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Kevin MacDonald \u2013 Occidental Observer Dec 7, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Deborah Lipstadt, who is firmly on the left and got in trouble by her past statements on Republicans during her confirmation hearing, is confident that the Trump 2.0 will be good for the Jews and she is probably right. \u201cLipstadt\u2019s recent insistence that the incoming Trump administration will be well-equipped to handle antisemitism is a strong, if surprising, marker of the goodwill that President-elect Donald Trump has generated on combating antisemitism.\u201d<\/p>\n

Actually, not surprising at all. Trump\u2019s appointments to the Middle East are all pro-Israel fanatics and he has stated that if Gaza doesn\u2019t release the hostages by the time he becomes president, \u201call hell will break loose<\/a>.\u201d Our antiwar president going to war right off the bat. Very disappointing, and a horrible way to start Trump 2.0.<\/p>\n

Notice that Lipstadt claims that opposition to Israeli actions in Gaza is nothing more than anti-Semitism, asserting that Jews become stand-ins for \u201canti-democracy, anti-capitalism, anti-Western values.\u201d I see it a bit differently. As always, conflicts of interest are at the root of anti-Semitism, and Jewish activists frame their interests as a moral crusade in an effort to persuade the gullible and uninformed even while inflicting massive casualties on a defenseless population. Lipstadt is taking advantage of the fact that Jews dominate the West to the point that Jewish interests and attitudes have come to virtually define the West. And since the West has retained its dominant global position, Lipstadt and Israel can completely ignore any and all complaints about its genocide in Gaza knowing full well that there will be no negative repercussions. And of course, democracy and Western values like free speech, individualism, and deemphasis on ethnocentrism and the priority of ethnic identification are entirely antithetical to the mainstream Jewish community throughout its history and into the present. If democracy was a Jewish ideal, Israel would allow all Palestinians in their control to vote. Generations of Jewish intellectuals wouldn\u2019t have sided with the Soviet Union during its most murderous period. And as an elite with very large influence in the media and politics throughout the West (think Israel Lobby in the U.S.), they wouldn\u2019t be the main force behind the anti-White hatred that is now entirely mainstream throughout the West beginning with the influence of the Frankfurt School and other groups of Jewish intellectuals. This anti-White hate is now eagerly embraced by non-Whites that Jewish elites have imported and promoted as fellow victims in Western societies.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think one of the things that university presidents outside the United States and inside the United States have learned from last year\u2019s experience is that you\u2019ve got to respond, and respond strongly. That doesn\u2019t mean coming in with a militia or something, but it\u2019s got to be an unequivocal response. And if you don\u2019t, it just escalates,\u201d Lipstadt said. And when antisemitic rhetoric on campuses does escalate, it often becomes clear that activists\u2019 antisemitism is a signal of a larger problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeadership at universities are beginning to recognize that these protests that are ostensibly about Gaza, about Israel, about Israel-Palestine really are a foil or an entry point for a much bigger issue of anti-democracy, anti-capitalism, anti-Western values that we often see campuses latching on to. But it\u2019s got bigger implications,\u201d Lipstadt explained.<\/p>\n

While speaking to JI in Halifax, she pointed to a recent headline from Montreal about anti-NATO, pro-Palestine protests that turned violent.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a linkage there, and it\u2019s really important that people see it,\u201d said Lipstadt. \u201cI think people are beginning to recognize that this is not one group crying out, \u2018Poor me and take care of us and we\u2019re so oppressed,\u2019 or \u2018We\u2019re so in danger,\u2019 which many people feel. This is something bigger and more significant.\u201d<\/p>\n

jewishinsider.com<\/a><\/p>\n

How Deborah Lipstadt used diplomacy to fight antisemitism<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Gabby Deutch<\/h3>\n

9\u201312 minutes<\/p>\n

After President Joe Biden nominated Deborah Lipstadt to be his administration\u2019s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism in 2021, the Emory University professor found her nomination stalled \u2014 not an unusual occurrence in partisan Washington, but a surprising one in the case of the well-respected Holocaust historian who has long called out antisemitism on both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n

At issue three years ago were some of her old tweets. She eventually received bipartisan support, but several Republicans still voted against her to protest her past social media posts criticizing Republicans.<\/p>\n

