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Durban II will more than likely be a revisit to Durban I, which was a conference of hate

Delegates arriving this week for the official UN-sponsored World Conference Against Racism, commencing today in Durban, South Africa and the NGO Forum that proceeded it were greeted by an ugly, in-your-face display of anti- Jewish, anti-Israel and anti-U.S. rhetoric. Tragically, a conference intended to examine effective mechanisms to combat racism and promote understanding and awareness of this important global problem, instead became a conference of hate and exclusion.

It may have taken them seven years to catch on, but it looks like Canada will not be participating this year:

Canada has withdrawn its support for a UN anti-racism conference slated to take place in South Africa next year, the federal government announced Wednesday.
The so-called Durban II conference “has gone completely off the rails” and Canada wants no part of it, said Jason Kenney, secretary of state for multiculturalism and Canadian identity.

“Canada is interested in combating racism, not promoting it,” Kenney told The Canadian Press. “We’ll attend any conference that is opposed to racism and intolerance, not those that actually promote racism and intolerance.

“Our considered judgment, having participated in the preparatory meetings, was that we were set for a replay of Durban I. And Canada has no intention of lending its good name and resources to such a systematic promotion of hatred and bigotry.”

Ed:

the UN appointed Libya to chair the event, Cuba as the vice-chair, and put its problematic Human Rights Council in charge of oversight, Canada saw the writing on the wall. The HRC has followed the tradition of its predecessor Human Rights Committee in focusing all of its attention on Israel rather than nations that coincidentally sit on the HRC and systematically abuse human rights.

Of course, a few other warning signs have already appeared. The planning sessions got scheduled on Jewish high holy days, effectively ensuring that the Israelis would have no say in the event. However, Iran — whose leader called to have Israel wiped off the map and held a conference to imagine a world without Israel or the US — has been named to the organizing committee.

Can someone give me a valid reason why we are still discussing this United Nations in 2008? Let’s get out of that organization and call it a day!

Front Page Magazine has a must read on the UN

Ban Ki-moon launched 2008 with a call for the United Nations to “rediscover the pragmatism of its principles”. Before that can happen, however, the United Nations must rediscover the principles themselves upon which it was founded. Sadly, that is not likely to happen.

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