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discusses Israel’s supposed abuses while turning a blind eye to scores of
actual atrocities around the globe. This world organization has 192 member
nations, but its Security Council has devoted about a third of its activity and
criticism to only one of those states—Israel. Nowhere has this obsession
been more starkly demonstrated than in the World Conference against
Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, held
September 2001 in the South African town of Durban, where, for eight full
days, delegates from numerous countries and thousands of nongovernmental
organizations indulged in a xenophobic orgy of anti-Israel and
antisemitic incitement that made a mockery of the conference’s original
purpose. 55
As UNESCO follows suit by denying the Jews some of their most
cherished historical and religious symbols, the OIC scores yet another palpable
hit in its ceaseless hate campaign.
*Bat Ye’or is the author of Eurabia (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005).
This article contains extracts from her forthcoming book, Europe, Globalization
and the Coming Universal Caliphate (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011).
55. Gerald M. Steinberg, “NGOs Make War on Israel,” Middle East Quarterly,
Summer 2004, 13-25.