Against that backdrop, Lipstadt\u2019s recent insistence that the incoming Trump administration will be well-equipped to handle antisemitism is a strong, if surprising, marker of the goodwill that President-elect Donald Trump has generated on combating antisemitism.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what the next administration\u2019s policies will be. Nobody does, and I certainly can\u2019t speak to that. But I have no doubt that they will take this issue very seriously. All the signs point to that,\u201d Lipstadt told Jewish Insider <\/em>in an interview last month at the Halifax International Security Forum in Nova Scotia. At the conference, with representatives from more than 60 nations, she was frequently asked what she expects to see from the incoming Trump administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of it was done quietly. Quiet conversations with foreign ministers, quiet conversations with justice ministers, with police, authorities, saying, \u2018We\u2019re really worried about this,\u2019\u201d Lipstadt said, looking back on her time in the position. In those conversations, she leaned on relatability: America doesn\u2019t have it all figured out, either. \u201cI didn\u2019t say, \u2018You<\/em> have a problem.\u2019 I said, \u2018We<\/em> have a problem.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m asked by many places, by the Dutch, by the French, Canadians, etc., what do I think?\u201d Lipstadt continued. \u201cI don\u2019t know. But if I were a betting person, I would be happy to place the bet that this will be taken very, very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lipstadt was the first antisemitism special envoy to face the gauntlet of Senate confirmation, after Congress elevated<\/a> the position \u2014 which was created during the George W. Bush administration \u2014 to an ambassador-level post in 2021. Since taking office in the spring of 2022, she has visited more than 30 countries, with the simple mission of communicating to other nations that combating antisemitism is an American priority.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of it was done quietly. Quiet conversations with foreign ministers, quiet conversations with justice ministers, with police, authorities, saying, \u2018We\u2019re really worried about this,\u2019\u201d Lipstadt said, looking back on her time in the position. In those conversations, she leaned on relatability: America doesn\u2019t have it all figured out, either. \u201cI didn\u2019t say, \u2018You<\/em> have a problem.\u2019 I said, \u2018We<\/em> have a problem.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

In July, the State Department<\/a> published a document<\/a> dubbed the \u201cGlobal Guidelines for Countering Antisemitism,\u201d which Lipstadt views as the crowning achievement of her time in office. Thirty-eight nations and four international organizations, including the European Commission and the Organization of American States, have signed on to the guidelines, which include 12 steps for governments to take to address antisemitism. Congress overwhelmingly voted to approve a resolution endorsing<\/a> the guidelines earlier this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know of a country, a democracy, that is not facing this issue on some level and struggling with how to respond, including our own,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve been entrusted with an opportunity to use the levers of government to fight this horrible scourge. How can I do that? Sometimes it\u2019s not by getting blazing headlines, but it\u2019s by having my team go and lobby each of these countries to sign on.\u201d<\/p>\n

With a decades-long career in educating about antisemitism, Lipstadt came into her position knowing how to call out hate. But she didn\u2019t yet know much about diplomacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t quite understand, when I was going through the confirmation process, that that would be a tool in my hand,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Two days after she was sworn in, more than 100 Orthodox Jews were kicked off<\/a> a Lufthansa flight, due to what the airplane alleged were masking violations. Many were American citizens.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think one of the things that university presidents outside the United States and inside the United States have learned from last year\u2019s experience is that you\u2019ve got to respond, and respond strongly. That doesn\u2019t mean coming in with a militia or something, but it\u2019s got to be an unequivocal response. And if you don\u2019t, it just escalates,\u201d Lipstadt said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithin 48 hours, the CEO of Lufthansa, which had 105,000 employees, was sitting across from me in my office,\u201d Lipstadt recalled. Earlier that day, a senior Department of Transportation official had told her to speak in their name, too. \u201cWhen I said that, you could see that there was attention [paid].\u201d Last month, the Transportation Department fined Lufthansa $4 million<\/a>, the largest fine ever levied by the DOT against an airline for a civil-rights violation.<\/p>\n

She has since learned to adopt a diplomat\u2019s touch, quickly picking up on a hallmark of the job: knowing when to keep your mouth shut. When asked to name which countries have done the best or the worst job at countering antisemitism, she declined: \u201cI\u2019m too smart to answer,\u201d she quipped. (The famously outspoken Lipstadt is excited about returning to her tenured-faculty gig at Emory.)<\/p>\n

