The Obama administration will boycott a world conference against racism being held at United Nations headquarters in September because of concerns about anti-Semitism.
The UN summit marks the 10-year commemoration of the 2001 World Conference Against Racism that was held in the South African city of Durban. The US and Israel walked out of that meeting over a draft resolution that criticized Israel and equated Zionism with racism.
The United States will not participate in the upcoming conference because the Durban process “included ugly displays of intolerance and anti-Semitism,” Joseph E. MacManus, acting US assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs, wrote in a letter to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York.
It is very unfortunate that Obama of all people coming from such diverse background will not stand up against racism. At least he should have the guts to give up his Nobel prize, … how about for the Editorial staff of the Muslim Times!!
Honesty is the greatest virtue. The conference could go ahead with the following title:
“This is a conference against any kind of racism except the Israeli kind, which has a ‘special permission’ from the Super Power” or something like that ….