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{{Short description|American activist, blogger, commentator}}
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| name = Pamela Geller | name = Pamela Geller
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| caption = Geller in 2011
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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1958}}<ref name="nytimes1">{{cite web|author1=Barnard, Anne|author2=Feuer, Alan|date=October 8, 2010|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/nyregion/10geller.html?pagewanted=all|title=Outraged, and Outrageous|work=]}}</ref>
| caption = Geller in 2011
| birth_place = ], ], U.S.<ref name="jewish week 2010-09-01">{{cite web |author=Chandler, Doug |url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new_york/passions_and_perils_pamela_geller |title=The Passions (And Perils) Of Pamela Geller |work=] |date=September 1, 2010 |access-date=September 14, 2010 |archive-date=September 18, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918002005/http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new_york/passions_and_perils_pamela_geller |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| birth_date ={{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1958|06|14}}<ref name="nytimes1">Barnard, Anne; Feuer, Alan (October 8, 2010). . '']''.</ref>
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| birth_place = ], ], ]<ref name="jewish week 2010-09-01">{{cite web|author=Chandler, Doug |url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new_york/passions_and_perils_pamela_geller |title=The Passions (And Perils) Of Pamela Geller |work=] |date=September 1, 2010 |accessdate=September 14, 2010}}</ref>
| known_for = Opposition to ] community center and mosque
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| residence = ], ], US<ref name="nytimes1"/> | alma_mater = ]; left before completing degree<ref name="nytimes1" />
| occupation = Political activist, commentator, former newspaper editor
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| spouse = Michael Oshry (1990–2007; divorced)<ref name="nytimes1"/>
| other_names = Pamela Oshry
| children = 4<ref name="TDB 28 Feb 2018">{{cite news|last1=Lorenz|first1=Taylor|title=The Instagram Stars Hiding Their Famous, Muslim-Hating Mom, Pamela Geller|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-instagram-stars-hiding-their-famous-muslim-hating-mom-pamela-geller|access-date=20 May 2018|website=]|date=28 February 2018}}</ref><ref name="WAPO 1 Mar 2018">{{cite news|last1=Polus|first1=Sarah|title=Controversial activist Pamela Geller outed as mother of Insta-stars Claudia and Jackie Oshry|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/03/01/anti-muslim-activist-pamela-geller-outed-as-mother-of-insta-stars-claudia-and-jackie-oshry/|access-date=20 May 2018|newspaper=]|date=1 March 2018}}</ref>
| known_for = Opposition to ] community center and mosque
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| alma_mater = ]; left before completing degree<ref name="nytimes1" />
| website = {{URL|pamelageller.com}}
| organization = Co-founder of Freedom Defense Initiative and ]<ref name=HuffPo20130328>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/28/islamic-apartheid-ads-mta-pamela-geller_n_2973229.html|title='Islamic Apartheid' Ads Submitted To MTA By Pamela Geller in Response To Pro-Palestinian Ads|newspaper=Huffington Post|date=March 28, 2013|accessdate=May 6, 2013}}</ref>
| notable_works =''The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America'', with ]<ref name = Obamabook/>
| occupation = Political activist, commentator, former newspaper editor
| home_town = ]<ref name="nytimes1"/>
| spouse =Michael Oshry <small>(1990–2007; divorced)</small><ref name="nytimes1"/>
| children = 4
| parents = Reuben and Lillian Geller<ref name="nytimes1"/>
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'''Pamela Geller''' (born 1958) is an American ], ] political activist, blogger and commentator.<ref name="nytimes1"/> Geller promoted ] conspiracy theories about President ], saying that he was born in Kenya<ref name="Kenya">{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/how-a-series-of-fringe-anti-muslim-conspiracy-theories-went-mainstream--via-donald-trump/2016/11/05/7c366af6-8bf0-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html|title=How a series of fringe anti-Muslim conspiracy theories went mainstream — via Donald Trump|date=2016|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> and that ].<ref name=":5">{{Cite news|url=https://nationalpost.com/news/world/meet-pamela-geller-the-wealthy-housewife-turned-blogger-who-organized-the-texas-muhammad-cartoon-contest|title=Meet Pamela Geller, the wealthy housewife who organized the Texas cartoon contest {{!}} National Post|last1=News|last2=World|newspaper=National Post |date=2015-05-04|language=en-CA|access-date=2019-07-08}}</ref>
'''Pamela Geller''' (born June 14, 1958)<ref>''U.S. Public Records Index'' Vol 1 & 2 (Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.</ref> is an American political activist<ref name=Huff20130620/> and commentator. She is known for her opposition to radical Islamic activities and causes, such as the proposed construction of an ] near the former site of the ]. She says her blogging and campaigns in the United States are against what she terms "creeping ]" in the country. She is described as a critic of ]<ref name=ts130505>{{cite news|url=http://www.torontosun.com/2013/05/01/york-regional-police-threaten-rabbis-role-as-chaplain-over-pamela-geller-speech|title=York Regional Police threaten rabbi's role as chaplain over Pamela Geller speech|newspaper=Toronto Sun|date=May 1, 2013|accessdate=May 5, 2013|first= Terry |last= Davidson}}</ref> and self-described as ].<ref name="nytimes1"/>


