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Max Blumenthal reports:
- At the April event, Wilders's seamless fusion of anti-Muslim bombast and pro-Israel cant was gratefully received by the Gatestone Institute’s founder and director, Nina Rosenwald, whom he acknowledged at the top of his jeremiad as another of his good friends. An heiress to the Sears Roebuck fortune, Rosenwald spreads her millions through the William Rosenwald Family Fund, a nonprofit foundation named for her father, a famed Jewish philanthropist who created the United Jewish Appeal in 1939. His daughter’s focus is more explicitly political. According to a report by the Center for American Progress titled “Fear Inc.,” Rosenwald and her sister Elizabeth Varet, who also directs the family foundation, have donated more than $2.8 million since 2000 to “organizations that fan the flames of Islamophobia.”
Besides funding a Who’s Who of anti-Muslim outfits, Rosenwald has served on the board of AIPAC, the central arm of America’s Israel lobby, and holds leadership roles in a host of mainstream pro-Israel organizations. As groups like AIPAC lead the charge for a US military strike on the Islamic Republic of Iran, threatening to turn apocalyptic visions of civilizational warfare into catastrophic reality, Rosenwald's wealth has fueled a rapidly emerging alliance between the pro-Israel mainstream and the Islamophobic fringe. (In 2003 alone the Rosenwald Family Fund donated well over half of its $1.6 million in total contributions to pro-Israel and Islamophobic organizations.) This alliance serves to sanitize and legitimize professional anti-Muslim bigots like Wilders, allowing their ideas to mingle easily with those of neoconservative foreign policy heavyweights intent on promoting the appearance of a convergence between US and Israeli interests by invoking the specter of a common “Islamofascist” enemy. With Gatestone—which publicizes the writings of figures ranging from pro-Israel super-lawyer Alan Dershowitz to “counter-jihad” propagandist Robert Spencer, and boasts Harold Rhode, a neoconservative former Pentagon official credited, as a senior fellow, with helping to try to push the Bush administration to invade Iraq—Rosenwald has attempted to shift the alliance into overdrive.[1]
Contents
Senior Staff
| NY Senior Editors and Senior Advisors | ||
|---|---|---|
| Senior Editors | ||
| Paul Belien | Taylor Dinerman | Soeren Kern |
| Senior Advisors | ||
| Khaled Abu Toameh | Hagai Mazuz | Guy Millie're |
| Christine Williams | Mudar Zahran | |
| Distinguished Senior Fellows | ||
| Claire Berlinski | Tarek Heggy | Soeren Kern |
| Harold Rhode | ||
| Source: Gatestone: Editors Accessed: 27 June 2012 | ||
Columnists
| Columnists | ||
|---|---|---|
| Hani Abbas | Pierre Akel | Irfan Al-Alawi |
| Ahmad al-Baghdadi | Wajeha al-Huwaider Author | Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi |
| Sami Alrabaa | Ali Alyami Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia | Eli Amarilyo |
| Dan Aridor | Ahmed El Aswany | Daniel Atzori |
| Benny Avni Expert on the UNited Nations | Hani Bader | Julien Balkany |
| Sulafa Ballool | Shmuel Bar Director of Studies at the Institute for Policy and Strategy, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya | Zeyno Baran Senior Fellow, Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World, Hudson Institute |
| Amr Bargisi | Bruce Bawer | Anne Bayefsky Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute |
| David Bedein | Elias Bejjani Expert on Canadian-Lebanese Human Rights | Paul Belien Stonegate Institute |
| Ted Belman Expert on the Middle East, Based in Israel | John Berlau | Claire Berlinski Distinguished Senior Fellow, Gatestone Institute |
| Michelle D. Bernard The Examiner | John R. Bolton | Elio Bonazzi Italian Political Scientist and Scholar |
| Andrew Bostom Author | Joseph Bottum | Madeline Brooks |
| Shoshana Bryen | Richard Butrick | Soner Cagaptay Senior Fellow, Expert on Turkey, Washington Institute for Near East Policy |
| Yigal Carmon President, The Middle East Media Research Institute | Sebastien Castellion Author, Expert on Spain | Will Cathcart |
