Freedom Now? Human Rights in the Arab World and Beyond
A panel by the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights

Radwan Ziadeh, visiting scholar at Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard University and Visiting Fellow at Chatham House, Founder of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies in Syria.

Mahnaz Afkhami, President of Women's Learning Partnership; a leading proponent of women's rights in the Islamic world; former Minister of Women's Affairs of pre-revolution Iran.

Saad Eddin Ibrahim, "Egypt's most famous dissident," a leading Egyptian pro-democracy activist.

The Great Debate II: Is Liberal Zionism an Oxymoron?

 

Debaters:

Light Unto the Nations Award
Presented by Robert Elman, AJC President to
Ricardo Martinelli, President of Panama



Ido Aharoni, Consul General of Israel in New York



William M. Daley, White House Chief of Staff



Dr. Thomas de Maizière, Defense Minister of Germany



Nickolay Mladenov, Foreign Minister of Bulgaria

Evangelicals and Israel: A Dialogue

Gary L. Bauer, President, American Values
Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, Executive Vice President, Rabbinical Assembly
Moderator: Rabbi Noam Marans, AJC Director of Interreligious and Intergroup Relations

Multi-Polar Disorder: The New Face of Geopolitics

Jeffrey Goldberg, National Correspondent, The Atlantic
Robert Kagan, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Author of Of Paradise and Power
Gideon Rose, Editor, Foreign Affairs
Moderator: Elizabath Planet, AJC Assistant Executive Director and Director of Regional Offices

Delegitimization: The Global Assault on Israel

Gidi Grinstein, Director of REUT Institute; leading thinker on Delegitimization
Lorna Fitzsimons, CEO, Britain Israel Communication and Research Centre (BICOM), former Member of Parliament
Rafael Bardaji, Executive Director, Friends of Israel Initiative
Moderator: Allan Reich, Chair, AJC International Relations Commission

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The Great Debate I: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Middle East

Elliott Abrams, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Deputy National Security Advisor, 2005-8
Robert Wexler, President, S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace; Democratic Member of Congress, 1997-2010
Moderator: Jason Isaacson, AJC Director of Government and International Affairs
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The Changing World Order: What Role for the U.S. and Europe?

Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and German Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor Joschka Fischer encouraged a negotiated settlement to the Israel-Palestinian conflict in a conversation with AJC Executive Director David Harris. "Unilateral declarations are not the answer," said Albright. Added Fischer, "It's time for meaningful, serious negotiations." 
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Congressional Leadership Award

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) received AJC's Congressional Leadership Award for combating anti-Semitism, rescuing Soviet Jewry, and defending human rights. Read Rabbi Andrew Baker's remarks presenting the award, and Rep. Smth's acceptance speech.