Durban and the Red-Green Alliance

A 2001 UN conference quietly built the alliance between hard-left activists and jihadist movements that still shapes how the West talks about victims today.

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Durban and the Red-Green Alliance

A 2001 UN conference quietly built the alliance between hard-left activists and jihadist movements that still shapes how the West talks about victims today.

by Richard Landes Twenty-five years ago, a UN conference in Durban, South Africa brought two very different groups into the same space: “progressive” human-rights activists and Muslim religious extremists.