This article (discussed immediately below) has been getting a lot of attention, it seems. Mere Rhetoric has the details, here.
In a nutshell, a commenter calling himself "Roberto" and claiming to have attended the conference suggests at Soccer Dad that the Ynet story was "a flawed representation" and that Steven Erlanger was "purely professional and showed no bias." Now that would be a first for Erlanger when it comes to Israel, at least in my experience.
But, as mentioned in my previous post, Ynet has already deleted one particularly inflammatory paragraph from the article. And The Media Line, in an email that has been quietly circulating, corroborates Roberto's appraisal. They should know. They organized the conference.
Here are two other (considerably milder) versions of the conference comments. Compare and contrast. Stephen Spruiell says it seems as if Ynet just emphasized different comments. Omri suggests they may have been taken out of context.
TML has promised to put up the audio and video of the conference soon. We shall see and we shall update, as circumstances permit.
Update: The mystery of the deleted paragraph is solved, Steve Erlanger responds to Lappin's article, and Lappin responds to Erlanger's response (all here). They both recommend watching the tape -- when it's available. Stay tuned.
