Riz Khan - Anti-Racism summit row - 24 Sep 08 - Part 1

On Riz Khan, live from New York City, we debate the Durban II world conference set up to fight racism and racial discrimination.

We will speak with Hillel Neuer, the executive director of UN Watch, who argues that the current preparatory meetings for Durban II ignore key issues in Africa in favour of chastising Israel.

Israel and the US pulled out of Durban I, claiming it was anti-semitic, and Neuer believes that the only way to avert a similar disaster at Durban II (to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, in April 2009) is for the EU to threaten a boycott.

Joining the programme from London, Islamic Human Rights Commission Chair Massoud Shadjareh argues that Durban II should move forward as planned and that putting the issue of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians is necessary if racism is to be truly addressed.

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[insanic1]

"so all racists go fuck youself! most of you are poor lazy pieces of crap! that are more useless than the blacks they call useless! "

By that you mean whites think blacks are useless.... your racist!

[dastubben]

unlike you, i know how to differentiate fact from fiction, and i don't rely solely on the net, what rookies like u do. I read accounts from jews and palestinians and many works from historians including anti-israel activists like noam chomsky. I read all those with an open mind and I conclude that not all alternative media are reliable, you need to weed out the biases and come face2face with facts. Moron.

[rsr13a]

In Libya, Benghazi rebels staged a "hunt for blacks." Black people were caught and executed without a trial. Many of them were killed. Many were imprisoned. This is not mentioned on TV in the U.S. Why Obama defends racists in Libya ? Why American opponents of racism are silent? Tell everyone in internet!

[tFighterPilot]

@abdulbade In Mauritania real slavery still exists. Blacks are being used as slaves by white Arabs. The Bedouin word for a black person is Abed, slave.

[TheWhiteBuster]

@abdulbade You are right, Christians killed more people than Islam. How do you think the west was lost? Christians! I am a former christian.

[mirotrash]

Al Jazeera constantly demonizes israel and the jews and yet all u guys come here to get ur facts on human rights??? amazing !!!

[IBeatUpThugs]

@abdulbade Your history is way off. Islam carried out a slave trade larger than the one in America. Throughout the course of the last 1400 years.

[abdulbade]

@IBeatUpThugs

are you serious? most humans whom been killed were killed by christians, thats a fact. slavery from africa started by christians, rember, islam stoped slavery 1400 years ago.

[Mifodiy35]

Islamic human rights commission ??? What an abomination ... Muslim can't be a human rights activist - it's against a teachings of a Koran and Hadith . However Muslim can PRETEND to be a human rights activist - according to Koran it's absolutely OK and even encouraged by many Muslim scholars .

[IBeatUpThugs]

There's no such thing as Islamophobia. Islamophobia is Muslims getting stopped at airports after Muslims around the world have been committing terror attacks. Muslim history proves they have been the single most racist group of people of all time. Imperialism, 1400 years of African slave trade larger than the transatlantic. mass murder of hindus, bahai, jews, etc. Attacking the non-Muslim countries around it. This was the most racist people, ganging up on the most consistently persecuted people

[besmb2105]

"On the wrong track". I think it might be correct.

An anti - racist conference denying a racist genocide(and among the foremost examples of the history of racism), that is pun intented - self -rejecting.

[tFighterPilot]

So you believe Arabs are an ignorant bunch living in tents and riding camels?