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Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 6:24
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Dear
Sir:
I keep hearing that "singling-out" Israel at the UN conference on
Racism was unfair and that this in itself bred anti-Jewish (or racist)
sentiment against members of Jewish delegations attending the conference.
However, which the exception of one letter written below (which somewhat
alluded to the issue) I've yet to see any concrete example of how this is the
case. For example, is railroading a meeting put on by pro-Zionist or Israeli
groups in itself anti-Jewish (the closest example I've seen to elaborating
about this "anti-Jewish" behaviour) ? Were I to display my displeasure at the
policies employed in the name of certain groups -- for example, the KKK -- and
engage in some form of direct action in disrupting a meeting put on by these
groups, would that be racist?
If it's a matter of evening-out
criticism of abusers of human rights like Israel towards others abusers, such
as surrounding Arab countries, would that satisfy the issue?
sincerely,
David Obiekwe Quarter
On 7 Sep 01, at
8:26, Nurev Ind. wrote:
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Subject: Debunking Durban
> Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 05:57:34 -0500
> From: Honest Reporting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> HonestReporting Communique
> 06 September 2001
>
> "DEBUNKING DURBAN"
>
> * * *
>
> Dear
HonestReporting Member,
>
> This week the international media
gave HonestReporting a pleasant
> surprise: They blasted the UN
Conference on Racism for its unfair
> treatment of Israel.
>
> Here is a collection of 4 commentaries from around the world.
> HonestReporting members can read the full articles online, and send
> letters to the editor.
>
> Thank you for your ongoing
involvement in the battle against media bias.
>
>
HonestReporting.com
>
> ==================
>
> (1)
THE GUARDIAN (UK) - "Hate-Hate Relationship"
>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,546969 ,00.html
>
> Even traditionally anti-Israel publications, such as the Guardian
(UK),
> joined in the near-universal condemnation of the Durban
conference. After
> dispensing with the Guardian's standard Israel-
bashing, columnist Linda
> Grant unleased surprising critisism at
pro-Arab groups, accusing them of
> undermining the Palestinian cause:
>
> "[A]dhering to the belief that Zionism is racism does not
necessarily
> absolve you from being virulently racist yourself. Jews
who have been
> active in movements such as Peace Now and Gush Shalom,
engaged in what we
> hoped would be constructive debate about finding a
just settlement between
> Israel and the Palestinians, have already
come across some of the
> anti-Jewish racism which has been pervading
the Durban racism conference
> all week...
>
> "A very
simple truth has emerged out of the debacle of the Durban
> conference:
that you don't fight racism with more racism, and,
> unfortunately, as
the conference revealed, the "Zionism is racism"
> doctrine is
fostering a climate of increased racial prejudice. You have to
> ask
how the disgraceful treatment of Jewish (and not just Israeli)
>
delegates, the breaking up of meetings, or the hate literature has aided
> the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank in any way -- or whether
it has
> tarnished and weakened their cause."
>
> Letters
to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> * * *
>
> (2) THE
IRISH TIMES - Kevin Meyers
>
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/opinion/2001/0831/o pt5.htm
>
>
"[T]he dismal charade in Durban, where Israel alone is being singled out
> for attention as a racist state... is such an absurdity, such a
> contradiction of the living, breathing truth, that one is almost lost
for
> words, as one would be if one had to rebut the accusation that
Saudi
> Arabia is too tolerant of public lesbianism. Two minutes in any
Israeli
> street will tell you of the racial complexity of the modern
Jewish state;
> and any doubts about how broadly Israel defines
Jewishness were rebutted
> by the vast airlift of the coal-black
Falashas from Ethiopia 20 years
> ago... I am absolutely sure that no
Israeli government has ever broadcast
> anything to compare with the
virulently genocidal and anti-Semitic filth
> emanating from its
neighbours."
>
> Letters to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> * * *
>
> (3) THE AGE (AUSTRALIA) - "UN Reaps Its
Bitter Harvest"
> http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/2001/09/06/FFX48TG
08RC.html
>
> "[T]he condemnation of Israel [is] all the more
repellent, since Israel is
> the only Middle Eastern nation whose
political and legal structures can
> seriously be claimed to reflect
those principles [of the Universal
> Declaration of Human Rights]. This
is not to say that Israel is blameless
> in its treatment of the
Palestinians, or that the Palestinians have no
> right to a state of
their own. But it does mean that the equation of
> Zionism and racism
is unconscionable, and that the conference's main
> achievement has
been to dramatise the gulf between the declared ideals of
> the UN and
the willingness of some of its forums and many of its member
> states
to adhere to those ideals... UN Secretary- General Kofi Annan once
>
said that the General Assembly's resolution condemning Zionism as a form
> of racism was a low point in the organisation's history. That
resolution
> has been repealed, but sadly, its destructive legacy
continues."
>
> Letters to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> * * *
>
> (4) FINANCIAL TIMES - "Deadlock in
Durban"
> http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftcpagename=View&c=Article
&cid=FT368TH18RC&live=true
>
>
> "When Kofi
Annan, the UN secretary-general, opened the event in Durban, he
> urged
the delegates not to pick on any one country or region. His words
>
apparently fell on deaf ears. All efforts so far to prevent Israel from
> being singled out for particular censure have failed... That is not
to say
> that Israel's policies towards the Palestinians cannot or
should not be
> criticised. The Palestinians have real grievances and
few forums in which
> to express them. But to accuse Israel of racism
without mentioning
> Russia's actions in Chechnya, for example, or
China's colonisation of
> Tibet, or even government-supported racist
acts in neighbouring Zimbabwe,
> is one-sided and absurd. The trouble
is that from the start the conference
> was hijacked by special
interest groups and the problem was compounded by
> a lack of clear
focus and good preparation...
>
> "Now the US and Israel have
quit the conference. They made little effort
> to use diplomacy to
change the conclusions and their predictable departure
> has soured the
atmosphere. They might as well not have attended at all."
>
>
(Note: The Financial Times is mistaken that "little effort" was made.
>
Months of U.S. and Israeli diplomatic efforts attempted to forestall the
> anti-Israel resolutions.)
>
> Letters to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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> MORE ON AMIRA HAAS
>
> As a follow-up to our last communique, we offer some more
background into
> the pro-Palestinian activities of Israeli journalist
Amira Haas. In June
> 2001, the Jerusalem District Court ordered
Ha'aretz and Hass to pay
> 250,000 shekels (about $80,000) for
defamation against the Jewish
> community of Hebron.
>
>
In January, Haas had reported on an incident in which Israeli Border
>
Police killed a wanted Palestinian terrorist, Shabber Hassouna
>
al-Husseini. Hass reported that Jews from Hebron kicked, spit on and
>
danced around the dead body.
>
> An investigation by the Israeli
Army determined that the accusations were
> false. Hebron's Jewish
community demanded a written apology from Ha'aretz,
> but when the
request was denied, the community turned to the courts.
>
>
Judge Rachel Shalev-Gartel concluded in favor of the Hebron residents,
> ruling that Haas' report -- disproven by several televised accounts
of the
> incident -- damaged the community's reputation.
>
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