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This is what the Durban Conference looks like: empty thanks to dozens of countries that refused to participate and who was left participating in this hate conference?

This is what the Durban Conference looks like: empty thanks to dozens of countries that refused to participate and who was left participating in this hate conference?

Countries like Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, China and North Korea ... and that says it all!  Disgrace! </i>https://t.co/VMjDlFiFJG</ref> the racist "anti racism" conference. The Festival if Hate.<ref>Gerald M Steinberg, "[https://www.jns.org/opinion/durban-iv-the-uns-festival-of-hate/ Durban IV: The UN’s festival of hate]", JNS, Sep 22, 2021.<br><i>

Countries like Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, China and North Korea ... and that says it all!  Disgrace! </i>https://t.co/VMjDlFiFJG</ref> the racist "anti racism" conference. The Festival of Hate.<ref>Gerald M Steinberg, "[https://www.jns.org/opinion/durban-iv-the-uns-festival-of-hate/ Durban IV: The UN’s festival of hate]", JNS, Sep 22, 2021.<br><i>

Now, as in 2001, many of those who claim to speak in the name of morality and law continue to support the perpetrators of inhuman brutality, and erase the victims of terror and injustice.</i></ref>

Now, as in 2001, many of those who claim to speak in the name of morality and law continue to support the perpetrators of inhuman brutality, and erase the victims of terror and injustice.</i></ref> 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>

 

But the phenomenon has been silenced. 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.