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Israel to Boycott UN Anti-Racism Meet
[AFP] "Israel will not participate and will not legitimize the (Durban) Review Conference, which will be used as a platform for anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activity," Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told a conference of North American Jewish leaders in Jerusalem on Wednesday. "The conference appears to be heading once again towards becoming an anti-Israeli tribunal, which has nothing to do with fighting racism," she said. The April 2009 meeting in Geneva is a follow-up to a conference held in Durban in 2001 which ended in acrimony amidst accusations of anti-Semitism.