Racist Israel intends to boycott next UN racism conference

Date: 07 / 08 / 2008 Time: 09:54
Jerusalem – Ma'an –

Israel's delegate to the United Nations organizations in Geneva, Ambassador Itzhak Levanon, said on Wednesday that Israel intends to boycott the next UN World Conference Against Racism because they expect it to be another "international bashing of Israel."

Levanon said that Israel expects this conference to be like the previous one held in Durban in 2001, and that the Israeli government believes the conference is being used as a platform to discredit Israel and incite against it.

The conference is scheduled for April 2009 in Geneva, and Libya is chairing preparations for the conference.

Israel and the US withdrew from the 2001 conference after deliberations focused on Israel and a resolution equating Zionism with racism was debated. The final conference declaration did not include this language, but did refer to the desperate plight of Palestinians.*

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* The Zionist state of Israel discriminates against the Palestinian people, the indigenous population of the Holy Land. In particular, it has refused to implement UN resolutions about Palestinian rights, it has continued to force Palestinians out of their lands in order to build settlements for illegal Israeli settlers. It has built the Apartheid, Land-Grab Wall, which has been declared illegal by the International Court of Justice, it has maintained the occupation of the West Bank and the siege of Gaza Strip. Last but not least, the Zionist state of Israel allows only Jews to immigrate to the country while denying the indigenous Palestinian population its right to stay or return to its ancestral homeland.

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