THE UN HAS BEEN BUSY. Anne Bayefsky describes the coming of Durban II:

Last Friday in Geneva, the U.N. launched a two-year plan which will culminate in a full-throated anti-American and anti-Israel world conference on racism in 2009. Modeled on the notorious 2001 Durban “anti-racism” conference, Durban II similarly promises to attract terrorist sympathizers and anti-Semites from around the globe. The spectacle of last week’s planning session might be described as the theater of the absurd, except that the check handed to the American taxpayer for 22 percent of the costs was very real.

The event is the brainchild of the U.N.’s lead human-rights body — the Human Rights Council.

Apparently the OIC (Organization of Islamic Conference) presented the follow list for how Durban II is to be conducted:

Adopting objectives far beyond the original idea of a “Durban review conference”;

Creating another U.N. committee to prepare for Durban II;

Issuing special participation invitations only to the U.N. investigators (rapporteurs) on racism and Islamophobia, and freedom of religion;

Adopting new rules of procedure especially designed for the Conference;

Introducing vetting for a pre-conference questionnaire that might have asked potentially intrusive questions of states about actual protection from discrimination;

Paying for the Durban II preparations from the U.N.’s regular budget (that is the West); and

Allowing every NGO that participated in Durban I to participate in Durban II unless objections were made in just 14 days.

And each and everyone one of these was approved.

Bayefsky notes the historical context of Durban I:

As U.N. human-rights authorities Iran, Libya, and Cuba now gear up for the inevitable clash between civilization and its antithesis, it is well to remember that this is not a harmless shouting match. Durban I ended three days before 9/11. Fictitious and feverish allegations of racism fan real flames.

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