Meet the UN's anti-Israel 'anti-discrimination' czar, Navi Pillay
By Anne BAYEFSKY
August 10, 2011
The New York Daily News
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-08-10/news/29887787_1_durban-conference-durban-iii-anti-racism

The UN's top human rights official, Navi Pillay, attempted on Monday to block further defections from the UN's racist anti-racism bash scheduled for New York City on Sept. 22. The United States, Canada, Israel, the Czech Republic, Italy and the Netherlands have already announced a boycott of Durban III, a UN event designed to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the UN anti-Semitic hatefest held in Durban, South Africa, in September 2001. Pillay said she was disappointed with these pullouts, labeling them a political distraction.
The barb was no accident for a UN high commissioner for human rights who has been distracted by her anti-Israel and anti-American agenda since taking office in 2008. Pillay is perhaps best known for her unremitting defense of the notorious Goldstone report and for having questioned the legality of the killing of Osama Bin Laden.
For Pillay, championing the Durban conference and its manifesto, the Durban Declaration, is a personal crusade. A native of Durban herself, shortly after her appointment she explained to a Geneva audience that the city's mayor asked her to rescue the name of Durban, given its unflattering association with anti-Semitism. In response, she helped launch both Durban II in Geneva in 2009 and Durban III.
Unfortunately, her efforts to legitimize the Durban Declaration have little to do with the most basic of human rights: equality. The Durban Declaration charges only one country with racism among all 192 UN states - Israel. It calls Palestinians victims of Israeli racism, a 21st century reincarnation of the Zionism-is-racism libel. When Durban II ended with an outcome document that reaffirmed the Durban Declaration, Pillay gloated in a news conference on April 24, 2009, that Palestine is indeed mentioned in the Durban Declaration and the word 'reaffirm' carries those paragraphs into this document.
While Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed the anti-racism crowd at Durban II, Pillay remained glued to her seat. UN videotape shows her simply watching democratic states walk out in disgust, although she and her secretariat colleagues had a copy of his Holocaust-denying speech in advance. Despite her later scramble, when under pressure, to distance herself from his comments, she issued a flowery thank-you to the Organization of the Islamic Conference for their role in Durban II - which included warm applause for Ahmadinejad.