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Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt is a noted historian of antisemitism, and serves the State Department as Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism. Violence and threats against Jews have been surging for years.\\xa0 \\u201cWe\\u2019ve been seeing [antisemitism] coming from all ends of the political spectrum, and in between,\\u201d Lipstadt tells David Remnick. \\u201cWe see it coming from Christians, we see it coming from Muslims, we see it coming from atheists.\\xa0 We see it coming from Jews.\\u201d\\xa0 In the aftermath of Israel\\u2019s military strikes on Gaza, particularly on college campuses, she is very concerned about widespread sentiments that deny Israel a right to exist. While she doesn\\u2019t believe students or faculty should be penalized for expressing solidarity with Palestinians or Israelis, she believes that the language used by some influential people \\u201chas served as a green light to the haters,\\u201d she says. \\u201cIt sort of takes the lid off.\\u201d And ethnic prejudice, she notes, rarely limits itself. \\u201cOnce you start dealing in the stereotypes of that one group, you\\u2019re going to start dealing with the stereotypes in another group.\\u201d