il foglio
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF ITALY
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
IL FOGLIO
ANTI-SEMITISM
A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY
Villa Madama
Via di Villa Madama
Rome, Italy
December 15-16, 2004
PROGRAM
(Simultaneous translation
Traduzione simultanea)
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
7.30 pm Opening Session - Dinner *
*(by invitation only)
Chair: Barbara B. Balser, ADL National Chair
Presentation: Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director
Keynote: Gianfranco Fini, Foreign Minister of Italy
Thursday, December 16, 2004
9.30 am
Greetings: Leone Paserman,
President, Rome Jewish Community
Presentation: Justice Elyakim Rubenstein,
Supreme Court, Israel
10.15 am “The Role of Media and Culture”
Chair: Giuliano Ferrara, Editor, Il Foglio
Panelists: Martin Peretz, Editor-in-Chief, The New Republic
David Brooks, Columnist, New York Times
David Landau, Editor, Ha’aretz
Paolo Mieli, former Editor, Corriere della Sera
12.00 Noon “Democracy and Anti-Semitism”
Chair: Prof. Giorgio Israel,
Author, La questione ebraica oggi
Panelists: Joshua Muravchik, Resident Scholar, American
Enterprise Institute
Carl Gershman, President, National Endowment
for Democracy
Fiamma Nirenstein, Author, The Progressive
Anti-Semites
Piero Fassino, Secretary General, Democratic
Party of the Left, Member of the Italian Parliament
1.30 pm
Chair:
Greetings:
Keynote:
Luncheon
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director
Dr. Riccardo Di Segni, Chief Rabbi of Rome
Pierferdinando Casini, Speaker of the Italian
Chamber of Deputies
3.00 pm “Government and International
Responses to Anti-Semitism”
Chair: Giuseppe Pisanu, Minister of Interior, Italy
Remarks: Marcello Pera, President, Italian Senate
Panelists: Alcee Hastings, Congressman, United States
Ana Palacio, former Foreign Minister, Spain
Oded Ben Hur, Ambassador of Israel to the Holy See
Nicole Guedj, Secretary of State for Victims’ Rights,
Ministry of Justice, France*
*(to be confirmed)
Keynote: Franco Frattini, European Commission Vice
President and Commissioner for Freedom,
Security and Justice
5.00 pm Closing Session
Closing remarks: Margherita Boniver, Deputy Foreign Minister, Italy
Ehud Gol, Ambassador of Israel to Italy
Mel Sembler, Ambassador of the United States
to Italy
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director