WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden plans to name Deborah Lipstadt, a historian and expert on Jewish and Holocaust studies at Emory University in Atlanta, as U.S. ambassador to combat and monitor antisemitism on Friday, three sources told McClatchy.
The goal of the position is to combat antisemitism overseas. Lipstadt, a New Yorker, has written extensively on Holocaust denial in the United States and abroad for more than three decades, and has served as a consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
In 1996, she became the subject of a lawsuit in the United Kingdom when she and the publisher of her book, “Denying the Holocaust,” were sued by a man referenced in her book and forced to prove in court that her characterizations of his views on the Holocaust were accurate. She and Penguin Books won the case.