In 2006, Geller reproduced the controversial Danish cartoons of Muhammad ] newspaper on her blog.<ref name="nytimes1"/> She came to further prominence in 2010 for leading the campaign against the proposed ] Islamic community center, which Geller called the "Ground Zero Mega Mosque."<ref name="elliott">{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/news/ground_zero_mosque/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/08/16/ground_zero_mosque_origins|title=How the 'ground zero mosque' fear mongering began – Park51, Muslim Community Center and mosque in Lower Manhattan|date=August 16, 2010|work=Salon|access-date=September 14, 2010}}</ref><ref name="UntoldStory">{{cite web|url=http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/religion_theseeker/2010/08/untold-story-behind-the-mosque-at-ground-zero.html|title=The Seeker: Untold story behind the so-called 'Ground Zero mosque'|date=August 20, 2010|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=September 14, 2010}}</ref> She is the president of ] (also known as the American Freedom Defense Initiative), an anti-Muslim group which she co-founded with ]. Since 2013, she has bought anti-Muslim ads on public transit networks in various cities. She has also denied ]s where Muslims were victims, including the ] and the ].<ref name="guardian">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/20/rightwing-blogs-islam-america|title=The US blogger on a mission to halt 'Islamic takeover{{'-}}|last=McGreal|first=Chris|date=August 20, 2010|work=]|location=London|access-date=August 21, 2010}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-american-far-right-asks-what-rohingya-ethnic-cleansing|title=The American Far Right Asks: What Rohingya Ethnic Cleansing?|last=Woodruff|first=Betsy|date=2017-11-13|access-date=2019-07-08|language=en}}</ref> The British government barred Geller's entry into the UK in 2013, citing her anti-Muslim activism, and saying her presence would “not be conducive to the public good.” She has been targeted in an assassination attack by Islamic fundamentalists.
She is currently the president of the ] which she co-founded with ].<ref name=r150504/><ref name="sioaonline1">{{cite web|url=http://sioaonline.com/?page_id=153 |title=Contact|publisher=Stop Islamization of America |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20100817064516/http://sioaonline.com/?page_id=153|archivedate=August 17, 2010 |accessdate=September 14, 2010|deadurl=no}}</ref> She and Spencer co-authored the book ''The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America'' in 2010.<ref name= Obamabook>{{cite book |last1= Geller |first1= Pamela |first2=Robert |last2=Spencer |title= The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America |publisher= ] |date=July 2010 |isbn= 978-1-4391-8930-6 |url = http://books.google.com/?id=9RR2MyoDwBAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Pamela+Geller%22#v=onepage&q&f=false}}</ref>


Geller launched her first blog, ''Atlas Shrugs'', in 2004. It was succeeded by the ''Geller Report''. Both websites have been known for promoting falsehoods and conspiracy theories.
==Personal life==
Geller is the third of four sisters born to the ]<ref name=ja130510 /> family of Reuben, a textile manufacturer, and Lillian Geller.<ref name="nytimes1"/> She grew up in ], in ]'s ].<ref name= Weiss>{{cite book|first= Gary |last= Weiss| url= http://books.google.com.au/books?id=oJVLHvEPdrQC&pg=PA128 |title= Ayn Rand Nation: The Hidden Struggle for America's Soul| publisher= Macmillan| year= 2012}}</ref>{{rp|136}} She helped out in her father's business, where she learned to speak fluent ].<ref name="papa">{{cite web|url=http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/06/papa.html|title=Papa|work=Atlas Shrugs|date=June 21, 2009|accessdate=September 15, 2010}}</ref> Two of her sisters became doctors, and the third became a teacher.<ref name="nytimes1"/>

Geller attended ] and ], though she left before completing her degree.<ref name="nytimes1"/>


==Early life==
She was married to Michael Oshry from 1990 until the couple divorced in 2007, and is the mother of four children.<ref name="nytimes1"/> {{As of|April 2013}} she was living in ], New York.<ref name=nd130408>{{cite news|url=http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/blogger-involved-in-ground-zero-mosque-controversy-to-speak-in-great-neck-1.5033720|title=Blogger involved in 'Ground Zero mosque' controversy to speak in Great Neck|work=Newsday|date=April 8, 2013|accessdate=February 21, 2014|first= Bart |last= Jones}}</ref>
Geller is the third of four sisters born to a ] family; her father, Reuben Geller, is a textile manufacturer, and her mother is Lillian Geller.<ref name="nytimes1"/><ref name=ja130510>{{cite news|url=http://www.thejewishadvocate.com/news/2013-05-10/Charles_Jacobs/Pamela_Geller_Jewish_heroine.html|title=Pamela Geller, Jewish heroine|date=May 10, 2013|first=Charles|last=Jacobs|newspaper=The Jewish Advocate|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130712100045/http://www.thejewishadvocate.com/news/2013-05-10/Charles_Jacobs/Pamela_Geller_Jewish_heroine.html|archive-date=July 12, 2013|df=mdy-all}}</ref> She grew up in ], on ]'s ].<ref name=Weiss>{{cite book|first=Gary |last=Weiss| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oJVLHvEPdrQC&pg=PA128 |title=Ayn Rand Nation: The Hidden Struggle for America's Soul| publisher=Macmillan| year=2012|isbn=9781429950787}}</ref>{{rp|136}} She helped out in her father's business, where she learned to speak fluent ].<ref name="papa">{{cite web|url=http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/06/papa.html|title=Papa|work=Atlas Shrugs|date=June 21, 2009|access-date=September 15, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727192954/http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/06/papa.html|archive-date=July 27, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> Two of her sisters became doctors, and the third became a teacher.<ref name="nytimes1"/> Geller attended ] and ], leaving before she completed her degree.<ref name="nytimes1" />


==Career== ==Career==
Geller spent most of the 1980s working at the '']'', first as a financial analyst and then in advertising and marketing.<ref name = "QueenHP">{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/20/pamela-gellerqueen-of-mus_n_689709.html |title=Pamela Geller, 'Queen Of Muslim Bashers,' At Center Of N.Y. 'Mosque' Debate|first=Daniel|last=Burke|agency=Religion News Service|work=The Huffington Post |date=May 25, 2011 |origyear=2010 |accessdate=January 12, 2012}}</ref> Subsequently she was associate publisher of '']'' from 1989 through 1994.<ref>{{cite news|title=New Editor Named for Observer | url=http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/10/nyregion/new-editor-named-for-observer.html |work=] |date=10 May 1994 |accessdate=September 14, 2010}}</ref>


