Pro-Palestinian activists disrupted a news conference by more than 20 Jewish groups at the site of the U.N.-backed forum on racism in South Africa. The activists yelled “Zionism is racism” and “You have Palestinian blood on your hands” at the news conference, which was being held to highlight anti- Semitic and anti-Zionist intimidation.
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