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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.

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

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