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{{Short description|Far-right think tank focused on Islamic radicalism.}}{{distinguish|Gladstone Institutes}}{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2018}}

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| founder = Nina Rosenwald

• 733 3rd Ave
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• John R. Bolton
• Rebekah Mercer
• Amir Taheri
• R. James Woolsey

}}| product =| method =name=finances2021}}| revenue_year = 2021name=finances2021}}| expenses_year = 2021| endowment =| num_volunteers =| num_employees =| num_members =| subsid =| owner =| Non-profit_slogan =| homepage = {{official URL}}| dissolved =| remarks =}}{{Conservatism US|think tanks}}Gatestone Institute is an American conservative think tank based in New York City, known for publishing articles pertaining to U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, specifically with regard to Islamic extremism.{{efn|name=anti-Muslim bundle}}WEB,weblink Trump's National Security And State Department Picks Alarm American Muslims, Gjelten, Tom, April 6, 2018, NPR, WEB,weblink Germany's anti-fake news lab yields mixed results, Cerulus, Laurens, July 17, 2017, Politico, NEWS, Filkins, Dexter, 2019-04-29, John Bolton on the Warpath, en, The New Yorker,weblink 2019-05-02, 0028-792X, It was founded in 2012 by Nina Rosenwald, who serves as its president.{{efn|name=irs_found|organization founded in 2012 per IRS Form-990}}{{efn|name=pres_found|Rosenwald was the founding president in 2012 per IRS Form-990 yr2012}}WEB,weblink Nina Rosenwald, Gatestone Institute, September 24, 2013, WEB, Gatestone Institute - IRS Form-990 yr2012, 2023-07-28, 2013-08-13, ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer,weblink John R. Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and formerNEWS,weblink Times of Israel, TOI Staff, September 10, 2019, September 10, 2019, National Security Advisor, was its chairman from 2013 until March 2018. Its current chairman is Amir Taheri.WEB,weblink Board of Advisors, Gatestone Institute, 2013-09-21, The organization has attracted attention for publishing false or inaccurate articles, some of which were shared widely.NEWS, Przybyla, Heidi, John Bolton presided over anti-Muslim think tank,weblink July 11, 2019, NBC News, April 23, 2018, en, NEWS,weblink Arturo, Garcia, False: European Union Gag Order On Revealing Muslim Terrorists' Religion, November 18, 2016, Snopes.com, February 16, 2017, en-US, WEB,weblink John Bolton Chairs an Actual "Fake News" Publisher Infamous for Spreading Anti-Muslim Hate, Fang, Lee, March 23, 2018, The Intercept, en, March 24, 2018,

