Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said on Wednesday that Israel had made a final decision not to participate in a U.N. forum on racism and urged other countries to boycott what she termed an "anti-Israel tribunal.".
The United Nations said it regretted the decision.
The World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, to be held in Geneva in April, is a follow-up to a 2001 summit in Durban, South Africa on the same issues.
Israel and the United States walked out of the first conference in protest over draft texts branding Israel as a racist and apartheid state -- language that was later dropped.
In a speech to visiting U.S. Jewish leaders, Livni said she announced last February that Israel would not participate in the 2009 meeting unless it was clear it would not be used "as a platform for further anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic" activity
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What's that old saying? If you throw a rock in a yard full of dogs,the dog that screams out is the dog that got hit. So here you have the UN having a world conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination and Xenophobia and the first country to scream out is Israel. My suggestion is, if you don't want to be labeled as a Racist and Apartheid Nation then you should stop acting like one.
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