US antisemitsm envoy heading to South America, will participate in AMIA bombing anniversary event

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12 July 2024, 9:00 pm

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Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief

US Deputy Special Envoy to Combat and Monitor Antisemitism Aaron Keyak (L) and Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt testify about the recent rise in antisemitism and its threat to democracy before the US Helsinki Commission in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on December 13, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somondevilla/Getty Images via AFP)

US antisemitism envoy Deborah Lipstadt and her deputy Aaron Keyak will travel to South America next week to participate in a forum with counterparts from roughly a dozen countries and to attend a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.

In Argentina, the US envoy and her counterparts “will launch the ‘Global Guidelines for Countering Antisemitism,’ a set of best practices endorsed by a growing and diverse set of governments and international bodies,” the State Department says.

The two US envoys will then travel to Brazil for meetings with “local government officials, civil society, and the Jewish community of São Paulo. She will also speak with educators and human rights non-governmental organizations about the importance of Holocaust and antisemitism education,” the State Department adds.