{"id":3711,"date":"2020-07-28T00:18:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T00:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=3711"},"modified":"2020-07-28T00:18:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T00:18:30","slug":"lipstadt-quoted-in-media-line-article-vaccinating-against-the-virus-of-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2020\/07\/28\/lipstadt-quoted-in-media-line-article-vaccinating-against-the-virus-of-anti-semitism\/","title":{"rendered":"Lipstadt Quoted in &#8216;Media Line&#8217; Article &#8220;Vaccinating Against the Virus of Anti-Semitism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/lipstadt-deborah.html\">Deborah E. Lipstadt<\/a>, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, was quoted in a recent\u00a0<em>The Media Line<\/em> article about the growth of anti-semitism. The article examines how the growth of anti-semitism intersects with the COVID-19 pandemic. Read an excerpt that quotes Lipstadt below, along with the full piece: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/themedialine.org\/top-stories\/vaccinating-against-the-virus-of-anti-semitism\/\">Vaccinating Against the Virus of Anti-Semitism<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Lipstadt said that anti-Semitism should not be used as a political weapon to shield against legitimate criticism of certain Israeli policies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8216;Be careful. Be strategic. Be tactical. This is a major moral problem, and we must fight it with all our strength. But we also must fight it smart. We have to fight it tactically with a scalpel, not with a bludgeon,&#8217; Lipstadt said.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, was quoted in a recent\u00a0The Media Line article about the growth of anti-semitism. The article examines how the growth of anti-semitism intersects with the COVID-19 pandemic. Read an excerpt that quotes Lipstadt below, along with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","category-faculty","category-public-scholarship","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}