31 countries to boycott anti-Israel Durban IV Conference today – FM

The International Ministry expects 31 countries to boycott Wednesday’s United Nations tournament marking the 20th anniversary of the World Conference Against Racism, which turned into marred by antisemitism and anti-Israel bias.

The International Ministry said on Tuesday 11 countries that acquire no longer but made their plans public device to boycott the conference, to boot to the 21 that acquire launched they would possibly well no longer be attending.

Those 20 countries are Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Fresh Zealand, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, the UK and the US.

This week’s tournament, identified as Durban IV, has the theme of “Reparations, racial justice and equality for of us of African descent.” Critics acquire referred to as on the UN to entirely scrap the Durban Conference on Racism and contain a recent conference.

No Western country has despatched a high-level advertising consultant, which contrivance a executive minister, to keep up a correspondence at the conference – though the EU has – nor has any volunteered to lead a roundtable, which Israel views as a hit at labeling the tournament as antisemitic.

At the long-established Durban Conference in 2001, the parallel NGO Forum adopted a name labeling Israel an apartheid disclose, and activists disbursed The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and flyers praising Hitler.

The 2001 Durban Decision, which the draft decision for Wednesday’s conference reaffirms, singled out the Israel-Palestinian battle, no longer declaring any varied explicit conflicts as racist.

Within the course of the 2009 and 2011 Durban Overview Conferences, then-president of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denied the Holocaust, calling it a pretext for Israeli oppression of Palestinians.

On Sunday, below the banner “Strive towards Racism, No longer Jews: The UN and the Durban Deceit,” Israel’s Ambassador to the usa and the United Nations Gilad Erdan, former US secretary of disclose Mike Pompeo, former US attorney-total Michael Mukasey, Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight and others spoke at a conference organized by Touro College, Human Rights Voices and the Committee for Accuracy in Heart East Reporting in The US (CAMERA) in head-on plea to countries to pull out of the Durban IV conference  and to come up to today’s antisemitism.

The digital counter-tournament, which drew thousands of viewers, featured an gape-opening sequence of speakers from various non secular and cultural backgrounds speaking about what took place in Durban 20 years ago in accordance to those who acquire been present and why it’s relevant now larger than ever.

“All countries which shall be genuinely dedicated to combating racism ought to collected refuse to again Durban IV and the 20th-anniversary carnival,” said Anne Bayefsky, director of Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, president of Human Rights Voices, and moderator of the conference. “That’s why we held a counter-conference entitled ‘Strive towards Racism, No longer Jews.’ The Durban deceit, the double-focus on, the double-requirements – and in explicit, the discrimination – need to be uncovered and rejected, duration.”

ERDAN OPENED the conference by comparing Durban to Nazi propaganda.

“As the grandchild of Auschwitz survivors, I end no longer tackle to form comparisons to the Holocaust,” he said. “I will no longer train that Durban turned into tackle Kristallnacht or later Nazi atrocities. But I am reminded of a lesser-identified tournament in Nazi history. One one year earlier than Kristallnacht, in November 1937, Josef Goebbels opened the antisemitic exhibition Der Ewige Jude, The Eternal Jew, at the library of the German Museum in Munich.

“This characterize conveyed antisemitic messages in primarily the most sophisticated and woke model of the expertise, blaming Jews for the spread of communism and the corruption of Aryan values,” he said. “This characterize, viewed by over 400,000 visitors, helped dispute the message that Jew-hatred turned into no longer good acceptable, however one thing that every enlightened person ought to collected undertake. In many ways, Durban turned into the Der Ewige Jude characterize of the contemporary antisemitism.

“Due to this truth, mates, it issues little what is going to really be said on September 22 at Durban IV, or whether or no longer Israel will explicitly be mentioned,” the ambassador said. “The Durban route of is frightening to its core, and any of its notice-up events are the fruits of a poisonous tree.”

ARGUMENTS FLARE outside the 2001 World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, depraved for equating Zionism with racism. (credit ranking: MIKE HUTCHINGS / REUTERS)

Erdan referred to as on more countries to boycott this week’s conference.

“Our ask that countries refuse to clutch part in the Durban route of would no longer in anyway contradict what needs to be our equally staunch ask to keep up a correspondence up towards racism wherever it appears.”

Pompeo said the Durban Declaration is “laced with antisemitism.”

“The Declaration turned into enthusiastically supported by terrorist leaders tackle Yasser Arafat, who rightly observed it no longer as a strategy to promote racial equality, however as a threat to Israel’s existence. There’ll not be any better indication of this truth than the countries which the long-established Durban Declaration listed as perpetrators of racism. No, no longer China, no longer Cuba nor any varied bloody authoritarian regime turned into referred to as out. Top Israel turned into identified as such,” he said.

“The Durban Conference in 2001 revived the ‘Zionism is racism’ slur, outrageously claimed that Israel turned into an apartheid disclose, distorted the Holocaust and made a stout quantity of Nazi analogies. It turned into the birthplace and catalyst of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. These items usually are no longer things the US or any nation which values freedom and denounces antisemitism needs to be celebrating,” Pompeo said.

“Reasonably, freedom-loving countries ought to collected embody what Israel has always been and stays today. Israel stands now, good because it always has, because the one genuinely democratic disclose in the Heart East. It’s a various nation, house to residents of varied faiths and backgrounds.”

Voight said it turned into “the accountability of all accurate folk of all faiths to notify outrage and ask truth be heard.” Referring to the UN conference, he said he turned into “outraged at those that form excuses for this barbarism, who originate the propaganda of Palestinian victimhood, who refuse to detect that this antisemitism is ready to destroying the Jewish nation.”

Several speakers at the counter-conference acquire been gloomy, including Likud MK Gadi Yevarkan, South African lawmaker Rev. Kenneth Meshoe and American historian Shelby Steele, pushing again towards the anti-Israel message at Durban, which is supposed to be a conference towards racism with a varied focal level on folk of African descent.

Yevarkan said he turned into speaking “truth to propaganda…. Durban turned into no longer and is no longer a conference for human rights. It is far a crucifixion of Jewish human rights. And Durban is a fair embarrassment for the UN itself…. Durban has venerable and abused the suffering of tens of millions of gloomy South African victims of apartheid by racializing Israel.”