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 "We are tempted to compare the first World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) -- organized by the United Nations in Durban, South Africa in 2001 -- to a circus. But that would be unfair to circuses. Far from a forum promoting tolerance among peoples and nations, as it was billed, the WCAR became a festival for hateful screeds against Israel and the West by some of the most repressive regimes in the world, cheered on by NGOs from Europe and North America."  […]

"African dictators used calls for slavery reparations from the U.S. to distract internal critics from their brutal and hapless governments. Non-governmental organizations, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, refused to demand that calls for violence against Israeli and Western targets be removed from a common NGO communique. They felt violence was sometimes 'justified if against apartheid or on behalf of the intifada.'"

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