Anne Bayefsky is always must-reading. Always. Here, she writes at Pajamas Media on the lamentable Navi Pillay and the movement to whitewash the bizarre and loathsome conference known as Durban I, for the sake of getting the US to attend the sequel, Durban II. Pillay is runs something called the UN Human Rights Commission, which whatever it may be and whatever it may concern itself with, has nothing to do with actual human rights. The UNHRC is nothing other than a forum for the expression and facilitation of anti-Semitism. Ms. Bayefsky works tirelessly at EyeontheUN.org and the Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust at Touro College to fight anti-Semitism. She is equal to the task of taking down the Navi Pillays of the world, but it’s important to support her and the other prominent people like her.
The column at Pajamas Media includes an unofficial transcript of a phone conference between a US State Department officer and a group of NGOs about Durban and the UNHRC. It’s appalling but not surprising that the State Department officer suggests that the US decision to boycott Durban II is not set in stone.
