Lipstadt, an American historian best known for defeating Holocaust- denier David Irving in a landmark libel trial and who served as US special envoy against antisemitism from 2022 to early 2025, was speaking in conversation with Rabbi Raphael Zarum, dean of the London School of Jewish Studies, at a widely billed session on contemporary antisemitism. “[With] the failure to call out radical Islam,” she said, “the people we are throwing under the bus, literally, are Jews and moderate Muslims.” She described this as “identity politics gone rotten”. Lipstadt said she was “terrified” by antisemitism, which she said had become increasingly...