SEATTLE --- Deborah Lipstadt is one of the world’s best-known Holocaust scholars. In her work, she has railed against the moral indifference and outright hostility of the U.S. government toward Jewish European refugees both before and during the Holocaust. She also took on one of the foremost Holocaust deniers, David Irving, in a libel lawsuit
Special Analysis: She Said What? Holocaust Scholar Denies Middle East Refugee Crisis
Endorsing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s refusal to accept Syrians fleeing the chaos of a civil war raging at home, Deborah Lipstadt argues that the current refugee crisis isn’t at all comparable to the plight of European Jews before and during the Holocaust.