CORRECTION - A Symposium on Understanding Anti-Semitism in Germany Today

CORRECTION – A Symposium on Understanding Anti-Semitism in Germany Today

9.9 – 9.10, 2017 in the Educational Academy of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Berlin

Dates: December 9-10, 2017
Location: The Educational Academy of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Berlin

Program

Greeting address: President/Managing director of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Dr. J. Schuster/ D. Botmann

President of German Chapter of SPME, Dr. E. Groezinger

Key Lecture: Dr. Asaf Romirowsky (Executive Director of SPME) The BDS Movement and the Middle East Conflict

Panel discussion: “Situation in Germany from the journalists’ point of view“:

Moderation: Klaus Faber, SPME

Reception

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Panel I: Israel and Germany

Moderation: Dr. Elvira Groezinger

10.00 -10.45 Michaela Engelmeier, (Member of the German Bundestag and of the Board of the Social-Democratic Party) Israel and German Politics
10.45-11.30 Dr. Mordechay Lewy (former Israeli envoy to Germany, and Ambassador A.D. to the Holy See) Retrospective. From the beginnings until today. 50 years of German-Israeli relations.
11.30-12.15 Israeli Embassy in Berlin: Outlook into the future (Ambassador/Envoy)

Lunch

Panel II: Zionism and antisemitism in history and present times

Moderation: Michael Spaney SPME/MFFB

13.15-14.00 Prof. Dr. Karl E. Groezinger (em. Potsdam University, SPME), The hope: The Zionist idea in history and present times
14.00-14.45 Prof. Dr. Monika Schwarz-Friesel (TU Berlin), Israel-related antisemitism
14.45-15.30 Prof. Dr. Roland Hornung /SPME), The image of Israel in the German media

Coffee break

Panel III: Reports on school books

Moderation: Dr. Nikoline Hansen (SPME)

Dr. Klaus Thoerner and Cordula Behrens (SPME), The image of Israel in German schools and school books

Jörg Rensmann (SPME), The image of Jews and Israel in Palestinian school books