UN General Assembly
2021

Alongside our old friends, we are gaining new friends — in the Middle East and beyond. Last week, that manifested itself with the defeat of the racist, anti-Semitic, Durban Conference. That Conference had originally been intended to oppose racism, but over the years had turned into a conference that promotes racism against Israel and the Jewish people. The world has had enough of that. I want to thank the 38 countries — 38 — that chose truth over lies and skipped the Conference. And to those countries who chose to participate in that farce, I can say only that attacking Israel does not make them morally superior; fighting the only democracy in the Middle East does not make them “woke”; and adopting cliches about Israel without bothering to learn the basic facts is just plain lazy.