Deborah Lipstadt
The former U.S. special envoy on monitoring Jew-hatred told JNS that a Wikipedia page listing “genocide” in Gaza but not on Oct. 7 and not against Christians in Nigeria is part of why the site is an “untrustworthy source.”
“Yehuda is a successful businessman and staunch advocate for the Jewish faith, and the rights of his people to live and worship free from persecution,” the president said.
“There are officials inside the U.N. who have engaged in overt antisemitism, but I don’t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater,” the outgoing U.S. envoy told reporters.
The U.S. special envoy for monitoring Jew-hatred is scheduled to meet with Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
The trip aims to promote interfaith understanding and religious tolerance.
The U.S. envoy on fighting Jew-hatred said at the Israeli-American Council summit that the attack on Hezbollah beepers proves that Israel isn’t weak.
Israel’s special envoy praised the inclusion of the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism in the document.
The U.S. envoy is headed to South America to help launch the “Global Guidelines for Countering Antisemitism” plan.
Farida Shaheed’s “mischaracterization” of the IHRA antisemitism definition harms efforts to ensure “students can access the education they deserve.”
Following a meeting with Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, TikTok and X, the U.S. State Department antisemitism envoy says no new policies were agreed to.
The chaotic scenes of terror support on college campuses have left foreign officials wondering if the U.S. is “on the verge of becoming a failed state,” says antisemitism envoy Deborah Lipstadt.
The Conference of Presidents head was one of several speakers who talked to JNS during the ADL summit in New York.
