Hijacking Anti-Semitism

Not content just to “Hijack Human Rights” in the so-called U.N. Human Rights Council, now it’s proposed to hijack anti-semitism.

Diplomats preparing for a U.N. conference on racism sparred over definitions of anti-Semitism.

The 2001 U.N. World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, was marred by vehement anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. Jewish groups are concerned that organizers of the 2009 conference in Durban again will use the parley to demonize Israel.

On the third day of a two-week preparatory forum this week in Geneva, Algerian diplomat Idriss Jazairy said the definition of anti-Semitism should include bias toward Arabs because they are a Semitic people. Jewish groups see such statements as attempts to cover up hatred of Jews.

Anne Bayefsky, of Eye On The U.N., after being interrupted repeatedly by the Algerian representative, remarked:

[T]he 57 member states of the Organization of Islamic States are mindful of the tarnished 2001 event and now are “feigning an interest in anti-Semitism only to pervert and emasculate the meaning, which is why they have no problem condemning it.”

Welcome to Newspeak at the U.N., “whose aim is to make any alternative thinking ("thoughtcrime") or speech impossible by removing any words or possible constructs which describe the ideas of freedom, rebellion and so on. One character says admiringly of the shrinking volume of the new dictionary: ‘It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.’ “