Durban's Troubling Legacy One Year Later: Twisting the Cause of International Human Rights Against the Jewish People


 

Publication Date: August 2002

Publisher: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

Author(s): Irwin Cotler

Research Area: International relations; Population and demographics; Social conditions

Keywords: International Relations; Antisemitism; Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Type: Other

Abstract:

The 2001 Durban World Conference Against Racism was intended to be a space in which all countries of the world came together to create an agenda to combat racism. However, the conference focused on the Tehran platform, which depicted Zionism as a violent movement promoting racist supremacy. Cotler discusses the problematic nature of the conference and warns against the dangers of international support for a sanctioned culture of hate and a language that promotes genocidal antisemitism.