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...conference??s first speakers (and the only head of state to attend the conference) was Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad has in the past called Israel a “rotting corpse” and advocated wiping the country off the map. Unsurprisingly, his speech at Durban II accused Israel of being “the most cruel and racist regime” in the world. But perhaps the most offensive aspect of the entire spectacle was that Ahmadinejad’s speech came on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, when the millions...
...Weisel, who was also scheduled to speak at the conference, calling him a “Nazi” and a “Zio-Nazi.” While several nations walked out of the conference in protest of Ahmadinejad’s antics, the fact that the conference??s leadership did not stop him from acting out and even gave Ahmadinejad the floor in the first place is disgraceful and damaging to the conference??s purported goal of combating racism...
...Admittedly, the Iranian delegation’s extreme actions were an aberration in what was a generally respectful diplomatic meeting. But, even so, the conference??s final declaration was simply insulting in its treatment of genocide. The 143-point “Outcome Document” states that the conference “reaffirms its support for the mandate of the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, who acts, inter alia, as an early warning mechanism to prevent potential situations that could result in genocide...
...freshman year, Alexander attended the Out for Undergraduate Business Conference??an annual LGBT conference in New York offering panels addressing everything from resume reviews to sexual orientation in the workplace to networking—and Alexander says he was impressed by the openness of the panelists...
...tutorial final project, Joshua J. Nuni ’10 brought nearly 200 people who worked for the Obama campaign to the Kennedy School last night to discuss how to preserve the grassroots movement that developed over the course of the two-year election process. Nuni’s conference??called Organizing for Change—sought to “digest the experience of working on the Obama campaign,” as well as to “talk about what’s next,” Nuni said. Social Studies and Government Lecturer Marshall...