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UN kicks Jewish, Iranian groups out of Durban II
By The Associated Press
Tags: Israel News, Durban II 

The United Nations expelled three Jewish and Iranian groups from a global racism conference Thursday for what it deemed to be unacceptable behavior.

UN spokesman Rupert Colville said the groups whose passes were revoked were the French Union of Jewish Students, Coexist, and the Neda Institute for Political and Scientific Research.

Colville told reporters Thursday that members of the first two groups had been involved in disrupting the speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad earlier in the week.
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The Neda Institute from Iran had distributed inflammatory material to meeting participants.

The week-long conference has been overshadowed by Ahmadinejad's accusation that the West used the Holocaust as a pretext to harm the Palestinians, and for subsequent protests against him.

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      1.   Very good, the "troublemakers" on both sides...... 16:13  |  Swiss (Dino) 23/04/09
      2.   The UN, however, considered Ahmadinijad`s speech acceptable... 16:35  |  Bernard 23/04/09
      3.   Must respect Holocaust Deniers in Switzerland 16:50  |  Arlette 23/04/09
      4.   Who cares. We got our point across. 16:51  |  Elly 23/04/09
      5.   Holocaust doesn`t include Gentiles. Call it Shoah. 17:05  |  Lou Medel 23/04/09
      6.   Swiss (Dino): "the "troublemakers" on both sides......" 17:11  |  Christopher 23/04/09
      7.   #2 17:12  |  SwissPhil 23/04/09
      8.   ARLETTE 17:25  |  leo 23/04/09
      9.   The Swiss 17:26  |  danite 23/04/09
      10.   to Arlette 17:38  |  eva 23/04/09
      11.   Write to the UN demanding an explanation 17:42  |  Dan 23/04/09
      12.   UN and Swiss cheese of rights 17:46  |  Edward 23/04/09
      13.   Who WASN`T EVICTED 18:02  |  Arie 23/04/09
      14.   Neturei Karta rabbi Lou Medel ,your Guru Ahmedinajad 18:04  |  Absolute Sweden 23/04/09
      15.   Try again, Dan 18:29  |  Murray 23/04/09
      16.   Swiss (Dino) Who is the racist here? 18:30  |  David Israel 23/04/09
      17.   To 7 SwissPill 18:35  |  Colin 23/04/09
      18.   Revoke the passes of . . . 18:36  |  Serge 23/04/09
      19.   The new rise of anti-swissetism? 18:38  |  ben 23/04/09
      20.   The UN is racist 18:40  |  Joey 23/04/09
      21.   #1 Swiis Dino... 18:49  |  DR 23/04/09
      22.   Why not kicking out the cause of this: Ahmedinejad. 18:58  |  Tulip 23/04/09
      23.   # 20 DR, read my response to David Israel..... 19:06  |  Swiss (Dino) 23/04/09
      24.   To 21. Its all the holes in Swiss Dino`s cheesy arguments 19:06  |  rwilder 23/04/09
      25.   I wonder where Durban 111 will be held. ? 19:14  |  Stephen. 23/04/09
      26.   Italians in Switzeland 19:40  |  Alberto 23/04/09
      27.   UN 19:44  |  Arie 23/04/09
      28.   re 1 pure swiss(not so neutral) dino 19:50  |  alan the real one 23/04/09
      29.   Condemning Switzerland ?? 20:01  |  Joan 23/04/09
      30.   Swiss.....YOUR country invited the major troublemaker 20:12  |  Lynn 23/04/09
      31.   #25 Stephen....I`m betting on PAH-KEE-STAN 20:15  |  Lynn 23/04/09
      32.   Yes we can`t interrupt a murderous bastard 20:27  |  steve from Raleigh 23/04/09
      33.   I like that 20:33  |  Colin Wright 23/04/09
      34.   #29. Joan. 20:43  |  Stephen. 23/04/09
      35.   #.31 Lynn....ah,.. my favourite. 20:50  |  Stephen. 23/04/09
      36.   Ah its nice to see Swiss consistency 21:30  |  Jacob Blues 23/04/09
      37.   Will UN kick out European Leaders too? 22:36  |  Baruch Gold 23/04/09
      38.   Good! The most hateful and war mongering nations are out 01:15  |  Durban 24/04/09
      39.   Jewish and Iranian out from Durban. They better go to The Hague! 01:21  |  Mandela 24/04/09
      40.   #2 Bernard 03:03  |  john 24/04/09
      41.   Protestors 03:25  |  jennifer 24/04/09
      42.   Someone should have launched a shoe at him 05:02  |  Ahmadi Baba 24/04/09
      43.   Jewish students were there to counter Iranian warmongers 05:57  |  Iris 24/04/09
      44.   Baba, you don`t have the ball to do it yourself ! 06:03  |  Natan-Yabu 24/04/09
      45.   Right costumes 01:23  |  Matthew Houston 25/04/09
      46.   The Iranian thing 18:34  |  Aser 25/04/09
      47.   UN conferences 10:09  |  Carlo 27/04/09
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