President Biden’s nominee to serve as U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism once blasted Rep. Ilhan Omar’s controversial statements criticizing Israel. Deborah Lipstadt, a Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University, was nominated Friday to the anti-Semitism role, which carries the rank of ambassador. Asked at the time if Omar’s comments were "textbook anti-Semitism," Lipstadt said, "Sadly, I believe it is. Dual loyalties is part of the textbook accusations against Jews. She went on to say people like Omar "exist in a place where anti-Semitism is out in the ethosphere; they hear it, breath it in, and don’t even recognize it as antisemitism."

Source: Fox News August 02, 2021 21:26 UTC