Frente a la actitud clara de Estados Unidos e Israel, cuyo inicio de la Conferencia ha significado que el umbral de lo inaceptable se había franqueado, la Unión Europea ha asumido el riesgo, de quedarse, de parecer que avalaba, aunque hoy se defienda, escandalosas amalgamas y derivas intolerables que el filósofo Alain Finkielkraut resumía así: "Durban es el antirracismo que se ha hecho cargo del antisemitismo y de la negación de la humanidad".
In face of the attitude of the United States and Israel, whose departure from the conference was a sign that the threshold of the unacceptable had been crossed, the European Union, by remaining, and however much it denies this today, ran the risk of appearing to support these shameful equations and intolerable excesses that the philosopher Alain Finkielkraut summarised as follows: 'In Durban, anti-racism has taken over anti-Semitism and the denial of humanity'.