History

Gatestone Institute was founded by political activist Nina Rosenwald in 2012.{{efn|name=irs_found}}{{efn|name=pres_found}} The institute was founded by a parent organization that was itself founded in 2008 and which operated under two different names: "Hudson Institute New York" (not to be confused with the Hudson Institute) and Stonegate Institute.On January 1, 2012, the Institute’s name changed from "Hudson New York" to Stonegate Institute. WEB, Stonegate Institute,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120108183203weblink">weblink January 8, 2012, dead, Note to our readers: Unfortunately we have had to change our name again, but last time: Lawyers... What can one do? WEB,weblink Gatestone Institute: International Policy Council,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120323172447weblink">weblink March 23, 2012, dead, The Gatestone Institute's personnel include Nina Rosenwald (President), and Naomi H. Perlman (Vice President). Amir Taheri is the Chairman of Gatestone Europe. John R. Bolton, the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, served as Gatestone's chairman from 2013 to 2018, when he resigned to become National Security Advisor for President Donald Trump.WEB,weblink Former UN Ambassador John R. Bolton Joins Gatestone Institute as Chairman, July 17, 2013, Gatestone Institute, August 26, 2013, NEWS,weblink Trump's new national security adviser chairs a group that has spread false claims about Muslim refugees in Europe, Business Insider, April 7, 2018, en, Bolton was paid at least $310,000 by the organization. Its authors include Nonie Darwish, Alan Dershowitz, Raymond Ibrahim, Denis MacEoin, Daniel Pipes, Raheel Raza, Khaled Abu Toameh, Geert Wilders, Janusz Wójcik, Bat Ye'or, Josef Zbořil and Dexter Van Zile.WEB,weblink Authors: Gatestone Institute, Gatestone Institute, January 5, 2019, Geert Wilders, head of the Dutch Party for Freedom and a prominent critic of Islam who is listed as a Gatestone author, was on an RT broadcast last month saying Europe lacks strong political leaders like Russia's Vladimir Putin and Trump., Rebekah Mercer, a billionaire heiress known for her donations to right-wing causes, was listed as a member of the Board of Governors of Gatestone in April 2017. After the foreign policy-focused website LobeLog inquired about her role in the organization, Gatestone removed all information about her from their website. The IRS Form-990 filing for tax year 2017 did not list Rebekah Mercer as either a member of the board of trustees, an officer of the organization, or an employee.WEB, Gatestone Institute - IRS Form-990 yr2017, 2018-08-23, ProPublica - Nonprofit Explorer,weblink 2023-07-28, It was later revealed that Mercer Family Foundation (of which Rebekah Mercer is a key officer) gave $150,000 to Gatestone in 2014 and 2015.NEWS,weblink Rebekah Mercer Joins Board of Anti-Muslim Think Tank, April 13, 2017, LobeLog, March 24, 2018, en, Gatestone had a revenue of $2.3 million in 2016.Gatestone authors, including Geert Wilders, have appeared on Russian media, including Sputnik News and RT.

Content

Anti-Muslim bias

The Gatestone Institute has been frequently described as anti-Muslim,{{efn|name=anti-Muslim bundle}} regularly publishes false reports to stoke anti-Muslim fears,NEWS, Beauchamp, Zack, How John Bolton and Mike Pompeo mainstreamed Islamophobia,weblink August 11, 2018, Vox, April 23, 2018, and has published false stories pertaining to Muslims and Islam.NEWS,weblink Republican Officials Have Been Bashing Muslims. We Counted., BuzzFeed, April 10, 2018, en, Gatestone frequently warns of a looming "jihadist takeover" and "Islamization" of Europe, leading to a "Great White Death". Gatestone authors have a particular interest in Germany and Sweden, and frequently criticize leaders such as Macron and Merkel. The organization has been regarded as being part of the counter-jihad movement.JOURNAL, Donald Trump, the anti-Muslim far right and the new conservative revolution, Ed, Perwee, 2020, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 43, 16, 211–230, 10.1080/01419870.2020.1749688, 218843237, free, Gatestone has published the writings of Geert Wilders. It hosted a 2012 talk by Wilders and paid for a trip he made to the United States in 2016. Gatestone has been criticized for affiliating itself with Wilders, who says that he "hates Islam."WEB, The Sugar Mama of Anti-Muslim Hate,weblink Blumenthal, Max, Max Blumenthal, June 14, 2012, The Nation, April 8, 2017, August 28, 2019,weblink live, NEWS, Rightwing thinktank pulls funds for Commons groups after disclosure row,weblink The Guardian, NEWS, How Geert Wilders Became America's Favorite Islamophobe,weblink Foreign Policy, March 1, 2017, NEWS, Before Elections, Dutch Fear Russian Meddling, but Also U.S. Cash,weblink New York Times, March 7, 2017, Hakim, Danny, Schuetze, Christopher F., Alina Polyakova, a Brookings Institution fellow and expert on far-right populism, said that Gatestone's content "was clearly anti-immigrant" and "anti-Muslim".Policy analyst J. Dana Stuster of the National Security Network, writing in The Hill, criticized Gatestone as "paranoid" for claiming that immigration to Europe was "civilization jihad" and a "Muslim invasion".NEWS,weblink The paranoid style in Islamophobic politics, Stuster, J. Dana, December 14, 2015, The Hill, February 16, 2017, The Council on American-Islamic Relations has accused Gatestone's founder, Nina Rosenwald, of anti-Muslim bias. Muslim writers for the Gatestone Institute have defended the organization and Rosenwald against the claims by CAIR.WEB, Miller, Paul, Islamic Scholars Blast CAIR for Trapping Muslims Into a 'Trance of Victimhood',weblink observer.com, May 27, 2015, May 29, 2015, Zuhdi Jasser, founder and president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, said, "It goes without saying, but to those who may not know Nina, and having known her now for many years, it is clear to me that she has the highest respect for Muslims who love their faith, love God, and take seriously our Islamic responsibility to defeat the global jihad and its Islamist inspiration." Alan Dershowitz, a civil libertarian lawyer and retired academic who contributes to Gatestone, also defended the organization against charges of anti-Muslim bias.MAGAZINE, Dershowitz, Alan, Alan Dershowitz: NBC's McCarthyesque attack on John Bolton and the Gatestone Institute,weblink May 9, 2018, The Washington Examiner, May 9, 2018,