=== Media ===
In a '']'' interview, Geller attributed the advent of her political consciousness to the ].<ref name= VV121128/> She created a blog called ''Atlas Shrugs'' in 2004. (The title of the blog recalls '']'', a novel by ].) The blog gained thousands of readers in 2006 when Geller reprinted the controversial cartoons of Muhammad originally published in the ].<ref name="nytimes1"/> In 2007, her campaign against an Arabic language public school in Brooklyn played "an important role" in the resignation of its principal, ].<ref name="nytimes1"/>
During most of the 1980s, Geller worked at the '']—''first as a financial analyst, and then in advertising and marketing.<ref name="QueenHP">{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/20/pamela-gellerqueen-of-mus_n_689709.html |title=Pamela Geller, 'Queen Of Muslim Bashers', At Center Of N.Y. 'Mosque' Debate|first=Daniel|last=Burke|agency=Religion News Service|work=The Huffington Post |date=May 25, 2011 |orig-year=2010 |access-date=January 12, 2012}}</ref> Subsequently, she was associate publisher of '']'' from 1989 through 1994.<ref>{{cite news|title=New Editor Named for Observer | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/10/nyregion/new-editor-named-for-observer.html |work=] |date=May 10, 1994 |access-date=September 14, 2010}}</ref> In a '']'' interview, Geller indicated that she had only become political since the ],<ref name="VV121128">{{cite news|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2012/11/28/pamela-gellers-war/|title=Pamela Geller's War|last=Howard|first=Greg|date=November 28, 2012|newspaper=The Village Voice|access-date=June 10, 2019}}</ref> after which she began reading authors on Islam such as ] and ], saying she "spent years studying the matter before I started blogging."<ref name="jewish week 2010-09-01"/>


=== Political activism ===
In 2010 Geller co-founded the ] organization (FDI) with ].<ref name="nytimes1"/> She also co-authored a book with Spencer, ''The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America'' (published in July 2010).<ref name= Obamabook/> The book criticizes the ]'s treatment of the free-market system, freedom of speech, and foreign policy. She is also a contributor to the conservative magazine '']''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Pamela Geller| work= ]| accessdate=February 16, 2012 | url=http://www.humanevents.com/search.php?author_name=Pamela+Geller}}</ref>
Geller created a blog called ''Atlas Shrugs'' (a reference to '']'', the novel by ]) in 2004. Geller was a frequent and prolific commenter on the ] '']'' when, encouraged by a fellow commenter, she started her own blog in late 2004.<ref name="nytimes1" /><ref name="adlreport" /> She has referred to her blog as “my living room and kitchen—a place where she can kick back and yell, like some people shout at their TV,” in contrast to her books and published articles, which are “more studied and more measured.”<ref name="jewish week 2010-09-01" /> The blog gained attention in 2006, when Geller reprinted the controversial cartoons of Muhammad that were originally published in the Danish '']'' newspaper.<ref name="nytimes1" /> In 2007, her campaign against an Arabic language public school in Brooklyn was said to have played "an important role" in the resignation of its principal, ].<ref name="nytimes1" /> The blog has been criticized by ] ].<ref name="mediamatters1">{{cite web|url=http://mediamatters.org/research/201007140035|title=Memo to media: Pamela Geller does not belong on national television|date=July 14, 2010|publisher=]|access-date=August 24, 2010|archive-date=September 8, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100908045605/http://mediamatters.org/research/201007140035|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="mediamatters2">{{cite web|url=http://mediamatters.org/research/201008190024|title=Attention TV networks: Pam Geller is lying to your viewers|date=August 19, 2010|publisher=]|access-date=August 24, 2010|archive-date=August 22, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100822220734/http://mediamatters.org/research/201008190024|url-status=dead}}</ref> Conversely, it has been praised by ], managing editor of ''The Jerusalem Post'', who hailed the blog's coverage of Muslim "]s" and called her "an intrepid blogger," specifically for Geller's coverage of treatment of women under ] and in Islamic countries.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NGI4MmY4MmMyYzY1MDhiNTEzMmRmM2ViYmI5OTFkZjM=|title=Political Messiah in the Holy Land|date=July 25, 2008|work=]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080825000816/http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NGI4MmY4MmMyYzY1MDhiNTEzMmRmM2ViYmI5OTFkZjM%3D|archive-date=August 25, 2008|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=199339 |title=Our World: The feminist deception|website=]|date=December 14, 2010}}</ref>


