Editor’s note: it is significant that the office of Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism has remained vacant during the Trump presidency. It is possible that Trump’s administration is incrementally distancing itself from the Israel Lobby and likeminded organizations. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today delivered to the U.S. State Department thousands of signatures on a petition calling on President Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to fill the vacant office of Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism as quickly as possible. The envoy position, mandated by the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2004, has remained vacant since the beginning of the Trump administration. Secretary of State Tillerson indicated in testimony…