LIST OF SPEAKERS
- Esther Benbassa, EELV (Green party) Senator from Paris and university professor
- Bertrand Heilbronn, President of the France Palestine Solidarity Association
- Shawan Jabarin, General Director of Palestinian human-rights organization Al-Haq, Secretary General of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
- Lea Tsemel, Israeli lawyer and human rights defender, recipient of the French Republic Human Rights Prize
- Dominique Vidal, journalist and historian, author of numerous essays on the Middle-East
- Pascal Boniface, Director of the International and Strategic Relations Institute (IRIS) and essayist
- Fabienne Messica, member of the LDH Executive Board
- Antoine Comte, lawyer and member of the Paris Bar
- Isabelle Avran, historian and journalist, moderator of the "Va comprendre !" column for Orient XXI
- Nathalie Coste, professeur agrégé of History at the Saint-Exupéry high school at Mantes-la-Jolie
- Rony Brauman, physician, professor, and essayist
- Rebecca Vilkomerson, Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace (USA)
- Hugh Lanning, Chair of Palestine Solidarity Campaign (UK)
- Pascal Durand, MEP
- Clémentine Autain, French MP from Seine-Saint-Denis
- Renée Le Mignot, co-President of MRAP (Movement against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples)
- Ivar Ekeland, former president of Paris-Dauphine University
- Alain Bosc, executive board member of the French Platform of NGOs for Palestine
THE CONFERENCE
Introduction and presentation
Opening words by Ms. Esther Benbassa
Introduction and day’s objectives with Bertrand Heilbronn, President of the AFPS
What is happening in Israel and Palestine, and why is international solidarity
necessary? Shawan Jabarin and Lea Tsemel
Conflation and confusion: identifying both in order to defeat them
Round table moderated by Gilles Manceron with Dominique Vidal, Pascal
Boniface, Fabienne Messica, and Antoine Comte
Anti-Zionism / Anti-Semitism: ignorance of history, or revision of reality?
Is criticizing Israel anti-Semitic?
“Defining” anti-Semitism: warning, danger!
What does the law say about the limits of calling to civic action: is it illegal in France to call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions?
Is this a French problem?
Round table moderated by Claude Bardet with Isabelle Avran, Nathalie Coste, and
Rony Brauman
Anti-Semitism and other forms of racism in France: historical roots and the reality of today
The Palestinian question and racist stereotypes (anti-Jewish, anti-Arab): identifying conflations to better fight them
A field experiment with young high school students
The pitfalls of a community-based approach to the debate in France
Open debate on the first two round tables
A global challenge
Round table moderated by Marie-France Chatin (Radio France Internationale) with
Lea Tsemel, Rebecca Vilkomerson, and Hugh Lanning
The Israeli government’s strategy to silence any challenging of its policies, in Israel and abroad: laws against NGOs, “anti-BDS” laws, blacklists, and influence strategy
In the United States: the success of a fundamental movement for justice in Palestine; the development of a "witch hunt"
The case of the United Kingdom: initiatives and successes of local governments; the dangers of the IHRA "definition" of anti-Semitism
Inform, get involved, and act: how to resist against pressure
Round table moderated by Sylvain Cypel with Pascal Durand, Clémentine Autain, Renée Le Mignot, Ivar Ekeland, and Alain Bosc
6 Principles for free and democratic expression on the Israel-Palestine question: initiative launch
Conclusion and perspectives