Old Articles of Interest
Europe should boycott Durban II.
"The parallel NGO Forum in 2001 was a horrific Orwellian experience, turning the human rights movement on its head with the most vicious displays of anti-Semitism, Holocaust-denial and the denial of Jewish self-determination in Israel."
Durban: Not Again
As the United Nations begins to gear up for another world conference in 2009 to review the outcomes from its discredited 2001 World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, governments and NGOs have a responsibility to say "not again". Not again to virulent anti-Semitism, not again to vile demonizing and delegitimizing of Israel, not again to incitement to violence against Jews, not again to the inversion of principles of human rights.
Center for Constitutional Rights appeal rejected in case against former IDF commander Moshe Yaalon
As NGO Monitor has reported, The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) funded by the Ford Foundation and Open Society Institute -- contributes to the demonization of Israel and exploitation of international law primarily through its lawsuits against Israeli officials for alleged war crimes, extrajudicial killing, crimes against humanity, and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. In this process, CCR consistently disregards the context of terror, denies Israels right to self-defense, and accuses it of deliberately targeting civilians.
Maimi Herald praises Sarkozy's statement that France would withdraw from the conference if it includes racist elements
French President Nicolas Sarkozy was right to threaten to pull France out of the United Nations' next racism conference should it start to resemble the anti-Semitic hate fest that was the first such conference. His is the moral stance that civilized countries should adopt. The U.N.'s racism conference in Durban, South Africa, degenerated into exactly what it was supposed to combat with the most abusive countries hijacking the agenda.
The poisonous myth of 'Israeli apartheid
Op-ed on the demonization of Israel on Canadas university campuses as part of International Israel Apartheid Week (The poisonous myth of 'Israeli apartheid', Alan Baker, National Post, February 14, 2008).
