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Conservative commentator and attorney Josh Hammer has served as an editor at Newsweek from May 2020 to the present. During his tenure, he has primarily held the titles of Opinion Editor and Senior Editor-at-Large. [1, 2]

MIT lecture cancellation

In 2020, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology invited Abbot to discuss his work on extraterrestrial life in the public Carlson Lecture. The COVID-19 pandemic postponed the lecture to the following year. In September 2021, the host department cancelled Abbot's public lecture and offered Abbot a future private lecture to its faculty and students.^[5][6] According to the department, the cancellation responded to objections from faculty and students to a Newsweek editorial co-written by Abbot in the prior month.^[5][7][6][8]

Abbot, Dorian S.; Marinovic, Ivan (12 August 2021). "The diversity problem on campus - Opinion". Newsweek. Retrieved 2021-10-29.

AI Overview

In 2021, the opinion section at Newsweek was spearheaded by Josh Hammer as the lead Opinion Editor and Batya Ungar-Sargon as the Deputy Opinion Editor. Together, they oversaw the editorial board and expanded the section to include a diverse array of political viewpoints. [1, 2, 3]

You can read their latest contributions and analyses directly on the Newsweek Staff directory. [1]

In the editorial, Abbot and Stanford professor Ivan Marinovic argued for renewed focus on individual talent in university admissions and hiring.^[5] They called for abolishing "group membership" preferences, including race and legacy preference in university admissions, and criticized aspects of university diversity policy. They recalled how the racial ideology of Nazi Germany "drove many of the best scholars out" of the universities, and called this "a warning of the consequences of viewing group membership as more important than merit."^[7][9]

Defending the lecture cancellation, senior MIT officials stated that controversy over Abbott's views on diversity would "overshadow" the scientific content of his public lecture.^[5][10] Abbot ultimately delivered his lecture on planetary science to a larger audience hosted by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University on the same day as the cancelled event.^[6][11] Abbot was a guest on Tucker Carlson Tonight^[12] and CNN^[13] to discuss the cancellation. He also received a Hero of Intellectual Freedom Award from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni.^[11]

Following public outrage and rebukes from MIT faculty about free expression, the university held forums at which attending faculty were polled on free speech questions.^[6][5] 60% of attendees felt that their voices were "constrained" at MIT; a new MIT Free Speech Alliance cited these findings as a call to action.^[14][independent ^source ^needed] In December 2022, responding to the Abbot controversy, MIT's faculty voted by a roughly 2-to-1 margin to adopt a formal university statement on freedom of expression.^[15][16] Abbot said of the faculty statement: "The challenge is always enforcement, but it looks promising."^[15]

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Batya Ungar-Sargon - Wikipedia

Batya Ungar-Sargon is an American journalist and author who served as the opinion editor of The Forward and later worked as deputy opinion editor of Newsweek. She is the author of two books which address class consciousness and working class-related issues and one that deals with American Jews and the left.

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Ungar-Sargon began her career as a journalist and news analyst, reporting on topics such as the rights of undocumented immigrants and liberal perspectives on Israel and American Jews.^[6][7] In 2019, she discussed the significance of developing an American Jewish identity that is distinct from Israeli politics and aligned with civil and minority rights.^[8] She also served as managing editor at the wine and spirits media outlet VinePair.^[9]

In 2017, Ungar-Sargon became the opinion editor at The Forward. During her tenure, she faced criticism from some commentators on the political left, who accused her of weaponizing claims of antisemitism in a politically charged manner and of displaying a right-wing and Zionist editorial stance.^[10][11] Ungar-Sargon later contributed to various publications, including among others the Daily Beast, The Free Press, Foreign Policy, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, Tablet, and the Washington Post.^[12][13][14] She also appeared on various political shows including on the Brian Lehrer Show, MSNBC, NBC, and NPR, among other media outlets.^[15][16] She later became deputy opinion editor of Newsweek,^[17] and co-hosted The Debate podcast.^[18]

In 2019, Ungar-Sargon publicly criticized U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar on Twitter, alleging that Omar had employed antisemitic tropes by suggesting that financial motivations underlie U.S. support for Israel. In response, Omar stated that the AIPAC influenced politicians. The exchange drew criticism of Omar's comments, leading to a public apology from the congresswoman.^[19] In 2020, Ungar-Sargon was selected for the 2021 Civil Society Fellowship, a program of the Anti-Defamation League and the Aspen Institute.^[20] In 2021, Ungar-Sargon published Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy.^[21] The book argues that contemporary media has shifted from class-conscious reporting toward race-conscious coverage, which she contends caters primarily to affluent, educated, and urban audiences.^[22][23] In 2024, she published Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women, which addresses issues related to the working class in the United States and its relationship with the elite.^[24][25][26]

In the wake of the Elon Musk salute controversy in January 2025, Ungar-Sargon said it appeared to be "a man with Aspergers [sic] exuberantly throwing his heart to the crowd", accusing the critics who described it as a fascist salute (or Sieg Heil salute) of "inventing outrage".^[27][28] On August 26, 2025, the NewsNation channel announced that Ungar-Sargon would host a weekend afternoon talk show titled Batya on Saturdays, starting on September 20, at 4 p.m. ET.^[29][30]

Political views

Ungar-Sargon has described a shift in her political views over time. In the 2010s, she identified as an American liberal; by the 2020s, she reported distancing herself from that ideology.^[24] In 2021, Bari Weiss characterized Ungar-Sargon as a left-wing populist.^[31] Ungar-Sargon later adopted this label herself in 2023, although several observers view her as echoing American conservative viewpoints.^[32][24] She attributed this perception to her focus on social class, which she argued has been deprioritized by the American Left and adopted by elements of the American right.^[32] In a June 2022 interview with Dennis Prager, Ungar-Sargon described herself as a Marxist, and her views have been described as providing "right-wing Marxist" interpretations.^[4] In February 2023, she argued that "caring about class is now a right-wing position, and that being on the left no longer means caring about class".^[32]

In an April 2024 interview with Newsweek, Ungar-Sargon expressed support for limiting immigration to the United States, reducing welfare fraud, expanding vocational training, implementing a government-backed health care plan, eliminating degree requirements for jobs that do not necessitate them, banning software that filters applicants based on educational credentials, reforming zoning laws to increase urban density, expanding the child tax credit, and expanding tariffs on foreign goods.^[33]

Trumpism

In November 2024, Ungar-Sargon publicly encouraged American Jews to vote for Donald Trump in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.^[34][35] Diverging from the common classification of Trump as part of a right-wing populist and illiberal wave, Ungar-Sargon argued that Trump is not a radical or extremist but rather a centrist,^[24] who held similar positions to that of Democrats in the 1990s, and stated that "to Trump supporters, he is a liberal".^[36] In response, Cathy Young observed that the 1990s Democrats, even accounting for the shift to the centre as New Democrats under Bill Clinton, were still much more pro-abortion rights and pro-immigration than Trump.^[36]

