The Battle of Durban II: Israel, Palestine & the United Nations

Overview

explores how a United Nations World Conference Against Racism devolved into a sometimes comic but always tragic confrontation over Israel and Palestine. Inside UN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, protesters in clown noses and fright wigs threw marshmallows at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — while on the outside, off the agenda and forbidden even to enter, victims of ongoing human rights abuses demand to know “What are they doing inside?”