Durban I, the so called U.N. World Conference Against Racism in 2001, was in reality a virulent display of anti-Semitism and an Arab and Muslim led forum to attack Israel and the West. So poisoned was the atmosphere at the conference the U.S. and shell-shocked Israel officials walked out in the first week. As Colin Powell, then U.S. Secretary of State, said "I know that you do not combat racism by suggesting that apartheid exists in Israel."
