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Business as usual?

The Iranian regime, the holy war against Israel and the West and the German reaction

 

Friday, May 2nd 2008

 

11 a.m.

Press conference

  

7 p.m.

Introduction and greetings

 
Prof. Elie Wiesel
Nobel Laureate, Publicist and Survivor of the Shoah (USA)
(Video-Message)
 
Charles A. Small
Yale University (USA), President and Founder of the Institute for the Global Study of Antisemitism and Policy

 Prof. Diethard Pallaschke
Head of German chapter of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME)

 

7.30 p.m. 

Opening panel:

Islamism, Antisemitism, Nuclear Programme:

The Iranian threat

 

Religious and ideological motivation in Iranian domestic and international policies

Menashe Amir

Former Director of the Persian program of Radio Kol Israel (Voice of Israel), Israel

 

A second Holocaust? The threat to Israel

Prof. Benny Morris

Professor of History, Ben-Gurion University, Middle East Studies Dept., Israel

 

“Strategic partner”? The special German-Iranian relationship

Dr. Matthias Küntzel 

Political Scientist, Board Member Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, Germany

 

The EU, Iran and the effectiveness of sanctions

MEP Paulo Casaca

Partido Socialista Portugal, Socialist Group in the European Parliament, Portugal

 

Chair: Alan Posener

Head Commentator Welt am Sonntag, Germany

 

 

Saturday, May 3rd 2008

 

10.15 a.m. - 12.00 p.m.

Theocracy and Human Rights:
The character of the Iranian Regime

Anatomy of Terror in the Iranian theocracy

Javad Asadian
Writer and Poet, member and former head of the exil-Iranian PEN, Germany

 

Women under theocracy

Nasrin Amirsedghi

Publicist and Cultural Scientist, Germany

 

The situation of the Kurds in Iran

Dr. Miro Aliyar

Representative of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, Austria


Chair: Caroline Fetscher

Journalist Tagesspiegel, Germany

 

 

 

12.45 p.m.  - 14.30 p.m.

The Holy war against Israel and the West

The roadmap to the bomb

Yossi Melman 

Publicist and Journalist Haaretz, Israel

 

Terror and ideology-export: The Islamic Republic's war against the West

Dr. Patrick Clawson 

Deputy Director for Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, USA

 

Iran and the Islamist network in Germany

Alexander Ritzmann 

Political Scientist, European Foundation for Democracy, Germany

 

Chair: Dr. Sylke Tempel

Historian and Publicist, Germany

 

 

16.00 p.m. - 17.45 p.m.

Iran and Europe: Dialogue or confrontation?

 

Is Europe pressing Israel towards war? EU, UN and the possible effectiveness of draconian sanctions

Saul Singer

Journalist and Publicist, Editorial Page Editor Jerusalem Post, Israel


Business as usual? German-Iranian trade relations

Dr. Matthias Küntzel 

Political Scientist, Board Member Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, Germany

 

Know nothing, hear nothing, see nothing - Germany's policy toward Islamism: Calculation or anticipatory obedience?

Bruno Schirra

Journalist and Publicist, Germany

 

Chair: Dr. Majid Sattar
Political Editor Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany

 

 

18.15 p.m. - 20.15 p.m.

 

Final panel:

The need for a new antifascism

 

 

Capitulate to the Iranian regime?

Henryk M. Broder

Journalist, Germany

 
 

International cooperation against the Mullah-Regime

Kayvan Kaboli

Spokesperson of the Green Party of Iran, USA

 

Where are the anti-fascists? Iran and the meaning of "Coming to terms with the Nazi past" in 2008

Prof. Jeffrey Herf 

Historian, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

 

Freedom, secularization, democracy – for a new Middle East

Thomas von der Osten-Sacken 

Publicist and Director of relief and human rights organization Wadi e.V., Germany

 

Chair: Doris Akrap

Editor Jungle World, Germany