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April 20, 2009

More Nations Boycott UN Conference on Racism
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The United Nations Conference on Racism has opened in Geneva, but the
United States and several other nations are boycotting the conference
over concerns the conference will criticize Israel. In 2001, the US and
Israel walked out of the UN racism conference in South Africa after Arab
states sought to define Zionism as racist. During his opening talk, UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said racism, including anti-Semitism and
Islamophobia, needs to be tackled. We’ll have more on the conference
after headlines.



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