Urge Nations to Skip the UN’s Durban Event

Urge Nations to Skip the UN's Durban Event

 

Join American Jewish Committee (AJC) in reminding all nations: any country serious about combating antisemitism should skip the UN’s Durban event.

While the 2001 Durban conference was seen as a chance for the international community to address racism, it sadly devolved into a platform for antisemitic hate.

Add your name in support of AJC’s advocacy efforts calling on all countries to skip this meeting, and to support alternative, nondiscriminatory initiatives to address racism outside the Durban framework. You can learn more about the impact of the Durban Conference below.

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If Europe Is Serious About Fighting Antisemitism, It Must Skip Durban 20
Countries are lining up to declare they will not attend the20th anniversary of the UN’s notorious 2001 World Conference Against Racism, held in Durban, South Africa. The gathering is set to take place on September 22, during the opening days of the UN General Assembly.
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The Impact of the UN's Antisemitic Durban Conference: 20 Years Later
20 years ago, the UN held a conference in Durban, South Africa. The stated goal was to promote effective and sustained action to eliminate all forms of racism and racial discrimination. Instead, the conference became a forum to attack and vilify Israel, and threaten Jewish groups in attendance. Join American Jewish Committee (AJC) for a special program remembering this infamous conference and its enduring legacy. We will also be thanking those governments that have made the struggle against antisemitism a priority and refused to legitimize the Durban process. Monday, September 20 12:00 p.m. ET, 11:00 a.m. CT 10:00 a.m. MT, 9:00 a.m. PT
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The Durban Diaries
This powerful narrative recounts in searing detail the experience of Jewish student advocates who attended the 2001 World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa and experienced first-hand the virulent hatred and demonization of Jews for which that conference has become notorious. Its vivid description of the force and impact on Jewish participants that resulted from the rampant antisemitic displays at the conference's NGO Forum make it a powerful story of the potential for left-wing antisemitism, if left unchecked, to corrupt and undermine interfaith and intergroup solidarity movements and efforts to promote respect for the human rights of vulnerable groups.
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