Deborah Lipstadt’s appointment this year as United States Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism was applauded by many worldwide. She’s an eminent historian who’s been on the frontlines of fighting Holocaust denial in all its forms. Her famous 2000 libel case was the basis for the film “Denial” starring Rachel Weisz, and she’s been tackling the dangerous rise in ‘soft-core’ denial such as Holocaust comparison and inversion.