SCHEDULE 

Conference Chair

Aviva Raz Shechter

Director, Department for Combating Antisemitism, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel

Opening Remarks

Avigdor Liberman

Deputy Prime Minister and Minster of Foreign Affairs, Israel

Yuli Yoel Edelstein

Minister of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs, Israel

Vygaudas Ušackas

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania

Jason Kenney

Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Canada

Michael Kocáb

Minister for Human Rights, Czech Republic

Abraham H. Foxman

National Director, Anti-Defamation League

Keynote Speaker

Prof. Yehuda Bauer

Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Academic Advisor, Yad Vashem

Chair: Malcolm Hoenlein

Executive Vice Chairman, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations

Prof. Robert Wistrich

Director, Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Dr. Pilar Rahola

Independent journalist; former Member of Parliament, Spain

Jonathan Faull

Director General, Justice, Freedom and Security Department, European Commission

Ron Klein – TBD

Co-Chairman, bipartisan Congressional Task Force Against Anti-Semitism, Member of  Congress, USA

Prof. Emmanuel Sivan

Professor of Islamic History, Hebrew University; Senior Fellow, the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute

Hannah Rosenthal

Department of State’s Special Envoy to Combat and Monitor Antisemitism, USA

Chair: Dr. Richard Prasquier

President, Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France (CRIF)

Mario Silva

Member of Parliament, Canada

Sergio Widder

Director for Latin America, Simon Wiesenthal Center

Jeremy Jones

Director of International & Community Affairs,

Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council

Mikhail Chlenov

Secretary-General, Euro-Asian Jewish Congress

Wendy Kahn

National Director, South African Jewish Board of Deputies

Co-chairs

Nationalist Trends in Central and Eastern Europe: New Challenges Facing the Jewish Communities

·   Rabbi Andrew Baker

·   Mark Levin

Rising Antisemitism in Latin America: the Iranian Influence

·   Sammy Eppel

·   Michael Schneider

Antisemitism Online: Cyberspace and the Media

·   David Matas

·   Dr. Andre Oboler

Delegitimization of Israel: “Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions”

·   Dr. Mitchell Bard

·   Prof. Gil Troy

Combating Antisemitism: Models and Best Practices (with Special Emphasis on Islamic Antisemitism)

·   Mike Whine

·   Dr. Michael Kotzin

Chair

Prof. Gerald Steinberg

President, NGO Monitor

Opening Remarks

Isaac Herzog

Minister of Welfare and Social Services, Israel

Irwin Cotler

Member of Parliament, Canada

Fiamma Nirenstein

Member of Parliament, Italy; Vice-President of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Italian Chamber of Deputies

John Mann

Member of Parliament, United Kingdom

Anne Bayefsky

Director, Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust; Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

Chair: Dr. Charles Small

Director, Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism

Dr. Daniel Pipes

Director, Middle East Forum

Presentation

Video presentation, Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)

Prof. Penda Mbow

Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal

Haras Rafiq

Co-Founder, Sufi Muslim Council, United Kingdom

Co-chairs

Nationalist Trends in Central and Eastern Europe: New Challenges Facing the Jewish Communities

·   Rabbi Andrew Baker

·   Mark Levin

Rising Antisemitism in Latin America: the Iranian Influence

·   Sammy Eppel

·   Michael Schneider

Antisemitism Online: Cyberspace and the Media

·   David Matas

·   Dr. Andre Oboler

Delegitimization of Israel: “Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions”

·   Dr. Mitchell Bard

·   Prof. Gil Troy

Combating Antisemitism: Models and Best Practices (with Special Emphasis on Islamic Antisemitism)

·   Mike Whine

·   Dr. Michael Kotzin

Chair: Avner Shalev

Chairman, Yad Vashem

Władysław Bartoszewski

Secretary of State in the Office of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers and Plenipotentiary for International Affairs, Poland

Prof. Dina Porat

Director, Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University

Father Patrick Desbois

President, Yahad–In Unum Association; Director, Commission for Relations with Judaism of the French Bishops' Conference

Dr. Mark Freiman

President, Canadian Jewish Congress

Prof. Arieh Kochavi

Director, Strochlitz Institute of Holocaust Studies, Haifa University; Director, Elizabeth and Tony Comper Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism, Haifa University

Closing Remarks: Rabbi Michael Melchior

Former Member of Knesset, Israel

Chair

Shmuel Ben Shmuel, Director, World Jewish and Inter-Religious Affairs Bureau,

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel

Working Groups: Co-Chair Reports and Q&A

·   Nationalist Trends in Central and Eastern Europe: New Challenges Facing the Jewish Communities

·   Rising Antisemitism in Latin America

·   Antisemitism Online: Cyberspace and the Media

·   Delegitimization of Israel: “Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions”

·   Combating Antisemitism: Models and Best Practices (with Special Emphasis on Islamic Antisemitism)

Concluding Remarks

Natan Sharansky, Chairman, Jewish Agency for Israel