In 2010, Geller co-founded the ] organization (AFDI), also known as Stop Islamization of America, with ], an anti-Muslim activist.<ref name="nytimes1" /><ref name="sioaonline1">{{cite web|url=http://sioaonline.com/?page_id=153|title=Contact|publisher=Stop Islamization of America|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100817064516/http://sioaonline.com/?page_id=153|archive-date=August 17, 2010|url-status=live|access-date=September 14, 2010}}</ref> Geller is a co-founder of Stop Islamization of Nations, an umbrella organization that includes Stop Islamization of America and ].<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/17/idUS133243+17-Jan-2012+PRN20120117|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216092652/http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/17/idUS133243+17-Jan-2012+PRN20120117|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 16, 2012|title=International Freedom Organizations Unite to Create Stop Islamization of Nations|date=January 17, 2012|publisher=Stop Islamization of America}}</ref> Both SIOA and AFDI are described as exhibiting anti-Muslim bigotry by the ].<ref name="cbs" /><ref name="ADL20110325">{{cite web|url=http://www.adl.org/main_Extremism/sioa.htm|title=Backgrounder: Stop Islamization of America (SIOA)|website=Extremism|publisher=]|date=August 26, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502054200/http://www.adl.org/main_Extremism/sioa.htm|archive-date=May 2, 2012|access-date=February 16, 2012}}</ref> The ] classifies them as ].<ref name="SPLC20110301">{{cite web|url=http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/pam_geller_on_splc_hate_group_label_badge_of_honor.php|title=Pam Geller On 'Hate Group' Label: 'A Badge of Honor'|last=Lach|first=Eric|date=March 1, 2011|website=]|access-date=February 16, 2012}}</ref>
Speaking on '']'' at the 2010 ] (CPAC), Geller criticized the Pentagon's report on the ] for failing to talk about the religious motivations behind the attack.<ref name="foxnews1">{{cite web| last= Berger| first= Judson| url= http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/17/cpac-session-jihad-free-speech-draws-protest/|title=CPAC Session on Jihad, Free Speech Attracts Complaints|publisher=Fox News|date=April 7, 2010|accessdate=October 12, 2010|quote=When nowhere in that document was Islam or Jihad mentioned, then Houston, we have a problem. People need to understand what is the motivation.}}</ref> Geller, who had spoken at the annual CPAC convention four years previous, was forbidden to appear in 2013.<ref name= salon130304>{{cite news|url=http://www.salon.com/2013/03/04/anti_muslim_activist_pam_geller_turned_away_from_cpac/|title=Anti-Muslim activist Pam Geller turned away from CPAC|date=March 4, 2013|newspaper=Salon|first= Alex |last= Seitz-Wald}}</ref> Geller attributed her exclusion from the event to her having accused CPAC board members ] and ] of being "members of the ] and secret Islamist agents."<ref>{{cite news|title= Pam Geller: CPAC board member is "worse" than Anwar al-Awlaki| url=http://www.salon.com/2013/03/16/pam_geller_cpac_board_member_is_worse_than_anwar_al_awlaki/|date=March 16, 2013| newspaper= Salon| first= Alex |last= Seitz-Wald}}</ref> Reacting to CPAC's decision to exclude Geller, ] called her a "fearless fighter on free speech" and said that he took the board's action "personally."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/342143/cpac-tentwatch-mark-steyn|title=CPAC Tentwatch|newspaper=]|date= 4 March 2013|first= Mark |last= Steyn}}</ref>


At the 2010 ] (CPAC), Geller criticized the Pentagon's report on the ] for failing to talk about the religious motivations behind the attack.<ref name="foxnews1">{{cite web| last=Berger| first=Judson| url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cpac-session-on-jihad-free-speech-attracts-complaints/|title=CPAC Session on Jihad, Free Speech Attracts Complaints|publisher=Fox News Channel|date=April 7, 2010|access-date=October 12, 2010|quote=When nowhere in that document was Islam or Jihad mentioned, then Houston, we have a problem. People need to understand what is the motivation.}}</ref> Geller was forbidden to appear at CPAC in 2013.<ref name=salon130304>{{cite news|url=http://www.salon.com/2013/03/04/anti_muslim_activist_pam_geller_turned_away_from_cpac/|title=Anti-Muslim activist Pam Geller turned away from CPAC|date=March 4, 2013|website=]|publisher=]|location=San Francisco, California|first=Alex |last=Seitz-Wald}}</ref> Geller attributed her exclusion from the event to her having accused CPAC board members ] and ] of being “members of the ] and secret Islamist agents.”<ref>{{cite web|title=Pam Geller: CPAC board member is "worse" than Anwar al-Awlaki| url=http://www.salon.com/2013/03/16/pam_geller_cpac_board_member_is_worse_than_anwar_al_awlaki/|date=March 16, 2013| website=]| publisher=]|location=San Francisco, California|first=Alex |last=Seitz-Wald}}</ref>
In April 2013, Rabbi Michael White and Jerome Davidson, denouncing Geller as an anti-Muslim bigot, opposed her presentation on Sharia law at a Long Island synagogue, which was eventually canceled due to security concerns.<ref name=cbs>{{cite news|url=http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/04/10/l-i-synagogue-cancels-controversial-pamela-geller-speech/|title=L.I. Synagogue Cancels Controversial Pamela Geller Speech|publisher=CBS New York|date=April 10, 2013}}</ref> Israeli journalist ] argued that White and Davidson were wrong; Geller opposes jihadists, not all Muslims.<ref name=jpost20130413>{{cite news |title=Moral relativism and jihad |first= Caroline B. |last= Glick| newspaper= ]| url=http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Column-One-Moral-relativism-and-jihad-309549| date=April 13, 2013}}</ref>


The British government barred Geller's entry into the UK in 2013, citing her anti-Muslim activism, and saying her presence would “not be conducive to the public good.”<ref name="Ind20130626">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/antiground-zero-mosque-campaigners-pamela-geller-and-robert-spencer-barred-from-entering-britain-to-speak-at-an-edl-rally-8675251.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/antiground-zero-mosque-campaigners-pamela-geller-and-robert-spencer-barred-from-entering-britain-to-speak-at-an-edl-rally-8675251.html |archive-date=May 24, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Anti-Ground Zero Mosque campaigners Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer barred from entering Britain to speak at an EDL rally|last=Rawlinson|first=Kevin|date=June 26, 2013|newspaper=]|publisher=Independent Press Ltd.|location=London, England}}</ref>
In May 2013, the ] invited Pamela Geller to speak in ], ]. Initially, Geller was invited by Rabbi Mendel Kaplan to speak at Chabad@Flamingo. Because Kaplan was a chaplain with the ], the police's Hate Crimes Unit stated that Kaplan's invitation conflicted with "our long-held position of inclusivity". Kaplan consequently uninvited Geller, and she spoke at the ].<ref>{{cite news|title=Pamela Geller's Invitation to Speak in Toronto Angers Board of Rabbis|url=http://forward.com/articles/176656/pamela-gellers-invitation-to-speak-in-toronto-ange/|date=2013-05-13|work=]}}</ref>