In March 2025, Ungar-Sargon introduced herself to HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher as a "MAGA leftist". When asked whether she had second thoughts, she said "I feel the opposite", arguing that Trump "took a Republican Party that was built on social conservatism, foreign interventions and wars, and free trade and free markets, and he basically took an ax to all of those". She further claimed that Trump departed from traditional conservatism when he appointed Scott Bessent as U.S. Secretary of Treasury and that he "sidelined the pro-life wing of his party", adding: "That agenda that he laid out is socially moderate, antiwar, and anti–free trade, protectionist. That is a leftist position!"^[4] Various commentators, including among others Jonathan Chait, Kyle Kulinski, Nathan J. Robinson, and Nate Weisberg, responded by arguing that Ungar-Sargon's portrayal of Trump as a working-class advocate is incorrect and misleading because Trump's rhetoric on policy rarely matches his actions,^[37] that there is no such thing as a "MAGA lefty" and that Trump is "much, much worse" than centrist Democrats,^[38] and that the second Trump administration's actions have been anti-worker.^[4]

Environmentalism and green politics

Ungar-Sargon has expressed criticism of environmental and green politics, asserting that such movements often reflect elite priorities and neglect the interests of working-class communities. She argues that progressive opposition to environmentally harmful industries like coal mining often overlook economic benefits these jobs provide to workers. She has criticized politicians who advocate green policies for engaging in environmentally harmful practices such as flying in private jets. She has also criticized the outsourcing of labor and environmental harm to countries like China.^[32]

Foreign policy

Since 2022, Ungar-Sargon has written articles opposing U.S. support for Ukraine following the Russian invasion.^[39] She has argued that American resources should prioritize domestic needs, questioned the strategic importance of Ukraine's territorial integrity, legitimized Russian land claims regarding Donetsk and Luhansk, and expressed skepticism toward U.S. foreign policy, which she views as exacerbating international conflicts. In response, journalist James Kirchick of The Atlantic criticized her stance, characterizing it as part of what he called the "Intellectually Bankrupt Anti-war camp" and accusing her of minimizing Russian imperialism.^[39] In 2024, Ungar-Sargon stated that the typical Republican voter is working class and rejects previously prominent party policies such as tax cuts for the wealthy and foreign military interventions. She argued that this sentiment underlies opposition to Trump from some within the Democratic Party.^[37] In March 2024, Ungar-Sargon criticized elements of the political left in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks. She claimed that left-wing discourse often centers on portraying groups as marginalized as a means of asserting influence and silencing dissent.^[40][41]

Works

Ungar-Sargon, Batya (Fall 2013). Coercive Pleasures: The Force and Form of the Novel 1719–1740 (PhD dissertation). University of California, Berkeley.
Ungar-Sargon, Batya (2021). Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy. New York City: Encounter Books. ISBN 978-1641772068.
Ungar-Sargon, Batya (2024). Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women. New York City: Encounter Books. ISBN 978-1641773614.
Ungar-Sargon, Batya (2026). The Jews and the Left. New York: Broadside Books. ISBN 978-0063460607.

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Joshua Benjamin Hammer (born February 12, 1989) is an American conservative political commentator, attorney, and columnist.^[1][2][3] He is also the author of Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West.^[4] He is a syndicated columnist through Creators Syndicate, senior editor-at-large for Newsweek,^[5] and host of The Josh Hammer Show, a Newsweek podcast and syndicated weekly radio show^[6][7] which, in October 2025, joined Salem Media Group's Salem Podcast Network and Salem News Channel.^[8] In January 2026, Hammer joined the David Horowitz Freedom Center as a Shillman Fellow.^[9]

Early life and education

Hammer was born in Westchester County, New York, to a Jewish family.^[10]

Hammer graduated from Duke University in 2011 with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics.^[11] After graduating, he worked in anti-trust research.^[12] He later earned his J.D. degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 2016. In law school, he was active in the Federalist Society, and the Edmund Burke Society. He has also been a fellow with the Claremont Institute, and the James Wilson Institute.^[11][13]

Career

After graduating from law school, Hammer worked for sixteen months at the Houston office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He then clerked for Judge James C. Ho on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

While establishing himself as an editor at The Daily Wire and contributor at TheBlaze, he also worked as of counsel at the First Liberty Institute.

Starting in 2020, Hammer joined Newsweek as opinion editor. He has since assumed the title of senior editor-at-large.^[5][14] He is also the host of The Josh Hammer Show, a Newsweek podcast and syndicated weekly radio show.^[15] Also in 2020, he joined Creators Syndicate as a syndicated columnist.^[16] In 2023, he was named a fellow at the Florida-based Palm Beach Freedom Institute.^[17]

His recent scholarship includes the article "Common Good Originalism", published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, in which he attempts to theorize a "middle-ground position" and fusion of originalism and common good constitutionalism.^[18][19][20]

With the natural law scholar Hadley Arkes, Matthew Peterson, and Garrett Snedeker, Hammer co-authored, in 2021, the influential manifesto "A Better Originalism", arguing for "a bolder, more robust jurisprudence rooted in the principles and practices of American constitutionalism".^[21] Hammer has also contributed to the University of St. Thomas Law Journal.^[22]

He previously hosted America on Trial with Josh Hammer, a legal podcast primarily focused on the 2024 United States presidential election.^[23] Hammer remains a member of the bar in Texas, and serves as senior counsel for both the Article III Project and the Internet Accountability Project.^[24][25]

The Southern Poverty Law Center opined that the Newsweek opinion section under Hammer's tenure had "emerged as a hub for opinion pieces authored by radical right activists",^[26] noting its elevation of conspiracy theorists such as Jack Posobiec and Dinesh D'Souza, and its publication of conspiracy theories about COVID-19.^[27]

In December 2022, Hammer attended the annual gala for the New York Young Republican Club, along with noted far-right figures such as Posobiec, Steve Bannon, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Peter Brimelow.^[26]

Hammer is the author of the book Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West, from Radius Book Group.^[28]

Conservative activism

At CPAC Hungary 2023

A conservative, Hammer is a vocal commentator on conservative political, legal, and cultural issues at various publications.^[22] Hammer is a contributor to programs on networks such as Fox News, Fox Business, Newsmax, and One America News Network.^[22][29][30]

[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dave_Smith,_Charlie_Kirk_%26_Josh_Hammer.jpg)Hammer debating Dave Smith about Israel in July 2025 at the 2025 Student Action Summit, moderated by Charlie Kirk

Hammer is vocal about Jewish- and Zionist-related issues; he has debated Peter Beinart^[31][32] about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and Alan Dershowitz about the 2023 Israeli judicial reform dispute.^[33]

Hammer was involved with Senator Ted Cruz's 2016 presidential campaign.^[34] Hammer was invited to the Florida governor's mansion to meet with governor Ron DeSantis in January 2022.^[35]

Hammer currently sits on the boards of advisors of American Moment^[36] and the United Jewish Gun Coalition.^[37]

In May 2023, Hammer co-founded Jews Against Soros, a coalition of conservative Jews who oppose the political influence of George Soros.^[38]

Personal life

In December 2022, Hammer proposed to Shir Cohen at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.^[39] They were married in December 2023.^[40]

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Newsweek: We didn't vet wind power op-ed

By HADAS GOLD

04/22/2015

Newsweek didn’t vet the author of an op-ed piece critical of wind energy who turned out to have ties to oil groups, the magazine’s managing editor told the On Media blog on Wednesday.

The piece by Randy Simmons, published on April 11, questions the true cost of wind power to American taxpayers. And though the original article mentioned that Simmons, in his role as a professor of political economy at Utah State University, receives funding from the U.S. Department of Energy and Strata, a 501 c3 non-profit organization, it failed to mention his connection to the Kochs and Exxon-Mobil.

