The US Jewish historian Deborah Lipstadt was approved as the State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday, following several months of intense political wrangling over Republican objections to her nomination. Lipstadt — a recognized expert on antisemitism and a professor of Jewish Studies at Emory University in Atlanta — was approved by a 13-9 vote at the committee. Two Republican Senators, Mitt Romney (NH) and Marco Rubio (FL), voted with their Democratic colleagues in favor of Lipstadt. The approval will now be put to a vote of the full US...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
