The UN World Conference on Racism, held in Durban, South Africa, just prior to 9/11, went down in the annals of UN as one of the most infamous, hideously anti-Israel events, even by UN standards. Israel and the United States walked out of the conference which, of course, did not stop the haters from continuing with their Israel-bashing agenda. In the past few years, notables at the UN have insisted that the reforms enacted would change things. Things got so bad that even Kofi Annan even noted—without sarcasm—that the UN was anti-Israel more than, well, just about anything. And Ban Ki-Moon? Well, he said that he wouldn’t allow that on his watch. Nosirree.
Yeah, Durban II is good to go. Libya has been elected to head the committee that’s planning next year’s anti-racism conference (which shall from now on be referred to by me as Durban II). And Iran has just been selected for a leadership role on the committee as well. This is all on top of the anti-Israel fest that will be hosted by the EU in just a few days:
Israel has protested to the European Parliament about plans to host a conference under the auspices of a U.N. committee for Palestinian rights, saying it was biased and anti-Israeli, a spokesman said Monday.
Israel’s ambassador to the European Union wrote to the president of the European Parliament last week urging reconsideration of plans to host the U.N. International Conference of Civilian Society in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace from Aug. 30-31.
The conference has been called under the auspices of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, which was established in 1975 and Israel considers anti-Israeli.
‘To put it mildly, this is not the most balanced committee in the United Nations,’ said Sagi Karni, spokesman for the Israeli mission to the European Union. ‘This committee is very biased and often their discussions are aimed at Israel-bashing.’
The committee is refusing to announce ahead of time the panel events that are occurring. Funny, that. It’s almost like they have something to hide.
What the conference will pronounce is pre-determined. Carefully pre-determined: the UN’s Palestinian Division runs a tightly-controlled operation that accredits only anti-Israel NGOs and speakers. And recently they’ve become quite clever. Without altering the virulently anti-Israel nature of their meetings, the organizers instead seek to mask their activities — under such innocent-sounding titles as “support for Israeli-Palestinian peace.” Moreover, to add credence to their cover, they invite specially approved “Israelis” — a select group of radicals who openly espouse hatred of Israel, claiming the license to do so because of their citizenship. Both tactics give conference organizers the cover they need for their allies and enablers to then use the material.
Among the speakers at the conference are Michel Warschawski, who proudly describes himself as a “well-known anti-Zionist activist.” Others speakers include Nurit Peled Elhannan, Amira Hass, Raji Sourani, Jamal Jumaa (Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign), Mohammed Khatib (Popular Committee of Bilin Coordinator), and David Shearer (OCHA). See the recent meeting in South Africa, featuring Gideon Levy and others, to get a sense of what to expect in Brussels.
None of the radical Israeli Jews at the Brussels conference represents even a tiny segment of the Israeli Jewish population. So it’s like holding a conference on U.S.-Islamic rapprochement and inviting John Walker Lindh—the American who joined the Taliban—to represent America’s position. Technically, Walker is as American as Warschawski and Hass are Israeli. But only a scoundrel or a fool would treat either exercise as anything but a sham.
But the two committees, though united in their hatred for Israel, are actually two different organizations. Here’s information on the one with Libya and Iran:
Despite its numerous calls for Israel’s destruction, and repeated denials of the Holocaust, Iran has been selected by the United Nations for a leading position in a committee that will plan the 2009 UN World Conference against Racism.
The planning committee, which will meet for the first time in Geneva on August 27, will be made up of an inner circle of 20 UN member-states, to be headed by Libya.
Of course, the UN is in hear-no-evil mode:
A spokesperson for the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights confirmed to Ynetnews that “Iran is one of 20 States who are members of the bureau of the Preparatory Committee,” but added that “Iran does not occupy a leading role.â€
When asked how a state which openly denies the Holocaust could find itself in such a role, the spokesperson said: “The Preparatory Committee is an inter-governmental body, meaning States were chosen freely to sit on the Prep-Com. It is the Member-States who decide.”
And here’s how they did it: The Arab bloc, which effectively controls the UN. Funny, the Arab bloc never gets mentioned by people like Mearsheimer and Walt. And yet, it is powerful enough to keep Israel the world’s pariah, year after year, and to name Palestinian refugees separate and above all of the rest of the world’s refugees, giving them a decades-old renewable mandate, and declaring even their American-born grandchildren refugees. Anne Bayefsky has been keeping an eye on the UN for years:
Bayefsky explained that the structure of the UN’s Human Rights Council has effectively been taken over by the countries of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), allowing Iran and Libya access to key roles.
“The states were selected by the UN Human Rights Council and the Council is controlled by the Organization of the Islamic Conference. The majority of seats on the Council are held by the African and Asian regional groups and the OIC has a majority of seats on each of these groups. Western states do not have the votes to block this outrage and it is another example of the hijacking that has occurred of the UN’s lead human rights agency,” she said.
The conference is going to be every bit as much an outrage as its predecessor. Guaranteed. The foxes are guarding the henhouse. Egypt is on the committee, too. That would be the selfsame nation that’s been murdering Sudanese refugees.
No way this turns out well.
“The conference has been called under the auspices of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, which was established in 1975 and Israel considers anti-Israeli.”
In other news, water is considered wet.
Israel’s next ambassador to the UN should be a dog, just to piss off the Arabs.
Not the foxes but the jackals and hyenas
Applying the term foxes to the terrorist states involved is an insult to the species.
The UN is a listening post, where we go to find out what the most evil regimes on Earth are planning.
The EU is the willing paymaster of the non-governmental organizations supporting those regimes.
Are there any NGOs that are not anti-Israel (and anti-American)?
All this stuff about anti-racism and all directed at villifying Israel and the Jews. What a disgusting spectacle. It’s like an anti-racism conference being directed by Nazis. There is only one country in the world that was founded in order to fight racism, and that the oldest racism of all, antisemitism. That country is Israel.
The only Palestinian Arabs who actually have real rights are those who are citizens of Israel. A look at the way the PA and Gaza are governed will reveal this. But the inalienable rights of the Palestinian People, as the rest of the world sees it, are quite simple. They have the right to kill Jews, that is all.
I have a prophecy to make. If Western Civilization’s people sit around sucking their thumbs while clutching their security blankets while the Arabs and Iranians finish the job Hitler started, there will be a terrible catastrophe for them as a result. They will fully deserve that catastrophe.