Tag: State Department
Biden nominates Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt as next anti-Semitism envoy
After months of pressure from Jewish communal organizations to appoint someone to the position, the Biden administration on Friday nominated Deborah Lipstadt to serve as the U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism.
Lipstadt,...
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...
US State Department envoy works to secure compensation for Nazi-era wrongs
Cherrie Daniels was tapped last year as the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues.
Founded in 1999, the Office of the Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues “develops and implements U.S. policy to return...
Trump administration ‘fully supports’ Israel’s right to defend itself
The Trump administration said it “fully supports” Israel’s right to defend itself amid a barrage of rockets fired on the Jewish state by the Palestinian terror group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
“It’s a very...
We shouldn’t believe all the ‘experts’
President Donald Trump’s critics often take him to task for his ignorance of policy and his unwillingness to listen to experts. The first is an unavoidable consequence of his lack of experience; the latter...