The Land of Israel Legal Forum called on Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin on Sunday to instruct Member of Knesset Jamal Zehalka to return immediately from the United Nation's Geneva conference on racism, which starts on Monday. The Forum said, in a statement, "An Israeli Knesset member who gives legitimacy to the conference aids those who make the State leprous." The statement added, "The Knesset cannot be silent in the face of the acts of one of its members."
One of the conference's stated aims is to verify compliance with anti-Israeli resolutions passed at the Durban conference on racism in 2001. Britain announced on Sunday that it was sending a delegation. Germany and Holland announced they would not attend.