| Thomas More Law Center | Gordon G. Chang Author of The Coming Collapse of China | Ahmed Charai Chairman of Med Radio, Morocco |
| Human Rights in China | Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury Editor & Publisher, Weekly Blitz, and an expert on Bangladesh and Islam | Amel Chraibi |
| Aidan Clay International Christian Concern | Marc Cogen Professor of International Law, Ghent University | Efraim Cohen |
| The Centre for Social Cohesion | Alexandra Colen | Valentina Colombo European University, Rome and European Foundation for Democracy |
| Irwin Cotler | Richard L. Cravatts Boston University | Michael Curtis |
| Adam Daifallah | Nonie Darwish | Peter Day author |
| Simon Deng | Alan M. Dershowitz | Dan Diker |
| Taylor Dinerman Expert on the Military and National Security | Ardeshir Dolat Expert on the Middle East and Iran, and Turkey | Mark Durie |
| Mahmoud Dweik | Arieh Eldad | Hassan Elsawaf |
| Steven Emerson Exec. Dir., The Investigative Project on Terrorism | Manda Zand Ervin | Mallory Factor |
| Douglas J. Feith | Fabio Rafael Fiallo | Joel Fishman Columnist |
| Barbara Press Fix | Fjordman | Lawrence A. Franklin |
| Seth J. Frantzman | Ronnie Fraser Director, Academic Friends of Israel | Charles Gasparino |
| Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Israel National News | Farid Ghadry Journalist | Joshua Gleis Visiting Scholar, Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies |
| Kemal Göktas | Dore Gold President, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs | David P. Goldman Asia Times Online |
| Brooke Goldstein | Katherine Cornell Gorka Exec. Dir., Westminster Institute | Sebastian L. v. Gorka Strategic Advisers Group of the Atlantic Council |
| David Green | Diana Gregor | Alex Grobman |
| Tom Gross Journalist | AK Group | N. M. Guariglia Foreign Policy Analyst and Columnist |
| Olivier Guitta Adjunct Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies | Suleyman Gultekin | Mohshin Habib |
| Ramzi Abu Hadid | Thor Halvorssen Founder, The Oslo Freedom Forum | Kamal Hasani |
| Geng He | Lars Hedegaard Danish Free Press Society | Tarek Heggy |
| Gunnar Heinsohn Raphael Lemkin Institute, University of Bremen | Eli E. Hertz | Anne Herzberg |
| Katrine Winkel Holm Chief Editor of Sappho.dk | Andrea Loquenzi Holzer Italian Journalist and Research Fellow, The Magna Carta Foundation | Sharon Hom Exec. Dir., Human Rights in China |
| David Horowitz | Peter Huessy | Daniel Huff |
| Raymond Ibrahim Journalist and Author | Youssef M. Ibrahim | Amil Imani Journalist |
| Jeffrey Imm | Jabr Al Jabouri Journalist | Hisham Jarallah |
| M. Zuhdi Jasser President, American Islamic Forum for Democracy | Aymenn Jawad | Alexander Joffe |
| Scott W. Johnson Minneapolis Attorney and Contributor to PowerLine Blog | Yola Habif Johnston Director, Foundations and Community Outreach, JINSA | Avi Jorisch American Foreign Policy Council |
| Lawrence Kadish | Philippe Karsenty Media-Ratings : la Première Agence de Notation des Mèdias | Efraim Karsh |
| Jean-Pierre Katrib Human Rights Activist and Political Analyst, Beirut | William Katz Editor, Urgent Agenda | Joe Kaufman Americans Against Hate |
| Jonathan Kay | Nibras Kazimi | Mordechai Kedar Professor, Bar-Ilan University |
| Soeren Kern Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Relations at the Madrid-based Strategic Studies Group | David Keyes Director, Cyberdissidents.org and Coordinator of Democracy Programs at the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies | Hassan Khader |
| Mehdi Khalaji Journalist | M. A. Khan | Riaz Khan Journalist |
| Omar Khatib | Martin Kramer Wexler-Fromer Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy | Rita Kramer Author |
| Arlene Kushner Journalist and Author, Center for Near East Policy Research | Samia Labidi Journalist and Author | Naomi Lakritz Journalist, The Calgary Herald |
| Thomas Landen Journalist | Simone Levinson | Bernard Lewis |
| Herbert I. London President, The Hudson Institute | Malcolm Lowe | Ying Ma Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution |
