Join an international panel of  renowned IHRA experts  (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) as they weigh in on the IHRA definition of antisemitism. The IHRA was the first intergovernmental body to adopt a working definition of antisemitism – the result of in-depth discourse between international experts and political representatives.

Our distinguished panelists:

Alina Bricman is the Director of EU Affairs at B’nai B’rith International. She formerly served as president of the European Union of Jewish Students (EUJS) from 2017 to 2019 and worked for the Representation of the European Commission in Romania and for the Median Research Centre, a Romanian civil society NGO focused on civil engagement and combating xenophobia.  She studied political science at the National School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest and at the Central European University in Budapest.

Juliane Wetzel is the new Chair of the IHRA Committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial. She is a senior researcher at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism, Technical University Berlin. Wetzel co-authored a March 2003 report on anti-Semitism in the European Union with Werner Bergmann in which they identified anti-globalization rallies as one of the sources of anti-Semitism on the left.

Leon Saltiel is Representative at UN Geneva and UNESCO and Coordinator on Countering Antisemitism for the World Jewish Congress. He holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary Greek History from the University of Macedonia, in Thessaloniki, Greece, and has been a post-doctoral researcher at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His publications include The Holocaust in Thessaloniki: Reactions to the Anti-Jewish Persecution, 1942–1943 (Routledge 2020) and ‘Do Not Forget Me’: Three Jewish Mothers Write to their Sons from the Ghetto of Thessaloniki (Alexandria 2018).

Andre Oboler is the founder and managing director of the Online Hate Prevention Institute. He established this Australian charity in 2012 and continues to guide its growth and day-to-day operations tackling the rise of online hate. He also leads the organisations research into all forms of online hate and extremism and develops programs to increase community resilience and cohesion and improve online transparency. He is also an honorary associate of the La Trobe Law School he is part of the LawTech research group and the university’s Cyber Security focus. Recently, Dr, Oboler was elected as of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria.