Some say the action played into Ahmadinejad’s hands, but it was a necessary reminder that this forum is not a podium for hatred.
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As United Nations and NGO delegates pack their bags to leave Geneva, the city where 500 years ago Calvin arrived to preach his austere moralising version of Christianity which culminated [...]
The piece below, by Jeremy Newmark, appears in the Jewish News:
On arrival at the Palais des Nations in Geneva for the Durban Review Conference (Durban II), colleagues from Jewish groups around the globe were rightly proud of the fact that, whatever the coming days would bring, the lessons of the original Durban debacle had been [...]
This piece, by Karen Pollock, oriinally appeared on the Progress website.
You could hardly escape seeing the President Ahmedinejad circus this week. Images of him with a young guy in a colourful wig were everywhere - TV, national and international newspapers, the blogosphere.
I saw those images too, but there, on the conference floor in the United [...]
this piece, by Karen Pollock, appears in the Jewish Chronicle
Sitting at the Conference floor of the United Nations on Monday I was overwhelmed. I watched in utter disbelief as the High Commissioner introduced the President of Iran amidst strange excitement and anticipation among the audience as he made his way to the podium. It was [...]
There are a number of British NGOs attending Durban II to help fight racism worldwide. However, some of the NGOs and their representatives have formed unusual alliances. The photo below, for example, is of two groups that have been cooperating during the conference.
Despite the open antisemitism of the New Black Panther Party, Neturei Karta [...]