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Columbia U. Hires Durban Conference Architect, Sparks Protest

(New York Sun) Mary Robinson, an architect of the UN Durban human rights conference in 2001, has been hired as a professor by Columbia University, drawing criticism from Jewish and pro-Israel groups, which see her appointment as another example of anti-Israel bias on the Columbia faculty. The groups blame Robinson for allowing the Durban conference to become a global platform for anti-Israel venting. As the UN high commissioner for human rights, Robinson rejected many American demands to remove anti-Israel language from final conference documents. "Under Mary Robinson's leadership the Human Rights Commission was one-sided and extremist. In her tenure at the HRC, she lacked fairness in her approach to the Israeli/Palestinian issue," said the chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, James Tisch.
2004-02-03 00:00:00
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