Anti-Defamation League

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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