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More Nations Boycott UN Conference on Racism

HeadlineApr 20, 2009

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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