Melanie Phillips: There is a glaring problem with Joe Biden’s choice of Deborah Lipstadt: A president who has himself trivialized the Nazi regime to make a partisan political smear appoints as his antisemitism envoy the person who defended him in making the repugnant comment.
Lipstadt’s nomination was hailed by numerous Jewish organizations, which over the past months had been lobbying the White House to appoint a candidate as violent acts of antisemitism have surged.
Deborah Lipstadt was sued by Holocaust-denier David Irving for libel in an English court in 1996. She won her case proving that the Holocaust happened.