Tag: Elan Carr
Report: State Department weighs designating human-rights groups ‘anti-Semitic’
U.S. President Donald Trump may soon declare that several prominent international NGOs, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam are, in fact, anti-Semitic organizations, Politico reported on Thursday.
Citing sources familiar with the issue, the report...
US, Bahrain to sign MOU on combating anti-Semitism
The United States and Bahrain are expected to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on combating anti-Semitism, a senior Trump administration official told JNS.
The three-year MOU, which would be eligible for renewal, will be...
US envoy Carr: 1.7 million anti-Semitic posts on Facebook, Twitter so far in 2020
Elan Carr has served as U.S. Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism since February 2019.
Previously, he was a deputy district attorney in the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office. He was also a judge advocate in the American...
Twitter, Google decline to be in State Department event countering anti-Semitism
Twitter and Google declined to participate in next week’s U.S. State Department event, featuring U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on countering anti-Semitism on the Internet and social media—the first event of its kind...
US, UN, UK, German officials hear anti-Semitism incidents, call for adoption of definition
Officials from the United States, the United Nations, the United Kingdom and Germany called for greater adoption of the widely accepted International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, describing it as a critical tool...
Carr calls out J Street’s use of photo to advance ‘anti-Semitic conspiracy theories’
U.S. Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Elan Carr called out the American Jewish lobby group J Street on Wednesday for using “crude anti-Semitic conspiracy theories to advance their agenda.”
In his own tweet,...
US anti-Semitism envoy warns of continued online hatred after COVID subsides
As anti-Semitism has fomented during the coronavirus pandemic, hatred towards Jews as it pertains to the outbreak won’t go away once it ends, warned U.S. Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Elan Carr.
“We’ve seen a tsunami of...
Is there something wrong with people liking Jews?
During the course of a press call marking May as Jewish Heritage Month, Elan Carr, the U.S. State Department’s special envoy for monitoring and combating anti-Semitism, said something that set off critics of the...
What is the future of human rights in an era of amplified anti-Semitism?
Anti-Semitism has increased dramatically in the past decade, particularly in Europe and North America, with college campuses, work places, political parties, social media and civil society becoming fertile ground for violent extremism and hateful...
Heated debate highlights partisan divide on combating anti-Semitism
With anti-Semitism in the United States on the uptick, including two deadly shootings in synagogues within six months of each other, multiple philanthropic initiatives have been launched to address the grave nature of the...