Laura Rozen reported yesterday that the Obama administration was set to announce the appointment of a special envoy to monitor and combat global anti-Semitism. Per Rozen, rumor has it that the administration has settled on Hannah Rosenthal — a Chicago lawyer who has precisely the kind of views that you’d expect of an Obama administration anti-Semitism czar. Ed Lasky does a little Googling and discovers that Rosenthal has been criticized by ADL chief Abe Foxman, who was compelled to write an open letter to Rosenthal after she attacked the speakers an Israel Solidarity Rally for their “narrow, ultra-conservative views of what it means to be pro-Israel…” Those ultra-conservative views were apparently espoused by Dick Gephardt, Harry Reid, and Natan Sharansky among others who spoke that day. Maybe I’m old fashioned, but it strikes me that an anti-Semitism chief probably shouldn’t have said something in the recent past that warranted a rebuke from the ADL. Rosenthal is also on the advisory council of J Street and J Street PAC (she’s not just pro-Israel, she’s “pro-Israel, pro-peace”) — so Obama turned to an organization that opposes sanctions on the Holocaust denying regime in Iran and refuses to condemn the Goldstone report for his anti-Semitism czar. Rozen links to a few statements from Rosenthal’s past and declares that “She has a track record of involvement in countering anti-Semitism in the international context.” One of the reports that Rozen links to includes this quote from Rosenthal: