From South Africa to the United Nations: How the Obsession with Israel hurts Africa

Racism, racial discrimination, and xenophobia are real issues with devastating impacts and severe consequences that deserve earnest and committed actions from the United Nations, its member states, non-government organizations, and religious and civil society. However, on multiple occasions in recent decades, the UN has committed itself to enabling acts of racism - from inflammatory propaganda to international legal lawfare – against the Jews, a group of people who comprise only 0.2% of the world’s population. Arguably the most significant of the UN’s actions in this regard was the Durban Declaration and Program of Action at the 2001 Durban Conference (Durban I). The Program of Action by the NGO Forum called Israel a “racist, apartheid state” that committed acts of genocide and practiced ethnic cleansing. The direct effect of these absurd lies has been a steady increase in Jew-hatred worldwide.