21 Apr Durban II: Libya Gets Called Out on Human Rights Hypocrisy
TNR discusses here the circumstances of last Friday’s intervention by Palestinian doctor Ashraf El Hagog as a representative of UN Watch. The Chair of the then-Prep Com, who has since been elected chair of the Durban II conference, is Najjat al-Hajjaji, representing the government of Libya. Readers might recall that Hagog, along with a group of Bulgarian nurses was imprisoned and tortured by Libya after being wrongly convicted of intentionally infecting a group of children with HIV. France negotiated the release of Hagog and the group last year, and Hagog now lives in Bulgaria. While the U.S. media has focused on yesterday’s walk out by European state delegates during the incendiary speech by Iran’s Ahmadinedjad, this clip illustrates the value of NGO participation at such fora.
A few points about the racist UN – Durban “anti-racism” conference Why Western countries tend to boycott it. 1) Since Muslim nations (OIC & Iran) push to criminalize criticism of Islamists’ bigotry, doesn’t it mean that anything being said in that conference is the opposite of tolerance and of truth? 2) How can the UN avoid the largest practitioner of racism, which is Arabism (against: Kurds, Berbers, Africans, Jews, Assyrians, Asians, etc.), but focuses on the so called “anti-Arab racism”? [ Arabism is racism! ] 3) When will Arab racists & Islamic bigots let go of the UN and stop hijacking it with it’s lobbies (silencing Arab racist genocide in Darfur, yet daming innocent Israelis who merely try to survive)? 4) Why is Arab terror singling out Jews not racist? 5) Why is the essence of the entire “conflict'” in the M.E. not a form of bigotry by Arab Muslims who can’t “accept” the non Arab non Muslim pluralistic democratic Israel? 6) Are Jews living, or even allowed to live in racist “Palestinian” controlled territories (Judenrein – ethnic cleaning)? 7) When will lefty radicals (Meretz/B’Tzelem) talk about preferential treatments to Arabs OVER Jews inside Israel, like in Hebron and in… Read more »