Forum Overview :: Wave Race 64 :: How are the meetings about racism going?

[quote name="Fussbett"]Countries already protesting the meeting and not attending because of the anti-Israel language in the draft statement: Germany, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Netherlands, US and Israel. [quote]GENEVA (AFP) — As delegates reconvene at the UN anti-racism meeting Tuesday, top UN officials sought to contain the fallout after an anti-Israel onslaught by Iran's president prompted a mass walkout. ... Ahmadinejad, who has previously called for the Jewish state to be wiped off the map, criticised the creation of a "totally racist government in occupied Palestine" in 1948, calling it "the most cruel and repressive racist regime. "The (UN) Security Council helped stabilise this occupation regime and supported it for the past 60 years, giving them a free hand to continue their crimes," he said on the first day of the conference. His remarks prompted 23 European Union delegations to walk out of the conference room in protest.[/quote] I think this neatly sums up the problem of fighting racism (you can't).[/quote]