On Eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, UN Conference Eerily Condemns "Judaization" of Arab-claimed Land

Echoing Nazi calls for a "Judenrein" Germany, a UN conference held the day before Holocaust Remembrance Day used the odious term "judaization" to condemn Jews living in the historic Jewish capital of Jerusalem. The "International Conference on the Question of Jerusalem," held in Dakar, Senegal on May 3 and May 4, 2016, was sponsored by the UN's Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. Here are some of the antisemitic comments from conference participants distributed by the UN:

"The representative of Morocco said ... no peace could be negotiated if the two-State solution was buried by continuing settlement activities and Judaization."

"SAID ABU ALI, Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the Palestinian and Arab Occupied Territories Sector of the League of Arab States, said the situation in Jerusalem was becoming more complicated due to Israel's policy of Judaization ... in a serious Judaization scheme known as 'Jerusalem 2020'."

"SAMIR BAKR, Assistant Secretary-General for Palestine Affairs of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, reiterated that ... Israel continued with its plans to Judaize the city..."

The conference also featured libels against Israel's exercise of self-defense in the face of daily Palestinian terror attacks. A stabbing attack by two Palestinian siblings on April 27, 2016 was inverted into an execution by Jews of Palestinians.

"RIAD MALIKI, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the State of Palestine, said that, at the very moment when the Conference was taking place, Israeli occupation forces might be executing another Palestinian civilian... Israel's colonial war against Palestinians was led neighbourhood by neighbourhood, house by house and holy site by holy site. Each Palestinian was a target, subject to arbitrary arrest and extrajudicial killing... Only a few days ago, two Palestinians - including a young pregnant woman - had been savagely executed at a checkpoint in Jerusalem..."

"AISHA LARABA ABDULLAHI, Commissioner for Political Affairs of the African Union Commission, recalled... the apartheid wall..."