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Esther Webman participated in a conference held in Budapest in early November 2006 on “Sixty Years After – Conflicting Tendencies,” chairing the session on Islamic anti-Semitism. Three weeks later she gave a lecture about the Arab perspective on European efforts to combat anti-Semitism at an expert meeting on anti-Semitism convened by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Berlin. In February 2007, she took part in the Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism organized by the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem. In March she lectured at the annual convention of the World Union of Progressive Judaism on anti-Semitic manifestations in the wake of the Second Lebanon War, and on the perceptions of the Holocaust in the Arab world at Yad Jabotinski. On May 15 she spoke on Arab anti-Semitism at a conference organized by the Tel Aviv Workshop for Science, Technology and Security held at TAU. On April 19 she hosted a delegation of Turkish journalists brought to Israel by the American Jewish Committee’s Project Interchange. email: webman@post.tau.ac.il With Meir Litvak, "Perceptions of the Holocaust in Palestinian Public Discourse," Israel Studies, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Fall 2003). Also available through Project Muse. |