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April 5, 2021

The U.S. Is Poised to Host a United Nations Celebration of Anti-Semitism

Durban IV.

On September 8, 2001, the UN concluded its World Conference against Racism in the South African city of Durban, which was a predictable carnival of anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism, where the old “Zionism is racism” canard was revived. The conference, boycotted by the Bush administration, was ground zero for the movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel (BDS). The Obama administration emulated its predecessor in refusing to attend follow-up Durban Review Conferences held in 2009 and 2011. But the Biden administration seems keen to participate in “Durban IV’ this September, writes Anne Bayefsky:

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