South Africa Group To Put Israel On Trial
July 31, 2011 @ 10:34 pm
South Africa Group To Put Israel On Trial
Johannesburg, South Africa
Michael Belling, July 28, 2011
JTA Wire Service
Ten years after the notorious U.N. anti-racism conference in Durban, South Africa, that devolved into an Israel-bashing frenzy, anti-Zionist forces are mobilizing again to hold another anti-Israel conference in South Africa.
This time, Israel will be on trial.
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine—a standing organization that held two tribunals against Israel last year in Barcelona and London—has been called for Nov . 5-6 in Cape Town “to probe whether the treatment of Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories meets the criteria of the United Nations convention against the crime of apartheid.”
"But because of the attention it is receiving in South Africa, the tribunal is likely to be a damaging public relations exercise against Israel. "