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Twenty-five years after the infamous 2001 Durban Conference, the UN Human Rights Council held a session commemorating the event. Hillel Neuer took the floor to remind delegates of Durban’s true legacy.

What was billed as a World Conference Against Racism became a global platform for antisemitism. In the streets, demonstrators praised Hitler and threatened Jewish students. Antisemitic caricatures were distributed. Copies of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were openly sold. Israel alone was singled out in the official outcome document.

Holocaust survivor and U.S. Congressman Tom Lantos called it “the most sickening display of hate for Jews” he had witnessed since the Nazi era.

Durban was a turning point. Antisemitism was repackaged in the language of human rights — “apartheid,” “racism,” “genocide.” Once embedded in UN discourse, that rhetoric spread to civil society, media, and campuses.

Today, we see the consequences.

Watch Hillel Neuer's full address at the UN Human Rights Council and judge for yourself whether the lesson of Durban has truly been learned.

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