Daniel Pipes

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Daniel Pipes (2008)

Daniel Pipes (born September 9, 1949 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American historian and political publicist . He is the founder and director of the Middle East Forum and Campus Watch. In the 1980s he worked at the University of Chicago , among others . Pipes represents republican and pro-Israeli theses and has been criticized for his anti-Islamic statements and his support for European right-wing populists .

Life and professional history

Pipes is the son of Harvard historian Richard Pipes and Irene Eugenia Roth. Pipes' father of Jewish origin emigrated with his family from German-occupied Poland to the USA in 1939. Daniel Pipes was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1949 and grew up mostly in Cambridge, Massachusetts .

Pipes graduated from Harvard in 1971 with a degree in history and received his doctorate in 1978. He studied abroad for six years, including in Egypt . He then taught at several universities in the United States, including the University of Chicago from 1978 to 1982. Pipes also worked for the United States Department of State and Defense. He is a member of the US Department of Defense's Special Task Force on Terrorism and Technology.

From 1986 to 1993, Pipes was director of the conservative think tank Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia. Pipes founded the Middle East Forum in 1990 and Campus Watch in 2002 . Today he works as a director for these organizations, which claim to work for US interests in the Middle East and against anti-Americanism.

He is a regular columnist for the New York Sun and The Jerusalem Post . He has published in the Washington Post , the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal , among others . His blog is one of the most widely read on Islam and the Middle East . He appears frequently as a Middle East expert on US television and is invited by universities and think tanks .

In 2003 US President George W. Bush appointed Pipes to the board of directors of the United States Institute of Peace against opposition from the Senate Democrats . In 2005 he resigned from its board.

In 2008 he worked as an advisor to the Republican Rudolph Giuliani presidential campaign.

Pipes is an advisor to the right-wing Danish blog Free Press Society .

Pipes' Middle East Forum paid the Dutch right-wing populist Geert Wilders , who was on trial in the Netherlands in 2010 and 2011 for sedition , a six-figure sum for legal fees and court costs.

In 2010 Pipes traveled to Germany and participated in the founding of the right-wing populist, anti-Islamic party Die Freiheit in Berlin . Pipes also finances the right-wing website Journalistenwatch founded by Thomas Böhm through the Middle East Forum .

Positions

From the point of view of the US civil rights organization Southern Poverty Law Center, Pipes can be regarded as a "longtime anti-Muslim activist and thought leader" ( long-standing anti-Islamic activist and thought leader ).

He appears as a sharp critic of Islamic organizations in the USA, v. a. of the Council on American-Islamic Relations , which he has political proximity to Islamism and z. T. accused of terrorism . Pipes also claims that the majority of lecturers at the Middle East Centers in the United States are anti-American and anti-Israeli .

With regard to the Middle East conflict , he takes strong pro-Israeli positions and speaks out against political concessions by Israel. He calls for the total defeat of the Palestinians, since, according to his statement, the Palestinians will otherwise not recognize the Israeli state and want to destroy it. He is critical of the US-American alliance with “moderate” regimes in the Islamic world.

Pipes also received greater attention during the American election campaign in 2008, in which Pipes repeatedly suggested that Barack Obama could be a secretly practicing Muslim and was at least in the past. The statements were adopted in FrontPage Magazine, NewsMax and Fox News Network, among others . Pipes sees this as confirmed by Obama's presidency, as Obama said in a speech "The United States is a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and non-believers," which, in Pipes' view, placed Muslims in the foreground.

In terms of foreign policy, he is seen as a falcon who demands a tough course against Iran , including the possibility of a military strike. In February 2010, he called on Barack Obama in the Welt Online column to attack Iran in order to “destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons” and thus improve his polling figures in the US on domestic and foreign policy failures.

In his view, Saudi Arabia has an immense political influence in the USA up to the highest levels of government, so that the White House should rather be called the “White Tent”, although he also sees an influence of the oil lobby as the cause.

