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.ISRAELI PRESIDENT HERZOG CALLS ANTISEMITISM A 'CONTAMINATION OF SOCIETIES' AS HATE CRIMES SURGEPalestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat (R) speaks to Cuban President Fidel Castro (L) 31 August 2001, at the opening of the U.N.World Conference Against Racism, in Durban. (PPO/AFP via Getty Images)Since then, the anniversary of the Durban Declaration has frequently served as an opportunity for radical bureaucrats to reaffirm and double down on their anti-Western hatred.
Nearly every five years since the conference, including next week, the U.N.commemorates and revels in the falsehoods and civilizational self-hatred that the conference has propagated across the international system.
The United States will not have any part in celebrating this poisonous legacy.In fact, we are urging countries to join us in rejecting this propaganda and taking a meaningful step forward in repairing the rot within the U.N.The U.N.’s embrace of racial grievance, collective guilt, unapologetic antisemitism, and fervent hostility toward our shared Western heritage is fundamentally incompatible with the American way of life.
It runs counter to American virtues established 250 years ...