According to Newsweek managing editor Kira Bindrim, a note was appended to the piece after Media Matters flagged Simmons’ connections. The editor’s note now reads:

“The author of this piece, Randy Simmons, is the Charles G. Koch professor of political economy at Utah State University. He's also a senior fellow at the Koch- and ExxonMobil-funded Property and Environment Research Center. These ties to the oil industry weren't originally disclosed in this piece."

(Simmons told The Washington Post's Erik Wemple he is no longer the Charles G. Koch professor of political economy, though he currently currently supervises a program known at Utah State University as the “Koch Scholars” program.

According to Bindrim, the oped came to Newsweek by way of a syndication relationship with several opinion sites, including the site that originally hosted Simmons’ piece The Conversation.

“Admittedly, we did not do an outside vetting of Simmons, and we are not in the habit of fully fact-checking opinion pieces picked up like this from outside sites. These are aspects of our workflow that we're looking at now,” Bindrim said.

The piece also had several factual errors, which the wind lobby group American Wind Energy Association and others flagged in various online posts. Newsweek then corrected the errors and published a counter-oped, titled “The True Benefits of Wind Power” by Jim Marston, the founding director of the Texas office of Environmental Defense Fund.

*Hadas Gold is a reporter at Politico.

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- Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro claimed, “Hamas is stealing the aid.”He also attacked the United Nations, saying, “The UN literally refuses to ship food in if they are escorted by the IDF, because the U.N. wants to fund Hamas.” The Daily Wire, *The Ben Shapiro Show*, [7/28/25]

- National Review’s Rich Lowry wrote an article titled “Hamas Is to Blame for Gaza’s Woes,” which claimed that Hamas “considers the agony of Gazans a useful weapon in the narrative war. From this perverted point of view, a famine would be welcome news.”The piece concluded, “Hamas would rather see the population starve than give up on the war, or its grip on power.” National Review, [7/29/25]

- After playing a clip of Trump saying the U.S. will get food into Gaza, Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner said, “Now if they could just stop the bloodthirsty savages of Hamas from shooting at their own people and taking supplies away from them, that would be a miracle.”Fox News, *The Faulkner Focus*, [7/28/25]

- Fox & Friendsco-host Brian Kilmeade claimed that “the problem is it’s Hamas. Hamas started it. They don’t care about their people. … They want to blame Israel for it.”Co-hosts Ainsley Earhardt and Lawrence Jones agreed, with Earhardt saying, “They steal the aid that Israel sends in, that America sends in.” Fox News,*Fox & Friends*, [7/29/25]

- Fox News senior strategic analyst Jack Keane claimed it is “Hamas that has stopped the aid from coming in by not making this deal.” Keane: “Are there some humanitarian starvation and serious gravity taking place among the people in Gaza? You betcha there are. But it's Hamas that has stopped the aid from coming in by not making this deal.” Fox Business,*Mornings with Maria*, [7/29/25]

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- Stephen L. Miller claimed, “The famine in Gaza is because of Hamas.”Twitter/X, [7/23/25]

- OnOutnumbered, Fox host Mark Levin claimed, “Hamas is killing and starving its own people.” He added, “The U.N. is actually helping Hamas. The only people feeding the Palestinians there — the United States and the Israelis.” Fox News, *Outnumbered*, [7/28/25]

- Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen agreed with Netanyahu’s claim that there is “no policy of starvation in Gaza” and claimed the reason for famine in the region is “Hamas, not Netanyahu.” Thiessen: “What is important to remember here is the reason why there is starvation in Gaza — Netanyahu is right. There is no policy of starvation in Gaza. The reason is that Hamas has been defeated but they refuse to surrender. They have no chance of prevailing and in any normal situation like this, where they had suffered such military setbacks, the other side would surrender and end the fighting and allow humanitarian assistance to come in. And Hamas is refusing to do that. And that's the source of the problem in Gaza. It's Hamas, not Netanyahu.” Fox News, *Special Report*, [7/28/25]

- Townhall Editor Katie Pavlich posted: “Gaza is the only place where the UN and Hamas are purposely starving the population as a PR strategy against Israel.”Twitter/X, [7/26/25]

- Right-wing podcaster Ben Ferguson claimed starvation in Gaza was caused by “adults who decided to put killing Israelis ahead of making sure their own kids are safe.”Ferguson added, “This is not Israel's fault. This is Hamas' fault; this is terrorists’ fault. They are the ones starving these kids. So I’m sick of people saying somehow this is Israel's fault. They attacked Israel. Period.” Fox News, *The Faulkner Focus*, [7/28/25]

- Fox News contributor Guy Benson said Trump is “right” for saying the “fastest way to end the Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza is for Hamas to SURRENDER AND RELEASE THE HOSTAGES!!!” Benson added, “He’s right & every good person who cares (or purports to care) about the suffering in Gaza should say this loudly and with one voice, every day. That so many do not is a grotesque tell.” Twitter/X, [7/31/25]

- Right-wing radio host Larry Elder claimed, “The food is being stolen by Hamas.”He also claimed that the New York Times article that featured the 18-month old toddler “was a complete and total lie, and so many members of the media … ran with it because it advanced the narrative: Gaza is suffering from mass starvation because of the dastardly Israelis.” The Salem Radio Network, *The Larry Elder Show*, [7/31/25]

- Fox News host Lawrence Jones said there’s “propaganda” regarding “the Gaza story,” that “people just believe everything that is put out there, the images,” and that Hamas is “taking some of the aid away.” Jones: “As it relates to the war propaganda, Israel is losing it, when it comes to the Gaza story right here. People just believe everything that is put out there, the images. They may put an editor's note on there [in the Times story], but the damage has already been done. I even talked with some of my friends — they don't know the full story about what Hamas is doing, taking some of the aid away.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [7/30/25]

## A small group of right-wing figures — some with ties to white nationalist or far-right politics — have acknowledged the situation in Gaza

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It’s 2024, so everyone reading this knows exactly what the deal is with birthers. We know that the Constitution requires anyone running for president to be a “natural born Citizen,” and that Vice President Kamala Harris, having been born in Oakland, California, surely qualifies.

Birtherism must be understood not as a wild conspiracy theory about where Kamala Harris and Barack Obama were born, but rather as a slur against their status as Americans. There are no good-faith legal questions about whether or not Kamala Harris is a natural born citizen, just like there were no good-faith questions about where Barack Obama’s mother gave birth to him. We all know the deal. MAGA pundits are pushing birtherism against Harris now — like they did to Obama before her — in order to signal to their audience that people like Harris and Obama are somehow less American. Regardless of your politics, these claims deserve nothing more than absolute contempt.

The biggest name currently spreading this is Trump associate Tom Fitton. You may remember that Fitton, the Judicial Watch president who is not a lawyer, reportedly advised former President Donald Trump to keep secretive government documents that the former president had stored on a ballroom stage and in a bathroom at Mar-a-Lago. (Ironically, in 2009 — years before Trump picked up birtherism and used it to help take over GOP politics — Fitton was one of the few right-wing voices who spoke dismissively about birtherism against Obama, saying he had not “seen any credible evidence Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen eligible for the presidency.”)

CitationVia @TomFitton

Fitton links to an August 14, 2020, piece by John Eastman in Newsweek. Eastman is the intellectual architect of Trump’s attempt to remain in office despite losing the election, which culminated in January 6. (A judge has since ruled that Eastman should be disbarred for his actions.) We addressed this at the time when then-Trump campaign official Jenna Ellis reposted Fitton’s identical tweet.

