A/59/329 to the Commission on Human Rights of physical and verbal violence suffered by Muslims in the United States and Europe after 11 September 2001 libellous. She makes other attacks, before concluding that the report of the Special Rapporteur “is but a tiny part of the auto-da-fé of a former bigwig of UNESCO, an organization with a Sovietophilic past”. She then claims that “in Geneva, Doudou [Diène] will ask the Holy Office of the United Nations to devise ‘a strategy to eradicate any ideology that defames Islam and to encourage a world congress to monitor how history is written — or, rather, taught’”. It is precisely this kind of reasoning that leads intellectuals and political leaders of the far right to deny the resurgence of anti-Semitism and engage in historical revisionism. 37. The Durban Declaration strongly condemned “the increase in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in various parts of the world, as well as the emergence of racial and violent movements based on racism and discriminatory ideas against Jewish, Muslim and Arab communities” (A/CONF.189/12 and Corr.1, para. 61). The General Assembly, in its resolution 58/160 on global efforts for the total elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, confirmed that analysis, expressing deep concern about the increase in anti-Semitism, Christianophobia and Islamophobia in various parts of the world, as well as the emergence of racial and violent movements based on racism and discriminatory ideas directed against Arab, Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities. 38. In his report to the Commission on Human Rights at its sixtieth session, the Special Rapporteur emphasized this recent and alarming resurgence of antiSemitism and the importance of investigating the underlying causes and manifestations of both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia and finding ways and means to combat them. He also recommended that the Commission should formally support the submission of a report on Islamophobia and anti-Semitism at each of its sessions. In his report on the situation of Muslim and Arab peoples in various parts of the world, submitted to the Commission at the same session, the Special Rapporteur emphasized the importance of assessing rigorously and systematically all manifestations of racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia and invited the Commission to recommend that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights should establish a centre to monitor the contemporary phenomena of racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia and entrust it with developing a scientific methodology for precise measurement of such phenomena and, in collaboration with the Special Rapporteur, preparing an annual report thereon for submission to the Commission and the General Assembly. 39. In his opening remarks at the seminar on anti-Semitism held by the United Nations in New York on 21 June 2004, the Secretary-General recalled that the Commission on Human Rights, at its most recent session, had asked the Special Rapporteur to examine the situation of Muslim and Arab peoples in various parts of the world, with special reference to physical assaults and attacks against their places of worship, cultural centres, businesses and properties. Echoing the original proposal of the Special Rapporteur, the Secretary-General recommended that he, and the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, should “actively explore ways of combating anti-Semitism more effectively in the future”. 40. The Special Rapporteur therefore concluded that the position of the SecretaryGeneral justified taking Commission on Human Rights resolution 2004/6 to mean that he should submit to the Commission at its next session reports on Islamophobia, 18