Durban Conference

Twenty five years after Durban, equating Zionism with racism has become mainstream - editorial

The 2001 World Conference against Racism 2001 included a draft document equating Zionism with racism, targeting Israel alone for its right to exist.

Head of Israeli delegation to the World Conference Against Racism, Ambassador Mordechai Yedid, addresses at a plenary meeting 03 September 2001, in Durban.
A march organized by the Muslim Judicial ahead of the Durban conference in Cape Town, August 2001.

The Durban Conference 25 years later: A blueprint for anti-Israel demonization - interview

Outgoing President of NGO Monitor, Prof. Gerald M. Steinberg.

NGO Monitor founder Gerald Steinberg to step down after 25 years, Olga Deutsch to succeed him

Volker Turk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, addresses the UNHRC on his report on the human rights situation in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, and the obligation to ensure accountability and justice at the UN in Geneva, Switzerland.

The UN’s new Durban resolution is reinforcing racism - opinion


Why Durban IV must be boycotted - opinion

On paper, the Durban Conference was supposed to recommit to the fight against “racism, xenophobia and intolerance,” but in reality it it was the occasion of an inexcusable three-faceted failure.

PRO-PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATORS protest against Israel’s military action in Gaza, after Friday prayers in Durban in 2014

Germany will boycott the Durban IV conference

Berlin will not attend the UN event known as the Durban conference, which has a history of antisemitism and Holocaust denial • France has yet to announce its position

PROTESTERS BRANDISH anti-Israel signs outside the Durban Conference opening session, August 31, 2001.

Lapid: Antisemitism never ends with Jews, always moves on to next target

President Herzog calls to ‘undermine’ Durban Conference,’ describing it as “a conference of hate” and beset by antisemitism

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid is seen speaking at the Knesset, on July 5, 2021.

Herzog calls on global Jewry to undermine Durban 'conference of hate'

New president calls for countries to adopt legislation allowing for the prosecution of antisemitism, and to adopt the IHRA definition to facility combating Jew-hatred around the world.

ISAAC HERZOG addresses the Knesset for the first time as president on Wednesday.

Czech Republic becomes ninth state to boycott Durban conference

Durban IV is meant to mark the 20th anniversary of the World Conference on Racism in the South African city of the same name.

The flag of the Czech Republic is seen waving.

Austria joins Durban Conference boycott

“Austria supports efforts to combat racism worldwide, while rejecting the misuse of the Durban process to unfairly single out and target Israel,” the Austrian Embassy in Israel said on Friday.

People take pictures of a light symbol, marking the place where Viennese synagogues once stood before they were destroyed, after a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, also known as Night of Broken Glass, in front of a then destroyed Synagogue in Vienna, Austria November 8, 2018.

Netherlands is seventh country to boycott Durban IV

"This decision was taken due to the history of the Durban-process, the risk that this platform will once again be misused for antisemitic expressions."

PROTESTERS BRANDISH anti-Israel signs outside the Durban Conference opening session, August 31, 2001.