The Palm Beach Post has a story on the hearing at the US Helsinki Commission. State Department envoy Gregg Rickman, Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Foundation, and Felice D. Gaer of the US Commission in International Religious Freedom all spoke.
“Although the 56-country OSCE was the first international organization to treat anti-Semitism as a “distinct human rights issue,” Gaer said the commission was concerned that the “tone and content” of U.S. State Department statements have changed to downplay the uniqueness of anti-Semitism and lump it together with other forms of racism and xenophobia.”
UPDATE: Here’s an earlier post on the first US Helsinki Commission.
