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Lipstadt: Sunrise DC move to boycott Jewish groups an 'overtly antisemitic act'
Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden administration's nominee to be the State Department special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, discussed her nomination, the recent antisemitism controversy involving the Sunrise Movement's D.C. chapter and her approach to and concerns about modern antisemitism at an event on Monday night.
The historian and Emory University professor addressed a virtual audience from the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston. Her participation in that event was a somewhat unusual move for a nominee awaiting Senate confirmation, but offered clues as to how she might tackle the position if confirmed.
Lipstadt addressed a recent statement from the D.C. chapter of the climate activist organization Sunrise Movement, in which the group announced it would not collaborate on voting rights issues with several pro-Israel Jewish groups.
"It was an overtly antisemitic act," Lipstadt said. "If you support the existence of the state of Israel according to this, then you are a racist… What it is saying is that, 'You Jews, as a people, you do not have a right to a national identity.'"
She noted that the group did not have the same objections to non-Jewish groups that also support Israel, like the American Federation of Teachers.
Lipstadt also drew a...Read More
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