Germany is the latest country to announce that it will not attend an upcoming U.N. event that marks the 20th anniversary of the World Conference on Racism in Durban, called Durban IV.
The country’s withdrawal from the conference, which is scheduled for September in New York, was reported by the German-language publication Welt am Sonntag and confirmed by a German diplomatic source, according to i24News on Sunday. Germany’s Federal Foreign Office reportedly gave no reason for the decision.
The international Durban conference, nicknamed “the festival of Jew-hate,” has a history of promoting anti-Semitic and anti-Israel hatred.
As of early July, the U.N. General Assembly’s working draft for a resolution that will be adopted at Durban IV said that they “reaffirm the Durban Declaration and Program of Action, adopted in 2001 … and reaffirm our commitment to its full and effective implementation.”