Former antisemitism envoy: Votes against Iron Dome funding were ‘stupid’ but not antisemitic Antisemitism envoy nominee Deborah Lipstadt also pushed back against accusations of partisanship ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP via Getty Images Ira Forman, who served as the State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism during the Obama administration, said the decision by nine House lawmakers to vote against a $1 billion supplemental funding package to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome missile-defense system was “stupid” but did not cross the line into being antisemitic. Forman was speaking at a virtual event organized by the Museum of Jewish Heritage, a Holocaust memorial...
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