| Shiraz Maher | Anna Mahjar-Barducci Journalist | David Malpass Encima Global, LLC |
| Robert Mankin Journalist | Itamar Marcus | Evelyn Markus Columnist |
| Rachel Marsden | Paul Marshall | Peter Martino |
| Ayman Masri | Ryan Mauro Security Analyst | Hagai Mazuz Senior Advisor, Stonegate Institute |
| Andrew McCarthy | Betsy McCaughey | Jaïs Mehaji |
| Jillian Melchior Assistant online editor at Commentary | Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens Research Fellow, Centre for Social Cohesion | Alan Mendoza Henry Jackson Society |
| Morten Messerschmidt Member of Parliament, Denmark | Aaron Eitan Meyer Columnist | A. Millar Journalist |
| Guy Milliere Professor, University of Paris | Richard Miniter | Amir Mir Journalist |
| NGO Monitor | Khaled Montaser | Anne-Elisabeth Moutet Journalist; Deputy Chair, Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute |
| Abu Muqawama | Douglas Murray Director, Centre for Social Cohesion | Winfield Myers Journalist |
| Heba Najeeb Journalist | Taslima Nasreen Journalist | Fiamma Nirenstein Italian Chamber of Deputies |
| David Nordell Columnist | Josef Olmert Adjunct Professor at American University | Arsen Ostrovsky |
| Baris Pehlivan | Daniel Pipes Director, Middle East Forum | Center for Islamic Pluralism |
| Justin Polin Research Assistant, Hudson Institute's Center for National Security Strategies | Noah Pollak | Nidra Poller Journalist |
| Sayed Mahmoud El Qemany Journalist | ||
| Shireen Qudosi | Ahmed Rashid Author | Abdel Jabbar Rawashdeh |
| Raheel Raza | Anne-Marie Revcolevschi President of the Aladdin project | Harold Rhode Senior Fellow, Stonegate Institute |
| Kamal Richa | Saudi Human Rights | The Gulf Center for Human Rights |
| David Roberts | Asaf Romirowsky | Steven J. Rosen |
| John Rosenthal Journalist | Nina Rosenwald | Barry Rubin Director, Global Research in International Affairs Center (GLORIA) |
| Michael Rubin American Enterprise Institute | David J. Rusin | Leslie J. Sacks |
| Nicholas Saidel | Franck Salameh Boston College | Abdel Karim Saleh |
| Elizabeth Samson Visiting Fellow, Hudson Institute | Ibrahim Sayyed | Jonathan Schanzer VP of research, Foundation for Defense of Democracies |
| Gabriel Scheinmann | Steve Schippert | Stephen Suleyman Schwartz Exec. Dir., Center for Islamic Pluralism |
| Roger Scruton Journalist | Abdel Karim Shalabi | Natan Sharansky |
| Nina Shea Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute | Mark Silverberg Foreign Policy Analyst, Ariel Center for Policy Research | Steven Simpson |
| Veli Sirin German Director, Center for Islamic Pluralism | Jeremy Slater | Lee Smith Journalist |
| Ann Snyder The Legal Project (Middle East Forum) | Henry Jackson Society | Lord Soley |
| Robert Spencer | Gideon Spitzer | Shelby Steele |
| Gerald M. Steinberg Exec. Dir., NGO Monitor | Cinnamon Stillwell | Fadha Sultan |
| Wafa Sultan | Michael Sussman | Reform Party of Syria |
| Eli Tabori Author | Amir Taheri | Abdulwahab Talabani Columnist, Reform Party of Syria |
| Tuvia Tenenbom | Emma Thompson | Tiberge Journalist |
| Kenneth R. Timmerman | Khaled Abu Toameh Journalist | Ali Uyanik |
| Robert Verkaik Journalist | Jorge Verstrynge | Peter J. Wallison Fellow, American Enterprise Institute |
| Diana West Journalist | Kurt Westergaard | Geert Wilders Member of Parliament, The Netherlands |
| Christine Williams | Robert S. Wistrich Director, Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem | |
| John Wohlstetter | Moshe Ya'alon Journalist and Author | Kamal Yazigi |
| Bat Ye'or | Ben-Dror Yemini Senior Editorialist, Maariv | Michael Young Opinion Editor, The Daily Star (Beirut) |
| Mudar Zahran | Supna Zaidi | Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi Activist and Iran Analyst |
| Manda Zand-Ervin | Nan Jacques Zilberdik | Dexter Van Zile |
| Jalal Zuberi | ||
| Gatestone Institute: Columnists Accessed 27 June 2012 | ||
Contact
- Website: www.gatestoneinstitute.org
References
- ↑ Max Blumenthal, The Sugar Mama of Anti-Muslim Hate, The Nation, 13 June 2012.
