Durban at 25: Seeds of Hate

Durban at 25: Seeds of hate

A look back at the infamous U.N. conference on racism, anti-Zionism and antisemitism and what it means for antisemitism today.

How the UN’s 2001 ‘anti-racism’ conference in Durban helped shape today’s hatred of Israel

Twenty-five years ago, a gathering meant to combat prejudice and champion human rights became a watershed for the campaign to demonise, delegitimise and isolate the Jewish state and Jewish people

Durban: A milestone in the new anti-semitism

The Durban Conference in South Africa in September 2001 was not just an event; it was a turning point. It was the modern-day Wannsee that planned the contemporary destruction of the Jewish people. I was there for the Italian newspaper, La Stampa. The stench of something rotten was already emanating from the preparations for the […]