Boycotts Mar UN Racism Conference

When this story ran about a week ago, the US, Canada, and Israel boycotted the UN conference on racism, called Durban II, over wording in a draft resolution. The US claims that the text in the draft unfairly singles out Israel. The US walked out of a UN racism conference in 2001 in Durban because the resolution linked Zionism to racism . Since this story ran, Italy has also declare that they, too, will boycott the conference.
The guests on the video discuss whether the conference has become "politically hijacked." I do not believe that the language of the draft resolution was the only reason the US boycotted the conference. I have a hard time envisioning the US boycotting the conference on behalf of a nation it did not have strong ties to. While I agree that if the document was anti-Semetic, like the US says it was, it should be revised, I do not think that was the only reason the US is boycotting. I think the US is also boycotting to remain political allies with Israel.