Durban Conference

UN to mark 25th anniversary of South Africa's Durban Conference criticized for antisemitic rhetoric

"Durban was not a fight against racism, but a platform for antisemitism and hatred of Israel," said Israeli ambassador to the UN Danny Danon.

Kiribati’s President Taneti Maamau addresses the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at UN headquarters in New York Friday, 25th September 2026; Illustrative.
 PRO-PALESTINIAN SUPPORTERS demonstrate outside the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, in 2001.

Israel and the West must stop trying to reform the UN and build something new instead - opinion

The new 9/11 Memorial Wall is seen at One Police Plaza in New York, on September 9, 2026.

Twenty-five years after 9/11: Looking back at the 'Before Times' for American Jewry

Head of Israeli delegation to the World Conference Against Racism, Ambassador Mordechai Yedid, addresses at a plenary meeting 03 September 2001, in Durban.

Twenty five years after Durban, equating Zionism with racism has become mainstream - editorial


Pro-Israel lawyers urge European countries to drop 'antisemitic' UN conference

The International Legal Forum argues that states that adopted the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism should not attend a conference that operates in violation of IHRA's tenets.

PROTESTERS BRANDISH anti-Israel signs outside the Durban Conference opening session, August 31, 2001.

How Israelis can fight the Durban conference's Jew-hatred - opinion

It’s self-defeating to claim to oppose antisemitism while overlooking one of its most popular forms today – namely, anti-Zionism.

 PRO-PALESTINIAN SUPPORTERS demonstrate outside the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, in 2001.

France 11th state to boycott Durban conference over antisemitism fears

Israel, the US, Canada, Australia, Germany, the UK, Hungary, Austria, Netherlands and the Czech Republic are also boycotting the conference.

French flag in France

Why Durban IV must be boycotted - opinion

On paper, the Durban Conference was supposed to recommit to the fight against “racism, xenophobia and intolerance,” but in reality it it was the occasion of an inexcusable three-faceted failure.

PRO-PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATORS protest against Israel’s military action in Gaza, after Friday prayers in Durban in 2014

Germany will boycott the Durban IV conference

Berlin will not attend the UN event known as the Durban conference, which has a history of antisemitism and Holocaust denial • France has yet to announce its position

PROTESTERS BRANDISH anti-Israel signs outside the Durban Conference opening session, August 31, 2001.

Lapid: Antisemitism never ends with Jews, always moves on to next target

President Herzog calls to ‘undermine’ Durban Conference,’ describing it as “a conference of hate” and beset by antisemitism

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid is seen speaking at the Knesset, on July 5, 2021.

Herzog calls on global Jewry to undermine Durban 'conference of hate'

New president calls for countries to adopt legislation allowing for the prosecution of antisemitism, and to adopt the IHRA definition to facility combating Jew-hatred around the world.

ISAAC HERZOG addresses the Knesset for the first time as president on Wednesday.

Czech Republic becomes ninth state to boycott Durban conference

Durban IV is meant to mark the 20th anniversary of the World Conference on Racism in the South African city of the same name.

The flag of the Czech Republic is seen waving.

Austria joins Durban Conference boycott

“Austria supports efforts to combat racism worldwide, while rejecting the misuse of the Durban process to unfairly single out and target Israel,” the Austrian Embassy in Israel said on Friday.

People take pictures of a light symbol, marking the place where Viennese synagogues once stood before they were destroyed, after a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, also known as Night of Broken Glass, in front of a then destroyed Synagogue in Vienna, Austria November 8, 2018.

Netherlands is seventh country to boycott Durban IV

"This decision was taken due to the history of the Durban-process, the risk that this platform will once again be misused for antisemitic expressions."

PROTESTERS BRANDISH anti-Israel signs outside the Durban Conference opening session, August 31, 2001.