Deborah E. Lipstadt is the U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism.
Deborah E. Lipstadt
By Deborah E. Lipstadt
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Opinion Bernie Sanders Is Blind To The Anti-Semitism On His Own Side
Bernie Sanders reminds me of Moshe Dayan. (Read on please.) He’s got a patch on one eye. Dayan wore his patch because of military injury. Sanders wears his for ideological purposes. It’s on his left eye and it prevents him from seeing what’s going on next to him. However, it leaves him eagle eyed for…
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Opinion The Best Way To Fight Anti-Semitism? Jewish Joy
This piece is part of a series for the one year yahrzeit of the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue massacre. I write in the aftermath of an attempted massacre in Halle, Germany and in anticipation of the Yahrzeit of the Tree of Life tragedy, the worst antisemitic attack to occur on American soil. But for…
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Opinion In The Wake Of Pittsburgh, We Can’t Let Anti-Semitism Define Us
When one enters a house of mourning to pay a condolence call, Jewish tradition posits that one waits for the mourners to initiate the conversation. If the mourners wish to just sit silently, so too are we supposed to sit silently with them. If they have no words for you, that’s fine. This visit is…
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Letters Deborah Lipstadt On Her Comments About Jordan Peterson
To the Forward: Last week Ari Feldman interviewed me for “Is Jordan Peterson Enabling Jew Hatred?” When Feldman contacted me, I explicitly told him that I had never read Peterson’s work and knew very little about him. Throughout the interview, I repeated that point and refused to offer any assessment of the work itself because…
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Opinion Didn’t Slam Anti-Semitism On the Left? Don’t Expect Credibility When You Slam It On the Right.
For the past few decades, we have witnessed the rise of anti-Semitism from the left. From Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party in the United Kingdom to college campuses across America, the phenomenon is real, and it is dangerous. Yet, all too often, some Jews — both individuals and organizations — who inhabit the liberal or left…
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Opinion Is Donald Trump’s Inadvertent Anti-Semitism Worse Than the Real Thing?
Is Donald Trump a committed anti-Semite? I don’t think so. This is a man who is exceptionally proud of his daughter, a traditional Jew who is giving her children a solid Jewish education. His son-in-law, upon whose advice he increasingly leans, is an Orthodox Jew. This is not the profile of an anti-Semite. I also…
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Opinion Why I’m for Hillary (and Not for Him)
I am for Hillary Clinton. She represents some of my most basic beliefs about this country and the world in general. She has a view of an inclusive society in which all people – children in particular – have a chance. At the same time she believes in a strong America that can make a…
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Opinion Best Way To Stop Islamic Terrorism? Reach Out to Muslims.
When the editor of this paper asked me whether I wanted to share my thoughts about the tremendous tragedy in Paris, I responded by saying, “What is there to say except, Oy lanu, woe is unto us.” In the hours since then I have decided to modestly add my thoughts. I say modestly because so…
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