Sunday, March 13^th – Red Town Hall

11:00-22:00

Information Packs available at the hotels

18:00

Registration opens at Red Town Hall

18:10

Assisted transfer to Red Town Hall

18:30-20:30

Opening reception in the Red Town Hall

1.      Address and welcome to Berlin by the Governing Mayor of Berlin Michael Müller

2.      Address and welcome by parliamentary state secretary Caren Marks of the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth

3.      Introduction and welcome to the conference by Cecilia Wikström, member of the Steering Committee of the ICCA

4.      Thank-You by Natascha Engel MP, Deputy Speaker, British Parliament

Red Town Hall ,

Wappensaal/

Hall of Arms

  20:30

Assisted transfer back to hotel

Monday, March 14^th – Bundestag

7:30

Assisted transfer to Bundestag

7:45

Registration opens at the Bundestag

Please allow at least 30 minutes for airport style security.

Bundestag Marie-Elisabeth-

Lüders-Haus (MELH), North Entrance

8:30-10:15

Setting the Scene:

Chair: Petra Pau, MdB, Vice President of the Bundestag, member of the ICCA Steering Committee

1.      Michael Link,
Director of the Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the OSCE

2.      Michael O´Flaherty,
Director of FRA/European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights

3.      Professor  Monika Schwarz-Friesel, Technical University Berlin, expert on antisemitism in Germany

4.      Professor Alvin Rosenfeld, Director of Indiana University Institute for the Study of Antisemitism

Bundestag

MELH,

Anhörungssaal/ Committee Room

10:30-11:15

Opening reception, hosted by President of the Bundestag Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert

1.      Introduction and words of thanks by Gert Weisskirchen, Honorary Vice-President of the ICCA

2.       Welcome by President of the Bundestag
 Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert

Bundestag:

Kaisersaal,

ehemaliges Reichstagspräsidenten-palais/Emperor´s Hall, Former Palace of the Reichstag President

11:30-12:25

Focus Session I:

Internet Hate and possible European approaches

Chair: Gitta Connemann, MdB (CDU), Vice President of the DIG (Deutsch-Israelische Gesellschaft/ German-Israeli Society)

1.      Harlem Désir, Minister of state for European affairs in France

2.      Michael Roth, State Minister for Europe in the Federal Foreign Office of Germany

3.      Andrea Orlando, Minister of Justice, Italy

4.      Simon Milner, Policy Director, UK, Middle East and Africa, Facebook

5.      Paul Giannasi, Head of the UK Government Hate Crime Programme

Bundestag:

MELH,

Anhörungssaal/ Committee Room

12:30-12:45

Welcoming address by Doris Barnett, MdB, Head of the German delegation to the OSCE and Treasurer of the OSCE PA

Address by Frans Timmermans, First Vice-President of the EC and European Commissioner for Better Regulation, Inter-Institutional Relations, Rule of Law and Charter of Fundamental Rights

Bundestag:

MELH,

Anhörungssaal/ Committee Room

12:50-13:15

1.       Address by Thomas Oppermann, MdB, Chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag (time tbc)

2.      Address by Volker Kauder, MdB, Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag

3.      Address by Dr. Anton Hofreiter, MdB, Chairman of the Alliance 90/ The Greens parliamentary group in the Bundestag

4.      Address by Dr. Hans-Peter Uhl, MdB, legal adviser  for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag

Bundestag:

MELH, Veranstaltungsfoyer

13:15-13:45

Lunch (Stehbuffet)

Bundestag:

MELH, Veranstaltungsfoyer, Foyer

13:50-14:45

Focus Session II: Antisemitism in football

Chair: tba

1. Roisin Wood, Director, Kick it Out (UK)

2. TuS Makkabi Berlin player Fabian Weissbarth

3.  Eberhard Schulz, speaker of the initiative "Never again! Remembrance day in German soccer" and Vice Chair of the Jury for the Julius Hirsch-Award of DFB (German Football Association)

4. Fan initiatives: rep of Bremen Fanprojekt Thomas Hafke

5. Julien Zylberstein, EU & Governmental Affairs – Legal Counsel President’s Office, UEFA

Bundestag:

MELH,

Anhörungssaal/ Committee Room

15:00-15:30

Introduction by Petra Pau, MdB, Vice President of the Bundestag, member of the ICCA Steering Committee

Address by Federal Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel

Bundestag:

MELH,

Anhörungssaal/ Committee Room

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

Bundestag:

MELH, Anhörungsaal, Foyer

16:00-17:30

Focus Session III: Combating Antisemitism in Muslim communities-- good examples, best practices
Chair: Aiman A. Mazyek, chair of the Central Council of Muslims

1.      Aycan Demirel, founding member of KIgA/ Kreuzberg Initiative against Antisemitism

2.      Lamya Kaddor, chair of the liberal-islamic union, islamic scientist, islamic pedagogue and expert on Muslim antisemitism

3.      Dr. Esther Webman, Head of the Zeev Vered Desk for the Study of Tolerance and Intolerance in the Middle East, Dayan Center & Stephen Roth Institute, Tel Aviv University

4.      Siavosh Derakhti, Malmö/Sweden, winner of the Raoul Wallenberg award, founder of “Young people against Antisemitsm and Xenophobia”

Bundestag:

MELH,

Anhörungssaal/ Committee Room

17:30

Exit the Bundestag;

assisted transfer to hotel

Bundestag:

MELH,

North entrance

18:00

Assisted transfer to Foreign Office

Hotel

18:30-21:30

Reception and Concert in the Foreign Office

1.      Address and Welcome by Michael Roth, State Minister for Europe in the Foreign Office

2.      Introduction by Ben Cardin, US-Senator

3.      Address by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO

4.      Address by Andrew Baker, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Antisemitism

Foreign Office:

Europasaal/

Europe Hall,

Foyer

21:30

Assisted walk from Foreign Office to hotel

Tuesday, March 15^th – Foreign Office

7:15-8:15

Breakfast for overseas participants

Hotel

8:00

Assisted  walk from Hotel to Foreign Office

8:30

Registration for Observers and Press

Foreign Office

9:00-9:30

Welcome by Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Germany

Foreign Office:

Weltsaal/

World Hall

9:30-11:00

Plenary Session I: Legal Responses to Antisemitism

Chair: Rt Hon Dominic Grieve QC MP Tbc

1.      Heiko Maas, Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection, Germany

2.      Hon Michael Keenan, Minister for Justice, Australia

3.      Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Justice, UK

4.      Tzipi Livni, MK, Former Justice Minister, Israel

5.      Irwin Cotler (Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada - Professor of Law (Emeritus) at McGill University)

Foreign Office:

Weltsaal/

World Hall

11:00-11:20

Coffee Break with Exhibition on Antisemitism in Germany after 1945 (by Amadeu Antonio Foundation)

Foreign Office:

Weltsaal/World Hall, Foyer

11:20-12:45

Plenary Session II: Parliamentary responses to Antisemitism

Chair: Dietmar Bartsch, Chairman of the parliamentary group of The Left Party/ Die LINKE in the Bundestag

1.      Francois Pupponi, Chair of the Study Group on Antisemitism in the French Parliament

2.      Volker Beck, MdB, Alliance 90/ The Greens

3.      Boriss Cilevics, rapporteur of the No Hate Parliamentary Alliance of PACE/ Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

Respondents: Mr Titus Corlatean, Senator, Member of Committee on Foreign Affairs, Senate of Romania;

Barbara Woltmann, MdB, rapporteur for antisemitism for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group;

Gabriele Fograscher, MdB, rapporteur for antisemitism for the SPD parliamentary group

Foreign Office:

Weltsaal/

World Hall

12:45-13:30

Lunch with Exhibition on Antisemitism in Germany after 1945 (by Amadeu Antonio Foundation)

Foreign Office:

World Hall, Foyer

13:30-15:00

Plenary Session III: Government and Official Responses to Antisemitism

Chair: Valeriu Zgonea, President of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies

1.      Ira Forman, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, US Department of State

2.      Sir Eric Pickles, Post-Holocaust Issues Envoy, UK

3.      Gilles Clavreul, France, Interministerial Delegate on Racism and Antisemitism

4.      Gideon Behar, Amb. Director of the Department for combating Antisemitism, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel

5.      Dr. Heiko Geue, Director-General for Central Services and Civic Engagement Policy, Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, Germany

Foreign Office:

Weltsaal/

World Hall

15:00-15:40

Plenary Session IV—Final Discussions & Forming of Permanent Working Groups

Chair: John Mann MP (UK), Founding Member and Chair of the ICCA

1.      Petra Bayr, Austria, member of the ICCA steering committee

Foreign Office:

Weltsaal/

World Hall

15:40-16:00

Coffee with Exhibition on Antisemitism in Germany after 1945 (by Amadeu Antonio Foundation)

Foreign Office:

Weltsaal/World Hall, Foyer