On Sept. 22, the United Nations will hold the 2011 Durban Review Conference, a reprisal of the 2001 anti-racism conference in Durban, South Africa that turned into an anti-Israel hate fest. Last time the U.N. held a Durban review conference, in Geneva in April 2009, Jewish groups worked overtime to get nations to boycott it, and many did. Some of those who didn’t changed their minds and walked out in the middle when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used the conference’s bully pulpit to rail against Israel.
This year, Jewish groups are working up the same pre-conference frenzy, and several countries already have announced they’ll boycott Durban III. Like its predecessors, it’s expected to be an exercise in excoriating the Jewish state. The boycotters are:
- Israel
- United States
- Canada
- Germany
- Italy
- The Netherlands
- Czech Republic
- Australia
- Bulgaria
- Britain
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