Biden appoints historian Deborah Lipstadt as antisemitism envoy

Jewish groups welcome the news; while minority advocacy groups resist seeing Jews as victims, a new exhibition in Amsterdam provokes an outcry on the subject

Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt nominated as US antisemitism envoy (Times of Israel)
Diverse array of Jewish groups welcome announcement, which also included tapping of New York LGBT synagogue Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum to Commission on International Religious Freedom

Biden named historian Deborah Lipstadt as Envoy to Combat antisemitism (Jerusalem Post)
Deborah Lipstadt is Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University and founding director of the Institute for Jewish Studies.

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Are Jews White? When MAGA and BLM kippas meet in Amsterdam (Haaretz)
As antisemitic incidents rise while minority advocacy groups resist seeing Jews as victims, a new exhibition in Amsterdam examines the question of so-called Jewish privilege and provokes an outcry in the process

Antisemitism increasingly politicised in 2020 US media coverage – study (Times of Israel)
Tel Aviv think tank finds that press investigated hatred of Jews expressed around COVID, Black Lives Matter protests, elections

The Discourse on Antisemitism in the United States as Reflected in the Mainstream Media—Review of 2020 (Institute for National Security Studies)

Selling the Holocaust (Jewish Currents)
Three writers and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, including Plunder author Menachem Kaiser, discuss the conventions of the “3G memoir” and the commodification of Holocaust stories.