http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/9813 http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/9813
21 December 2010
The World Jewish Congress has sent a letter to United Nations ambassadors in New York urging them to vote against a proposed resolution to commemorate in September 2011 the tenth anniversary of the infamous World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance (WCAR) held in Durban, South Africa in 2001. The letter reminded the permanent representatives of all UN member states that this Durban I conference, originally meant to be a conference to combat racism, had deteriorated into a 'hate fest' against the United States, the West, and Israel, and that a commemoration of this travesty should not take place.
In the letter, the World Jewish Congress leaders said: We all too acutely remember the shock of 9/11, and the irony of it following immediately after Durban I was not lost on New Yorkers. A so-called commemoration of Durban I at the United Nations in New York in September 2011 would echo the outrage and the pain…and would only serve to undermine the goals of the United Nations charter. All United Nations ambassadors were urged to reject the resolution and, in the event of it coming to pass, not participate in what portends to be a glorification of a shameful United Nations failure.