{"id":609437,"date":"2021-08-03T11:35:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=609437"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:35:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:35:44","slug":"biden-nominee-for-anti-semitism-czar-once-slammed-rep-omars-textbook-accusations-against-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-nominee-for-anti-semitism-czar-once-slammed-rep-omars-textbook-accusations-against-jews\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Nominee For Anti-Semitism Czar Once Slammed Rep. Omar\u2019s \u2018Textbook Accusations Against Jews\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-nominee-for-anti-semitism-czar-once-slammed-rep-omars-textbook-accusations-against-jews%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=609437&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ilhan-omar-1-scaled-e1628001753956.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden administration\u2019s nominee for Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, accused Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar of anti-Semitism in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Lipstadt agreed during an <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishinsider.com\/2019\/03\/interview-deborah-lipstadt-on-antisemitism-and-rep-omars-foreign-allegiance-remark%EF%BB%BF\/\">interview<\/a> with Jewish Insider that Omar\u2019s comments <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/03\/02\/ilhan-omar-israel-anti-semitism-palestine\/\">expressing<\/a> her desire to \u201ctalk about the political influence in this country that says it is okay to push for allegiance to a foreign country,\u201d were \u201ctextbook\u201d anti-Semitism. Lipstadt\u2019s comments were <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/bidens-pick-for-anti-semitism-envoy-said-ilhan-omars-israel-comments-were-anti-semitic\/\">reported<\/a> on by the Washington Free Beacon on July 30.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDual loyalties is part of the textbook accusations against Jews. They are cosmopolitans, globalists, not loyal to their country or fellow citizens,\u201d Lipstadt said at the time. She is a history and Jewish studies <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/lipstadt-deborah.html\">professor<\/a> at Emory University, and also advised the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.5678391959799\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Deborah Lipstadt, noted Holocaust historian, is Biden\u2019s pick for antisemitism envoy \u2013 Jewish Telegraphic Agency <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XBQjrqxW1u\">https:\/\/t.co\/XBQjrqxW1u<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JTAnews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jtanews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 (((Ron Kampeas))) (@kampeas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kampeas\/status\/1420924919165116417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During the 2019 interview, Lipstadt acknowledged that Omar \u201cmay think she is only criticizing Israel and its policies, but one cannot ignore the fact that she is relying on traditional antisemitic tropes to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lipstadt added that Omar and Republicans like then-Iowa Rep. Steve King and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy \u201cexist in a place where anti-Semitism is out in the ethosphere; they hear it, breath it in, and don\u2019t even recognize it as anti-Semitism. We see that same thing among some, and I emphasize only <em>some<\/em>, members of the Labour Party. Many others know exactly what they are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following a string of comments from Omar that many described as anti-Semitic, congressional leaders introduced a resolution condemning anti-Semitism. However, following complaints from left-wing members of the Democratic caucus, party leadership <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/03\/07\/dems-against-anti-semitism-resolution-discrimination\/\">broadened<\/a> the resolution into one condemning various forms of religious bigotry. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/21\/ilhan-omar-israel-anti-semitism-democrats-taliban-hamas-september-11\/\"><strong>(RELATED: The Anatomy Of An Ilhan Omar Scandal: From \u2018Some People Did Something\u2019 To Comparing The US To Hamas)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/07\/30\/president-biden-announces-intent-to-nominate-and-appoint-leaders-to-serve-in-key-religious-affairs-roles\/\">announced<\/a> that Lipstadt would be his nominee to the special envoy position on July 30. The position was previously held by Elan Carr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden administration\u2019s nominee for Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, accused Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar of anti-Semitism in 2019.Lipstadt agreed during an interview with Jewish &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}