Inaccurate reports

Multiple viral anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim falsehoods originate from Gatestone.NEWS,weblink Bolton chaired nonprofit that shared false anti-Muslim news: report, Thomsen, Jacqueline, 2018-04-23, TheHill, 2018-08-02, en, WEB,weblink US charities fund fringe Islamophobia network — report {{!, DW {{!}} 06.05.2019|website=DW.COM|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-07-05}}In 2011 and 2012, Gatestone published articles claiming that Europe had Muslim "no-go zones", falsely describing them variously as "off-limits to non-Muslims" and "microstates governed by Islamic Sharia law".WEB, Jack Sommers, January 15, 2015, Huffington Post, France's 'No Go Muslim-Only' Zones Aren't What You Think They Are,weblink The claim that there are areas in European cities that are lawless and off limits to local police or governed by Sharia is false.NEWS, Carol, Matlack,weblink Debunking the Myth of Muslim-Only Zones in Major European Cities, January 14, 2015, Bloomberg.com, Gatestone's claims were picked up by many outlets, including FrontPageMag,WEB,weblink Misinformed expert or misinformation network?, David Miller, Tom Mills, January 14, 2015, openDemocracy, en, February 16, 2017, and The Washington Times. The idea of no-go zones originated from Daniel Pipes, who later retracted his claims.On November 18, 2016, Gatestone published an article that said the British Press had been ordered to avoid reporting the Muslim identity of terrorists by the European Union. Snopes rated the claim "false". Snopes pointed out that the report only made a recommendation and it was issued by the Council of Europe, not the European Union. Gatestone subsequently corrected the article and apologized for the error,NEWS, Mamou, Yves, Council of Europe Recommends British Press NOT Report when Terrorists are Muslims,weblink March 15, 2017, Gatestone Institute, November 18, 2016, dead,weblink February 6, 2017, before removing it entirely from its website.In 2017, Gatestone falsely claimed that 500 churches closed and 423 new mosques opened in London since 2001, and argued that London was being islamized and turning into "Londonistan".NEWS,weblink FACT CHECK: Did London Close 500 Churches and Open 423 New Mosques?, Snopes.com, March 24, 2018, en-US, According to Snopes, Gatestone used "shoddy research and cherry-picked data." Specifically, Gatestone only counted churches that closed but not churches that opened; data for the period 2005-2012 alone show that 700 new churches opened in London.In 2017, Gatestone ran a story about high Muslim fertility rates, headlined "Muslims Tell Europe: 'One Day This Will All Be Ours.'" However, no Muslim said the quote in question. The quote came from a French Catholic bishop who claimed that this was something that Muslims had told him.WEB,weblink How Anti-Muslim Propaganda Travels From Europe To North America To Trump's Twitter Account, BuzzFeed News, July 9, 2018, en, 2019-07-12, The misleadingly headlined article was widely distributed on Facebook, and its claims were repeated by other conservative websites.The Gatestone Institute published false articles during the 2017 German federal election.WEB,weblink Islamophobic U.S. Megadonor Fuels German Far-Right Party With Viral Fake News, Fang, Lee, September 22, 2017, The Intercept, en-US, October 6, 2017, A Gatestone article, shared thousands of times on social media, including by senior German far-right politicians, claimed that vacant homes were being seized in Germany to provide housing solutions for "hundreds of thousands of migrants from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East."NEWS,weblink Nein, in Hamburg werden keine Wohnungsbesitzer für Flüchtlinge enteignet, May 17, 2017, CORRECTIV, October 6, 2017, de, The German fact-checker Correctiv.org found that this was false; a single house was placed in temporary trusteeship, and had nothing to do with refugees whatsoever. Gatestone also cross-posted a Daily Mail article, which, according to BuzzFeed News, "grossly mischaracterized crime data" concerning crime by refugees in Germany.NEWS,weblink Hyperpartisan Sites And Facebook Pages Are Publishing False Stories And Conspiracy Theories About Angela Merkel, BuzzFeed, October 6, 2017, en,

