Criticism
The UNDPR was created according to the UNGA resolution 3376, passed on November 10, 1975, on the same basis and on the same day as the Resolution 3379, which qualified Zionism as a form of racism (later revoked by the Resolution 4686).
In her June 21, 2004 speech at a Conference on Confronting anti-Semitism: Education for Tolerance and Understanding sponsored by the United Nations Department of Information and in her articles, human rights scholar and activist Anne Bayefsky, attending as representative of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, criticized the UN approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, advocated the necessity of deep reforms within the UN, and noted that the UNDPR is the only UN Division devoted to a single group of people and the annual UN Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People is the only UN day dedicated to a specific people.
The event celebrating an annual "International Day of Solidarity With the Palestinian People" on November 29, 2005 was attended by Kofi Annan and other high-ranking diplomats. In his January 3, 2006 letter to Mr. Annan, the US ambassador John Bolton criticized the UN for promoting anti-Israel agenda and noted that the map prominently displayed at the event "erases the state of Israel".
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