Paul Joseph Watson
Paul Joseph Watson (born May 24, 1982 ), PJW for short , is a new right- wing British YouTuber , radio presenter, author and editor-at-large of Alex Jones ' conspiracy theoretic website Infowars.com .
life and career
Watson was born and raised in Sheffield , South Yorkshire , England . In an interview in November 2016, he stated that his youth were "not particularly normal" and that he exercised three hours a day and did not drink alcohol.
Watson is Editor-at-Large of Infowars.com , a conspiracy theoretic news site on the Internet. Watson also contributes to the Alex Jones Show , a radio program that he runs either alone or with other presenters, or with Alex Jones .
In the 2016 presidential election campaign , he spread false reports about the health problems of candidate Hillary Clinton . The structure and dissemination of these claims have been criticized in other media.
In February 2017, Watson launched an appeal offering to cover travel and accommodation costs for any journalist traveling to the allegedly “crime-ridden migrant suburbs” of Malmo . In February 2017, the $ 2,000 supported journalist Tim Pool traveled to Sweden to check media reports on alleged no-go areas and problems with refugees in the country. The occasion was a comment by US President Donald Trump about problems with migrant crime in Sweden.
Paul Joseph Watson operates a YouTube channel with over 1.7 million subscribers. At the beginning of May 2019, the Watson website was permanently blocked by Facebook .
Political positions
Watson has been described as a "right-wing commentator of the digital age". He most recently described himself as a libertarian and supported Ron Paul in the 2012 US presidential election . In a tweet in 2016, he stopped calling himself a libertarian because Gary E. Johnson had "made this name an embarrassment". In a post on Facebook , Watson described himself as a member of the “new right”, which he sees as separate from the old right . Watson sees himself as conservative and sees modern conservatism as a new counterculture .
Watson criticizes Islam , which for him is not a religion of peace. Based on media reports, statistics and opinion polls among Muslims, he described Islam as a violent, radical and intolerant religion that needed radical reform in order to be compatible with western liberal democracies . According to Watson, the wave of migrants imported a “culture of rape” into the West, referring to the Rotherham abuse scandal and similar series , with thousands of cases of gang sexual abuse of children and young people, child prostitution and human trafficking.
Although he spoke out for Trump in the 2016 presidential election, Watson announced in a tweet on April 6, 2017 that he was "officially no longer on the Trump train". He announced this after the president ordered the airstrike on the al-Shay'rat military airfield following the poison gas incident in Syria in April 2017 . Watson justified this by saying that the president broke his promise not to interfere in Syria. After noticing a drop in Twitter followers, he stated that he was "no longer on the Trump train on Syria." He announced in another tweet that he was now supporting Marine Le Pen of the Front National in the 2017 French presidential election . Since 2018 he has been a member of the EU-skeptical and right-wing populist UK Independence Party .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ An interview with Paul Joseph Watson ( en-GB ) In: The Tab Sheffield . November 7, 2016.
- ↑ Hamish Macbain: Are these the faces of London's young 'alt-right'? .
- ↑ Contact Information .
- ↑ Britain's extremist bloggers helping the 'alt-right' go global, report finds . Retrieved February 16, 2017.
- ^ The alt-right's take on Clinton's speech: Botched, but legitimizing .
- ↑ UGC and Social News team: Alt-right editor challenges journalists to visit Sweden .
- ↑ Paul Joseph Watson on Twitter .
- ↑ An interview with Paul Joseph Watson . November 7, 2016.
- ↑ Marie-Elise Worswick: Meet the pro-Trump YouTuber from Sheffield who's Impacting the US Election .
- ↑ Amber Jamieson: Conspiracy central: the activists painting Clinton as a sick, terrorist-friendly killer . 26th August 2016.
- ^ Harry Cheadle, How Conspiracy Theories About Hillary Clinton's Health Went Mainstream .
- ↑ Ben Collins: 'Is Hillary Dying' Hoax Started by Pal of Alex Jones . August 9, 2016.
- ↑ George Bowden: Paul Joseph Watson Comes Good On Twitter Offer To 'Investigate Malmo, Sweden, Crimes' , Huffington Post, February 21, 2017.
- ↑ Jessica Brown: The man sent to 'crime ridden' Sweden by a right-wing journalist has reported his findings , Independent, February 28, 2017.
- ^ Paul Joseph Watson , YouTube channel
- ↑ Welt.de: Facebook blocks accounts of ultra-right commentators
- ^ Examining the Right Wing British Blowhards Using YouTube to 'Prove Everybody Wrong' - VICE .
- ^ Conor Lynch: Donald Trump and the libertarians: Why have so many people who claim to love freedom embraced a strongman? .
- ^ Matt Pearce: The 'alt-right' splinters as supporters and critics agree it was white supremacy all along .
- ↑ Damien Walter: There's a very simple reason why the alt-right is not the new counterculture .
- ^ Anti-immigration politicians link London attack to migrant policy .
- ^ The Truth About Islam .
- ^ Josh Withey: Paul Joseph Watson in humiliating U-turn after losing hundreds of followers . In: indy100 . April 8, 2017. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
- ^ Max Greenwood: Syria strike disappoints Trump backers in media . In: The Hill . April 7, 2017. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
- ↑ Maya Oppenheim: Ukip gains 500 new members since allowing prominent far-right activists to join party . independent.co.uk , June 26, 2018, accessed August 12, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Watson, Paul Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | PJW, Paul Joseph; Infowars.com, Paul Joseph; Show, Alex Jones |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English-speaking conservative YouTuber, radio host, author and conspiracy theorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1982 |