Deborah Lipstadt, US President Joe Biden's nominee for the position of Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, was officially confirmed to the position by the US Senate on Wednesday night.
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Lipstadt's nomination was brought to the floor of the Senate by Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), who asked for unanimous consent on her nomination.
"Right now, as we speak, the scourge of antisemitism is rising again in this country and around the world," he said on the Senate floor, after speaking about how his two Jewish grandparents came to the United States to escape antisemitism in Eastern Europe in the early 1900s. "If we mean the words never again, then at long last, Madam President, let's confirm Deborah Lipstadt to fight antisemitism on behalf of the United States."
Lipstadt, 75, is a top Holocaust historian and the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust studies at Emory University.
