MSNBC reports that a senior US official has stated the United States won't participate in a U.N. conference on racism in April unless the final document is changed to drop all references to Israel and criticism of religion.
Currently Israel and Canada have already announced that they will boycott the upcoming World Conference Against Racism in Geneva from April 20-25, known as Durban II due to its proposed agenda.
The original 2001 conference in Durban, South Africa degenerated into an anti-Semitic hatefest and the American and Israeli delegations left midway through. Some of the events in Durban included Jews being personally insulted, comparisons of Israel to Nazi Germany, elimination of any mention of anti-Semitism in official texts, physical assaults against Jews, and the selling of notorious anti-Semitic forgery "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion".
It’s good to see US President Obama making the important decision to not provide any respectability to a disreputable event.