Tag: Deborah Lipstadt
Lipstadt nomination moves to full vote in Senate
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday advanced the nomination of Deborah Lipstadt to serve as the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism.
Lipstadt, 75, a top Holocaust historian and the...
Lipstadt nomination vote postponed due to low attendance
A business meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee scheduled for Wednesday, where U.S. President Joe Biden’s nominee to serve as the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Deborah Lipstadt was supposed to...
Democrats accuse Republican leader of whipping votes against anti-Semitism nominee Deborah Lipstadt
Ahead of a likely vote on the nomination for Deborah Lipstadt to serve as the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, how many Republicans, if any, will vote to favorably...
Lipstadt confirmation vote for US anti-Semitism envoy stalled by senator’s objection
The confirmation vote for Deborah Lipstadt to serve as the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism was delayed on Tuesday after Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) objected to her nomination.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee,...
Deborah Lipstadt’s Nomination: 6-Month Delay Thanks to A 6-Year-Old’s Mindset
Tracking Nancy Pelosi’s Gazpacho police must be a rigorous chore, yet the idiocy of the congresswoman who fabricated the story hardly compares with blocking the appointment of an antisemitism monitor or undermining the attorney-general...
Politics and combating anti-Semitism don’t mix
At a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise around the globe, the office of the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy for Combating and Monitoring Anti-Semitism ought to be filled. Indeed, the Biden administration...
Biden administration appoints Aaron Keyak as deputy anti-Semitism envoy
Democratic consultant Aaron Keyak, 36, has been appointed to serve as U.S. Deputy Envoy to Monitor and Combat anti-Semitism after recently directing U.S. President Joe Biden’s Jewish outreach during the 2020 election campaign.
As first reported in The...
Jewish groups urge Senate to approve anti-Semitism envoy amid stalled nomination
Some 21 Jewish organizations wrote to the heads of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday urging them to swiftly approve Deborah Lipstadt as the next anti-Semitism envoy.
“As Jewish organizations dedicated to protesting the...
Jewish groups urge approval of anti-Semitism envoy amid concern over past tweets
Jewish organizations are calling on the U.S. Senate and its Foreign Relations Committee to hold a hearing on and confirm historian, author and Emory University professor Deborah Lipstadt for the role of U.S. Special...
Ambassador to Israel’s confirmation delayed by GOP objection amid partisan rancor
U.S. President Joe Biden’s pick to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides was delayed from confirmation along with other U.S. State Department nominees due to objection from one Senate Republican.
Senate Foreign Relations chairman Sen....