Michael Salberg
- Associate National Director and Director of International Affairs of the Anti-Defamation League.
Michael served as ADL’s General Counsel from the time he joined ADL in 2003 until July 2006. In addition to his duties as General Counsel, Michael also served as Deputy Chief Operating Officer until December 2005 and then as Special Assistant to the National Director.
Prior to joining ADL, Michael practiced law for more than 28 years and was a partner in the New York City law firm Graubard Miller. He was deeply involved in the work of ADL for many years as a volunteer. He received his J.D. in 1976 from New York Law School and a B.A. in 1973 from the University of Cincinnati.
Michael is deeply committed to strengthening ADL’s role as a global advocate for Israel and as a leader in the protection of Jewish communities around the world in the fight against anti-Semitism and hate. He also leads ADL’s initiatives with the Latino/Hispanic community in the U.S.
Prof. Robert Wistrich
- Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Head of the University's Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism.
Between 1991 and 1995, Prof. Wistrich was appointed the first holder of the Chair of Jewish Studies at University College London, in addition to his position at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also wrote several dramas for BBC radio and Kol Israel on the lives of historical figures ranging from Leon Trotsky to Theodor Herzl. In 2003, he acted as the chief historical consultant for the BBC documentary, Blaming the Jews (about contemporary Muslim antisemitism) and in 2006 he was the academic advisor for the widely viewed film: Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West. He was one of six scholars who sat on an international Catholic-Jewish historical commission from 1999 to 2001 to examine the wartime record of Pope Pius XII, with special reference to the Holocaust Prof. Wistrich is the author and editor of numerous books, several of which have won international awards. His latest book is A Lethal Obsession: Antisemitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad.
Dr. Pilar Rahola
- Spanish Catalan journalist, writer, and former politician and Member of Parliament.
Pilar Rahola has published several books in Spanish and Catalan and is a columnist in La Vanguardia, Spain; La Nación, Argentina; and Diario de América, USA. Rahola appears frequently on television and has taken part in several university lectures. From 1987 to 1990, she was director of the Catalan publishing house Pòrtic, and as a journalist, she covered the Eritrean-Ethiopian War, the Balkan Wars, the Gulf War, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. As a politician, Rahola was the only member of the Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya in the Spanish Congress of Deputies in 5th and 6th Spanish legislatures. She also served as vice-mayor of Barcelona. Rahola also participated in several committees of investigation, especially those related to political corruption such as the comisión Roldán. In 1996, she left Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya to join Àngel Colom and Joan Laporta in a new political group, the "Partit per la Independència", but after this failed, she concentrated on journalism and writing. Her areas of interest include women's rights, international human rights, and animal rights. In recent years she has attracted controversy in Spain for her critical support of Israel and Zionism.
Jonathan Faull
- Director General, Directorate General for Justice, Freedom and Security Department, European Commission.
Jonathan Faull joined the European Commission in 1978 where he worked in several departments as an administrator and then a principal administrator until 1987. From 1987 until 1989, he was the assistant to the Director General for Competition. In 1989, he joined the Cabinet of Sir Leon Brittan, Vice-President of the European Commission. In 1992, he was appointed Head of the Transport and Tourism Unit within the Directorate General for Competition. One year later, in 1993, he became Head of the Co-ordination and General Policy Unit within the same Directorate General. In 1995, he was appointed Director for Co-ordination, International Affairs and Relations with other Institutions of the Directorate General for Competition. In 1999, he was appointed Deputy Director General of Competition responsible for State Aid. Shortly thereafter, he became Chief Spokesman and Director General Press and Communication. He took up his current responsibilities as Director General for Justice, Freedom and Security (formerly Justice and Home Affairs) in March 2003. Jonathan Faull studied at the Universities of Sussex and Geneva and at the College of Europe in Bruges. He is Professor of Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Prof. Emmanuel Sivan
- professor of Islamic History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Emmanuel Sivan is professor of Islamic History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he has been a lecturer since 1966. He also served in the Prime Minister's Office on three separate occasions: 1984-86 – Chairman of the Policy Planning Board; 1994-96 & 2000-01 – Advisor on Middle Eastern Affairs. Prof. Sivan has been a visiting Fellow or professor at several universities including, Columbia, Princeton, EHESS, Wissenschaft Kolleg, Universite Paris X, Penn and Rutgers. Since 1994, he has severed as the chairman of the Rothschild Foundation, Post-doctoral Committee. Prof. Sivan has authored more than ten books on contemporary Islam, including Radical Islam, The 1948 Generation, and Mythes Politiques Arabes. In the late 1980s he was among the first scholars to begin to look at radical forms of Islamic movements that were generated from the Iranian revolution. He has also written more than 150 articles and chapters, and one of his areas of expertise is Islamic conceptions of the sanctity of Jerusalem. Sivan is a regular commentator on Islamic movements for Israeli television and writes prolifically for the Israeli press.
Hannah Rosenthal
- USA Department of State's Special Envoy to combat and Monitor Antisemitism.
Hannah Rosenthal was sworn in as the United States Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism on November 23, 2009. Sparked by the work and experience of her father, a rabbi and Holocaust survivor, and her own experience studying to become a rabbi, Hannah Rosenthal has led a life marked by activism and a passion for social justice. Before joining the State Department, Ms. Rosenthal worked as Community Relations Vice President at the not-for-profit Wisconsin Physician Service Insurance Corporation in Madison, where she focused on health care policy and prevention. From 2005 to 2008 Ms. Rosenthal was Executive Director of the Chicago Foundation for Women, where she led one of the largest women's funds in the world. Prior to that, she was Executive Director of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs for five years, where she worked on domestic and international policy for the organized Jewish community in North America. Ms. Rosenthal served as Midwest regional director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the Clinton Administration and helped lead the Wisconsin Clinton-Gore campaigns in 1992 and 1996. She was involved in community organizing, and the antiwar and civil rights movements in the 1960s. Ms. Rosenthal attended graduate school for rabbinical studies at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem and Los Angeles, and holds a bachelor’s degree in religion from the University of Wisconsin.