deborah lipstadt Archives – J-Wire https://www.jwire.com.au/tag/lipstadt/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:54:10 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 6446428 Bar-Ilan University to award the Jonathan Sacks Institute Prize to distinguished historian Prof. Deborah Lipstadt https://www.jwire.com.au/bar-ilan-university-to-award-the-jonathan-sacks-institute-prize-to-distinguished-historian-prof-deborah-lipstadt/ https://www.jwire.com.au/bar-ilan-university-to-award-the-jonathan-sacks-institute-prize-to-distinguished-historian-prof-deborah-lipstadt/#respond Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:54:10 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=177238 Israel’s Bar-Ilan University announced today that Prof. Deborah Lipstadt, one of the world’s leading authorities on Holocaust history and antisemitism, will receive the Jonathan Sacks Institute Prize for Outstanding Achievement as a Public Intellectual for 2026. The prize, which carries a monetary award of NIS 100,000 (AUD46,000), recognises Lipstadt’s leadership in combating antisemitism and strengthening […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/bar-ilan-university-to-award-the-jonathan-sacks-institute-prize-to-distinguished-historian-prof-deborah-lipstadt/feed/ 0 177238 Iranian Jew at ‘imminent risk’ of execution after appeal rejected https://www.jwire.com.au/iranian-jew-at-imminent-risk-of-execution-after-appeal-rejected/ https://www.jwire.com.au/iranian-jew-at-imminent-risk-of-execution-after-appeal-rejected/#comments Mon, 27 May 2024 07:39:14 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=158840 A Jewish man on death row in an Iranian prison for killing a man in a brawl two years ago in self-defence is at “imminent risk of execution” after Iran’s Supreme Court rejected his appeal. Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani, 20, was sentenced to death under the Islamic Republic’s penal code for “retributive justice.” He was expected […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/iranian-jew-at-imminent-risk-of-execution-after-appeal-rejected/feed/ 1 158840 Lipstadt slams Ayatollah Khamenei’s tweet about ‘Zionist merchants’ https://www.jwire.com.au/lipstadt-slams-ayatollah-khameneis-tweet-about-zionist-merchants/ https://www.jwire.com.au/lipstadt-slams-ayatollah-khameneis-tweet-about-zionist-merchants/#respond Sun, 07 Aug 2022 07:33:34 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=139549 Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was denounced by Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, on Thursday for tweeting about “Zionist merchants.” His post accused Western powers of being a “mafia.” “At the top of this mafia stand the prominent Zionist merchants, and the politicians obey them,” he tweeted. “The […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/lipstadt-slams-ayatollah-khameneis-tweet-about-zionist-merchants/feed/ 0 139549 Yair Lapid meets Deborah Lipstadt https://www.jwire.com.au/yair-lapid-meets-deborah-lipstadt/ https://www.jwire.com.au/yair-lapid-meets-deborah-lipstadt/#respond Tue, 05 Jul 2022 04:40:30 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=138469 Israel’s Prime Minister Yair Lapid has met with US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt. Prime Minister Lapid emphasized the importance of cooperating in the fight against antisemitism, in all its forms. He thanked Special Envoy Lipstadt for her commitment and action against the growing phenomenon of antisemitism, for educating the […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/yair-lapid-meets-deborah-lipstadt/feed/ 0 138469 Source: Republican leader whips up votes against antisemitism nominee Deborah Lipstadt https://www.jwire.com.au/source-republican-leader-whips-up-votes-against-anti-semitism-nominee-deborah-lipstadt/ https://www.jwire.com.au/source-republican-leader-whips-up-votes-against-anti-semitism-nominee-deborah-lipstadt/#respond Wed, 23 Mar 2022 02:39:32 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=135187 Ahead of a likely vote on the nomination for Deborah Lipstadt to serve as the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, how many Republicans, if any, will vote to favorably report her nomination out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee remains to be seen. Democrats are expressing concern that Republican members […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/source-republican-leader-whips-up-votes-against-anti-semitism-nominee-deborah-lipstadt/feed/ 0 135187 Lipstadt defends record, vows to fight anti-Semitism ‘without fear or favour’ https://www.jwire.com.au/lipstadt-defends-record-vows-to-fight-anti-semitism-without-fear-or-favour/ https://www.jwire.com.au/lipstadt-defends-record-vows-to-fight-anti-semitism-without-fear-or-favour/#respond Wed, 09 Feb 2022 06:51:27 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=133867 The Biden administration’s nominee Deborah Lipstadt to lead the U.S. State Department’s office that monitors and combats anti-Semitism appeared in the Senate on Tuesday for her confirmation. Appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Lipstadt made the case that anti-Semitism is on the rise. “Increasingly, Jews have been singled out for slander, violence and terrorism,” […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/lipstadt-defends-record-vows-to-fight-anti-semitism-without-fear-or-favour/feed/ 0 133867 Envoy will first need to root out antisemitism in the Democratic Party https://www.jwire.com.au/envoy-will-first-need-to-root-out-anti-semitism-in-the-democratic-party/ https://www.jwire.com.au/envoy-will-first-need-to-root-out-anti-semitism-in-the-democratic-party/#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2021 03:23:37 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=127840 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.

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/envoy-will-first-need-to-root-out-anti-semitism-in-the-democratic-party/feed/ 1 127840 Biden nominates Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt as next antisemitism envoy https://www.jwire.com.au/biden-nominates-holocaust-historian-deborah-lipstadt-as-next-anti-semitism-envoy/ https://www.jwire.com.au/biden-nominates-holocaust-historian-deborah-lipstadt-as-next-anti-semitism-envoy/#respond Sat, 31 Jul 2021 08:33:31 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=127639 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.

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/biden-nominates-holocaust-historian-deborah-lipstadt-as-next-anti-semitism-envoy/feed/ 0 127639 Lipstadt in Australia https://www.jwire.com.au/lipstadt-in-australia/ https://www.jwire.com.au/lipstadt-in-australia/#comments Thu, 15 Aug 2013 05:31:27 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=36570 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.

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