The following note is on the top of the Eastman column that Fitton now links to:

Editor's note, 8/14: This op-ed is being used by some as a tool to perpetuate racism and xenophobia. We apologize. The essay, by John Eastman, was intended to explore a minority legal argument about the definition of who is a "natural-born citizen" in the United States. But to many readers, the essay inevitably conveyed the ugly message that Senator Kamala Harris, a woman of color and the child of immigrants, was somehow not truly American.

The op-ed was never intended to spark or to take part in the racist lie of Birtherism, the conspiracy theory aimed at delegitimizing Barack Obama, but we should have recognized the potential, even probability, that that could happen. Readers hold us accountable for all that we publish, as they should; we hold ourselves accountable, too. We entirely failed to anticipate the ways in which the essay would be interpreted, distorted and weaponized.

As we said in our earlier note, this essay was an attempt to examine a legal argument about the difference between "natural born" and "naturalized," the latter being ineligible to hold the office of president. In the days since the op-ed was published, we saw that it was being shared in forums and social networks notorious for disinformation, conspiracy theories and racist hatred. All of us at Newsweek are horrified that this op-ed gave rise to a wave of vile Birtherism directed at Senator Harris. Many readers have demanded that we retract the essay, but we believe in being transparent and are therefore allowing it to remain online, with this note attached.

None of this has stopped other MAGA figures online from pushing this ridiculous, bigoted argument now that Harris is poised to be at the top of the Democratic ticket. And yes, free speech gives them the right to spread this bigoted bullshit.

As the late, great Simon Maloy wrote in 2019:

The Obama-era birthers never came anywhere close to proving their accusation, and it didn’t matter one bit. The only thing they cared about was getting people to treat their obvious bullshit with a modicum of seriousness. The country’s most famous birther was challenged repeatedly to back up his outlandish allegations about President Barack Obama; he never did, but flogging the racist conspiracy theory made him a hero to the political movement that eventually elected him president.

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What You Need To Know

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Donald Trump Jr. and other right-wing activists, commentators and politicians are attending a gala hosted by a Republican club in Manhattan Saturday

Among the headliners is Jack Posobiec, a far-right operative who the Southern Poverty Law Center has identified as working with white nationalists and neo-Nazis

Members of an Austrian political party founded by a Nazi SS officer will also be in attendance

Event organizers are keeping the location secret and coordinating with the NYPD over concerns there will be protests

“It’s sort of an iconic event in a way that it brings all these people together, they’re able to communicate, they’re able to, you know, network, share experiences, contact with each other,” club president Gavin Wax said. “It’s sort of like a coming together of the minds and sort of an event of the year is how we like to push it, both for the club and for the movement at large.”

A City Hall spokesperson said in a statement that city officials are “monitoring the event for any alarming activity.” Wax said he is coordinating with the NYPD and event security in expectation of protests.

Ten members of the far-right Proud Boys group were arrested in Manhattan in 2018 following an attack on protestors outside the Metropolitan Republican Club. Wax was in attendance that night and witnessed the violence, later writing an article for a conservative website titled "We Are All Proud Boys Now."

Greene and Posobiec are headlining the event, which Wax says will be held in Midtown. Organizers are not revealing the precise location out of security concerns. The club’s invitationdescribes Greene as “a wife, mother and Christian nationalist patriot.” Posobiec, a former Navy officer-turned-conspiracy theorist, is one of the most prolific spreaders of misinformation in the country, critics said.

"I think you can safely argue that no single person is more responsible for spreading politically charged disinformation during the Trump era than Jack Posobiec," Southern Poverty Law Center senior investigative reporter Michael Edison Hayden told NY1. "He is unequivocally an extremist who has demonstrable ties to neo-Nazis, white nationalists and anti-government extremists."

Posobiec could not be reached for comment.

“We reject the framing and the accusations of the SPLC,” Wax said. “These are all sort of baseless accusations that are thrown ad nauseam at anyone who even dares to veer just slightly right of center.”

Among his long, well-documented – by researchers and journalists, including the SPLC – history of collaboration with white nationalists and antisemites, Posobiec notably worked with two Washington, D.C., brothers the SPLC identifies as neo-Nazis and whothe FBI alleged had ties to the man accused of killing 11 people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018.

“There should be no legitimizing white supremacists or people who are associated with neo-Nazis, period,” Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine said, citing rising numbers of antiseimitic incidents in the city. “This is a toxic environment where antisemitism is being mainstreamed. And it’s outrageous that the New York Young Republican Club is contributing to that.”

Along with Greene, three incoming Republican congressmen, Dutchess County legislator Ben Geller, incoming upstate Assemblyman Brian Maher, 2022 New York gubernatorial candidate Andrew Giuliani, and a spate of Trump administration officials are featured guests. The younger Giuliani will serve as toastmaster, according to the gala invitation.

George Santos, an incoming member of Congress who will represent parts of Queens and Nassau counties, is listed as a guest. Santos, who attended the Jan. 6 rally near the U.S. Capitol, did not return requests for comment.

Representatives for state Republican Party chair Nick Langworthy and City Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli did not respond to requests for comment.

An alliance with a party founded by Nazis

At least half a dozen European political figures will be in attendance, including two leading members of the Freedom Party of Austria, a far-right party founded by an SS officer in the aftermath of World War II as a political home for Austrian Nazis after the Nazi Party was banned.

“Historically, the Freedom Party can be described as a kind of a successor of the Nazi Party,” said Bernhard Weidinger, a visiting Fulbright Fellow at Northwestern University and a researcher tracking right-wing extremism at the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance in Vienna. “They’re certainly not a neo-Nazi party right now. But they are a far-right party. And they have a long history of both racism and antisemitism, of xenophobia, of a systematic vilification of asylum seekers and refugees and other minorities.”

Both Austrian Jewish leaders and the government of Israel refuse to work with Freedom Party ministers when they are part of governing coalitions, which they have been on and off for the past two decades, Weidinger said.

Wax, who is Jewish, said he did not believe the Freedom Party holds bigoted views and pointed to their willingness to forge ties with the club, which has numerous Jewish members in leadership, as evidence of their modern-day tolerance.

“I think a lot of the same accusations that are leveled at them now could be leveled at the Republican Party, and those are usually baseless,” Wax said. “I think the German angle, the Austrian angle adds to the attacks, obviously, because, you know, you go back far enough, everyone in those countries were affiliated with Nazis at some point in history.”

Rep. Jerry Nadler, who in January will represent the neighborhood where the gala is being held, denounced the gathering.

“Antisemitic and far-right extremists have become central figures in the GOP. Even the former president is dining with known racists and antisemites,” Nadler said in a statement. “The event’s headliners have built brands on the backs of hatred and bigotry. The New York Young Republican Club–and national Republicans–should be ashamed. It’s dangerous and disgraceful, and New Yorkers deserve far better than this.”

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A collection of radical right figures including white nationalists and ultranationalist European leaders gathered in Manhattan for the New York Young Republican Club’s (NYYRC) annual gala Saturday night, where that group’s president declared “total war” on perceived enemies.

“We want to cross the Rubicon. We want total war. We must be prepared to do battle in every arena. In the media. In the courtroom. At the ballot box. And in the streets,” NYYRC president Gavin Wax declared to a room full of supporters at 583 Park Ave., an event venue on New York’s Upper East Side.