In April 2013, Rabbi Michael White and Jerome Davidson, in denouncing Geller as an anti-Muslim bigot, opposed her presentation on Sharia law at a Long Island synagogue. It was canceled due to security concerns.<ref name=cbs>{{cite news|url=http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/04/10/l-i-synagogue-cancels-controversial-pamela-geller-speech/|title=L.I. Synagogue Cancels Controversial Pamela Geller Speech|website=]|publisher=]|location=New York City|date=April 10, 2013}}</ref> Israeli columnist Caroline Glick disputed the assertions by White and Davidson, and argued that Geller opposed ], not all Muslims.<ref name=jpost20130413>{{cite web |title=Moral relativism and jihad |first=Caroline B. |last=Glick| website=]| url=http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Column-One-Moral-relativism-and-jihad-309549|date=April 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402193824/http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Column-One-Moral-relativism-and-jihad-309549|archive-date=April 2, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> In May 2013, the ] invited Geller to speak in ], ]. Initially, Geller was invited by Rabbi Mendel Kaplan to speak at Chabad@Flamingo. Because Kaplan was a chaplain with the ], the police's Hate Crimes Unit stated that Kaplan's invitation conflicted with “our long-held position of inclusivity.” Kaplan consequently cancelled Geller's invitation, and she spoke at the Toronto Zionist Centre.<ref>{{cite news|title=Pamela Geller's Invitation to Speak in Toronto Angers Board of Rabbis|url=http://forward.com/articles/176656/pamela-gellers-invitation-to-speak-in-toronto-ange/|date=May 13, 2013|work=]}}</ref>
She is a supporter of the ] (EDL) saying: "I share the EDL's goals&nbsp;... We need to encourage rational, reasonable groups that oppose the Islamisation of the west."<ref name = "ObserverEDL">{{cite news|last=Townsend|first=Mark|date=October 10, 2010|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/10/english-defence-league-tea-party/print|title=English Defence League forges links with America's Tea Party|work=]|accessdate=February 28, 2014}}</ref> In June 2013, Geller was scheduled to speak at an EDL rally,<ref name=Huff20130620>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/06/20/edl-robert-spencer-pamela-geller_n_3472196.html|title=Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer To Speak At EDL Rally In Woolwich, Campaigners Call For UK Entry Ban |date=June 20, 2013|first= Jessica |last= Elgot |newspaper=The Huffington Post |location=London}}</ref> but was barred from entering Britain by a Home Office ruling that describes her as having established "anti-Muslim hate groups".<ref name=Ind20130626>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/antiground-zero-mosque-campaigners-pamela-geller-and-robert-spencer-barred-from-entering-britain-to-speak-at-an-edl-rally-8675251.html|title=Anti-Ground Zero Mosque campaigners Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer barred from entering Britain to speak at an EDL rally|date=June 26, 2013|first= Kevin |last= Rawlinson|newspaper=The Independent|location=London}}</ref> Cited as evidence for the ban were statements categorizing al-Qaeda as "a manifestation of devout Islam" and stating that jihad requires Jews as an enemy.<ref name=news4UK>{{cite news| url= http://www.channel4.com/news/usa-right-wing-activist-pamela-geller-banned-from-uk|title=American right-wing activists banned from entering UK|date=26 July 2013| first= Brian| last= Whelan|accessdate=December 21, 2013|newspaper=4 News|location=UK}}</ref> Geller called the decision "a striking blow against freedom ... The nation that gave the world the ] is dead." ], which led a campaign to ban her, applauded the decision as a proper limit to "unfettered free speech".<ref name=Ind20130626/>


Geller has been a contributor to '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', the '']'', '']''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/authors/Pamela-Geller/70764900|title=Pamela Geller|work=Simon & Schuster|accessdate=March 5, 2024}}</ref> and '']''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bq-IDwAAQBAJ|title=Soldiers of a Different God: How the Counter-Jihad Movement Created Mayhem, Murder and the Trump Presidency|date=15 August 2018|isbn=9781445678009 |last1=Othen |first1=Christopher |page=275|publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited }}</ref> She has written a column titled "Defending the West" for ''WorldNetDaily'' starting in 2011.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2011/06/01/defending-west-one-word-time-%E2%80%93-geller-joins-worldnetdaily|title='Defending' the West, One Word At A Time – Geller Joins WorldNetDaily|first=Ryan|last=Lenz|date=June 1, 2011|work=Southern Poverty Law Center}}</ref>
==Views==
Geller opposes both ]<ref name="nytimes1" /> and ].<ref name=ts130505 /><ref name=ja130510 /><ref name=nd130408 />
<ref name=npr120924 /> Geller has said of herself that she has "no problem with Islam. I have a problem with political Islam."<ref name="nytimes1"/> In particular, she says ] is a threat to civilization.<ref name=ja130510/> After expressing her anti-jihad views in controversial subway ads<ref name=wsj121001>{{cite news|url=http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10000872396390444592404578030423958154556|title=Call a Terrorist a 'Savage'? How Uncivilized, An anti-jihad message is 'hate speech' by today's topsy-turvy standards.|date=Oct 1, 2012|newspaper=]}}</ref> she was called an anti-Muslim bigot and racist by ] of the ].<ref name=ap120920/><ref name=nyt120919/> Geller responded to such charges by noting that the ads weren't directed at all Muslims but "only those who engaged in what she characterises as 'Jihad'."<ref name=sn120920>{{cite news|url=http://news.sky.com/story/987227/anti-jihad-adverts-to-run-in-new-york-subway|title=Anti-Jihad Adverts To Run In New York Subway|date=September 20, 2012|newspaper=Sky News|first= Hannah |last= Thomas-Peter}}</ref>


