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September 23, 2016

The Destructive Legacy of the Durban Conference

A blueprint for BDS.

In 2001, the United Nations held a “World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance” in Durban, South Africa. Both it and a simultaneous UN-sponsored gathering of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) sought to revive the old “Zionism is racism” formula, adding special condemnations of Israel into the text of their resolutions. To Gerald Steinberg, no single event of the past fifteen years has had a more enduring impact on the evolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict:

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