“This is the only language the left understands. The language of pure and unadulterated power,” Wax added.

The white nationalists of VDARE snap a selfie with Steve Bannon at the NYYRC gala on Dec. 10. From left to right: Peter Brimelow, Steve Bannon, Lydia Brimelow. (Photo by Michael Edison Hayden)

At the five-hour event, which Hatewatch reporters attended, white nationalists Peter and Lydia Brimelow of VDARE hobnobbed with Steve Bannon, a former Trump adviser and White House official. Donald Trump Jr. was also in attendance.

Republicans publicly lauded members in attendance from an Austrian political party founded by World War II-era Nazi party members. Racist political operative Jack Posobiec shared jokes across a table with Josh Hammer, the opinion editor of Newsweek. Multiple recently elected GOP congresspeople applauded Marjorie Taylor Greene, who told the NYYRC crowd in the event’s closing remarks that the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol would have succeeded if she had planned it and that the insurrectionists would have been armed.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene talks with guests at the NYYRC gala on Dec. 10, 2022 in Manhattan. (Photo by Michael Edison Hayden)

“Then Jan. 6 happened. And next thing you know, I organized the whole thing, along with Steve Bannon,” Greene said, referring to allegations that she had led reconnaissance tours of the Capitol for soon-to-be insurrectionists in the days prior to the violence.

“I will tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I organized that, we would have won,” she said, as attendees erupted in cheers and applause. “Not to mention, it would’ve been armed.”

WHITE NATIONALISTS AND NEOFASCISTS IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

Republican speakers repeatedly voiced an anti-democracy, authoritarian ideology, and extremists in the audience cheered wildly. White nationalists such as the Brimelows of VDARE and leaders from extreme far-right European parties like Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD), whom German officials placed under surveillance for their ties to extremism, and Austrian Freedom Party (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs, FPÖ), ate and drank in the same room as newly elected Republican congresspeople, such as Long Island and Queens-based George Santos, Georgia-based Mike Collins and Florida-based Cory Mills.

• MORE NYYRC: Hungarian ambassador attends controversial Republican gathering

Hatewatch reached out to Santos and Mills by email before the event about their willingness to appear in a global collection of radical right, anti-democracy activists. They did not reply. Hatewatch reached out to Collins on Sunday morning but had not received a response at press time.

A STEVE BANNON SELFIE FOR VDARE

Bannon, the former Trump adviser, physically embraced the white nationalist Brimelows at NYYRC, spoke to the couple for several minutes and took a selfie with them. VDARE traffics in the great replacement conspiracy theory and has published defenses of writing a terrorist who gunned down 24 people in an El Paso Wal-Mart in 2019 allegedly authored. Peter Brimelow attended the white supremacist American Renaissance conference in November, whose host has portrayed Black people as being subhuman. The Brimelows publish writing authored by Jason Kessler, who helped organize the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

When Hatewatch attempted to speak to Lydia Brimelow after her conversation with Bannon to inquire about it, she walked away. Hatewatch did not get close enough to Bannon to ask him about the encounter with Peter and Lydia Brimelow.

‘PIZZAGATE’ JACK DESCENDS ON NEW YORK CITY

Jack and Tanya Posobiec arrive in New York City by train before the NYYRC meeting in Midtown on Dec. 10. (Photo by Michael Edison Hayden)

Posobiec, a radical right political operative, resides with his wife Tanya Posobiec in Hanover, Maryland. The couple took Amtrak Northeast Regional train 88 into New York’s Penn Station Moynihan Hall on Saturday afternoon to get to the NYYRC gala. Train 88 pulled in at around 3:45 p.m., and a Hatewatch reporter observed Posobiec and his wife deboard and enter New York City.

“Antifa, don’t even think about it tonight,” Posobiec posted to Twitter three hours later, at 6:39 p.m., with the location of the tweet marked Manhattan, New York.

NYYRC gave Posobiec a speaking slot and an Allen W. Dulles award, named after the former head of the CIA. NYYRC said in its December bulletin that the award is given to “an individual who embodies the virulent anti-Marxist spirit of [Dulles].”

Like the Brimelows, Posobiec has a well-documented history of radical-right activism. He to the antigovernment Oath Keepers, fraternized with the Proud Boys, and at least twice, filmed propaganda videos with. He is primarily known for pushing the, which falsely suggested that Democrats ran a pedophile dungeon in the basement of a Washington, D.C., pizzeria.

Hatewatch spoke with Posobiec around midnight at the NYYRC event and asked him about his involvement in pushing the #StoptheSteal hashtag onto Twitter during the runup to the 2020 election. Although “Stop the Steal” became synonymous with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol building, Posobiec started tweeting the hashtag from his over-1-million-follower account as early as Sept. 7, 2020, two full months before anyone tallied any votes.

While responding to Hatewatch at NYYRC, Posobiec first attempted to associate the hashtag with Roger Stone and then with Ali Alexander, two of his collaborators. Then he called it “a meme.” He never explained why he abruptly started posting the hashtag in September 2020.

While answering questions, Posobiec grew testy with a Hatewatch reporter and described SPLC as a “domestic terror organization.” Posobiec called that reporter a “scumbag” and a “troll.” After Posobiec’s speaking tone became palpably agitated, a crowd formed and NYYRC executive secretary Viswanag “Vish” Burra escorted both Hatewatch reporters to the exit, physically shoving one of them.

NEWSWEEK FLAUNTS ITS RADICAL-RIGHT CREDENTIALS

Newsweek editor Josh Hammer (in suspenders) texts from table #6, near the front of the stage, at the NYYRC gala on Dec. 10. (Photo by Michael Edison Hayden)

Starting in May 2020, after editor Nancy Cooper and chief content officer Dayan Candappa brought political activist Josh Hammer to run *Newsweek*’s opinion section, the 90-year-old publication has emerged as a hub for opinion pieces authored by radical right activists. Newsweek has published the extremist Posobiec as well as 2020 election-lie pusher Raheem Kassam in recent years, and Hammer has also hosted both of them on his Newsweek-branded podcast. The three men sat together talking and laughing at table #6 during the NYYRC event, near the stage.

Newsweek contributor and disinformation peddler Raheem Kassam texts a selfie to someone at the NYYRC event on Dec. 10. Kassam sat at table #6 with Newsweek editor Josh Hammer and fellow Newsweek contributor Jack Posobiec. (Photo by Michael Edison Hayden)

When QAnon influencer-turned-congressperson Marjorie Taylor Greene took the stage, Hammer stood up and applauded. When she endorsed former President Trump as her 2024 presidential candidate of choice, Posobiec turned to Hammer and grinned. In January, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis invited Hammer on a tour of his office, and the Florida-based Newsweek editor has since hyped DeSantis as a potential presidential candidate.

“You gonna go up there, Josh?” Posobiec chided Hammer about Greene’s endorsement of Trump, eliciting laughter from the table.

A Hatewatch reporter approached Hammer after Greene’s speech, made an introduction and asked if he knew Peter Brimelow of VDARE.

“He’s right here, right now?” Hammer asked with excitement.

“I didn’t even know he was here!” Hammer said of the infamous white nationalist publisher. “I’m going to say ‘Hi.’ ”

The Hatewatch reporter asked Hammer how he got his job at Newsweek, and the opinion editor abruptly stopped talking. He asked the reporter to identify himself again. When the reporter did, Hammer’s expression slackened. He quickly claimed he did not know Peter Brimelow and left.

