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Created by the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act of 2004,<ref>{{citation | Created by the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act of 2004,<ref>{{citation | ||
| url = http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=108_cong_bills&docid=f:s2292enr.txt.pdf | | url = http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=108_cong_bills&docid=f:s2292enr.txt.pdf | ||
| title = Global Anti-Semitism Review Act of 2004 | | title = Global Anti-Semitism Review Act of 2004 | ||
| publisher = U.S. Government Printing Office | | publisher = U.S. Government Printing Office | ||
}}</ref> the '''Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat | }}</ref> the '''Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat antisemitism|Anti-Semitism''' (SEAS) is an official in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor of the U.S. Department of State. That Bureau produces the State Department's annual reports on Human Rights Practices and International Religious Freedom, and SEAS provides input on anti-Semitism for these reports.<ref>{{citation | ||
| url = http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/40258.htm | | url = http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/40258.htm | ||
| title = Report on Global Anti-Semitism, July 1, 2003-December 15, 2004 | | title = Report on Global Anti-Semitism, July 1, 2003-December 15, 2004 | ||
| date = 5 January 2005 | | date = 5 January 2005 | ||
| publisher = Department of State to the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on International Relations in accordance with Section 4 of PL 108-332, December 30, 2004}}</ref> Under the Obama Administration, the office was symbolically upgraded when it was physically moved to the same floor as the | | publisher = Department of State to the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on International Relations in accordance with Section 4 of PL 108-332, December 30, 2004}}</ref> Under the Obama Administration, the office was symbolically upgraded when it was physically moved to the same floor as the U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. | ||
The creation of the office has been politically sensitive, <ref name=Signing>{{citation | The creation of the office has been politically sensitive, <ref name=Signing>{{citation | ||
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| author = D. Wes Rist | | author = D. Wes Rist | ||
| url = http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2004/10/bush-signs-anti-semitism-review-act.php | | url = http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2004/10/bush-signs-anti-semitism-review-act.php | ||
| journal = Jurist, | | journal = Jurist, University of Pittsburgh School of Law | ||
}}</ref> and President George W. Bush signed it over the objections of the State Department, which was described as saying it was a "a "bureaucratic nuisance", since "separate reports on different religions or ethnicities were not warranted, given that we already prepare human rights reports and religious freedom reports on 190 countries."" <ref>{{citation | }}</ref> and President George W. Bush signed it over the objections of the State Department, which was described as saying it was a "a "bureaucratic nuisance", since "separate reports on different religions or ethnicities were not warranted, given that we already prepare human rights reports and religious freedom reports on 190 countries."" <ref>{{citation | ||
| date = 14 October 2004 | | date = 14 October 2004 | ||
| title = Bush to sign anti-Semitism monitoring act over State Department objections | | title = Bush to sign anti-Semitism monitoring act over State Department objections | ||
| author = Brandon Smith | | author = Brandon Smith | ||
| journal = Jurist, | | journal = Jurist, University of Pittsburgh School of Law | ||
| url = http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2004/10/bush-to-sign-anti-semitism-monitoring.php | | url = http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2004/10/bush-to-sign-anti-semitism-monitoring.php | ||
}}</ref> | }}</ref> | ||
The incumbent Envoy is | The incumbent Envoy is Hannah Rosenthal, who has been criticized by some American Zionism|Zionist groups that lean toward the position that criticism of the State of Israel is anti-Semitic. She was supported by her predecessors. Her predecessor in the George W. Bush Administration, Gregg Rickman, as well as Rafael Medoff, director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, wished her well in the challenges facing the office. They said she would be under pressure from a variety of interests: U.S. officials who believed "friendly relations with a particular regime is more important than speaking out against anti-Semitism in that country" and fanatics who "try to mask their anti-Semitism as opposition to Israel or Zionism." <ref name=JTA2009-12-08>{{citation | ||
| title = Op-Ed: New U.S. anti-Semitism envoy facing formidable task | | title = Op-Ed: New U.S. anti-Semitism envoy facing formidable task | ||
| author = | | author = Gregg Rickman and Rafael Medoff | date = 8 December 2009 | ||
| url = http://www.jta.org/news/article/2009/12/08/1009599/op-ed-new-us-anti-semitism-envoy-facing-formidable-task | | url = http://www.jta.org/news/article/2009/12/08/1009599/op-ed-new-us-anti-semitism-envoy-facing-formidable-task | ||
| journal = | | journal = Jewish Telegraph Agency}}</ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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 Created by the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act of 2004,[1] the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat antisemitism|Anti-Semitism (SEAS) is an official in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor of the U.S. Department of State. That Bureau produces the State Department's annual reports on Human Rights Practices and International Religious Freedom, and SEAS provides input on anti-Semitism for these reports.[2] Under the Obama Administration, the office was symbolically upgraded when it was physically moved to the same floor as the U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. The creation of the office has been politically sensitive, [3] and President George W. Bush signed it over the objections of the State Department, which was described as saying it was a "a "bureaucratic nuisance", since "separate reports on different religions or ethnicities were not warranted, given that we already prepare human rights reports and religious freedom reports on 190 countries."" [4] The incumbent Envoy is Hannah Rosenthal, who has been criticized by some American Zionism|Zionist groups that lean toward the position that criticism of the State of Israel is anti-Semitic. She was supported by her predecessors. Her predecessor in the George W. Bush Administration, Gregg Rickman, as well as Rafael Medoff, director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, wished her well in the challenges facing the office. They said she would be under pressure from a variety of interests: U.S. officials who believed "friendly relations with a particular regime is more important than speaking out against anti-Semitism in that country" and fanatics who "try to mask their anti-Semitism as opposition to Israel or Zionism." [5] References
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