Deborah Lipstadt
A Holocaust historian offers perspective on antisemitism today
In this vital episode Holocaust historian and former U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt discusses the dangerous surge and normalization of antisemitism worldwide, citing the incidents in London and the October 8, 2023 Sydney Opera House rally. Lipstadt argues antisemitism now operates as a “horseshoe” uniting extremes at the far right and left. She uses the analogy of an upside-down pyramid to illustrate the threat to Jews, democracy, and international security (including “utilitarian antisemitism” on PRC platforms). She compares today to the 1930s while noting key differences. She critiques university groupthink and campus failures at UCLA and Columbia to protect Jewish students. She describes her envoy work shifting from Abraham Accords, including global guidelines signed by 44 entities and a symposium with major tech platforms.
She calls for unequivocal leadership, depoliticized action, education, and everyday speaking up. She emphasizes that there must be Jewish joy alongside fighting hate.
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Deborah Lipstadt https://www.ushmm.org/research/about-the-mandel-center/all-fellows-and-scholars/deborah-lipstadt
Brandeis University https://www.brandeis.edu/
Emory University https://www.emory.edu/
The Tam Institute for Jewish Studies
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory
https://www.amazon.com/Denying-Holocaust-Growing-Assault-Memory/dp/0452272742
Denial (2016 film) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4645330/
Rachel Weisz Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/rachelweisz1/
President Joe Biden https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/joe-biden/
A Conversation With U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt
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https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c3ve2nr60xzt
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgp83594npo
Police investigate pro-Palestinian protest at Sydney Opera House over alleged anti-Semitism
Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign from Congress amid clashes with Trump over Israel, Epstein
https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-875091
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https://www.gov.il/apps/elections/elections-knesset-15/heb/pm/ebio_pm_4.html
Code Pink Outs Itself as Anti-Jewish Hate Group
https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/2025/12/code-pink-outs-itself-as-anti-jewish-hate-group/
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/14/us/ucla-campus-protests-court-ruling
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-68856360
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30708237
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https://www.ajc.org/news/deja-vu-remembering-hyper-cacher-five-years-later
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Report of the Yale Committee on Trust in Higher Education
Tel Aviv University https://english.tau.ac.il/
BBYO https://bbyo.org/
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https://www.ushmm.org/information/about-the-museum/director
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https://jinsa.org/leading-jewish-organizations-disturbed-by-saudi-arabias-islamist-turn/
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https://www.bundeskanzleramt.gv.at/en/topics/fight-against-antisemitism.html
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European Union https://european-union.europa.eu/
Council of Europe https://www.coe.int/en/web/about-us
Organization of American States https://www.oas.org/en/
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NCSY https://ncsy.org/
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https://jstribune.com/cohen-dershowitz-a-break-in-the-argentina-murder-case-tied-to-iran/
Iran: Mahsa Amini's father accuses authorities of a cover-up https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62998231
92nd Street Y https://www.92ny.org/
AIPAC https://www.aipac.org/
Debbie Wasserman Schultz https://wassermanschultz.house.gov/
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/dutch-ministers-decry-israeli-report-on-amsterdam-violence/
Trump Is Right to Deport Hamas Supporters
https://www.city-journal.org/article/trump-deport-hamas-supporters-visa-law
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067093/
Grace and Frankie
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3609352/
Jon Ossoff
https://www.ossoff.senate.gov/about/
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https://www.npr.org/2022/02/14/1080672768/the-presidential-campaign-that-changed-american-politics
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Purim https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/purim-101/
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/
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https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3834226/jewish/What-Is-the-Amidah.htm
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https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-western-wall-tunnels
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https://www.history.com/articles/golda-meir-israel-prime-minister-iron-lady-yom-kippur-war
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https://www.genesisprize.org/about/leadership/natan-sharansky
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Gal Beckerman https://www.galbeckerman.com/
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https://www.amazon.com/When-They-Come-Well-Gone/dp/0618573097/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0
Abraham Lincoln
https://www.history.com/articles/abraham-lincoln
The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069747/
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