‘WHAT’S RACIST ABOUT PROJECT VERITAS?’

Multiple figures associated with Project Veritas, the hard-right propaganda group that engages in sting operations, attended the NYYRC gala. The group’s founder James O’Keefe and Project Veritas board member Matthew Tyrmand hobnobbed with NYYRC guests Saturday.

Legal trouble has entangled Project Veritas in recent months. Former associates sued Project Veritas in August, citing the creation of a “highly sexualized” work environment, which they claim included substance abuse and unpaid labor. (The group has denied these allegations.) In September, a jury in a civil case found that Project Veritas had “violated wiretapping laws and fraudulently misrepresented itself” during a sting operation targeting a group called Democracy Partners. The FBI raided O’Keefe’s home in November 2021 as part of an investigation into the alleged theft of a diary belonging to President Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley. (The group has claimed that they acted lawfully in obtaining the diary.)

Outside of the building on 583 Park Ave., O’Keefe argued with antifascist protesters, according to footage reviewed by Hatewatch. A different, self-described “independent video journalist” posted a series of clips to Twitter at 8:15 p.m., showing O’Keefe asking antifascist protesters on the corner of Park Avenue and 62nd Street, “What’s racist about Project Veritas?”

The same social media user posted a video to Twitter at 9:12 p.m. In it, O’Keefe could be seen standing on the street outside the venue alongside several other men, including Newsweek’s Hammer.

“Would you like to make a tax-deductible donation to Project Veritas?” O’Keefe asked the protesters.

Rudy Giuliani (center) chats with guests alongside radical right activist Lucian Wintrich (left) at the NYYRC gala on Dec. 10. (Photo by Michael Edison Hayden)

Hatewatch observed Project Veritas’s Tyrmand sitting at table #4, the one closest to the center of the stage, alongside Trump-world power players Steve Bannon and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani. A recent *New York Times* report named Tyrmand and Bannon as key U.S. figures in an effort to depict Brazil’s November presidential elections as being fraudulent, after voters in that country pushed hard-right favorite Jair Bolsonaro out of office. Tyrmand, who is known for his ties to the global radical right, took the stage and lauded the ultranationalist European leaders in attendance.

“This is an all-star room, and I urge all of you to meet everybody here and continue to spend time together, getting to know each other, so we can fight the battle, arm in arm,” Tyrmand said of the European extremists, including the contingents from Austria and Germany.

ALMOST MIDNIGHT

Donald Trump Jr. addresses the NYYRC gala on Dec. 10 in Manhattan. (Photo by Michael Edison Hayden)

Speakers including Trump Jr. and Greene sought to downplay the Republicans’ failure to secure a so-called “red wave” victory in the 2022 midterms by attacking such familiar right-wing targets as Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden and LGBTQ+ people.

“The party is in a pretty good spot, but America may not be getting it. We have a party right now that is actually delivering for the American people. But what we don’t have [is] our same people in Washington, who can make those things happen,” Donald Trump Jr. told the crowd after he came on stage.

Greene suggested eliminating Democrat members of House committees in her closing speech, as a way of shifting the tide of power in Washington. She also told the audience it was “almost midnight,” meaning they risked losing their country to perceived enemies.

Greene praised a Project Veritas video focused on LGBTQ+ education published by the group, saying it shows that teachers “pass around dildos, butt plugs and lube.” (The school issued a statement claiming “[Project] Veritas deceptively edited the video with malicious intent.”)

Greene expressed her gratitude to Project Veritas for their work.

“Thank you very much. We appreciate that,” she said to scattered applause.

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On Wednesday, December 21, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Joe Biden in the White House and gave an English-language speech during a joint session of Congress.

This was Zelenskyy’s first visit to the United States since Russian forces, on orders from President Vladimir Putin, launched an all-out invasion of Ukraine on February 21. During his speech before Congress, Vice President Kamala Harris and outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stood behind Zelenskyy while holding up a Ukrainian flag in solidarity with his country.

But some far-right MAGA Republicans were not happy to see Zelenskyy getting a warm reception from Biden, Harris, Pelosi and other Democrats. And libertarian/conservative journalist Cathy Young calls out those MAGA Republicans in a biting article published by The Bulwark on December 22 and headlined, “Putin’s Useful Idiots: Right Wingers Lose It Over Zelenskyy Visit.”

Young observes, “Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s surprise arrival in Washington on Wednesday for a meeting with President Joe Biden and a speech before Congress has unhinged the always-seething anti-Ukraine Trumpian right, triggering a deluge of snark and grievance…. ‘National conservative’ pundit and Newsweek opinion editor Josh Hammer, who played the ‘obviously, Putin is a thug and Ukraine is the victim here, but….’ game in the early days of the war, went full Putin this time around.”

Hammer, on December 21, tweeted, “Raise your hand if you are personally DONE with the Ukraine gravy train.” And Republican activist Donald Trump Jr., on Twitter, posted, “Zelenskyy is basically an ungrateful international welfare queen.”

“To top it off, Hammer, who shares Zelenskyy’s Jewish heritage, also accused the Ukrainian president of being a bad Jew — unseemly under any circumstances, but all the more so considering that only a few days earlier, Hammer had been spotted at a New York Young Republicans’ Club Gala in the company of various alt-right types with, shall we say, a complicated relationship to antisemitism,” Young writes. “Among them: Rep. Marjorie ‘Jewish Space Lasers’ Taylor Greene, the founders of the white nationalist website VDARE, and erstwhile Jew-baiting troll Jack Posobiec.”

Young notes that the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh said of Zelenskyy, “Get this grifting leech out of our country please,” while Fox News’ Tucker Carlson mocked Zelenskyy as a “Ukrainian strip club manager” and said of his visit to the U.S., “It may be impossible to imagine a more humiliating scenario for the greatest country on Earth.”

MAGA conspiracy theorist Benny Johnson and Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk slammed Zelenskyy for wearing casual attire during his speech before Congress.

Young writes, “A few other right-wing pundits, including career plagiarist-turned-conspiracy-theory-peddler Benny Johnson and Turning Point USA grifting leech Charlie Kirk, homed in on the really important stuff: Zelenskyy’s outfit…. Of course, Zelenskyy’s clothes were meant to visually convey the fact that he’s in the middle of a brutal war. When you’re just back from a visit to the front lines in an area that looks like a ghost warscape from World War I come back to life, you’ve earned the right to make that particular fashion statement — even on a visit to Washington, D.C.”

The libertarian/conservative journalist goes on to offer some reasons why many MAGA Republicans have such intense “hatred” for Zelenskyy.

“The question of why the Trumpian populist right is so consumed with hatred for Ukraine — a hatred that clearly goes beyond concerns about U.S. spending, a very small portion of our military budget, or about the nonexistent involvement of American troops — doesn’t have a simple answer, Young explains. “Partly, it’s simply partisanship: If the libs are for it, we’re against it, and the more offensively the better. And if the pre-Trump Republican establishment is also for it, then we’re even more against it. Partly, it’s the belief that Ukrainian democracy is a Biden/Obama/Hillary Clinton/‘Deep State’ project, all the more suspect because it’s related to Trump’s first impeachment.”

Young continues, “Partly, it’s the ‘national conservative’ distaste for liberalism — not only in its American progressive iteration, but in the more fundamental sense that includes conservatives like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: the outlook based on individual freedom and personal autonomy, equality before the law, limited government, and an international order rooted in those values. Many NatCons are far more sympathetic to Russia’s crusade against secular liberalism than to Ukraine’s desire for integration into liberal, secular Europe. Whatever the reason, the anti-Ukraine animus on the right is quite real and widespread.”

