Israel to boycott UN anti-racism conference
Ma'an News
20 Novembre 2008
Bethlehem: Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni announced on Wednesday that Israel would not be participating in the upcoming United Nations (UN) Durban II conference on racism.
Livni said the Israeli Foreign Ministry “will not legitimize” the conference, which she says has become “a forum for pernicious accusations and incitement against Israel.”
The conference is a follow-up to the September 2001 Durban “World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.”
According to Livni, the 2001 conference “became a forum” for “attacks against Zionism, labeling it as a form of racism, denial of the unique and special nature of the Holocaust and a distortion of the meaning of the term ‘anti-Semitism.’”
Livni made the announcement in front of the General Assembly of the United Jewish …
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