Envoy sees ‘increased overt willingness’ to express antisemitic views

Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt keeps a picture on her desk in the State Department of a “lovely looking,” well-dressed young woman smiling and participating in a march and holding up a sign.

The sign had a garbage can on it, and in the garbage can was a Jewish star with the words “Clean up the streets.”

It is a reminder for Lipstadt, the Biden administration’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, that cases of antisemitism are not always perpetrated by brazen neo-Nazis or individuals carrying swastikas.