat’. The faux pas in this film is that the rabbi teaches a group of men this lesson, when in fact, they are taught this lie as soon as they can learn after birth ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M539PgDjbas ). Pay attention and read carefully. This is the essence of why they’ve been hated and brutally booted from every country they’ve tried to infiltrate since abe gave the directive.
It’s taken them several millennia to get it right (Joseph infiltrated the Egyptian Empire and made it to second highest in their power structure before the Egyptians caught on. But, they are patient. If the jew is anything at all – he is a traditionalist – to the end. The question now is, ‘When will the US and other world militaries turn on all of us?’.