The hatred of Jews has always been protean, readily revising itself to reflect the idiom of its age. At times, it targeted Jews for their religion, demonizing them as Christ-killers or enemies of the true faith. In our day, Jew-hatred expresses itself overwhelmingly in national terms: It is the Jewish state that the haters are obsessed with. "What anti-Semitism once did to Jews as people, it now does to Jews as a people," the British commentator Melanie Phillips has written. "First it wanted the Jewish religion, and then the Jews themselves, to disappear; now it wants the Jewish state to disappear." As to Islam and anti-Semitism : http://xrl.us/bjrdf

This is part of Obama's supposed outreach to the Islamic world, throw Israel under the bus, so to speak, & forge better relations at our expense. So what did you expect, Mr Herzog?

Terry, I ask you why do you for once stand by Herzog!! why do you always have to be against anyone from Labor?mIsrael needs unity and support especcially at times like this! Be a mensch and support him on this. It does not mean you have to idealogically agree wth him but in this case stand by him!

Preventing people from calling Israel racist isn't gonna change the fact that it is. If Israel truly believes it is not a racist country, then you should go to the conference yourself and state your case. If you can't convince the world that you're not racist, then maybe you should start thinking of what YOU are doing wrong instead of complaining that the whole world is misguided.

Well, look at the roster of countries who have indicated they will attend. It includes such well-known bastions of tolerance as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, Syria, Cuba, the Congo, Zimbabwe, Angola, Indonesia, China, Myanmar and North Korea. We take it as a given that Israel will be featured prominently as a target. But so will the United States. I hope that the United States has the sense not to show up. If all those petty dictatorships and Islamofascist regimes want to sit around and hold a pity party, let them. The United States should not lend credibility to this gathering of miscreants by participating. I do hope that common sense will prevail. If the U.S. does decide to participate, then the representative should certainly not be the incumbent Secretary of State. Perhaps President Obama can ask Jimmy Carter to attend and take notes. There is no better person to lend a sympathetic ear to what is sure to be a bash-Israel fest. They can all hold hands and sing Kumbaya at the end of the Conference.

Try to remember... Who you are dealing with... Suha Arafat's silent friend... Try to lower your expectations to avoid disappointment from the evil black pantsuit

Minister Herzog. Sorry compadre, but you do not get it. Barry the Zero will not only not condemn Durban II, but actually supports the anti israel-anti Jewish theme and thrust of the whole thing. A small peek at those persons with whom the marxist Brotha' has associated himself and his family with for the last twenty or so years, those whom he has appointed to positions of authority or power as it relates to the Arab war against Israel and Jews in general, clearly show a predisposition tilted in a hostile direction. From Samantha Power to Rev.Jerry Wright, to Louie Farrakan, to Bobby Rush to susan rice, to Zbig Breszinski, and on, and on, and on, in a list too long to relate herein. Anti American, anti capitalism, anti Jewish and anti Israel is the conclusion to be drawn from a preponderence of evidence made up of self selected persons of "friendship" or similar feelings and prejudices. Barry Zero is not Israel's friend and he will make that manifest in short order at Durban, with a $900+Billion gift to give Gaza a make-over and political pressures due. My suggestions? Grow up herzog. It's chilly out there and you do not want to be wearing a thong when you need armor.

Why should Israel attend? So that those demagogues who are attending will have the pleasure of getting up and storming out when it is the turn of Israel's representative to speak? I don't think so ....

#5 WRONG!! Clinton will do what is best for Clinton, not the USA or Israel.

The West and the rest of the Free World should keep away from the Conference of Dark Forces sponsored by Islamist-Jihadism. In fact, the West should organize a Counter Conference of the Free World with speakers like Geert Wilders, Walid Shoebat, Brigitte Gabriel, Robert Spencer, Steven Emerson, Ali Sina, Ibn Warraq, Kenneth R. Timmerman, Dore Gold, PhD, Serge Trifkovic, PhD, Walid Phares, PhD, Daniel Pipes, PhD, Gregory M. Davis, PhD, Mark A. Gabriel, PhD, Paul Sperry, etc. Islamists, JIhadists, AntiSemites and their supporters should not be allowed to attend such a conference. The leaders of the West and the Pacific Rim Region, and the rest of the non-Islamist world should attend the Counter Conference of the Free World.

