On the last day of 2020, Israel and the United States stood alone, not for the first time, by voting against the UN’s coming year’s budget. According to Washington’s ambassador to the UN, Kelly Craft, the budget for this year reflected “an accommodation that extends a shameful legacy of hate, antisemitism, and anti-Israel bias.”
Craft was explicitly referring to the UN’s plans to organize an official event commemorating the 20th anniversary of the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR). The highly controversial 2001 conference, also known as the Durban Conference, or Durban I, featured some of the vilest antisemitism since WWII.