She runs the website, The Geller Report, which is registered through her organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=https://www.factcheck.org/2018/11/fbi-didnt-clear-michael-flynn/|title=FBI Didn't Clear Michael Flynn|last=Fichera|first=Angelo|date=November 12, 2018|website=]|language=en-US|access-date=July 8, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.factcheck.org/2017/07/websites-post-fake-satirical-stories/|title=Misinformation Directory|last=FactCheck.org|date=July 6, 2017|website=]|language=en-US|access-date=July 8, 2019}}</ref> In October 2018, the website falsely claimed that a Swedish Christmas concert had been cancelled, so as to not offend Muslims.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thelocal.se/20181016/debunk-no-sweden-isnt-cancelling-a-christmas-concert-because-of-migrants|title=Debunk: No, Sweden isn't cancelling a Christmas concert because of migrants|date=October 16, 2018|website=www.thelocal.se|language=en-GB|access-date=July 8, 2019}}</ref> In November 2018, the website falsely claimed that former National Security Advisor ] had been cleared of criminal wrong-doing in the ].<ref name=":4" /> The website described the Russia probe as a "coup" against President ].<ref name=":4" /> The website promoted falsehoods about the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Fichera|first=Angelo|title=Misinformation on the coronavirus death toll is spreading. Here are the facts.|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2020/02/02/coronavirus-death-toll-misinformation-spreads-here-facts/4640779002/|access-date=2020-11-01|website=USA TODAY|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020|title=PolitiFact - Claim that 10,000 have died from Wuhan coronavirus is Pants on Fire|url=https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jan/28/facebook-posts/claim-reports-10000-dead-wuhan-coronavirus-pants-f/|access-date=2020-11-01|website=@politifact|language=en-US}}</ref>
She was cited 12 times and praised in ]'s manifesto.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/us/25debate.html?_r=2&pagewanted=2| title= Killings in Norway Spotlight Anti-Muslim Thought in U.S.| date= 24 July 2011 |first= Scott |last=Shane |website= New York Times|accessdate= 10 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url= http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/07/25/278677/islamophobic-right-wing-blogger-breivi/| title= CHART: Oslo Terrorist’s Manifesto Cited Many Islamophobic Bloggers And Pundits| date= 25 July 2011 |first= Eli |last=Clifton |website= ThinkProgress|accessdate= 10 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url= | title= If Muslims are responsible for Islamic terrorism, are Muslim-bashers responsible for the massacre in Norway?| date= 25 July 2011 |first= William |last=Saletan |website= Slate Magazine|accessdate= 10 May 2015}}</ref> Geller wrote on her blog that "any assertion that she or other antijihad writers bore any responsibility for Mr. Breivik's actions was "ridiculous" and that "If anyone incited him to violence, it was Islamic supremacists."<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/us/25debate.html?_r=2&pagewanted=2| title= Killings in Norway Spotlight Anti-Muslim Thought in U.S.| date= 24 July 2011 |first= Scott |last=Shane |website= New York Times|accessdate= 10 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/07/on-pamela-geller-robert-spencer-and-other-jihadists/242474/| title= On Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and Other Jihadists| date= 25 July 2011 |first= Jeffrey |last=Goldberg |website= The Atlantic|accessdate= 10 May 2015}}</ref> Geller posted a picture of the youth camp children taken about 24 hours before Breivik's attacks and added the caption “Note the faces which are more MIddle Eastern or mixed than pure Norwegian.”<ref>{{cite web| url=http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/08/01/284011/pam-geller-race-mixing-breivik-right/| title= Pam Geller Justifies Breivik’s Terror: Youth Camp Had More ‘Middle Eastern or Mixed’ Races Than ‘Pure Norwegian’| date= 1 August 2011 |first= Lee |last=Fang |website= ThinkProgress|accessdate= 10 May 2015}}</ref> It later came to light that Breivik had intentionally portrayed himself as a counterjihadist and Zionist in order to trick the media into attacking these very people, and to cover up his true allegiance to "nordicists" and "ethnocentric nationalists" (i.e. neo-Nazis).<ref>{{cite news| url= http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/02/21/the-story-the-msm-missed-nordic-terrorist-claims-he-embraced-counterjihadists-in-manifesto-to-discredit-them-protect-neo-nazi-allies/ | title= Nordic Terrorist Makes Bombshell Claim — and the Media Missed It| date= 21 February 2014 |first= Benjamin |last= Weingarten | website=TheBlaze.com | accessdate= 7 May 2015}}</ref> In a 2014 letter,<ref>{{cite web| url= http://gatesofvienna.net/2014/01/breiviks-double-psychology/| title= Breivik’s "Double-Psychology"| date= 24 January 2014 |first= Baron |last=Bodissey |website= GatesofVienna.net|accessdate= 7 May 2015}}</ref> he stated "The idea was to manipulate the MSM and others so that they would launch a witchhunt and send their media-rape-squads against our opponents. It worked quite well."


