Lecture
Yanky Fachler
Thursday 30.07.2026
Yanky Fachler
Mary Robinson and the Durban Hate Fest
Thursday 30.07.2026
How to watch
This lecture starts on 30 July at 7:00pm (UK).
Summary
In 2001, just days before 9/11, the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights and former president of Ireland, Mary Robinson, presided over a UN conference in Durban on racism that rapidly descended into an anti-Israel hate fest. In this presentation we investigate how Robinson has never acknowledged her personal responsibility for allowing the conference to be hijacked by Islamist organisations and by the hostile South Africa government.
Yanky Fachler
Broadcaster, writer, ghostwriter and blogger Yanky Fachler was born in the UK, lived for many years in Israel, and currently lives in Ireland. Since 7 October 2023, he has posted over 4,000 pieces as part of “Yanky’s Morale Boosting Doodles” (email yankyfachler@gmail.com to subscribe.) During COVID, Yanky delivered 250 Zoom talks, and he is now a regular speaker on Lockdown University. His books include Igniting the Chutzpah spark embedded in your DNA; Fire in the Belly; 6 Officers, 2 Lions and 750 Mules; God’s Little Errand Boys; and Jewish Letchworth: A Microcosm of the Jewish Communal Experience.