”For me, having experienced the horrors of the Holocaust first hand, the Durban Conference was the most sickening and unabashed display of hate for Jews I had seen since the Nazi period.”
—Tom Lantos
@HeikoMaas, Germany should be the first to withdraw from Durban, not the 10th.
Lantos: ”Another ring in the Durban circus was the NGO forum. Each day, Palestinian and fundamentalist Arab groups groups organized anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic rallies around the meetings, attracting thousands.” dl.tufts.edu/concern/pdfs/t…
”One flyer which was widely distributed showed a photograph of Hitler and the question 'What if I had won?' The answer: 'There would be NO Israel...'
At a press conference held by Jewish NGO's to discuss their concerns with the direction the
conference was taking,
”an accredited NGO, the Arab Lawyers Union, distributed
a booklet filled with anti-Semitic caricatures frighteningly like those seen in the Nazi hate literature printed in the 1930s.”
Citing concerns of antisemitism, Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Israel, the Netherlands, the UK & US have announced they will not attend the UN’s Durban IV Conference.
BRAVO: 🇳🇱 The Netherlands’ National Coordinator on Combatting Antisemitism @ncab_nl calls on all European countries to withdraw from the UN’s upcoming 20th anniversary celebration of the Durban Conference, “a process rife with antisemitism.”
Pulled out so far: 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇭🇺🇳🇱🇨🇿🇦🇹🇮🇱
"The Netherlands has shown bravery by being one of the first countries to withdraw from Durban IV, a process rife with antisemitism, and in itself a legitimization of hatred. I call here on all European countries to follow suit.”
”Wait no longer, and stand with us. It is time to show unity in the battle against this poison.”
— Eddo Verdoner, Nationaal Coördinator Antisemitisme Bestrijding (NCAB) bij de Rijksoverheid @NCAB_NL
If you don't name the perpetrator, this is worthless. Why haven't you even mentioned the word ”Cuba” since May 2020? During a year when they beat up artists & dissidents and throw them in prison? And as they now seek to crush historic mass protests?
Gital Sahgal, Amnesty International's former gender unit head, reminds us that Amnesty's then Secretary-General @Claudio_Cordone justified working with pro-Taleban activists because ”defensive jihad is not antithetical to human rights.”
Amnesty changed its mind when partner Caged Prisoners was linked to ’Jihadi John’, the masked ISIS man with British accent who beheaded hostages.
AI's Kate Allen: “We are reviewing whether any future association with the group would now be appropriate.” theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/m…
Kate Allen, @AmnestyUK's longtime director until her recent retirement (and who had lived together with London Mayor ”Red Ken” Livingstone for 20 years) "was central to Amnesty's embrace of pro-Jihadis and to the cover up afterward."
BRAVO: 🇦🇹 Austria pulls out of UN's upcoming 20th anniversary celebration of the Durban Conference, which was tainted by antisemitism.
🔹 Pulled out of Durban IV so far: 🇺🇸🇦🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧🇮🇱🇭🇺🇳🇱🇦🇹
🔹 Pulled out of Durban III in 2011: 🇦🇺🇦🇹🇧🇬🇨🇦🇨🇿🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇱🇮🇹🇱🇻🇳🇱🇳🇿🇵🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸 jpost.com/international/…
“Austria supports efforts to combat racism worldwide, while rejecting the misuse of the Durban process to unfairly single out and target Israel.”
”Therefore, Austria abstained from the vote to hold a high-level conference in New York to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Durban conference. There will be no participation at the political level.”
My @UN_HRC speech today: ”Madam President: Here in the UN, we just heard repeated and false accusations against Israel. But in reality, on the ground in Bethlehem, Hebron and Ramallah, thousands of Palestinians are actually demonstrating against the Palestinian Authority.”
“They’re protesting the June 24th arrest of Nizar Banat, an outspoken critic of President Abbas.
More than two dozen PA security officers raided his home, at 3:30 am. They severely beat Banat with metal clubs and rifle butts, in front of his wife and young children...”
”...before taking him away. Three hours later, he was dead.
When Palestinians protested, PA forces attacked them with batons, tear gas and stun grenades. PA officers singled out female demonstrators and reporters, who were sexually harassed.”
I've been sitting at the UN for 17 years and this was never mentioned:
"The sale of Palestinian land to Israelis is punishable by death, a Palestinian court ruled, in what PA officials say is a necessary measure to ensure the founding of a future state."