====Park51====
Critics believe she crosses the line from a focused criticism of ] to a broader hostility towards Islam in general. When she called for an official classification of Islam as "a political movement ... authoritarian and supremacist ... as well as a religion," the ADL responded that "hile the threat of Islamic extremism is a legitimate concern, such a simplistic initiative fails to distinguish between the general Muslim population and extremists motivated by radical interpretations of Islam."<ref name=adlreport>{{cite web|url=http://www.adl.org/assets/pdf/civil-rights/stop-islamization-of-america-2013-1-11-v1.pdf|date=March 2011|publisher=]|title=Stop the Islamization of America|page=6}}</ref> Geller repeatedly denies that she is categorically anti-Muslim.<ref name="nytimes1"/><ref name=nd130408/><ref name=jj120625>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/los_angeles/article/anti-muslim_activist_pamela_geller_barred_from_speaking_at_jewish_federatio|title=Anti-Muslim activist barred from speaking at Jewish Federation headquarters|work=]|date=June 25, 2012|accessdate=February 4, 2013}}</ref><ref name=Cooper360/><ref name=nr260784>{{cite web|last=McCarthy|first=Andrew C.|title=Re:SPLC on Geller|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/260784/re-splc-geller-andrew-c-mccarthy|work= ]}}</ref> ] says that Geller takes aim at "radical Islam," comes to the defense of victims of honor killings, and deals with Islamist antisemitism which the ADL and SPLC fail to address.<ref name=ja130510>{{cite news|url=http://www.thejewishadvocate.com/news/2013-05-10/Charles_Jacobs/Pamela_Geller_Jewish_heroine.html|title=Pamela Geller, Jewish heroine|date=May 10, 2013|first= Charles |last= Jacobs|newspaper=The Jewish Advocate|quote=Geller thinks Radical Islam is a threat to Western civilization and that our politically correct leaders who persist in being willfully blind are endangering us all. Having this view attracts detractors. Expressing it daily, with no holds barred, with gory photos of the victims of jihad and outrageous details of how our leaders betray us, has earned Pamela a baying herd of defamers.}}</ref> She has been described as "far right" by ''The Huffington Post'', British newspaper '']'', investigative journalist ], and human rights activist ].<ref>{{cite news| url= http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.646770| title= Jon Stewart labeled 'most disgusting Jew on planet' by Pamela Geller| newspaper= ]| date= 14 March 2015| accessdate= 7 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url= http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/26/far-right-bloggers-banned-entering-uk | title= Far-right US bloggers banned from entering UK for Woolwich rally| first= Matthew | last= Taylor |work= The Guardian | date= 26 June 2013 | accessdate= 7 May 2015}}</ref> Zeskind also classified Geller as a radical right ideologue, racist, and Islamophobic.<ref name=Weiss />{{rp|137}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Zeskind |first=Leonard |authorlink=Leonard Zeskind |chapter=The Tea Party Movement at the Crossroads of Nation and State |title=The Post-War Anglo-American Far Right: A Special Relationship of Hate |page=110 |url= |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2014 |isbn=9781137396204 |editor=Paul Jackson and Anton Shekhovtsov |quote=The Anglo-American far-right... So although broadly speaking we can say that a common set of far-right, racist, Islamophobic and anti-immigrant ideas do exist across the Atlantic Ocean, epitomised by a figure such as Geller...}}</ref>
In May 2010, Geller began a campaign against the proposed ] Islamic community center and mosque, which she called the "Ground Zero Mega Mosque."<ref name="elliott"/><ref name="UntoldStory"/> Geller claimed that Park51 is viewed by Muslims as a "triumphal" monument built on "conquered land,"<ref name="pbs110927">{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/religion/man-behind-mosque/pamela-geller-this-is-a-clash-of-civilizations/|title=Pamela Geller: "This Is a Clash of Civilizations"|date=September 27, 2011|website=]|publisher=]|location=New York City}}</ref> and asserted: “I'm not leading the charge against the Islamic center near Ground Zero. The majority of Americans—70%—find this deeply insulting, offensive. To call it anti-Muslim is a gross misrepresentation, and to say that I'm responsible for all this emotion, again a gross misrepresentation.”<ref name="guardian"/> When asked whether she agreed “that ] who attacked us on ] were practicing a perverted form of Islam, and that is not what is going to be practiced at this mosque,” she responded: “I will say that the Muslim terrorists were practicing pure Islam, original Islam.”<ref name="Cooper360">{{cite news|url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1008/17/acd.01.html|title=Firestorm Grows Over Islamic Center Near Ground Zero|last=Kaye|first=Randi|date=August 17, 2010|work=]|access-date=August 26, 2010|publisher=CNN|location=Atlanta, Georgia}}</ref> Based upon unsubstantiated evidence, Geller has claimed that Park51's project financing had potential ties to terrorists.<ref name="nytimes1" /> Geller came to prominence over her opposition to the mosque's construction.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-outrage-industry-9780190498467|title=The Outrage Industry|series=Studies in Postwar American Political Development|date=August 2016|publisher=]|pages=115–116|isbn=978-0-19-049846-7|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite book|last=Wright|first=Stephanie|chapter=Reproducing Fear: Islamophobia in the United States|date=2016|pages=45–65|editor-last=Pratt|editor-first=Douglas|publisher=]|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-29698-2_4|isbn=9783319296968|editor2-last=Woodlock|editor2-first=Rachel|title=Fear of Muslims?|series=Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies}}</ref> According to '']'' magazine, Geller "played a pivotal role in making Park51 a national issue."<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2011936,00.html|title=Islamophobia: Does America Have a Muslim Problem?|last=Ghosh|first=Bobby|date=August 30, 2010|magazine=]|access-date=July 8, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0040-781X}}</ref> According to Stephanie Wright in ''Fear of Muslims?'', Geller's language in opposing the mosque was repeated by mainstream politicians, such as ] and ].<ref name=":1" />


