"Polish MEPs boycott UN conference"

A conference of UN NGOs (non-governmental organizations) on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to be hosted at the European Parliament this month, will be boycotted by Polish Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from across the political spectrum, who say that the conference is biased against Israel.

The meeting, set to take place at the European Parliament on August 30 – 31, has been organized by the UN’s Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People."

Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik, has written to the President of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Poettering, asking him to cancel the European Parliament’s decision to host the conference, while the Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor organization said the upcoming conference as a rehash of the 2001 UN Durban conference on racism, which saw unprecedented levels of anti-Zionist rhetoric, and calls for Israel’s destruction.

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See also:

• Anne Bayefsky, "Notorious UN Committee Hosting Anti-Israel Event at European Parliament", eyeontheun.org, August 28, 2007

• "Poland Will Boycott UN Anti-Israel Conference", Little Green Footballs, August 16, 2007
  

• "UN panel conference to be held at European Parliament despite Israeli protests", European Jewish Press, August 14, 2007

• Barak Ravid, NGO Monitor Impact: "Gov´t campaign in works to block anti-Israel seminar in Brussels", Ha’aretz, August 12, 200

• NGO Monitor Blog, European Parliament to Host UN NGO Anti-Israel Propaganda Conference, August 1, 2007