American historian and author who has published 8 books, 5 of which are about Holocaust denial.
President Joe Biden nominated Deborah Lipstadt to serve as Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, a position in the U.S. Department of State with the rank of ambassador.
In 1996, Holocaust denier David Irving unsuccessfully sued Lipstadt for libel, which she wrote about in her book “History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier”.
In 2006, Irving was charged with Holocaust denial in Austria.
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