A UN-sponsored conference on the rights of Palestinians opens this week (early September)at the European Parliament, despite protests by Israel and European Union lawmakers who say the meeting’s organizers have an anti-Israel agenda. Israel views the committee as a legacy of the 1975 UN General Assembly resolution - revoked in 1991 - that equated Zionism with racism. “It is absolutely improper and offensive that a conference like this is now taking place at the premises of the European Parliament,” said Czech legislator Jana Hybaskova, chairwoman of the parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Israel.