Those planning to boycott the Durban Review Conference next month in Geneva out of concern for an anti-Israel bias say the new draft resolution for the conference is improved but not enough.
Nations have finally begun to understand that the Durban Review Conference was supposed to be a clarion call against the scourge of racism and is not a place for settling political scores or a vehicle for any form of racism, including anti-Semitism, writes the head of the American Jewish Committee’s institute on advancing human rights.
European foreign ministers are putting off the decision on whether or not to boycott the so-called Durban II anti-racism conference in Geneva next month after anti-Israel content in a draft resolution was toned down.