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Bereaved mother of 12-year-boy run down on Yom Kippur recalls ‘extraordinary’ son
The driver accused of hitting and killing 12-year-old Barak Khoury from Ramat Gan, who was riding his bike on Route 4 near Givat Shmuel on Yom Kippur eve, arrived for a hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court, on Friday.
The driver, 40-year-old Eran Azulai, has been convicted of drunk driving twice in the past.
Neta Shafir, an eyewitness at the scene of the accident, was quoted on N12 as saying, “The vehicle arrived at an insane speed. He did not try to move to the side. He did not try to brake.”
discrimination and stigmatization” against Asians in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, but does not mention the increase in pandemic-related antisemitism and distortion of the Holocaust.
It includes antisemitism among its examples of “prejudices against persons based on their religions or beliefs,” in a paragraph “acknowledg[ing] with deep concern the rise in discrimination, hate speech” and more.
However, it reaffirms the 2001 Durban Declaration, in which Israel is the only country singled out for opprobrium. The Israel-Palestinian conflict is the only one specifically mentioned, and the declaration calls for a Palestinian state.
In addition, the 2001 Durban Conference was a hotbed of antisemitism, with accredited groups at its NGO forum distributing copies of the antisemitic canard The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and cartoons of hook-nosed Jews, and thousands marching against Israel, calling it an apartheid state.
Erdan said that while the latest draft does not specifically mention Israel, “it doesn’t matter; they say they accept the original Durban Declaration, so it is rotten to its core.”
The ambassador plans to participate in a virtual counter-conference on Sunday, organized by the Touro College Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, along with the pro-Israel organization Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, or CAMERA.
Other speakers include former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo. Several speakers are black, including Likud MK Gadi Yevarkan, South African lawmaker Rev. Kenneth Meshoe and American historian Shelby Steele, pushing back against the anti-Israel message at Durban, which is meant to be a conference against racism with a special focus on people of African descent.