Publications (selection)

  • Conspiracy: Fascination and Power of the Secret , Munich 1998, ISBN 3-932425-08-1
  • Miniatures: Views of Islamic and Middle Eastern Politics (2003), Transaction Publishers, ISBN 0-7658-0215-5
  • Militant Islam Reaches America (2002), WW Norton & Company; paperback (2003) ISBN 0-393-32531-8
  • with Abdelnour, Z. (2000): Ending Syria's Occupation of Lebanon: The US Role , Middle East Forum, ISBN 0-9701484-0-2
  • In the Path of God: Islam and Political Power (2002), Transaction Publishers, ISBN 0-7658-0981-8
  • Muslim immigrants in the United States (Backgrounder) (2002), Center for Immigration Studies
  • The Long Shadow: Culture and Politics in the Middle East (1999), Transaction Publishers, ISBN 0-88738-220-7
  • The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy (1997), Palgrave Macmillan; paperback (1998) ISBN 0-312-17688-0
  • Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From (1997), Touchstone; paperback (1999) ISBN 0-684-87111-4
  • Syria Beyond the Peace Process (Policy Papers, No. 41) (1995), Washington Institute for Near East Policy, ISBN 0-944029-64-7
  • Sandstorm (1993), Rowman & Littlefield, paperback (1993) ISBN 0-8191-8894-8
  • The Rushdie Affair: The Novel, the Ayatollah, and the West (1990), Transaction Publishers, paperback (2003) ISBN 0-7658-0996-6
  • Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition (1990), Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-506021-0
  • Slave Soldiers and Islam: The Genesis of a Military System (1981), Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-02447-9

Awards

In 2006 Pipes received the Guardian of Zion Award from Bar Ilan University .

Web links

Commons : Daniel Pipes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nico Schmidt: "Journalistenwatch": The America Connection of the New Right . In: The time . December 17, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed January 31, 2018]).
  2. ^ Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs hosts anti-Muslim figure Daniel Pipes . In: Southern Poverty Law Center . ( splcenter.org [accessed January 31, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Claus Leggewie: Anti-Europeans: Breivik, Dugin, al-Suri & Co. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 2016.
  4. ↑ Sabine Schiffer: Limitless hatred on the Internet. As “Islam-critical” activists argue in weblogs . In: Thorsten Gerald Schneiders (Ed.): Islamophobia. When the lines of criticism blur. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, p. 355-376 .
  5. ↑ Eyal Press: Neocon one: Daniel Pipes has made his name inveighing against at academy overrun by political extremists. , The Nation . May 2004. Archived from the original on November 13, 2007. Retrieved August 17, 2007. 
  6. ↑ a b The Watchers: The Middle East Conflict Continues in America's Universities , by Petra Steinberger , Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 2, 2002, (article on Campus Watch , on campus-watch.org)
  7. ^ Giuliani style evokes concern among critics . In: Reuters , November 19, 2007. 
  8. ↑ a b c Journalistenwatch - The America Connection of the New Right. , by Nico Schmidt, Die Zeit , December 17, 2017
  9. ^ Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs hosts anti-Muslim figure Daniel Pipes . In: Southern Poverty Law Center . ( splcenter.org [accessed January 31, 2018]).
  10. ↑ deputy Pentagon ( Memento of 23 May 2006 at the Internet Archive ), by Daniel Gerlach, zenithonline.de , August 26, 2004
  11. ^ FrontPage Magazine in the English language Wikipedia
  12. ↑ NewsMax in the English language Wikipedia
  13. ^ Pipes: Barack Obama and Islam: An Ongoing Saga , danielpipes.org, January 20, 2009
  14. ↑ Barack Obama should bomb Iran . ( Memento from February 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: welt.de
  15. ↑ The Islamic debate in the West is primitive . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 10, 2010. Interview: Ramon Schack
personal data
SURNAME Pipes, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts