"The Simon Wiesenthal Center praised Bronislaw Geremek, a Polish member of the European Parliament, for withdrawing his country’s delegation from the United Nations International Conference of Civil Society in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace. The conference, to be to be held Aug. 30-31 at the European Parliament in Brussels has no representation from Israel or Jewish non-governmental organizations. The UN’s Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People describes itself as "the main U.N. forum where all NGOs interested in the Palestine issue can meet."

"According to a recent report by Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor, the committee is anti-Israeli and was active in ‘implementing the Durban agenda of demonization,’ referring to the 2001 U.N. Durban conference on racism, where anti-Zionist rhetoric and calls for Israel’s destruction were a central theme. NGO Monitor warned that the European Union is lending the anti-Israel conference legitimacy by having it at the European Parliament."

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