The British government is providing funding for two delegates from the Jewish Council for Racial Equality, a London-based Jewish group that works on social issues, to attend the U.N. Conference against Racism in South Africa. The agenda for the conference, which begins Aug. 31, has come under criticism due to attempts to revive a statement denigrating Zionism as racism.
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