Georgetown University’s
Department of Government
and Program for Jewish Civilization
presents
The Aaron and Cecile Goldman Visiting Professorship Lecture
“Arab-Muslim Anti-Semitism:
The Unspoken Barrier to Peace”
an address by
Avi Beker
Goldman Israeli Visiting Professor,
Georgetown University
Monday, April 6, 2009
5:00 PM
Copley Formal Lounge, Copley Hall
Anti-Semitism is a far more deeply ingrained phenomenon in the Arab/Islamic world than diplomats and statesmen are willing to acknowledge. The juxtaposition of peace talks together with intensive campaigns of hatred and prejudice defy logic and project hypocrisy and brutal cynicism. Dealing with Anti-Semitism must be part and parcel of the peace process in order to ensure a genuine peace between Israel and its neighbors, between Jews and Arabs, between Islam and Judaism.
Avi Beker is the former Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress, the chief executive officer of the umbrella organization of world Jewish communities. He received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York specializing in international security, arms control and the United Nations and was a member of the Israeli mission to the United Nations (1977-82). He lectured to MA students of Diplomacy and headed the program on Jewish Diplomacy at the school of Government and Policy at Tel Aviv University. His book The Chosen: the History of an Idea and the Anatomy of an Obsession was published in May 2008 by Palgrave-Macmillan.
