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Anti-Semitism Envoy Responds To ADL

Rachel Slajda | August 25, 2010, 12:02PM

Special Envoy and the head of Office To Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Hannah Rosenthal

Hannah Rosenthal, the president's special envoy to combat anti-Semitism, responded to criticism by the Anti-Defamation League that she shouldn't have accompanied a group of Muslim-American clerics on a visit to former concentration camps in Europe.

ADL director Abe Foxman, after reports that he had lobbied U.S. officials not to go on the trip, said he had simply "raised the question" of why Rosenthal attended, saying she should be dealing solely with other governments.

Rosenthal doesn't see it that way.

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Topics: Abe Foxman, Anti-Defamation League, Hannah Rosenthal

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Did ADL Director Lobby Against Interfaith Trip To Concentration Camps?

Rachel Slajda | August 23, 2010, 6:17PM

Abraham Foxman, Director, Anti-Defamation League

Earlier this month, several imams joined U.S. officials to visit the Dachau and Auschwitz concentration camps, a trip which resulted in the clerics issuing a statement condemning anti-Semitism and vowing "to make real the commitment of 'never again.'"

The eight Muslim-American clerics were joined by Hannah Rosenthal, the presidential special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, and a handful of other officials from the Obama, Bush and Reagan administrations.

But according to Politico, "Organizers of the trip say they were dismayed that the Anti-Defamation League's Abe Foxman lobbied U.S. officials against participating."