After
Durban
As debris of U.N.
forum clears,
Jews ponder
the consequences.
Best Wishes
to all of our family,
friends and customers
for a new year filled
with good health and much
happiness.
L'Shanah Tom
MICHAEL J. JORDAN
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Durban, South Africa
s terror struck New York
and Washington on
Monday, Jewish activists
were still recovering from
the ideological bomb of a_ U.N. con-
ference that lashed our at Israel as
racist and apartheid.
The final governmental declaration
adopted last Saturday by the U.N.
World Conference Against Racism
was dramatically toned down in its
criticism of Israel.
But an earlier declaration by non-
governmental organizations remains
on the ledger as, in the view of Jewish
activists, the most damning indict-
ment of Jews since World \X7ar II.
The impact of the NGO declara-
tion may be seen when a series of
U.N. forums resumes later this
month.
Israel and the Unired States with-
drew their delegations from Durban
several days after.the NGO declara-
tion, and vigorous lobbying by
European governments managed to
remove direcr references to Israel
from the conference's final govern-
mental declaration.
That prompted back-slapping in
Jerusalem — but the document nev-
ertheless criticizes the Jewish state by
implication.
Compromise language adopted
Saturday, after the conference had
been extended a day in the search for
a settlement, condemned anti-
Semitism and Islamophobia. The
Arab bloc's last-minute effort to label
foreign occupation "among the forms
and sources of racial discrimination"
was also rejected.
DURBAN on page 38
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