European Union officials are pleased with the changes made for the Durban II Conference, changes that amount to nothing but on the surface, exhibit a more legitimate forum for the second anti-Semitic gathering.

While France and the European Union have still not announced plans to attend the Second Durban Conference, they praised the United Nations decision to amend the conference’s outline, dropping objectionable references to Israel. A defamatory position on religion was also omitted in the hope of eliminating objections to the April conference, which is currently going to be boycotted by a number of countries.

Israel however is less than pleased, explaining the modified text does nothing to reject the 2001 declaration of the UN World Conference Against Racism held in Durban, South Africa. Israel is therefore maintaining its boycott of the conference.

That second anti-Semitic fiasco has prompted Israel, America, Italy and other to announce they are not planning to attend.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)