Biden’s Envoy to Fight Antisemitism Says She Saw Surge of Hate After Oct. 7
Reflecting at the end of her tenure, Deborah Lipstadt said that after the Hamas-led attack on Israel and the devastating war ...
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Former antisemitism envoy Deborah Lipstadt says she turned down Columbia job
"I will not be used to provide cover for a completely unacceptable situation," Lipstadt wrote in The Free Press.
Biden's antisemitism envoy rejects Columbia post over campus antisemitism: ‘I won’t be a fig leaf'
I was Biden’s antisemitism envoy. I had been considering an academic appointment at the Ivy League institution. Not anymore.' ...
N.J. rabbi: Defining antisemitism will help stop this dangerous resurgence in its tracks
History has taught us that hatred left unchecked metastasizes. It is our moral duty to ensure that antisemitism is named, ...
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Deborah Lipstadt had concerns of a ‘double standard’ for Israel during the Biden administration
The former State Department special antisemitism envoy said she feared Israel was being singled out for potential arms sanctions ...
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Deborah Lipstadt, exiting as US antisemitism envoy, is hoping for the best under Trump
WASHINGTON — In her last week in office, Deborah Lipstadt, whom President Joe Biden charged with fighting antisemitism around the world, expressed doubt as to whether the incoming Trump ...
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The ‘6MWE’ shirt: How a photo that went viral after the Capitol siege is misleading, and why it matters
One of the many people who shared that tweet was Deborah Lipstadt, the Holocaust and anti-Semitism scholar. Lipstadt, who has researched Holocaust denial and famously rebuffed a libel suit against ...
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Senate committee advances Deborah Lipstadt as antisemitism monitor
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Two Republicans joined the Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in approving Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt to be the State Department’s next antisemitism ...
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Lipstadt has ‘hope’ Trump team will build on her antisemitism work
Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt ...
‘We’re not just facing a threat to Jews in north London – this is the shutting down of democracy’
Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt has made fighting hatred against Jews her life’s work. And since October 7, as Joe Biden’s ...
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As we mark Holocaust Memorial Day, it’s time to stop using the word ‘antisemitism’
The National Holocaust Museum has replaced the term antisemitism with ‘anti-Jewish racism’. Etan Smallman argues that it’s time for wider society to do the same ...