| | [[File:Bnai-brith.jpg|thumb|300px|''B'nai B'rith'' magazine gives a Jewish view of the UN, [http://mydigimag.rrd.com/publication/?i=25994 winter 2009 online]]] A General Assembly resolution led to the partition of Palestine in 1947, but the UN was useless in preventing armed Arab aggression against the new State of Israel in 1948. Increasingly the General Assembly became a forum for Arab attacks on [[Israel]]. [[Ahmed Shukairy]], the first chairman of the [[Palestinian Liberation Organization]] terror group, was a Syrian delegate from 1949 to 1951 and later [[Saudi Arabia|Saudi]] ambassador to the UN from 1957 to 1962. Shukairy was a Nazi collaborator<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ijg4AQAAMAAJ&pg=SL1-PA5735&dq=#v=snippet&q=%22all%20out%20for%20Hitler%22&f=false Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ..., Volume 107, Part 24, United States Congress 1961, p.5735]:<blockquote>Warmongering in the U.N. Extension of Remarks Of Hon. Lester Holtzman Of New York. In the House of Representatives. Wednesday, July 26, 1961... Shukairy got his start in politics in the early 1930s when he belonged to a group of fanatical extremists led by the ex-Muftl... when Soviet Russia joined the Allies, Shukairy's group split with the Communists and went all out for Hitler.</blockquote></ref> who "spread Nazi-style hatred of Jews, even in the United Nations." <ref>[https://forward.com/culture/167283/looking-back-december-14-2012/ Looking Back: December 14, 2012], The Forward. | | [[File:Bnai-brith.jpg|thumb|300px|''B'nai B'rith'' magazine gives a Jewish view of the UN, [http://mydigimag.rrd.com/publication/?i=25994 winter 2009 online]]] A General Assembly resolution led to the partition of Palestine in 1947, but the UN was useless in preventing armed Arab aggression against the new State of Israel in 1948. Increasingly the General Assembly became a forum for Arab attacks on [[Israel]]. [[Ahmed Shukairy]], the first chairman of the [[Palestinian Liberation Organization]] terror group, was a Syrian delegate from 1949 to 1951 and later [[Saudi Arabia|Saudi]] ambassador to the UN from 1957 to 1962. Shukairy was a Nazi collaborator<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ijg4AQAAMAAJ&pg=SL1-PA5735&dq=#v=snippet&q=%22all%20out%20for%20Hitler%22&f=false Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ..., Volume 107, Part 24, United States Congress 1961, p.5735]:<blockquote>Warmongering in the U.N. Extension of Remarks Of Hon. Lester Holtzman Of New York. In the House of Representatives. Wednesday, July 26, 1961... Shukairy got his start in politics in the early 1930s when he belonged to a group of fanatical extremists led by the ex-Muftl... when Soviet Russia joined the Allies, Shukairy's group split with the Communists and went all out for Hitler.</blockquote></ref> who "spread Nazi-style hatred of Jews, even in the United Nations." <ref>[https://forward.com/culture/167283/looking-back-december-14-2012/ Looking Back: December 14, 2012], The Forward. |
| | Writer elaborates on: 'Twenty years after Durban, what we still get wrong about left-wing anti-Semitism.'<ref>D. Bernstein, "Twenty years after Durban, what we still get wrong about left-wing anti-Semitism," JNS, Sep 26, 2021.<br><i> | | Writer elaborates on: 'Twenty years after Durban, what we still get wrong about left-wing anti-Semitism.'<ref>D. Bernstein, "Twenty years after Durban, what we still get wrong about left-wing anti-Semitism," JNS, Sep 26, 2021.<br><i> |
| | Talking about the anti-Semitism at Durban without reference to postcolonialist ideology is like talking about the attacks of Sept. 11 without reference to extreme Islamist ideology. | | Talking about the anti-Semitism at Durban without reference to postcolonialist ideology is like talking about the attacks of Sept. 11 without reference to extreme Islamist ideology. |
| − | The Durban conference was a watershed moment for Jews around the world, a stark reminder that the deliverance from the forces of history was not yet in the offing. The world’s oldest hatred was alive and well, not just in the remnants of an unreconstructed Eastern Europe or the aggrieved masses of the Third World, but among the cosmopolitan classes of the West. Yet few people addressed a basic question about this revival of anti-Semitism: What was the underlying ideology driving the Jew-hatred at Durban? And, 20 years later, with a resurgence of left-wing anti-Semitism in the United States and Europe, many still haven’t figured out how a variant of that same virus generates anti-Semitism today. | + | The Durban conference was a watershed moment for Jews around the world, a stark reminder that the deliverance from the forces of history was not yet in the offing. The world’s oldest hatred was alive and well, not just in the remnants of an unreconstructed Eastern Europe or the aggrieved masses of the Third World, but among the cosmopolitan classes of the West. Yet few people addressed a basic question about this revival of anti-Semitism: What was the underlying ideology driving the Jew-hatred at Durban? And, 20 years later, with a resurgence of left-wing anti-Semitism in the United States and Europe, many still haven’t figured out how a variant of that same virus generates anti-Semitism today.</i></ref> |