BY JONATHAN A. GREENBLATT, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 01/16/22 04:00 PM EST
One would have thought that Dr. Deborah Lipstadt — who is one of the world’s leading scholars of antisemitism, has written numerous acclaimed books on the subject, and was portrayed by an Academy Award-winning actress for winning a landmark lawsuit against a Holocaust denier — would have been a shoo-in to lead the U.S. State Department office tasked with fighting antisemitism at home and abroad.
But six months since President Biden first nominated Professor Lipstadt to be the country’s next special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, the post remains vacant as some Senate Republicans are holding up her nomination. In politics, six months may not seem like a long time. In the fight against antisemitism, however, six months is an eternity.
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Source: The Hill
URL: https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/589960-senate-needs-to-confirm-deborah-lipstadt-as-antisemitism-envoy-now