like China, Iran and Saudi Arabia on UN bodies that regulate the rights of women and other basic freedoms" and to promote reform of UN human rights mechanisms. Participants included Mariane Pearl, widow of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl. The Perils of Global Intolerance The Perils of Global Intolerance: the United Nations and Durban III was a conference that took place on 22 September 2011 to counter Durban III. The event was organized by Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel as well as Canadian human rights scholar Anne Bayefsky, and was sponsored by the Hudson Institute and Touro College. Bayefsky said that the original Durban Conference "legitimized hate speech on a global scale" and that the counter-summit would "serve as a call to action" and "deny legitimacy to prejudice and the Durban Declaration". Speakers at the counter-conference, in addition to Wiesel and Bayefsky, included: Douglas Murray, best-selling British journalist Dore Gold, former Israeli Ambassador to the UN Ed Koch, former Mayor of New York City Alan Dershowitz, Harvard law professor and liberal activist Khaled Abu Toameh, award-winning Arab Israeli journalist John Bolton, former United States Ambassador to the UN Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas Bernard Lewis, a leading scholar on Islam and professor at Princeton University Jon Voight, academy-award winning actor Wafa Sultan, psychiatrist included in Time magazine's named list of 100 most influential people in the world Simon Deng, Sudanese human rights activist Ron Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy Jason Kenney, Canadian Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Opposition demonstration The Los Angeles-based pro-Israel organization StandWithUs held a three-ring circus demonstration in front of the UN headquarters on the day of the conference. Roz Rothstein, CEO of the group, said: "One good way to counter the Durban conference’s hypocritical travesty of human rights is with parody. Sometimes humor reveals the deepest truths. There is no possible rational response to the Durban conference’s perverse distortions. They are too divorced from any reality. In fact, they turn reality upside down. We plan to fight the UN ‘clowns’ with actual clowns that expose their hypocrisy and perversity." Other views Support The "Durban +10 coalition" said the United States, Canada, Israel and several members of the European Union have spearheaded a "slander and sabotage" campaign against the Durban process in an attempt "to suppress the rights and