UN World Conference Against Racism

It is twenty years since the notorious UN World Conference Against Racism took place in Durban. We watched with horror as blatant antisemitism was unleashed on the Durban streets, campaigns that in the past two decades have plagued us in South Africa and around the world. Join South African and Global leadership in remembering this toxic event and hear their insights as to how these hateful campaigns became the breeding ground for a new and vicious expression of international antisemitism.

On Thursday 2 September at 20.00, join Former Canadian Minister of Justice, Prof Irwin Cotler, CEO of the American Jewish Committee David Harris, Ahmed Shaheed UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion and Belief, Felice Gaer the Director of AJC’s Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights, Israeli Ambassador to SA at the time of WCAR Tova Herzl, SAJBD President Mary Kluk and Vice Chairperson Marc Pozniak and member of the SAZF Cape Mancom Tamar Lazarus.

Register now at www.bit.ly/sajrweb118

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Surviving Nova video

For those of you that missed our event on Thursday where Millet and Mazal, two survivors of The Nova Festival, shared their story of survival post October 7th, you can watch the full talk on Youtube here: