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Conference Documentation: Best practices on Combating Antisemitism 1 German Delegation of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly & Gert Weisskirchen Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE on Combating Antisemitism BEST PRACTICES ON COMBATING ANTISEMITISM - EXPERT MEETING - Berlin, 20 to 21 November 2006 Conference Documentation Conference Documentation: Best practices on Combating Antisemitism 2 Contacts Britta Hanke-Giesers Secretary of the Delegation, Head of the Interparliamentary Organisations Division German Bundestag German Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Address: Platz der Republik 1, 11011 Berlin, Germany Phone: +49 (30) 227-33733; +49 (30) 227-32949 Fax: +49 (30) 227-36414 E-Mail: [email protected] Internet: http://www.bundestag.de/internat/interparl_orga/osze/index.html Prof. Gert Weisskirchen, MP Spokesman on Foreign Affairs for the SPD Group Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE on Combating Antisemitism Address: Platz der Republik 1, 11011 Berlin, Germany Phone: +49 (30) 227-73503 Fax: +49 (30) 227-76503 E-Mail: [email protected] Internet: http://www.gert-weisskirchen.de Dr. Kathrin Meyer Advisor on Antisemitism Issues Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Programme OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Address: Al. Ujazdowskie 19, 00-557 Warsaw, Poland Phone: +48 (22) 5200600 ext.1284 Mob.: +48 (695) 808 810 Fax: +48 (22) 5200605 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.osce.org/odihr Conference Documentation: Best practices on Combating Antisemitism 3 Members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Conference participants, Ladies and gentlemen, Two years’ work as the OSCE Chairman-in-Office's Personal Representative on Combating Antisemitism has convinced me that efforts need to be stepped up. Antisemitism continues to poison trust between the people who live in our common space. In a number of regions there has unfortunately been an upsurge in this scourge. While comprehensive empirical studies are needed to fill the considerable gaps in what we know, the picture is already frightening enough. The OSCE Conferences in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Brussels and Córdoba paved the way for the member states to make the necessary decisions in consensus. 2006 was supposed to be the year which showed how the commitments that were undertaken were being implemented at national level. The main questions for our conference are therefore: what problems have arisen in terms of implementation? And, what needs to be done to rectify these problems? The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly initiated the OSCE's fight against Antisemitism and the commitment of OSCE funds to this cause. It was the Assembly which voted to canvas the support of the foreign ministers of the OSCE states for this fight. Ultimately the task has to be tackled at state level. Now that two years have passed, it is time for parliamentarians to take stock of what has been achieved so far. I am grateful to the national delegation of the German Bundestag for inviting experts, NGOs and parliamentarians to undertake a provisional evalua- tion in order to assess what measures have been successful, what have not been successful and what steps need to be taken from here onwards in order to achieve the goals agreed on. In this process, we depend on the involvement of civil societies, organised either nationally or internationally. We parliamentarians are in a unique position to detect tectonic shifts taking place within our populations at an early stage, but we can only do so if and as long as the players within our civil societies work closely together with us. Their strength, in turn, is their autonomy which the state must guarantee. If we unite together to combat Antisemitism, we can make efficient use of the resources available to us nationally and internationally. Thank you for accepting the invitation extended by the German Bundestag. I am sure our meeting will help us in our search to find the best forms of practice in the fight against Antisemitism. I look forward to open and critical discussions. With best wishes Gert Weisskirchen Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE on Combating Antisemitism 4 Conference Documentation: Best practices on Combating Antisemitism Table of Contents 1. Program of the Conference .................................................................... 6 2. Zusammenfassung der Konferenz......................................................... 8 Britta Hanke-Giesers, Inga Immel, Anna Weiland, Philip Wüst 8 3. Summary of the Expert Meeting........................................................... 22 Britta Hanke-Giesers, Inga Immel, Anna Weiland, Philip Wüst 22 4. Opening Speech .................................................................................... 35 Wolfgang Thierse 35 5. Opening Statement: The fight against Antisemitism in the OSCE ... 37 Pierre Chevalier 37 6. Trends in Antisemitism: France........................................................... 40 Jean-Yves Camus 40 7. PANEL 1: Data Collection ..................................................................... 43 7.1. European Efforts to Combat Antisemitism from the Arab Perspective .............43 Dr. Esther Webman 43 7.2. Hate Crime Data Collection and the Implementation of OSCE Commitments ..47 Dr. Kathrin Meyer 47 8. PANEL 2: Hate Crimes .......................................................................... 51 8.1. Lessons Learned in the Fight Against Anti-Semitic Incidents and Hate Crimes 51 David C. Friedman 51 8.2. OSCE/ODIHR Law Enforcement Officers Programme for Combating Hate Crime ................................................................................................................54 Paul Goldenberg 54 8.3. Participating and implementing LEOP on CHC in Croatia.................................56 Daniela Petković 56 8.4. Outcomes of LEOP-CHC Delivery in Spain ......................................................58 Antonio Arrabal Villalobos 58 8.5. Policing Hate Crimes.........................................................................................62 Michael Whine 62 8.6. Recommendations from the Hate Crimes Session............................................64 Michael Whine 64 Conference Documentation: Best practices on Combating Antisemitism 5 9. PANEL 3: Education .............................................................................. 65 9.1. Education on Antisemitism and the Holocaust in the Framework of the OSCE 65 Kathrin Meyer 65 9.2. Knowledge and Prejudice: Results of a survey in Hungary...............................69 András Kovács 69 9.3. Statement..........................................................................................................73 Karen Polak 73 9.4. Antisemitism as a Topic in Education................................................................75 Juliane Wetzel 75 10. Further Presentations on Antisemitism .............................................. 78 10.1. Anti-Israel Sentiment Predicts / Antisemitism in Europe ..................................78 Edward H. Kaplan, Charles A. Small 78 10.2. The Situation on Hate on the Internet ...............................................................90 Mark Weitzman 90 11. OSCE initiatives to combat Antisemitism ........................................... 93 Thomas von Winter and Christoff Soltau 93 12. Concluding Statement........................................................................... 97 Andrew Baker 97 13. Closing Statement: Combating Antisemitism in 2007 ..................... 100 Gert Weisskirchen 100 14. Participants of the Conference........................................................... 103 15. Further Links........................................................................................ 110 6 Conference Documentation: Best practices on Combating Antisemitism 1. Program of the Conference Opening remarks Wolfgang Thierse MP; Head of the German Delegation to the OSCE PA; Vice-President of the German Bundestag, Germany Pierre Chevalier Senator; Special Envoy of the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Belgium Trends in Antisemitism (media, academia and cultural sphere, immigrant communities) Jean-Yves Camus France Institute for International and Strategic Relations Assistant of the magazine Actualité juive, France PANEL 1: Data Collection Jacques Huntzinger Ambassador; French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France Rt. Hon. Dr. Denis Mac Shane MP; Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, United Kingdom Dr. Esther Webman Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, Israel Moderator Dr. Kathrin Meyer Advisor on Antisemitism Issues, Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Programme, Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Poland PANEL 2: Hate Crimes David Friedman Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation-League (ADL), USA Paul Goldenberg National Public Safety Strategy Group Chief Executive Director, USA Danijela Petkovic Police Academy Instructor of Criminal Law Police Academy, Croatia Antonio Arrabal Villalobos Ministry of Interior, Department of International Police Cooperation, Spain Moderator Michael Whine Community Security Trust, Director, United Kingdom Conference Documentation: Best practices on Combating Antisemitism 7 Anti-Israel Sentiment Predicts Antisemitism in Europe Dr. Charles Asher Small Director of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism, USA PANEL 3: Education Dr. Kathrin Meyer Advisor on Antisemitism Issues, Tolerance and Non-Discrimination