Analysis: Have the Durban conferences been discredited?

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By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL

“Durban III has been a flop. There is no media. People on the street aren’t interested," says former New York mayor Ed Koch.

The United Nations held its 10-year anti-racism commemoration conference Thursday to honor the fiercely anti-Israel and anti-Western Durban I event. In view of the counter-Durban movement since 2001 to stymie Durban's radical anti-Semitism and anti-Western attacks, there is a growing consensus that the Durban process has been derailed.

The 2001 “World Conference against Racism” took place in Durban, South Africa, and the name Durban quickly became associated with UN-funded anti- Semitism, intolerance and racism. In 2009, a successor conference, Durban II, was held in Geneva, where Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denied the first Holocaust and called for a second one against Israel.

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Thomas von der Osten-Sacken, a German Middle East expert, who co-launched an initiative in 2009 to convince Germany to boycott Durban II, told The Jerusalem Post on Friday that the Durban process only “resonates very marginally.” He said the “most important countries” boycotted Durban III, adding that in comparison to Durban I and II, the current conference is largely unimportant.

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=239366

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1. Were they ever credible? n/t

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2. Institutionalized racism

The Durban conferences were never credible outside certain racist hate groups.