As a State Department official, Lipstadt\u2019s remit is global antisemitism, so she\u2019s largely stayed away from the more vitriolic, internecine antisemitism fights in the U.S. in recent years. But she has made no secret of her concern about the antisemitism simmering at U.S. universities, which she argues has now reached a boil since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think one of the things that university presidents outside the United States and inside the United States have learned from last year\u2019s experience is that you\u2019ve got to respond, and respond strongly. That doesn\u2019t mean coming in with a militia or something, but it\u2019s got to be an unequivocal response. And if you don\u2019t, it just escalates,\u201d Lipstadt said. And when antisemitic rhetoric on campuses does escalate, it often becomes clear that activists\u2019 antisemitism is a signal of a larger problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeadership at universities are beginning to recognize that these protests that are ostensibly about Gaza, about Israel, about Israel-Palestine really are a foil or an entry point for a much bigger issue of anti-democracy, anti-capitalism, anti-Western values that we often see campuses latching on to. But it\u2019s got bigger implications,\u201d Lipstadt explained.<\/p>\n

While speaking to JI in Halifax, she pointed to a recent headline from Montreal about anti-NATO, pro-Palestine protests that turned violent.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a linkage there, and it\u2019s really important that people see it,\u201d said Lipstadt. \u201cI think people are beginning to recognize that this is not one group crying out, \u2018Poor me and take care of us and we\u2019re so oppressed,\u2019 or \u2018We\u2019re so in danger,\u2019 which many people feel. This is something bigger and more significant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sometimes, of course, antisemitism matters irrespective of its relevance to democracy, or to any other big-picture themes. Sometimes it matters simply because Jews feel unsafe. \u201cI know that people are frightened. People are scared,\u201d Lipstadt said.<\/p>\n

She traveled to Amsterdam last month after the recent wave of violence against Israeli soccer fans, which she described<\/a> as \u201cterribly reminiscent of a classic pogrom.\u201d She told JI she worries about \u201ccopycat syndrome,\u201d wherein people think, Lipstadt suggested, \u201c\u2018They chased people down on scooters. We\u2019ll chase people down on scooters.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s too inviting because it\u2019s too easy. And I worry a lot about that,\u201d Lipstadt said. The biggest challenge facing her successor, Lipstadt noted, is \u201cthe normalization of antisemitism, that certain things can be said, certain things can be chanted that were unacceptable before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her final trip in the job is not to Europe, though. It\u2019s not a response to some major incident of antisemitism, or a solidarity visit to a Jewish community living with a great deal of hatred. It\u2019s to the first place she traveled as special envoy: Saudi Arabia. (She will also visit Egypt and Bahrain.)<\/p>\n

Lipstadt, who is 77, almost didn\u2019t put herself forward for the position four years ago. She had the kind of plum tenure position to which all academics aspire.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone said to me, \u2018You have to do this.\u2019 I said, \u2018Why?\u2019 They said, \u2018Because of the Abraham Accords,\u2019\u201d Lipstadt recalled.<\/p>\n

Her first trip to the Gulf in 2022 included meetings<\/a> with Saudi and Emirati officials about antisemitism in local textbooks and how to address deep-rooted antisemitism in the population that stemmed from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At the time, enthusiasm was high in the United Arab Emirates about the Abraham Accords, which normalized ties between Israel and several Arab nations.<\/p>\n

Now, after more than a year of fighting in Gaza, relations between Israel and its Abraham Accords partners have cooled, although the Accords remain in place. Last month, a Chabad rabbi in the UAE was abducted and murdered<\/a>, which Israeli officials described<\/a> as an \u201cantisemitic act of terror.\u201d She met in Washington this week with UAE Ambassador Yousef Al-Otaiba, praising<\/a> his government\u2019s \u201cdecisive actions\u201d in apprehending the killers.<\/p>\n

Lipstadt knows she\u2019ll be returning to a region transformed by the aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks. But she isn\u2019t willing to write off the momentum of the Accords.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t given up,\u201d said Lipstadt.<\/p>\n

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