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*[[Louise Ellman]], Labour MP
 
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*[[Lee Scott]], Conservative MP
 
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*Professor David Cesarani, Research Chair in History, Royal Holloway
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*Professor [[David Cesarani]], Research Chair in History, Royal Holloway
 
*Wes Streeting, Former National President, National Union of Students (NUS)
 
*Wes Streeting, Former National President, National Union of Students (NUS)
 
*Chas Newkey-Burden, StandWithUs Advisory Board Member, blogs at www.oyvagoy.com
 
*Chas Newkey-Burden, StandWithUs Advisory Board Member, blogs at www.oyvagoy.com

Revision as of 14:02, 2 June 2012

We Believe in Israel was a conference organised by BICOM held on May 15 2011 and described as "the largest conference in support of Israel ever to take place in Britain".

Speakers

According to the conference website, speakers included:

  • Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox MP, Secretary of State for Defence
  • Gideon Sa’ar MK, Israeli Minister for Education
  • Natan Sharansky, Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel
  • Ambassador Matthew Gould, British Ambassador to Israel
  • Ambassador Ron Prosor, Israeli Ambassador to the Court of St James
  • Trevor Kavanagh, Associate Editor and Columnist, the Sun
  • Matthew Doyle, Political Director, the Office of Tony Blair
  • Rt. Hon Bill Rammell, Former Minister of State at the Foreign Office and for the Armed Forces, currently Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Plymouth
  • Professor Robbie Sabel, Lecturer in International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Former Legal Advisor to the Israeli Foreign Ministry
  • Dr Tal Becker, Former Israeli Negotiator and Ex-Chief Advisor to Tzipi Livni, BICOM Senior Visiting Fellow
  • Colonel Richard Kemp, Former Commander of British Troops in Afghanistan
  • Amos Harel, Military Correspondent and Defence Analyst, Haaretz
  • Jonathan Freedland, Journalist, Author and Broadcaster, the Guardian
  • DJ Schneeweiss, Diplomat, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Luciana Berger, Labour & Co-operative MP, Former Director of LFI
  • Nick Boles, Conservative MP
  • Louise Ellman, Labour MP
  • Lee Scott, Conservative MP
  • Professor David Cesarani, Research Chair in History, Royal Holloway
  • Wes Streeting, Former National President, National Union of Students (NUS)
  • Chas Newkey-Burden, StandWithUs Advisory Board Member, blogs at www.oyvagoy.com
  • Yonatan Ariel, Executive Director, Makom
  • Robbie Gringras, Artist in Residence, Makom[1]

Notes

  1. Homepage, We Believe in Israel, accessed June 2 2012