Tag: Deborah Lipstadt
Thirty-six states adopt Jew-hatred guidelines amid global resurgence
Thirty-six countries and international bodies led by the United States endorsed the Global Guidelines for Countering Antisemitism in Argentina on Wednesday.
The special envoys and other representatives adopted the 12 nonbinding guidelines at a time when the...
Lipstadt to travel to South America for antisemitism forum, AMIA memorial
Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, is scheduled to visit Argentina and Brazil from July 15-23, according to the U.S. State Department.
In Argentina, she is slated to appear at a...
Should Deborah Lipstadt resign in protest?
U.S. President Biden’s suspension of weapons deliveries to Israel places Deborah Lipstadt, the most prominent Jewish member of his administration, in quite a bind. How will she respond?
Let us recall the example set by...
AJC official appointed to US State Department’s antisemitism envoy office
Julie Katz, the Atlanta associate director of the American Jewish Committee, will take a year off from her position to serve in the U.S. State Department, working with Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. special envoy to...
‘Couldn’t do my job’ if not an optimist,’ Lipstadt tells ‘Washington Post’
Jennifer Rubin, an ostensibly-conservative opinion writer at The Washington Post, devoted her Dec. 26 column to an interview with Deborah Lipstadt, special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism at the U.S. State Department.
The envoy and professor told...
Deborah Lipstadt: ‘This nation gives bigotry no sanction’
Deborah Lipstadt, U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, spoke to a crowd of nearly 300,000 people at the “March for Israel” in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14.
“Two hundred and 30 years ago,...
US calls Roger Waters’s Berlin show antisemitic
The United States has condemned as antisemitic a recent concert in Berlin by Pink Floyd musician and co-founder Roger Waters.
The May 17 performance “contained imagery that is deeply offensive to Jewish people and minimized...
Antisemitism ‘working definition’ not a ‘work in progress,” new IHRA co-presidents say
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) is in the news a good deal these days. The intergovernmental organization is best known for its working definition of antisemitism, which many nations and institutions have adopted. Pro-Israel supporters...
US antisemitism envoy slams Abbas comparison of Israel to Nazis
U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Deborah Lipstadt on Wednesday slammed as “unacceptable” Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’s comparison this week of Israel to Nazi Germany.
“P.A. President Abbas’s equating Israel with the...
This is a case for the US antisemitism envoy
It’s one thing when an antisemite makes an ugly speech on a street corner or an antisemitic conspiracy theorist spouts his hate in some dark corner of the Internet. But what happens when the...