Durban Strategy

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Durban Strategy is a term used by critics of the 2001 World Conference against Racism to describe the comparison of the State of Israel to apartheid South Africa. Critics claim that this comparison was made with the intention of causing and encouraging divestment from and boycott of Israel. ^[1]

The name is derived from Durban, South Africa, where the World Conference against Racism took place in 2001. NGOs adopted a declaration which condemned what they termed Israel's "racist crimes against humanity including ethnic cleansing [and] acts of genocide."^{[citation needed]}

Contents 1 Notes 2 Further reading 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Steinberg, Gerald. "Anti-Israel obsessions", Canadian Jewish News, June 15, 2006.

[edit] Further reading

• Abraham Cooper and Harold Brackman. "From Durban to Beersheba", The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, 2004-09-03.
• Gerald M. Steinberg (Summer 2006). "The Centrality of NGOs in The Durban Strategy" (PDF). Yale Israel Journal 9.
• Gerald M. Steinberg (2005-08-10). "ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND THE AUT BOYCOTT CAMPAIGN: EXAMINING THE LESSONS" (PDF). Conference of the National Postgraduate Committee, UK , Glasgow. 2005-08-12, 8.
• "Christian aid agency attacked over Church's disinvestment decision", Ekklesia, Ekklesia, 2006-02-27.
• Herb Keinon. "Durban Conference 2001: "Zionism is racism" — a Dead Issue", Jerusalem Post, 2001-09-02.

[edit] See also

• Antisemitism
• Zionism and racism

[edit] External links

• Jerusalem Post, "The radicals behind the Anglican Church"