17 May, 2006
The US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to appoint a senior adviser on anti-Semitism. Rice is due to announce the appointment of Gregg Rickman as senior adviser on anti-Semitism, JTA reports. The position stems from 2004 legislation sponsored by Democratic congressman Tom Lantos and the Republican senator George Voinovich that expanded State Department monitoring of anti-Semitism. Rickman, for years a top Republican congressional aide, wrote a book about his years in the 1990s directing the Senate Banking Committee’s investigation of the role the Swiss Banks played in the Holocaust. His job will be to make sure bilateral relations with other nations and international organizations address any concerns about anti-Semitism.
