Canada pulls out of UN racism conference

[L'Chaim]

Well done Canada. Hopefully they are the first of many countries to stay away from this UN chatterbox fest.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 03,00.html

I posted earlier that the Left, when it comes to Israel, adopt just the sort of racist behaviour they are meant to oppose. The same could be said about the UN.

But well done to Canada. The UN needs to realise that anti-racist racism is as big a problem as racism and the UN would seem to be awash with it. I'd imagine the US are tired paying most of the bills for this bankrupt organization. The UN might have served a purpose at one time, but not any more.

[FutureTaoiseach]

The Canadian Conservative govt's support base includes the sort of Christian fundamentalist Zionists we see in the US, though the fact that they only have around 1/3rd of the seats in the House of Commons shows that most Canadians don't subscribe to this perspective. Israeli policies towards the Palestinians have always been racist. Mass expulsions, massacres, colonisation. Palestinians in the West Bank forced to queue up at endless Israeli checkpoints whereas Israeli settlers have bypasses built especially for them. An aparteid state whose racist policies deserve scrutiny.

[farnaby]

I started to take a look for any results from a previous UN conference on racism. Turns out back in 2001 they came up with the following gem:

The victims of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance are individuals or groups of individuals who are or who have been affected by or subjected to or targets of those scourges

So it turns out that racism victims are, like, basically, people who are victims of racism. It took them a whole week to come up with that. The two most meaningless, frustrating things in the world are tautologies (like the above) and preaching to the converted, evidence of both of which I see in such conferences. Are attendees going out to the world, sitting Jews and Palestinians, or Indian and Pakistanis, or KKK and Black Panthers together and teaching them about the wrongs of rascism? Why not?

Racism is resolved where there are reasons or incentives for both sides to live in freedom and communicate together for mutual benefit, preferably about anything other than the reasons they hate each other.

[yanshuf]

Last conference WAS a farce!

It excluded talks on real issues, and concentrated on presumed atrocities against the so called "Palestinians", who were actually attacking Israeli civilians by suicide bombers.

And who was presiding back then? Yes! The Irish Mary Robinson, the righteous.

She was blind and deaf, and she, so it seems, didn't understand English.

She had the impudence of calling herself the Head of the Human Rights committee.

That was a joke.

The only thing this committee was and still doing is issuing diatribes against Israel.

I think, since this conference is going this time much better, as the heads of the conference are representatives from the knighthood of human rights - Lybia, Cuba and Iran, then it would only be fair for Israel to put a yellow patch on, and attend this conference.

Aapropos this conference, I would be happy to see whenever the Arab countries stopped antisemitism in their own media: newspapers, but especially the TV series.

tata

[Thac0man]

With Libya elected to chair the next gathering, Cuba appointed vice-chair, and anti-Israel rhetoric and actions building, Kenney said his government was left with no choice but to abandon the preparatory process for the followup meeting.

Iran was named to the organizing committee, Kenney noted.

I think the canadians are correct. We will still be footing the bill of course. Interesting to see what positions the conferance adopts without moderating voices or balancing influences there. Leave them to it.

[Arminius]

Why would Canada be so worried that the

" ...event is likely to descend into 'regrettable anti-Semitism'"?

That's like something the Israeli govt would say, isn't it?
What's going on in Canada?

[Trampas]

Last conference WAS a farce!

It excluded talks on real issues, and concentrated on presumed atrocities against the so called "Palestinians", who were actually attacking Israeli civilians by suicide bombers.

And who was presiding back then? Yes! The Irish Mary Robinson, the righteous.

She was blind and deaf, and she, so it seems, didn't understand English.

She had the impudence of calling herself the Head of the Human Rights committee.

That was a joke.

The only thing this committee was and still doing is issuing diatribes against Israel.

I think, since this conference is going this time much better, as the heads of the conference are representatives from the knighthood of human rights - Lybia, Cuba and Iran, then it would only be fair for Israel to put a yellow patch on, and attend this conference.

Aapropos this conference, I would be happy to see whenever the Arab countries stopped antisemitism in their own media: newspapers, but especially the TV series.

tata

No doubt Robinson's successor (and clone) Louise Arbour will be in attendance - she who has described the constant rocket attacks on Israel as "an irritant".

[mbari hogun]

The Canadian Conservative govt's support base includes the sort of Christian fundamentalist Zionists we see in the US, though the fact that they only have around 1/3rd of the seats in the House of Commons shows that most Canadians don't subscribe to this perspective. Israeli policies towards the Palestinians have always been racist. Mass expulsions, massacres, colonisation. Palestinians in the West Bank forced to queue up at endless Israeli checkpoints whereas Israeli settlers have bypasses built especially for them. An aparteid state whose racist policies deserve scrutiny.

I have never heard anyone in Canada make a Christian Zionist argument, or mention Christian Zionism favourably. Canada does have a few religious conservatives (although not many... it's tough being a hardcore Christian in a country with no abortion laws, same sex marriage, etc.) but they're smart enough to keep their crazy views very quiet. Mentioning creationism, for example, leads to relentless mockery.

The Conservatives are staunchly pro-American and thus pro-Israel. It has nothing to do with millenial doomsday fantasies or anything like that.

[FutureTaoiseach]

The Canadian Conservative govt's support base includes the sort of Christian fundamentalist Zionists we see in the US, though the fact that they only have around 1/3rd of the seats in the House of Commons shows that most Canadians don't subscribe to this perspective. Israeli policies towards the Palestinians have always been racist. Mass expulsions, massacres, colonisation. Palestinians in the West Bank forced to queue up at endless Israeli checkpoints whereas Israeli settlers have bypasses built especially for them. An aparteid state whose racist policies deserve scrutiny.

I have never heard anyone in Canada make a Christian Zionist argument, or mention Christian Zionism favourably. Canada does have a few religious conservatives (although not many... it's tough being a hardcore Christian in a country with no abortion laws, same sex marriage, etc.) but they're smart enough to keep their crazy views very quiet. Mentioning creationism, for example, leads to relentless mockery.

The Conservatives are staunchly pro-American and thus pro-Israel. It has nothing to do with millenial doomsday fantasies or anything like that.

Well Christian Zionists are an important part of their support base. They may well be far less outspoken than in the US though.

[Rebel CNC]

Any criticism of Kenya, Zimbabwe and Arabic countries will be studiously avoided.

As for the Palestinians, they seem unable or unwilling to stop the constant rocket attacks on Israel.