Bipartisan lawmakers urge additional funding increase for antisemitism envoy’s office
House members urged the State Department to boost its funding request for Amb. Deborah Lipstadt’s office to $2 million for 2024
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Deputy Special Envoy to Combat and Monitor Antisemitism Aaron Keyak, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt and Rabbi Andrew Baker, personal representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office on Combating Anti-Semitism and director of international Jewish affairs at AJC, testify about the recent rise in antisemitism and its threat to democracy before the U.S. Helsinki Commission on December 13, 2022, in Washington, D.C.
A bipartisan group of House members will urge the administration to request a significant funding increase in its 2024 budget proposal for the Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism,
In a letter obtained by...