re: #118 dapperdave

Good but sad find, it just goes to show you where this administration is coming from.

It explains this story.

Obama fails to name anti-Semitism envoy

The Obama administration has failed to name an envoy for monitoring and combating anti-Semitism around the world as mandated by US law since the previous ambassador was relieved of his duties at the start of the president’s term more than six months ago, officials said Thursday.

The failure to name a new envoy for the post raises questions about the importance the new administration attaches to the fight against anti-Semitism, said Rafael Medoff, director of the Washington DC-based David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.

“Foot-dragging on the selection sends a message that anti-Semitism is not of great importance to the United States,” Medoff wrote in a monograph to be published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs titled “The Politics of the American Response to Global Anti-Semitism.”

According to Medoff, “At a time when anti-Semitism remains a staple of government propaganda in the Middle East, when violent anti-Semitic incidents are reported almost daily throughout Europe, and when even the streets of Washington are not untouched by anti-Semitism’s violent potential, that is the wrong message to send.”

The State Department’s Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, which was established by a Congressional initiative in 2004, advocates American policy on anti-Semitism both in the US and internationally.