Joel B. Pollak is editor-in-chief and in-house counsel at Breitbart News. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, he also has a degree in Jewish Studies from the University of Cape Town. He ran for Congress in 2010 in his hometown of Skokie, IL and worked as a Research Fellow at the Hudson Institute, as well as speechwriter to the Leader of the Opposition in the South African Parliament. He enjoys improv comedy, rock 'n' roll, and the literature of liberal apostates and iconoclasts. His wife Julia is a Ph.D. Fellow at the Pardee Rand Graduate School and his daughter Maya is unbelievably cute.
About that "moderate," "reformist" Hassan Rouhani:
17 Jun 2013
Eliana Johnson of National Review Online reports that Cincinnati-based IRS agent Gary Muthert told the House Oversight Committee that the IRS does, in fact, subject pro-Israel tax-exempt groups to higher scrutiny--by sending their applications to a special IRS unit that investigates them for ties to terrorism.
17 Jun 2013
Though he ran as the anti-war candidate, and took office with an outstretched hand to America's rivals, the course President Barack Obama has set may lead to a direct war with Iran, whether he likes it or not. That is because the ambitions of the Iranian regime--geopolitical hegemony over the Middle East, and the millenarian fantasies of militant Shia Islam--are fundamentally at odds with core American interests.
16 Jun 2013
On Sunday's edition of Global Public Square, CNN's Fareed Zakaria invited Mona Eltahawy to offer her perspective on the anti-government protests in Turkey and the rights of women in the Muslim world. It is unclear what qualifies Eltahawy as an authority on rights of any kind, since she is currently being prosecuted for defacing a poster on the New York City subway that she happened to dislike--a crime of which she is proud.
16 Jun 2013
I'm on record in favor of intervening in Syria, in the form of a no-fly zone. (We should have intervened early, if at all.) But I'm against arming the Syrian rebels, who are dominated by radical Islamists and jihadists. In that vein, a friendly reminder to the Obama administration about the federal law about arming terrorist groups:
14 Jun 2013
With the announcement Thursday that the U.S. will send weapons to rebel forces in the Syrian civil war, President Barack Obama's hypocrisy on war is now complete.
14 Jun 2013
The NSA and Prism scandals have exposed deepening fault lines within the Republican Party on national security and foreign policy. On the pages of the Wall Street Journal, in the back-and-forth of the conservative blogosphere, and in cantankerous interviews with Fox News, the two sides of the debate are not so much debating as talking past each other, unified only by the satisfaction of seeing Barack Obama exposed as a hypocrite.
13 Jun 2013
After a contentious and occasionally violent debate lasting decades, Israel has finally agreed to expand the women's prayer section at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, so that it is as big as the men's prayer section. Yet opposition from the Palestinian Authority to any changes in the area may block the plan.
13 Jun 2013
At a closed-door event in New York City with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Tuesday evening, former President Bill Clinton suggested that President Barack Obama should ignore public opposition to U.S. intervention in Syria and give rebel groups "a decent chance" of winning their war against the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
13 Jun 2013