Germany to boycott Durban IV conference

Germany will not attend the United Nation's event in September marking the 20th anniversary of the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, according to a report in German newspaper Welt am Sonntag that was confirmed by a German diplomatic source.

It joins 9 other countries - Israel, the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Austria, Netherlands and the Czech Republic - who withdrew from the international conference that has been dubbed "the festival of Jew-hate" for its history of promoting antisemitism.

The Durban Declaration adopted at the 2001 event demonized Israel and an NGO forum engaged in Holocaust denial, in what UN Watch described as "the worst international manifestation of antisemitism in the post-war period." The conference is considered to be the birthplace of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.