Get That S**t Out of Here
Well, at least one place won’t host the notorious Durban II Conference:
Durban will not be hosting a 2009 world racism conference, widely regarded as the sequel to a 2001 conference, the foreign affairs department said today.
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The Daily News reported today that the conference was planned for a European city in April or May.
Hillel Neuer, the United Nations (UN) Watch’s executive director, told the Daily News that the organisation welcomed the apparent turnaround, saying that the group was “alarmed” the conference, dubbed Durban 2, would be hosted in South Africa again.
“The expected adoption of a controlled UN headquarters as the venue, be it Geneva, Paris, or Vienna, is something we fought for, as one of many necessary steps to prevent a repeat of the ugly street scenes of Durban in 2001,” Neuer was quoted as saying.
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At the last conference in 2001, emotions ran high when US and Israeli delegates walked out of the conference, charging that the gathering had an “anti-Israel bias”.
In April, Agence France Presse reported that Israel said it would boycott the conference if it focused excessively on the Jewish state to the exclusion of human rights violations elsewhere in the world.
Only in this [bleeped]-up world could it be considered good news that “Geneva, Paris, or Vienna”, not Africa, would host an anti-Semitic hate-fest.
What, Nuremburg was booked?
[Hat tip to reader Joe in South Africa.]