{"id":6799,"date":"2023-06-21T12:49:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T12:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/?p=6799"},"modified":"2023-06-21T12:49:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T12:49:58","slug":"lipstadt-front-and-center-amid-biden-administrations-effort-to-combat-antisemitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2023\/06\/21\/lipstadt-front-and-center-amid-biden-administrations-effort-to-combat-antisemitism\/","title":{"rendered":"Lipstadt Front and Center amid Biden Administration&#8217;s Effort to Combat Antisemitism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/06\/lipstadt-swearing-in-wide-2560x1440-1-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/06\/lipstadt-swearing-in-wide-2560x1440-1-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/06\/lipstadt-swearing-in-wide-2560x1440-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/06\/lipstadt-swearing-in-wide-2560x1440-1-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/06\/lipstadt-swearing-in-wide-2560x1440-1.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.emory.edu\/home\/people\/bios\/lipstadt-deborah-e..html\">Deborah E. Lipstadt<\/a>, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies and the US Ambassador to monitor and combat antisemitism, was front and center at the recent release of the Biden Administration&#8217;s plan to combat rising hate, bias, and violence against Jews. The first-of-its-kind policy, dubbed the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/U.S.-National-Strategy-to-Counter-Antisemitism.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism<\/a>, outlines more than 100 steps that the US government and other stakeholders can take to combat antisemitism. Lipstadt participated in the unveiling of the strategy at the White House alongside Doug Emhoff, spouse of Vice President Kamala Harris, White House domestic policy advisor Susan Rice, and homeland security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall. Lipstadt described the strategy as a \u201chistoric moment in the modern fight against what\u2019s known as the world\u2019s oldest hatred.\u201d Read more about the plan and the event via the AP News article &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-antisemitism-strategy-jews-emhoff-da066698d55dc1e0d75722db9a3def3b\">Biden releases new strategy to tackle rise in antisemitism, says \u2018hate will not prevail\u2019<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies and the US Ambassador to monitor and combat antisemitism, was front and center at the recent release of the Biden Administration&#8217;s plan to combat rising hate, bias, and violence against Jews. The first-of-its-kind policy, dubbed the National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, outlines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-faculty","category-public-scholarship","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6799","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\/8470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6801,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6799\/revisions\/6801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}