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Source: https://www.jns.org/opinion/the-hate-fest-that-is-durban-rears-its-ugly-head-again/
The Durban Hate-Fest Rears Its Ugly Head Again
(JNS) Melanie Phillips - In the wings of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York this month, it is to hold a 20th anniversary summit of its so-called World Conference against Racism that took place in Durban, South Africa, in 2001. Durban was a terrifying circus of psychotic anti-Jewish hatred whose sole purpose was to demonize and delegitimize Israel under the Orwellian banner of "human rights." Durban IV is being boycotted by at least 16 countries, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Hungary, Israel, the UK and the U.S. As the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs has observed, the Durban conference documents "have in fact become the 'road map' guiding the BDS [Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions] movement." The venomous belief that the Jews alone were not entitled to self-determination in their own historic homeland, which had only ever been theirs alone and from which they had themselves been ethnically cleansed, spread through Western progressive circles. Under the imprimatur of the UN, Durban normalized the demonizing of Israel and Jew-baiting - the apartheid libel, the insane claim that Israel was committing genocide, and the grotesque equation of Israelis with the Nazis. The writer is a columnist for The Times-UK.