(JNS) Dmitriy Shapiro - A group of pro-Israel academics, activists, government officials and members of the media held a virtual conference on Sep. 19, strongly criticizing the Durban conferences against racism, which since 2001 have singled out and demonized Israel. The virtual conference was organized by Anne Bayefsky, director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and president of Human Rights Voices. Speakers included Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan, former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, and Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean at the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The fourth iteration of the conference - Durban IV - was held on Sep. 22 at UN headquarters in New York City.
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