Richard Schifter
 Richard Schifter       ( lawyer) | ||||||||||
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| Born | 31 July 1923 Vienna, Austria | |||||||||
| Died | 4 October 2020 (Age 97) | |||||||||
| Nationality | US | |||||||||
| Ethnicity | Jewish | |||||||||
| Member of | Committee on the Present Danger, Council on Foreign Relations/Members 3 | |||||||||
| Interests | Indian reservation | |||||||||
Spooky neoconservative lawyer who was panelist for the discussion of Can Western Values be Applied Universally? at the 1990 Bilderberg, CFR
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Richard Schifter was a spooky neoconservative lawyer and a "passionate supporter of Israel"[1][2] who was panelist for the discussion of Can Western Values be Applied Universally? at the 1990 Bilderberg.[3]
Background
Richard Schifter was born in Vienna, Austria, on July 31, 1923, into a Jewish family.[4][5] In the wake of the Anschluss by which the First Austrian Republic was annexed by Nazi Germany, Schifter's family sought permission for all of them to emigrate to the United States, but Richard was the only member of the family able to obtain a visa. His parents, who had been born in Poland, were in the Polish quota, and placed on a long waiting list.[6] He emigrated to the United States without his family in December 1938, at the age of 15.[7] In the U.S., he took a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of the City of New York in 1943.[8]
Schifter enrolled in Yale Law School in 1948, receiving his LL.B. in 1951.[8]
Ritchie Boys
Schifter joined the United States Army in 1943, becoming one of the Ritchie Boys, a unit of, among others, young Jewish-German refugees who the U.S. Army trained in psychological warfare.[7]
He was present for the Normandy landings and did intelligence work in the field.[7] After the Battle of the Bulge, he was stationed in Aachen and tasked with interviewing the civilian population, thus producing one of the first studies of daily life under the Third Reich.[7] He searched for his family after the war, but they had all been killed.[4] He was discharged from the Army in 1946, but stayed in Allied-occupied Germany working for the U.S. military government as a civilian until 1948.[7][9]
Career
After graduating from law school, Schifter joined the law firm of Riegelman, Strasser, Schwarz & Spiegelberg (now Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson).[10] Following the death of Felix S. Cohen in 1953, Schifter, along with fellow attorney Arthur Lazarus, Jr., became the main attorneys for the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation in their repeated disputes with the United States government.[10] Schifter practiced law at Fried, Frank until the 1980s, as one of the foremost practitioners of federal Indian law in the country.[11] He also sat on the President's Task Force on American Indians from 1966 to 1967.[11]
From 1981 to 1982, Schifter was U.S. representative to the UNESCO Committee on Conventions and Recommendations.[11] He was also an alternate U.S. representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights 1981 to 1982.[11] From 1983 to 1985, he was the United States Representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.[8] He was also Deputy United States Representative to the United Nations Security Council with the rank of Ambassador from 1984 to 1985.[8] He denied the US plans to invade Nicaragua.[12]
In 1985, President of the United States Ronald Reagan nominated Schifter to be Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. After Senate Confirmation, Schifter was Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs from October 31, 1985, until April 3, 1992. Schifter's views on U.S. foreign policy have been described as neoconservative.[13]
After the election of Bill Clinton, he was appointed to special assistant to the United States National Security Council.[14] He had this job until 2001.[15]
Since leaving government in 2001, Schifter headed the American Jewish International Relations Institute and the Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeastern Europe.[15] He was also a trustee of the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies.[15] Schifter was "a good friend of the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council for more than four decades, as a constant and respected source of advice, great wisdom and encouragement."[16]
He was Chairman of AJIRI (the American Jewish International Relations Institute), an organization he had founded "to combat anti-Israel bias at the United Nations".[17]
Schifter died on October 4, 2020.[18][19]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilderberg/1990 | 10 May 1990 | 13 May 1990 | New York US Glen Cove | 38th Bilderberg meeting, 119 guests |
References
- ↑ https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/world-jewish-congress-mourns-the-passing-of-ambassador-richard-schifter-10-1-2020
- ↑ https://www.wrmea.org/1994-june/personality-richard-schifter-human-rights-or-population-exchange-advocate.html
- ↑ File:Bilderberg-Conference-Report-1990.pdf
- ↑ Jump up to: a b https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214452/http://www.gazette.net/stories/042006/fredcol202349_31941.shtml
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20201010090110/https://memory.loc.gov/service/mss/mfdip/2007/2007sch02/2007sch02.pdf
- ↑ "Don't Wave Goodbye," Jason and Posner, Praeger/Greenwood (2004)
- ↑ Jump up to: a b c d e https://www.ritchieboys.com/EN/boys_schifter.html
- ↑ Jump up to: a b c d https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/continuation-richard-schifter-assistant-secretary-state
- ↑ "Don't Wave Goodbye," Jason and Posner, Praeger/Greenwood (2004)
- ↑ Jump up to: a b Edward Lazarus, Black Hills, White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus the United States, 1775 to the Present (University of Nebraska Press, 1999), p. 226
- ↑ Jump up to: a b c d https://web.archive.org/web/20160306030442/https://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1985/100185d.htm
- ↑ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/11/09/Nicaraguan-Ambassador-Javier-Chamorro-denounced-the-United-States-Friday/8596468824400/
- ↑ Stefan A. Halper and Jonathan Clarke, America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order (Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 83
- ↑ http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/0694/94006018.htm
- ↑ Jump up to: a b c https://web.archive.org/web/20161111063731/http://www.law.virginia.edu/html/news/2006_spr/jbmoore_bios.htm
- ↑ https://aijac.org.au/media-release/aijac-mourns-the-passing-of-ambassador-richard-schifter/
- ↑ https://www.bnaibrith.org/our-work-with-ambassador-richard-schifter-html/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20201006175929/https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/10/05/richard-schifter-legendary-us-jewish-diplomat-and-human-rights-advocate-dies-at-age-97/
- ↑ https://www.timesofisrael.com/former-us-diplomat-and-presidential-adviser-richard-schifter-dead-at-97/
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