Deborah E. Lipstadt is the U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism.
Deborah E. Lipstadt
By Deborah E. Lipstadt
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Opinion 4 Reasons We Should Think Before Acting Rashly on Migrant Crisis
I have watched the unfolding refugee crisis with horror. Who could not be moved by the sight of families risking their children’s lives in rickety boats and on rafts designed for leisure and not for escape routes on rough waters? The picture of little Aylan Kurdi in blue shorts and red shirt dead on the…
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Opinion 7 Axioms of the Copenhagen Terror Attacks
The news of the attacks on the Copenhagen cafe and synagogue did not surprise us. We may keep hoping this will stop, but the rational parts of our brains know that it will not, at least not for the long term. There have been enough of these attacks that we can now see there are…
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Opinion Europe’s Last Jews
This has been a tough year for Jews. But you’ve heard that before. I used to attend a synagogue where every Yom Kippur the rabbi, as part of his Israeli Bonds appeal, would begin by bemoaning what a bad year it had been. Each year things were worse than before. The problem? They weren’t. The…
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Opinion Anti-Semitism Creeps Into Europe’s Daily Routines
Ten years ago the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe convened a conference on European anti-Semitism. Last week it met to assess what had happened in the past decade. The signs are not good. While a good part of the meeting was dedicated to official presentations by the participating nations, it was what one…
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Opinion Erasing Historic Stain at Emory’s Dental School
“I am sorry. We are sorry.” It was with those unscripted two sentences uttered in front of a standing-room-only crowd of more than 400 people that Emory University’s president, James Wagner, gave voice to a great wrong. But first some background. From 1948 to 1961, the university’s dean, John Buhler, led Emory’s dental school. ….
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Opinion How To Study Anti-Semitism
When the news of Yale University’s decision to close its Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism was first made public in early June, the sector of the blogosphere that addresses Jewish issues began to buzz. Discussion, charges and accusations flew. Yale’s critics praised YIISA as a beacon of academic scholarship that had made a…
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Opinion Should Bin Laden Have Faced a Judge?
When I heard the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed, I was in the middle of an author’s tour for my recent book on the Eichmann trial. It was impossible not to immediately see the parallels between the fates of these two mass murderers, who both ended up in watery graves: While bin…
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The Schmooze Testifying for the Holocaust
Last week, Deborah Lipstadt wrote about eerie anniversaries and Hannah Arendt. Her blog posts are being featured this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog series. For more information on the series, please visit: This blog entry appears during the time that we mark Yom…
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