The major Western democracies boycott Durban 20. What is Italy doing?
Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, Hungary and the United States have announced that they will not participate in the 20th anniversary of the Durban Conference on September 22, during the opening of the UN General Assembly. . The major Western democracies had already forfeited Durban II, in 2009 in Geneva, and Durban III, in 2011 in New York.
This is because the First Durban Conference was despicable. On August 31, 2001, shortly before the terrorist attacks of September 11, what was to be the universal initiative of the international community against racism, turned into an indictment against Zionism, the State of Israel, and the people Jewish.
Irwin Cotler, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, wrote: "If 9/11 was the Kristallnacht of terrorism, Durban was its Mein Kampf ".
Durban was used to attack Israel and fabricate the "Zionism equals racism" narrative. The protocols of the Elders of Zion were put up for sale in the NGO Forum and thousands of people took part in a march led by the Palestinians, where a sign read "Hitler should have finished the job". Basically, Durban formulated and codified the theoretical basis for contemporary anti-Semitism by manipulating public discourse: Jews are no longer hated in the name of racism, but in the name of anti-racism.
The aftermath of Durban radiate to today. During Operation Guardians of the Walls , numerous voices from within the EU and Italy sympathized with the positions of Hamas, a terrorist organization, accusing Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, of being an apartheid regime . It is ironic that within weeks of the cessation of hostilities, an Arab party, Ra'am , then went to government in Jerusalem with the coalition of Naftali Bennet.
When France adopted the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, President Emmanuel Macron declared that "anti-Zionism is a modern form of anti-Semitism"; and, in doing the same, the German Kanzlerin Angela Merkel said that "anti-Zionism is illegitimate".
Italy must not participate in Durban 20. Attending the works would inflict a vulnus on regional stability, international security and liberal democracy, offering the reputational cover of Rome to the delegitimization of the Jewish state. Instead, "the defense of the freedom of the West begins under the Walls of Jerusalem". Words by Ugo La Malfa.
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