This should have been the job of the Foreign affairs ministry. Where are all these diplomats ?

The leaders of Israel say they are against racism. They certainly complain loudly when there are racist, anti-semitic actions against Jews in the world. Why would the Israeli government not send a representative and why would they be against the United States sending a representative? Can Jews only be against racism directed towards Jews? To the observers out in the rest of the world this is what it seems.

of Dar al Islam and all who can be forced or bribed into it, plus some other countries floundering for coherence like China. Israel does not have to prove it is not racist by any standard definition because its statistics and existence and citizens of every hue show it without question, just as Sudan does not have to prove by its actions that it is most decidedly racist, as it has murdered millions of Blacks. Got it, I hope. Israel does not have to appear before an illegitimate Kangaroo court of hypocrites and worse. Learn what the word racism means before you shoot your mouth off. It does not mean 'anyone who does not agree with me or my extreme biases.'

Preventing people from calling Islam a religion of violence and hatred isn't gonna change the fact that it is. If Muslims truly believes it is not Violent and Hateful, then you should go and state your case (instead of rioting and proving our point) . If you can't convince the world that you're not violent, then maybe you should start thinking of what YOU are doing wrong instead of complaining that the whole world is misguided.

about politics here in the USA. Pres. Obama cannot "throw Israel under the bus" because he relies on a substantial Jewish constituency which is largely Democratic. His top advisor (Rahm Emmanuel) is Jewish and of Israeli origin, so stop exaggerating and seeing issues as if they were only black and white.

you know why israel won't attend??? because instead of talking about all countries that have a racist policy like bahrain, jordan, algeria, somalia, qatar, uae, egypt, syria, etc... this conference single out ONLY ISRAEL FOR CONDEMNATION. if this conference discussed other racist attitudes like in jordan not allowing jews to live there or own land, etc... then, israel may attend. singling out a single country as racist and not looking at others much more horrenduous, is incencere and worng.

But okay, I follow where you're going, so I will quote the famous Steven of Colorado from another Ynet post: "OK, those clever Chinese have outed us. Yes, it's true. We Jews control everything. Banks, markets, weather, sea level, everything. We have controlled everything since I personally snuffed the last stinking dinosaur. (Talk about unclean!) Pardon me while i much some of my blood drenched matzoh. Ah, that's better. Now, on to the destruction of the non Jewish world. From now on, I command that all Arab men dress in pink. Bwaahhh hhhaaah. You Italians...blue jeans, I say. HHHAAAHH. We rule, we rule! Don't you get it? It took a smart Chinese writer to expose us but we'll overcome this. We control CNN. Steven Steven , USA Colorado (02.22.09)" And further I will apologize, as according to that noted scholar who may be Jewish through his kidnapped mother, Muammar (Mo) Qaddafi, we (excluding him) were behind Darfur. Bwhahahahahaa!!!! I quote from Ynet: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the current African Union president, on Tuesday accused "foreign forces" including Israel of being behind the Darfur conflict. 'In a meeting with United Nations representations, he urged the International Criminal Court to stop proceedings against Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, accused of masterminding the regional genocide. "Why do we have to hold Bashir or the Sudanese government responsible when the Darfur problem was caused by outside parties, and Tel Aviv, for example, is behind the Darfur crisis?" Gaddafi asked.' *** Oops, my bad. It's not Purim yet.

#18 in usa Terry is absolutely correct. Rahm Emmanuel is clearly a JINO(Jew in name only)as are the many "Jews" of socialist and liberal bent in North america, particularly the US. Each and everyone of the Zero the Marxist Brotha's "Jewish" supporters are long term Democrat/Liberal political supporters and would abandon Israel and have already forsaken the concept of Zionism years ago before Harry Truman was in his grave. Were it up to them; your other Emmanuels, Greyhound and Trainways combined would never move an inch for all of the Israeli's under them

USA is sick of israel. we want to distance ourselves.