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Summit on Combatting Anti-Semitism

Monday, July 15, 2019

The Department of Justice held a Summit on Combatting Anti-Semitism with opening remarks by Attorney General Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rosen and included panels on Combatting Anti-Semitism While Respecting the First Amendment and Anti-Semitism on Campus. Additional remarks were provided by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and Elan S. Carr, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, as well as a discussion with Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy Beth Williams, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Administration Efforts to Combat Anti-Semitism.

Attorney General Barr delivers a keynote address at the Department of Justice Summit on Combatting Anti-Semitism.
Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, Congregation Shearith Isreal, delivers the invocation.
Deputy Attorney General Rosen delivers opening remarks at the Department of Justice Summit on Combatting Anti-Semitism.
Eli Lake, Columnist, Bloomberg View moderates a panel, “Combatting Anti-Semitism While Respecting the First Amendment.” Panelists include: Elliot Zweig, Deputy Director, Middle East Media Research Institute; Chris Hardee, Chief, Law and Policy Office, National Security Division; Daniel Elbaum, Chief Advocacy Officer, American Jewish Committee; and Eugene Kontorovich, Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University.
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos delivers remarks.
Claire McCusker Murray, Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General, moderates a panel title, “Anti-Semitism on Campus.” Panelists include: Jonathan Tobin, Editor-in-Chief, Jewish News Syndicate; Alyza Lewin, President, The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law; William Jacobson, Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Securities Law Clinic, Cornell Law School; and Charles Small, Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy.
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Attorney General Barr’s Remarks

Deputy Attorney General Rosen’s Remarks

Updated January 20, 2021