Finances

Finances for the fiscal year ending 31 December 2021{{efn|name=finances2021|finances as shown on IRS Form-990 yr2021}}(the latest available) consist of: revenue of $1,735,770; expenses of $1,843,048; and donations of $1,737,014.WEB, Gatestone Institute - IRS Form-990 yr2021, 2023-07-28, 2022-11-08, ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer,weblink

See also

• List of think tanks in the United States
• Mercer Family Foundation

Notes

{{notelist|refs={{efn|name=anti-Muslim bundle| Sources describing it as anti-Muslim or anti-Islam include:

• NEWS,weblink John Bolton chaired anti-Muslim think tank, NBC News, April 23, 2018, en-US,
• WEB,weblink FreeTommy – the making of a far-right English 'martyr', Townsend, Mark, 2018-07-29, The Guardian, en, 2018-08-02,
• WEB, The Sugar Mama of Anti-Muslim Hate,weblink Blumenthal, Max, Max Blumenthal, June 14, 2012, The Nation, April 8, 2017, August 28, 2019,weblink live,
• WEB,weblink China's Most Popular App Is Full of Hate, Huang, Frankie, Foreign Policy, November 27, 2018, en-US, 2019-12-07,
• NEWS, Sampathkumar, Mythili, US national security adviser John Bolton was chairman of 'anti-Muslim' think tank,weblink 11 August 2018, The Independent,
• NEWS,weblink How Anti-Muslim Propaganda Travels From Europe To North America To Trump's Twitter Account, BuzzFeed, 2018-07-10,
• NEWS, Beauchamp, Zack, How John Bolton and Mike Pompeo mainstreamed Islamophobia,weblink August 11, 2018, Vox, April 23, 2018,
• NEWS, US National Security Advisor John Bolton Runs a Think Tank Claiming Europe is Becoming a Caliphate,weblink 11 August 2018, Al Bawaba, Syndigate.info, 27 March 2018, en, In combining fake reports about sharia courts and claims that the Muslim Brotherhood wants a single, global caliphate, the articles stokes Western nativist fears that Europe is being engulfed in a political Islam that will purge society and replace it with a dystopian one under the banner of Islam.,
• NEWS, Goodstein, Laurie, Pompeo and Bolton Appointments Raise Alarm Over Ties to Anti-Islam Groups,weblink 11 August 2018, The New York Times, April 6, 2018, en, Mr. Bolton is chairman of the Gatestone Institute, a think tank that regularly features articles on its website promoting the notion that pliant European countries, especially Britain, are submitting to "Islamization" by hostile Muslim migrants.,
• NEWS, Levitz, Eric, John Bolton and the Anti-Muslim Bigotry of Mainstream Conservatism,weblink 11 August 2018, Daily Intelligencer, New York Magazine, March 27, 2018, en,

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