In her first appearance since the Senate confirmed her to the position of special envoy to combat and monitor antisemitism, Deborah E. Lipstadt, met on Friday with a group of Jewish cadets and midshipmen in the service academy who were attending the Jewish Warrior Weekend in Atlanta. Her appearance was scheduled before her confirmation. Lipstadt…
The United States Senate confirmed Deborah E. Lipstadt as the State Department’s envoy to combat and monitor antisemitism in an unanimous voice note on Wednesday night, after eight months of delays and a contentious committee hearing in which she was questioned for her tweets criticizing Republicans. “I am grateful to the president for nominating me,…
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the nomination of Deborah E. Lipstadt to be the State Department’s envoy to combat and monitor antisemitism by a bipartisan 13-9 vote after a long-delayed process. Two Republicans Senators, Mitt Romney from Utah and Marco Rubio from Florida, voted in favor of Lipstadt in the 22-member committee. If her…
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson on Tuesday blocked a vote on the nomination of Deborah E. Lipstadt as the Biden administration’s antisemitism envoy. Instead Johnson met with a group of truckers in Washington, D.C., in protest of the COVID-19 mandates and to support those imprisoned for participating in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. Jewish…
Nearly 200 days after President Biden announced that he intended to nominate Dr. Deborah Lipstadt to serve as U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, she finally had a confirmation hearing before the Senate. The Feb. 8 hearing came months after leading Jewish organizations called on the Senate to consider this critical nomination and…
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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