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The State Department cites progress on a final document that was calling for slavery reparations, criticizing Israel and inciting religious hatred.

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration may send a delegation to the U.N. World Conference Against Racism -- better known as Durban II -- after saying in February it would boycott the event for its inciting racial hatred, blatant anti-Semitism and calls for slavery reparations.

The conference, which starts on April 20 -- notably Hitler's birthday -- is strongly opposed by Israel and Jewish groups who say the first Durban conference in South Africa in 2001 amounted to an Israel-bashing session. The U.S. and Israel delegations walked out of that conference in protest over a draft resolution that likened Zionism -- the movement to establish and maintain a Jewish state -- to racism."