News Brief

(IsraelNN.com) The follow-up meeting to a 2001 UN conference has been set for Geneva from April 20-24, 2009.

The initial conference, known as The  World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, took place in Durban, South Africa in September, 2001 and was marred by open anti-Semitism, sales of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, and near-violence against Israeli and Jewish delegates to the conference.

Israel, the United States and Canada have already announced they will not attend the follow-up session because it has become clear that the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic tone that characterized the initial conference will continue to define the conference.