Eight years ago, pro-Israel groups were caught off guard by the anti-Israel focus of the 2001 Durban conference. This time, Jewish and pro-Israel groups appeared to have the upper hand.
Ben Harris provides video from the pro-Israel rally in Geneva near the Durban Review Conference: If you’re having trouble figuring out what Natan Sharanksy is saying, here’s the transcript as best we can decipher: In Soviet Union, I lived in Orwellian world where they spoke about peace and that meant war, and they spoke about protecting […]
GENEVA (JTA) — After the theatrics of the first day and the drama of the second, the third day of the Durban II conference was all about what everyone ostensibly came here to discuss. Member states took to the podium at the U.N.-sponsored anti-racism parley to highlight the issues of discrimination they care about — […]