The news articles capture the conference fairly well, except for a slight inaccuracy in the Forward's coverage:
When the occasional criticism of Israeli settlement policy was offered by audience members, it was often met with a chorus of hisses.I was at all seven sessions. There was one question at one panel that precipitated about 30 seconds of hissing, which was quickly quelled by the moderators. There was no "often."
While organizing several months worth of bookmarks, I found that I had collected articles by some of the speakers which make the same points as their conference presentations. In the absence of video or transcripts, and in lieu of transcribing my voluminous notes, I will highlight as many of the presenters' ideas as I can in several installments over the next month or so, using the links I've collected.
However, JTA has excerpts posted from several of the conference speeches, so let's start with a muscular yet finely discriminating manifesto by Leon Wieseltier, conference organizer and keynote speaker. If you tend to get confused by global anti-semitism or find yourself internalizing some of it, this is a good one to tape to your refrigerator door.
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