Ellie Cohanim
Ellie Cohanim interviews former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer.
Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer joined a new weekly video program, “Global Perspectives With Ellie Cohanim,” to discuss the danger of an Iran nuclear deal, Israel’s recent conflict against Hamas in Gaza and his accomplishments in office.
In addition to its 80-million-plus residents are a small number of Jews who live in fear of “government reprisals if they draw attention to the mistreatment of their community,” says Ellie Cohanim, former U.S. deputy special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism.
Iran Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s “vitriol goes back to 2014 when he laid out a nine-step plan for eliminating Israel,” said Ellie Cohanim. “So this is a long history that this man has of calling for genocide against the Jews, for wiping Israel off the face of the earth.”
State Department envoy Ellie Cohanim also noted that the United States is urging nations to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism.
“It is not being spread by the usual bad actors on the dark web or elsewhere,” she said, “but by government officials spreading the lies from Turkey, the Palestinian Authority and Iran.”
Andrew Alan Escher Auernheimer, also known as “weev,” who Zoombombed a Jewish teen webinar in March, is the white supremacist wanted by Australia’s Human Rights Commission.
David Peyman was previously deputy assistant secretary of state for counter-threat finance and sanctions, a term that concluded on April 5.
NCSY international director Rabbi Micah Greenland said “it is disappointing that during this time of great worldwide peril, when people should be joining in solidarity, there are individuals with such hatred in their hearts that they are harassing Jewish groups meeting via Zoom.”
She was senior vice president and special correspondent for the Jewish Broadcasting Service, and on the boards of Jewish organizations, including the American Jewish Committee.