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jane orient had truly scary op ed ppl that day, incl yoo

random grab, i recog no names, signif?

THE DEBATE

R.R. Reno

Nationalism and Populism Are the GOP's Future

BY R.R. RENO

Charles C.W. Cooke

A Defense of Zombie Conservatism

BY CHARLES C.W. COOKE

OPINION

Abraham Cooper and Johnnie Moore

Nigeria Deserves the U.S.'s Tough Love on Religious Freedom

BY ABRAHAM COOPER AND JOHNNIE MOORE

Michal Cotler-Wunsh

Combating Double Standards Is the Key To Human Rights for All

BY MICHAL COTLER-WUNSH

Jonathan Tobin

Big Tech's Biden Administration Beachhead Is the Real Threat To Liberty

BY JONATHAN TOBIN

Ryan W. Davis

Guns and the Rural Vote

BY RYAN W. DAVIS

Smith and Smith

This Is Not Our First Pandemic

BY SARAH A. MORGAN SMITH AND BRIAN A. SMITH

Mark Joseph

Has a Great Pushback Begun in California?

BY MARK JOSEPH

alexander-je-hinkes

Young Adults Need and Deserve Special Provisions in the Stimulus Bill

BY MATHEW ALEXANDER, JESPER KE AND PHILIP HINKES

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https://www.mediamatters.org/fake-news/right-wing-disinformation-about-electoral-fraud-wisconsin-got-its-start-site-disguised

parker m

The march of election-related disinformation continues unabated. On Wednesday, an article published at a website called Milwaukee City Wire falsely claimed that a number of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, wards were reporting more votes than registered voters. Though untrue, the article spread widely across social media among supporters of President Donald Trump in search of evidence to back up baseless claims of widespread voter fraud.

Nothing about the numbers in the article added up. For example, the article claimed that voting ward 274 in Milwaukee was home to 640 registered voters, but received 1,290 votes, a turnout of an impossible 202%. The actual numbers, according to the Milwaukee County Clerk’s office, showed 611 out of 702 registered voters cast ballots.

On Thursday, Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe addressed this claim during a public briefing:

Every ballot cast in the state of Wisconsin has a paper audit trail. Every voter registration and absentee request is maintained and available during that public process. And to address some of the questions head-on, Wisconsin does not have more votes cast than registered voters. There were no absentee ballots found in the middle of the night. There were lawyers and observers from both parties on site and involved the entire time.

Wisconsin ABC affiliate WISN investigated the claims made in the City Wire article. When reporter Hillary Mintz reached City Wire publisher Brian Timpone, he tried to play it off as an honest mistake. When confronted with the fact that his numbers appeared to be completely invented, he defended the post and said, “The change in the records doesn't change the story's point materially at all.”

Milwaukee City Wire is part of a growing trend in which right-wing propaganda is packaged to look like it’s coming from a legitimate local news source.

The site is one of dozens of locally branded conservative content farm sites run by Timpone’s Metric Media. In October 2019, The New York Times reported on the sudden emergence of a number of Metric Media sites in Michigan in June of that year. Metric Media’s outlets often have anodyne-sounding names like The Kalamazoo Times, Waterford Today, and The Grand Rapids Reporter. If you didn’t know better, you would assume that these were the names of local newspapers -- this is by design.

The Columbia Journalism Review published its own profile of Metric Media and similar companies that December. CJR called these “pink slime” outlets, a reference to the meat byproduct often found in fast food-quality ground beef. The article criticized these entities as “partisan outlets masquerading as local news organizations” and a source of electoral disinformation.

Though the Milwaukee City Wire article was updated with more accurate information after WISN’s investigation, it had already served its purpose as a catalyst for right-wing conspiracy-mongering.

Josh Hammer, the editor of Newsweek’s increasingly right-wing opinion section and co-author of a note defending the once-respectable news outlet’s racist “birther” smear [eastman] aimed at Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris, was one of the fairly prominent Twitter users to share the article. Hammer has previously praised Trump’s attacks on institutions like legitimate news organizations, and shared articles making unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud.

Washington Examiner reporter Mike Brest shared the story on his Twitter account. Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley Strassel shared the story on Twitter, though she would later delete it, explaining that there were “discrepancies” between the fake story she shared and actual data. Unfortunately, other right-wing opportunists regurgitated the fictitious report in their own work, spreading it even further.

Pro-Trump former CNN commentator Jeffrey Lord posted a blog to his personal websitecentered around the story, incorrectly calling the false City Wire numbers “a data graph from the Milwaukee County Clerk,” which it assuredly was not. Fox News host Sean Hannity tweeted multiple links to Lord’s blog.

Another story that cited the City Wire story, written by Michael Anton at American Greatness, was tweeted out by Republican Party national spokesperson Elizabeth Harrington. Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of the anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List, tweeted out another version of Anton’s blog post published by the conservative Claremont Institute as well as the original City Wire story.

Predictably, dumbest man on the internet Jim Hoft cited the invented data in a post at his Gateway Pundit blog.

This surely won’t be the last time a “pink slime” news outlet is used to launder a narrative into the conservative media ecosystem, but it serves as a case study about how freely disinformation spreads online, leaving readers and reputable journalists to fight it.

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https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-f-brown/josh-hammer-hits-racist-note-newsweek

no lnx

Josh Hammer hits racist note at Newsweek

Michael F. Brown Media Watch 15 June 2020

Five men stand in front of statue of Andrew Jackson on horseback

Josh Hammer (far left) stands with friends in front of a statue of President Andrew Jackson. via Facebook

Josh Hammer is Newsweek’s new opinion editor. He has spent years stoking anti-Palestinian sentiment and is now fighting Black Lives Matter.

His Newsweek publishing choices – since his appointment last month – have excluded Palestinian voices and brought forward some of the most racist advocates for Israel in an attempt to normalize the extreme.

He is vigorously poking at the nation’s pained response to racist police. And he’s now fully on board with Donald Trump despite his calling presidential candidate Trump a “demagogic menace” in 2016.

Hammer’s philosophy apparently is “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” and cast aside your initial concern in a sea of self-delusion.

Or perhaps his guiding philosophy is “love it or leave it.”

This my way or the highway is no surprise from the man who hyped a Facebook photo of himself “paying homage” to a Trump favorite, US President Andrew Jackson who enslaved fellow humans and signed the Indian Removal Act.

Palestinians need not apply

Hammer now has the power to determine which Palestinian voices are heard at Newsweek – or if they’re heard at all. So far, he’s displayed a consistent anti-Palestinian bias.

When Hammer hosted a Newsweek debate on Israel’s planned annexation of a large chunk of the West Bank and then ran additional op-eds on the subject, not a single Palestinian writer was invited.

Caroline Glick, a far-right journalist and candidate in Israel’s April 2019 election, was at her apartheid-touting best. Michael J. Koplow from the Israel Policy Forum, an opponent of annexation, addressed the matter mostly by considering how it would affect Israel. Later, Aaron David Miller, who previously displayed a pro-Israel bias as a US negotiator, asserted his point of view about annexation.

