Neal Sher

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Neal Sher is the former head of the United States Justice Department's Nazi prosecution unit.

In 1987, Sher headed the "Office of Special Investigations, the Justice Department’s Nazi prosecution unit."[1]

Sher later became the executive director of AIPAC, a pro-Israel lobbying organization. He has taken public positions on the proposals to move the American embassy in Israel. "When the Embassy Act was first proposed, the Rabin government was against the legislation, which, as then-AIPAC executive director Neal Sher has noted, was also in direct contravention of AIPAC policy."[2] Later, in 2007, Sher took the opposite position, that the American embassy in Israel should be moved to Jerusalem as per Bush's pre-election pledge.[3]

In early 2007 Sher gained publicity for claims that former President Jimmy Carter had Nazi sympathies.[4][5]

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  1. ^ Neal Sher, In hindsight, Carter book seen as part of an awkward pattern, December 26, 2006
  2. ^ Bradley Burston, Leave the US embassy where it is, Haaretz, January 21 2007
  3. ^ Neal Sher, Why no outrage from community as Bush ignores embassy pledge?, January 10, 2006
  4. ^ Baniel Freedman, President Carter Interceded on Behalf of Former Nazi Guard, New York Sun, January 19 2007
  5. ^ 'In the wake of this controversy, a former Justice Department official says the former president sought "special consideration" in 1987 for a onetime member of a German SS Death Squad who was proven to have murdered Jews in the Mauthausen death camp in Austria. Neil Sher says he went public with the information now because Mr. Carter's book exposes "where his heart really lies."' [1]
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