JOURNALfor the STUDYof ANTISEMITISM

. . . From the Conference Floor
Madeleine Albright and Joschka Fischer
speaking with AJC’s David Harris
Neal E. Rosenberg
AJC 2011
On April 27-29 of this year, the American Jewish Committee (AJC)
presented its Global Forum on global Jewish advocacy at the Grand Hyatt
in Washington, D.C. The Journal for the Study of Antisemitism editors
Steven K. Baum and Neal E. Rosenberg attended, as did several other
groups, such as SPME.
Speakers and debates included renowned diplomats and political
figures such as Madeline Albright (former U.S. secretary of state), Joschka
Fisher (foreign minister and vice chancellor of Germany), Elliot Abrams
(U.S. deputy security advisor), and William M. Daley (White House chief
of staff). Their analysis of the current political climate concerning global
antisemitism was insightful and succinct.
The debate between Yossi Klein Halevi of The New Republic and
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for the Daily Beast, was exciting. Beinart
made an impassioned plea against settlement building in West Bank
(Sumeria and Judea), focusing on the offended sensibilities of the Palestinians.
Halevi then asked Beinart why he did not have the same passion and
sensitivity for Jews living under the yoke of Muslim fundamentalist terrorism
in Israel. Along those lines. Halevi asked Beinart why he did not criticize
the bomb and missile attacks with the same intensity in his remarks
about Palestinian sensitivities concerning settlement building. Halevi
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