Nativism

The Boston Bombings and the Threat of Far-Right Violence

In the United States, our collective memory has been lastingly damaged by the wreckage of the Oklahoma City bombing and by 9/11. The latter most certainly dominates our psyche, as 9/11 exposed to us both the immense cruelty of bin … Continued

Pamela Geller Continues Anti-Islam Campaign Despite Dwindling Support

Over the past several weeks, advertisements featuring images of the September 11 terrorist attacks, Al-Qaeda representatives, and other Islamic extremists have been displayed in public transportation stations and buses in several U.S. cities including Washington D.C., Chicago, and San Francisco. … Continued

Immigration

Attacks on Fourteenth Amendment Cloaked in Fear of “Birth Tourism”

Rock Center recently aired a segment on what it called birth tourism, the practice of wealthy foreigners, reportedly most popular among Chinese, South Korean and Turkish families, who come to the U.S. on tourist visas to deliver their babies. Their … Continued

Nativism Watch

Breibart News Network Hosts “Uninvited” CPAC Panel

Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller and Frank Gaffney have long argued that the Obama administration and the “liberal media” have sold out to the Muslim Brotherhood. Saturday, all three redoubled their allegations that conservative leaders are guilty of the same. The … Continued

Immigration

CIS Head Defends Fringe Population Control Leader

Last week, Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), went out on a limb to defend Phil Cafaro, Board President of the deceptively-named anti-immigrant organization, Progressives for Immigration Reform. “I’ve met Phil Cafaro and he strikes … Continued

Word Choice: How FAIR Helped Transform “Population Control” into “Immigration Restriction”

In December of 1995, according to the Bergen Record, Donald Mann opened an office in Washington, DC for his population control organization, Negative Population Growth (NPG). Tasked with running the office was someone named Sharon Stein, “a veteran Washington consultant … Continued