Seven months after Deborah E. Lipstadt was nominated to serve as the nation’s antisemitism envoy, Senate Republicans defended their holdup of her confirmation hearing, which took place Tuesday. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin accused Lipstadt of engaging in the “malicious poison” of hatred for a tweet in which she accused him of white supremacy for…
I will accompany Dr. Deborah Lipstadt into the Dirksen Senate Office Building for her Senate confirmation hearing to become the State Department Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism on Feb. 8. I will most likely sit silently behind her as a reminder and witness to the problem of antisemitism in our country and the…
This story was updated on Feb. 1 to reflect new developments. More than six months after President Joe Biden nominated Deborah E. Lipstadt to be his global ambassador on antisemitism, the Senate Foreign Relations committee scheduled her confirmation hearing for Feb. 8. “I am grateful and pleased,” Lipstadt, a renowned Holocaust historian and professor at…
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In the wake of Saturday’s attack at the Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, a debate is brewing among Jewish American groups about whether the incident — which the FBI deemed as a terrorist attack — should be treated as domestic terrorism or as a global antisemitic attack. At the heart of the conversation is…
As Senate Democrats are seeking ways to confirm the nomination of Deborah E. Lipstadt as the State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, amid Republican objection, experts are questioning whether the elevation of the position to the rank of an ambassador was worthwhile. “The important thing about this position is that there’s an…
When the trial of two dozen alt-right organizers of the “Unite the Right” rally begins in Charlottesville on Monday, Jews, among those targeted in the extremist gathering, will be watching closely. But they are also key players in the case. One of the lead lawyers for the plaintiff is Roberta Kaplan, a feminist who has…
With the appointment of Professor Deborah Lipstadt as the new Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, attention will focus on the Biden Administration’s plans to confront the persistent scourge of antisemitism which has increased in the wake of the COVID pandemic and the recent conflict. She will have an enormous task taking on the…
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