Tag: Elan Carr
Israel, US urge EU lawmakers to break ties with BDS orgs
Israeli and U.S. officials warned in a meeting with European lawmakers on Wednesday of a rise in hate crimes against Jews in Western Europe, and urged the European Union to cut funding to organizations...
58 Jewish groups gather in New York to mobilize against anti-Semitism
Fifty-eight Jewish organizations gathered in New York City on Wednesday for a “National Consultation on Responses to Antisemitism” to address ever increasing anti-Semitic incidents in the United States, Europe and around the world.
Organized by...
US special envoy Carr warns about anti-Semitism from three different directions
U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Elan Carr warned on Tuesday about anti-Semitism from three different directions.
“In Europe, we have a confluence of anti-Semitism, from ultra-right ethnic supremacist movements to the ultra-left...
Carr ‘stunned’ by absence of anti-Semitism in Ukrainian presidential elections
U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Elan Carr said earlier this week that it was “stunning and unprecedented” that the Jewish identity of Ukraine’s newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky, played no role...
Elan Carr officially sworn in as US anti-Semitism envoy
Elan Carr was sworn in on Thursday as the U.S. Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo administered the oath of office to Carr, who placed one hand over a Hebrew...
Iraq war veteran, grandson of Holocaust survivors Elan Carr tapped as anti-Semitism envoy
After a 21-month-long vacancy awaiting the appointment of the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, the Trump administration has picked Iraq War veteran and attorney Elan Carr to fill the...