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Gatestone Institute

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The Gatestone Institute is a New York-based advocacy organization that is tied to neoconservative and other right-wing networks in the United States.[1] Gatestone’s website describes the institute as “a non-partisan, not-for-profit international policy council and think tank [that] is dedicated to educating the public about what the mainstream media fails to report.” It cites the following core subject areas: “Institutions of Democracy and the Rule of Law; Human Rights; A free and strong economy; A military capable of ensuring peace at home and in the free world; Energy independence; Ensuring the public stay informed of threats to our individual liberty, sovereignty and free speech.”[2]
According to one account, the institute was founded sometime around 2011 byNina Rosenwald, an heiress of the Sears Roebuck empire who has been a key philanthropic backer of anti-Muslim groups and individuals in the United States. Describing Gatestone’s origins, Max Blumenthal writes: “Through her affiliation with the Washington-based Hudson Institute, where Norman Podhoretz is an adjunct fellow, Rosenwald established a branch of the think tank in New York City. Operating under the Hudson banner, Rosenwald brought [the controversial anti-Islam Dutch politician Geert Wilders] to town in 2008 to warn against the Muslim plot to ‘rule the world by the sword.’ Wilders’s tirade during that visit against the prophet Muhammad, whom he described as ‘a warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile,’ was strident even by the standards of the hawkish Hudson Institute. By 2011 … Rosenwald separated Hudson New York City from Hudson’s national branch, changing her organization’s name to the Gatestone Institute.”[3]
Among its activities, the institute holds what it calls “Briefing Council events,” which are “invitation only, exclusively for our members,” and require a minimum donation of $10,000.[4] Events in 2012 included a presentation by Wall Street Journaleditorial page editor Bret Stephens on the topic “Russia, China & Co.,” and a discussion on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, which featured “pro-Israel” hardliners Daniel Pipes, Steven Rosen, andAnne Bayefsky.
Also in 2012, the institute hosted an additional presentation by Geert Wilders, during which he argued that “Islam is primarily a dangerous ideology rather than a religion. This is the truth. This violent ideology wants to impose Islamic Sharia law on the whole world, including us—the Kafirs, the non-Muslims…. Islam is the largest threat to freedom which the world is currently facing.”[5]
Gatestone regularly publishes articles and analyses on its website covering key issues of concern. During the 2012 election season, the institute ran several articles discussing the policy positions of leading candidates. In a November 2011 article, for instance, Gatestone contributor Andrew Bostom penned a piece titled “Romney vs. Gingrich on Jihad and Sharia A Yawning, if Unappreciated, Gap.” The article criticized the November 2011 GOP debate organized by CNN, theHeritage Foundation, and the American Enterprise Institute, which according to Bostom had failed to “highlight the yawning gap between [Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich] on the existential threat doctrine of our Islamic enemies: jihad and its motivational, sacralized religio-political ‘law,’ Sharia.”[6]
Bostom ridiculed Romney’s statement that “Jihadism is one of [the major threats to America], and that is not Islam,” calling it “a bizarre observation about the living Islamic institution of jihad.” By contrast, wrote Bostom, Gingrich has maintained “an irrefragably accurate, if blunt characterization of the existential threat posed by Islam's living, self-professed mission: to impose Sharia, its totalitarian religio-political ‘law,’ globally.” Bostom pointed to a July 2012 speech by Gingrich at the American Enterprise Institute, at which the former congressman said: “Sharia in its natural form has principles and punishments totally abhorrent to the Western world, and the underlying basic belief which is that law comes directly from God and is therefore imposed upon humans and no human can change the law without it being an act of apostasy is a fundamental violation of a tradition in the Western system which goes back to Rome, Athens, and Jerusalem and which has evolved in giving us freedom across the planet on a scale we can hardly imagine and which is now directly threatened by those who would impose it.”[7]
After Romney became the presumptive 2012 Republican presidential nominee, the Romney/Ryan campaign received a more favorable hearing from Gatestone contributors. In a July 2012 Gatestone publication, notorious “pro-Israel” hardliner Alan Dershowitz derided the argument that Romney should return campaign donations by one of his key financial backers, the controversial casino magnateSheldon Adelson, because Adelson’s fortune is connected to controversial foreign gambling businesses.[8]
As of mid-2012, the institute did not publicize information about its leadership or boards on its website. However, it did provide a list of “columnists,” as well as “senior editors,” “senior advisers,” and “distinguished senor fellows.” Columnists included several neoconservatives and other foreign policy hawks like Anne Bayefsky, Zuhdi Jasser, Kenneth Timmerman, former UN ambassador John Bolton, MEMRI president Yigal Carmon, Alan Dershowitz, Steven Emerson, former Pentagon official Doug Feith, neoconservative firebrand David Horowitz, Hudson Institute president Herbert London, the right-wing group NGO Monitor, Daniel Pipes, Emergency Committee for Israel spokesman Noah Pollak, former AIPACdirector Steven Rosen, American Enterprise Institute fellow Michael Rubin, Natan Sharansky, Foundation for Defense of Democracies fellow Lee Smith, and anti-Islamic writer Robert Spencer.[9] Former Pentagon official Harold Rhode was listed as a senior fellow.[10]