Hammer has made plain that he supports annexation. He argues that “the Palestinians must admit defeat in their century-long civilizational jihad to destroy the Jewish state,” completely ignoring the fact that it is Israel that has dispossessed the Palestinians, confined them to isolated Bantustans and destroyed their territorial contiguity and connections to one another.

Samantha Mandeles and Paul Miller have weighed in for Newsweek on Hammer’s watch against the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS). Bradley Martin and Marc Schulman also addressed Israel-related matters.

Additionally, Hammer has invited in such promoters of Israeli war crimes as Colonel Richard Kemp (assaults on Gaza) and Eugene Kontorovich (illegal settlements) to discuss other matters.

Anti-Palestinian contributors Newt Gingrich and Boris Epshteyn weighed in on different issues as well.

Hammer provided space for anti-Palestinian bigot Yishai Fleisher to tout his apartheid plan, where he absurdly complained that annexed illegal settlements will be “tiny Jewish islands within a big, hostile Palestine.”

Newsweek should insist Hammer immediately expand his Rolodex or be fired – unless the magazine’s leadership supports their new opinion editor’s clear track record of excluding Palestinian voices.

Perhaps that’s why they hired him. His anti-Palestinian views were certainly no secret.

“No such thing as a Palestinian person”

In December 2016 Hammer announced that he was volunteering in a research capacity for The Lawfare Project, a pro-Israel group headed by Brooke Goldstein. Earlier in the year Goldstein stated, “There’s no such thing as a Palestinian person.”

Does Hammer also believe this bigoted view?

Even notorious Islamophobe and anti-Palestinian racist Daniel Pipes has accepted that there is a Palestinian people. Hammer disagreed with his “friend” Pipes last month when the latter wrote in The New York Times in opposition to Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank – albeit not without racism.

Shortly thereafter, however, he provided Pipes with op-ed space to make the case for voting for Trump. Unsurprisingly, Pipes makes reference to Trump “singularly supporting Israel.”

Such policies have helped Pipes move beyond his previous view of Trump as holding “neo-fascist tendencies.”

Many of his Resurgent articles are no longer accessible. How convenient.

Nakba denial

Hammer has a history of denying the reality of how Palestinians have been dispossessed. Last year he referred to the Nakba, the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine as “historically absurd.”

Writing for The Daily Wire, Hammer denies Palestinian history by declaring that “there was no ‘ethnic cleansing’ in 1948.”

He goes on to put the blame for the 1967 war solely on the Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser rather than acknowledging that Israel attacked first.

Hammer’s suppression of the history of 1948 and 1967 suggests that fact-checking opinion pieces will be an issue at Newsweek under his direction.

Even basic geography could be an issue. Hammer was so upset about Congresswoman Ilhan Omar saying she was going to Israel and Palestine that he changed – humorously to his mind – a quotation from her to say she was “traveling to Israel, including Judea and Samaria.”

Hammer is clearly all for Israel’s continued colonization of the West Bank. This raises a vital question: Does he support entrenching Israeli apartheid in the West Bank or providing voting rights and equal rights for Palestinians within the expanded one-state reality Israel has constructed?

The best that can be said about Hammer during his stint at Newsweek is that he did run such a view by Itamar Mann and Yael Berda on Palestinian voting rights, though the magazine needs to provide consistent space for Palestinians to make such arguments for freedom and equal rights for themselves.

Desperate smears

Hammer regards the first two Muslim women in the US Congress – Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib – as anti-Semites. In reality, they are far more supportive of equal rights for Palestinians and Jews than just about any other member of the US Congress (and Hammer for that matter).

Hammer also thinks, wrongly, that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dabbles in such bigotry because of her position on the BDS movement for Palestinian freedom and equal rights.

Such views from Hammer are deeply disturbing and hint at an underlying resentment of young women of color gaining power in the US Congress in an unprecedented manner following the 2018 election.

Hammer makes a frequent habit of trying to tear down the Palestinian-led BDS movement. He wrongly says of equal rights proponent Omar Barghouti that he is “a vile anti-Semite whose constant apologia for genocidal jihad and calls for the destruction of a core United States ally make him no friend whatsoever to the republic.”

Barring pressure, transformative pieces by Palestinians like Barghouti are unlikely to occur at Newsweek under Hammer due to his history of badmouthing BDS efforts and slamming professors for expressing their support for the movement.

Hammer has cheered on the Israeli military, which routinely engages in war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza.

And he denies a Palestinian right to any part of Jerusalem, whether occupied East Jerusalem or West Jerusalem from which thousands of Palestinians were expelled from their homes, writing on Facebook that it’s “always great to be back in the eternal and undivided capital of Israel.”

Law and order

Hammer’s preference for violent outcomes is not limited to Israel’s use of force against Palestinians. As a graduate of Duke University, a private southern university, he presumably knows that “law and order” is code for white control and subjugation of Black Americans.

Yet he employs the term “law and order” repeatedly. This is the sort of rhetoric that paves the way to police killing Black people.

He also chose “savage anarchy” as his descriptor on BlazeTV of street protests in Minneapolis. And he moved on to voicing support for public executions – apparently because if it was acceptable at the founding of the country then it should be again today – and expressed agreement when fellow guest Grant Stinchfield gushed support for (future) public floggings in Dallas, Texas.

Executions and floggings, in keeping with US history, would surely disproportionately target Black people. Hammer is also a proponent of stop and frisk, the racist policing policy touted by Mayor Mike Bloomberg in New York– up until his run for president.

In the midst of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations this month, Hammer decided to re-up Alan Dershowitz’s 2016 attack on the movement. Dershowitz had argued, “Black Lives Matter should rescind the portions of the platform that falsely accuse Israel of genocide and apartheid. If it does not, it risks ending in the dustbin of history, along with other discredited bigoted groups.”

During the largest anti-racism movement in recent memory, Hammer has seen fit to highlight an opinion piece that strives to take down the Black Lives Matter movement. This is troubling and sends a signal about what Newsweek thinks about such matters and the kind of journalist it sees fit to hire, namely one that stirs anti-Black animus rather than attempt to address long-running discrimination.

Hammer takes a similar approach in tweeting about Morton Klein, the head of the Zionist Organization of America, who has recently come under heavy criticism for racism and for an anti-Semitic tweet against George Soros, a frequent target of bigots. Klein tweeted on 6 June that Black Lives Matter was a “hate group,” alleging it was funded by Soros.

Hammer’s response? He found it to be “a sad tale” that “the oldest Zionist organization in America” may now be “too Zionist for institutionalized American Jewry.”

In other words, Hammer wants American Jews to be more Zionist and to do so they must be more racist. Furthermore, the racism must not merely target Palestinians, but Black people as well.

In the process, Jews such as Soros must be vilified. It’s hard to fathom a responsible opinion editor holding such views, but the tweet clearly points in this direction.

Hammer has been down this road before. In a hateful attack last November on presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, he claimed, “Every American Jew knows a Bernie Sanders in his/her personal life: Someone nominally born Jewish but is a hardline atheist, secularist and socialist who forsakes God, country and tradition alike.”

He then added, “These self-haters do not speak for proud American Jews and American Zionists.”

Hammer’s history of racist language, his take on Jews he views as “self-haters” and his clear bias against Palestinian writers during his first six weeks at Newsweek strongly indicate Newsweek has a problem on its hands.

Newsweek, for its part, is signaling it’s in accord with an opinion editor who harbors anti-Palestinian views and is actively promoting efforts to make life more difficult for Black Lives Matter anti-racist protesters.

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