According to today’s Jerusalem Post, Holland and Australia have announced that they will boycott Durban 2:
Hours after the US said it would boycott a UN conference on racism starting Monday in Geneva over objectionable language in the meeting’s final document that could single out Israel for criticism, Australia and Holland followed suit on Sunday morning, saying they were concerned the conference would be derailed by some countries to issues other than human rights.
So let’s see, that makes the US, Israel, Canada, Italy, Holland and Australia the only countries officially willing to admit that tomorow’s conference actually has nothing to do with racism or human rights? Where is the EU? According to JPost,
The European Union was still weighing its own participation.
Well, they still a few hours left to save themselves from embarrassment.
i sincerely hope the EU will stand up to all this pressure and do what is only right: participate. This is not about ‘Israel and its allies’. This is about the real victims of racism and xenophobia. With Israel itself have a little trouble containing its own racist attitudes towards arabs they should be the first to participate.
http://owlminerva.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/a-few-thoughts-on-dunbar-ii-and-the-clash-of-civilizations/