Durban Conference

UN adopts Durban resolution despite antisemitic legacy of anti-Zionist declaration

Danon recalled that images of Hitler were circulated during the conference, Zionism was equated with racism, and Jewish participants were physically assaulted.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
A march organized by the Muslim Judicial ahead of the Durban conference in Cape Town, August 2001.
Kiribati’s President Taneti Maamau addresses the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at UN headquarters in New York Friday, 25th September 2026; Illustrative.

UN to mark 25th anniversary of South Africa's Durban Conference criticized for antisemitic rhetoric

"Durban was not a fight against racism, but a platform for antisemitism and hatred of Israel," said Israeli ambassador to the UN Danny Danon.

|ByIDAN KWELLER
PRO-PALESTINIAN SUPPORTERS demonstrate outside the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, in 2001.

Israel and the West must stop trying to reform the UN and build something new instead - opinion

The UN has become like the failed collectivist experiments of the 20th century – the huge old Soviet state enterprises and gargantuan Chinese communist industries

|ByDAVID M. WEINBERG
The new 9/11 Memorial Wall is seen at One Police Plaza in New York, on September 9, 2026.

Twenty-five years after 9/11: Looking back at the 'Before Times' for American Jewry

Despite the conspiracy theories that tried to pin the attacks on Israelis and Jews, the dominant narrative was that Israel and the United States were engaged in battle against a common enemy.

|ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA

Netherlands is seventh country to boycott Durban IV

"This decision was taken due to the history of the Durban-process, the risk that this platform will once again be misused for antisemitic expressions."

JULY 9, 2021ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
PROTESTERS BRANDISH anti-Israel signs outside the Durban Conference opening session, August 31, 2001.