4.2.12 WC: 191694 the Jews vilified in the pamphlet - declared "I am a Jew" at an NGO dinner there Wednesday night.” The late Congressman Tom Lantos from California observed: “whenever the word ‘Holocaust’ was read during the plenary review of the combined text, one of the Islamic delegates—usually Egypt—intervened to change ‘Holocaust’ to ‘holocausts.’ Adding insult to injury, the same delegates requested that the phrase ‘and the ethnic cleansing of the Arab population in historic Palestine’ be inserted after the appearance of ‘holocausts.’ Each time...language on anti-Semitism and the need to combat it was raised in the plenary, the OIC states intervened to couple anti-Semitism with the phrase ‘racist practices of Zionism,’ or even more outlandish ‘Zionist practices against Semitism’”—a deliberate move to confuse the real meaning of anti-Semitism. A second “Durban Conference” was held in Geneva in 2009. Although the U.S., Canada, Italy and several other countries boycotted what had by this time become clear would be another hate conference, I decided to travel to Geneva in an effort to restore the human rights agenda to its proper priorities, or if that wasn’t possible, to expose the UN Human Rights Council for what it has become—an enemy of neutral and universal human rights. It would be an uphill fight because the primary speaker invited to address the second Durban Conference was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Holocaust-denying President of Iran. I worked with several genuine human rights organizations in an effort to shame the Human Rights Council into broadening its agenda to include the genocides in Africa and other serious human rights abuses around the globe. We brought real victims of human rights abuses from Rwanda, Darfur and other locations where genocides had been ignored, or even facilitated, by the U.N. We conducted a parallel human rights conference in which we took testimony from these ignored victims and witnesses, to whom the U.N. had refused to liste