'Sickening' display of hate: Why world leaders should boycott U.N.'s Durban event

It wasn’t a world-changing scoop, but as I pressed the send button in 1991, I knew the story could change the future of the world’s deliberative body. What I had learned was that America would soon successfully persuade the United Nations to repeal its infamous Zionism is "a form of racism and racial discrimination" resolution that sought to negate Israel’s right to exist.

Now, the ugly spirit, if not the actual language, of that resolution will be celebrated this week at U.N. headquarters.

On Wednesday, a “high level” meeting will commemorate the U.N.'s 2001 world conference in Durban, South Africa, that had the laudable goal of taking on critical issues such as racism, discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance.