Al-Riyadh newspaper said the rejection of the US which is headed by a popular black president to participate in a UN conference on racialism is a strange matter. The paper noted that Washington has justified its rejection with its keenness on defending Semitism, but actually it may be terrified by Israel which is practicing 'open and unchallenged racialism and oppressing the Arab minority residing in the Jewish state'.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/640130