Israel’s Livni has decided that Israel will be boycotting the second Durban conference on racism. “Once again, extremist Arab and Muslim states wish to control the content of the conference and derail it from its original mission.”
If the derailed mission of an anti-racist world conference is to point out the ways in which Israel’s policies are discriminatory and ethnically exclusive, perhaps the original mission was people of different colors bathing in Durban hotel hot tubs together and getting all hot and steamy?
Canada, the US, Britain, the Netherlands and France have also agreed to boycott Durban along with Israel. Notice anything peculiar here? Like histories of colonizing the world and wiping out entire populations of indigenous peoples??
Hey maybe the US thinks there’s no need to attend since racism is now over in North America.
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So Portugal is going?
Posted by Fayyad | November 19, 2008, 9:15 amand the Arab governments, instead of actually doing something to help the palestinians, will use this opportunity to issue their bombastic defenses of Palestinian rights in order to cover up how much they are actually screwing them, screwing their own people and discriminating between them. Syria whores Palestine in order to justify its oppression of the Kurds, and then the Kurds who are not educated about Palestine will hate Palestinians, because your enemy’s enemy must be your friend. It is such a vicious cycle, and the anzima al-kharaiyya have been participating in it from the beginning.
Posted by sunbula | November 19, 2008, 9:23 amIsrael was right to pull out, even if there are serious problems with racism in Israeli society.
The form and structure of the conference means that racism in Israel will be Issue #1 or close to it, whereas in reality, if you’re looking at serious issues of racism globally, issues in Israel couldn’t even crack the top 10 — *maybe* the top 20.
Holding a UN conference on racism is a farce that will accomplish nothing. Some things simply aren’t best handled at that level.
Posted by Joe | November 20, 2008, 2:26 am