Antisemitism Exposed

Ambassador Jeff Bartos: UN must abandon anti-American, anti-Western legacy of Durban Conference

Fidel Castro and Yasser Arafat attended the original 2001 conference. Now, 25 years on, the UN is preparing to commemorate the very meeting that sparked so much hatred

By Jeff Bartos Fox News

Published September 23, 2026 7:00am EDT

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Over the course of the past half-century, virulent anti-Western ideology has become a permanent feature of our international institutions. One of the key inflection points in this transformation took place at a United Nations conference 25 years ago: the U.N.’s World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa.

The conference’s stated purpose was to confront alleged racism and bigotry. Today, the United Nations touts the Durban Declaration — the ideological framework adopted at the conference — as "the U.N.’s blueprint to combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance globally." In reality, it represented the instantiation of a set of radical ideas about race, history and Western civilization as the formal dogmas of our most powerful global institutions.

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Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat (R) speaks to Cuban President Fidel Castro (L) 31 August 2001,........

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