The ] and the progressive watchdog group ] criticized the media for giving attention to Geller.<ref name="jewish week 2010-09-01" /><ref>Hogue, Ilyse (May 23, 2012). . ].</ref><ref name="QueenHP" /><ref name="mediamatters1" /> ], writing in the ] magazine '']'', criticized the CAIR spokesperson's remarks on the matter, citing his remark: “I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic.”<ref name="nr260784">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/260784/re-splc-geller-andrew-c-mccarthy|title=Re:SPLC on Geller|last=McCarthy|first=Andrew C.|magazine=]}}</ref> According to Cord Jefferson in the '']'', “the media often craves controversy over substance,” and paid "disproportionate attention" to the ] story, thus furnishing “a small-time political blogger with an obsession” an opportunity “to hijack the news cycle for months.”<ref name="prospect2011">{{cite journal|last=Jefferson|first=Cord|date=April 2011|title=The Right Messengers: Can the Media Responsibly Cover Race? Only with the Guidance of a More Diverse Audience|url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-252446753/the-right-messengers-can-the-media-responsibly-cover|journal=]|access-date=September 7, 2017|archive-date=March 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180307151046/https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-252446753/the-right-messengers-can-the-media-responsibly-cover|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Geller has said that "Islam is the most antisemitic, genocidal ideology in the world."<ref>{{cite web| first= Pamela| last= Geller| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131126224836/http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/11/new-york-times-con-job-daisy-khan-had-never-seen-so-many-jews-in-her-life.html|title=NY Times Con Job: 'Daisy Khan Had Never Seen So Many Jews In Her Life.'|website=AtlasShrugs.com |date=2010-11-14 |accessdate=2014-03-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theislandnow.com/great_neck/news/article_fd4ffd10-a2b4-11e2-b729-0019bb2963f4.html|title=Under tight security, Geller addresses crowd of hundreds at Chabad|publisher=theislandnow.com |date=2013-04-15 |accessdate=2014-03-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harris-zafar/confronting-pamela-geller_b_1668089.html|title=Confronting Pamela Geller (Updated With Response)|work= Huffington Post |date=2012-07-13 |accessdate=2014-03-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pamelageller.com/2012/07/confronting-the-huffington-post.html/|title=Confronting the #Huffington Post|publisher=pamelageller.com |date=2012-07-16 |accessdate=2014-03-02}}</ref> She holds the view that radical Islam is a ''bona fide'' variant of Islam, which she describes in a number of ways: "Muslim terrorists were practicing pure Islam, original Islam."<ref name=Cooper360/><ref name=nr260784/> Terrorists don't spring from "perversions of Islam but from the religion itself"<ref name="nytimes1" /> "I believe in the idea of a moderate Muslim. I do not believe in the idea of a moderate Islam. ... I think a moderate Muslim is a secular Muslim."<ref name="nytimes1"/> She quotes the prime minister of Turkey, ], "... there is no moderate Islam; there is no extreme Islam; Islam is Islam."<ref name=pbs110927>{{cite news|url=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/religion/man-behind-mosque/pamela-geller-this-is-a-clash-of-civilizations/|title=Pamela Geller: "This Is a Clash of Civilizations"|date=September 27, 2011|newspaper=PBS}}</ref> She argues that Islam must be secularized from within: "I believe most Muslims are secular. I don’t believe that most Muslims subscribe to devout fundamentalist Islam by any stretch of the imagination. And we need the secular Muslims to win the battle for the reformation of Islam."<ref name=pbs110927/>


====Public transit ads====
In economics she favors "right-wing" "small government" fiscal policies of cutting taxes and reducing budgets.<ref name=bbc150504>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32580059|title=Pamela Geller: America's 'bigoted blogger'|newspaper=BBC news|date=5 May 2015}}</ref><ref name= Weiss />{{rp|137}} She is "socially liberal" in her support of abortion legalization<ref name="nytimes1"/><ref name="jewish week 2010-09-01"/><ref name=VV121128>{{cite news|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-11-28/news/pamela-geller-s-war/|title=Pamela Geller's War|newspaper=Village Voice|date=November 28, 2012|first= Greg |last=Howard}}</ref> and same-sex marriages<ref name=bbc150504/><ref name=VV121128/> but she believes drug legalization goes "too far."<ref name= Weiss />{{rp|130}} ] writes that Ayn Rand's philosophy of individualism is a major influence in her thought and life.<ref name= Weiss />{{rp|129–137}} Unlike Rand, Geller is a theist who defends the Judeo-Christian ethical tradition.<ref name= Weiss />{{rp|134}} In her rhetorical style, she shares Rand’s "verbal excesses" accompanied by a "willingness to provoke and offend."<ref name= Weiss />{{rp|133–4}}
] has sponsored ads which carried instigative messages, such as "Fatwa on Your Head?" and "Leaving Islam?" in several cities, including ] and ], which pointed readers to a website called RefugefromIslam.com.<ref name="QueenHP" /> Geller and FDI/SIOA paid to run ads on the transit systems of New York City, ], and ]. The ad approved to run on the ] and ] read: “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.”<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/25/anti-muslim-subway-posters-nypd-increase-security_n_1912239.html|title=Anti-Muslim Subway Posters Prompt NYPD To Increase Security In Stations|date=September 25, 2012|work=]|access-date=May 7, 2015}}</ref> One ad had a picture of the ] in flames, with a quote from the ]: “Soon we shall cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers.”<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-american-islam-9780199862634|title=The Oxford Handbook of American Islam|date=2014|publisher=]|location=Oxford, England|isbn=9780199862634|series=Oxford Handbooks|page=505}}</ref> Another ad showed a man in a ], with the text: “Killing Jews is Worship that draws us close to ]. That's His Jihad. What's yours?”<ref>{{Cite news|first=Marisol|last=Bello|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/05/04/afdi-pamela-geller/26864569/|title=Who is the group behind Mohammed cartoon contest?|newspaper=]|publisher=]|location=McLean, Virginia|language=en|access-date=July 8, 2019}}</ref>


New York's ] initially refused to display the ads in the ] system,<ref name="CNN subway ad">{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/19/us/new-york-controversial-subway-ad/|title=Controversial 'Defeat Jihad' ad to appear in NYC subways|date=September 19, 2012|access-date=October 1, 2014|publisher=CNN}}</ref> but the decision was overturned in July 2012 by the ], which ruled that the ad was ] under the ], and that the MTA's actions were ].<ref name="CNN subway ad" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/nyregion/ad-demeaning-muslims-to-appear-in-new-york-subway.html|title=Ad Calling Jihad 'Savage' Is Set to Appear in Subway|last=Flegenheimer|first=Matt|date=September 18, 2012|work=]|location=New York City|access-date=May 7, 2015}}</ref><ref name="WSJDemeaning">{{cite news|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2012/07/20/court-rejects-mtas-ban-against-demeaning-transit-ads/|title=Court Rejects MTA's Ban Against 'Demeaning' Transit Ads|last=Mann|first=Ted|work=]|publisher=]|location=New York City|date=July 20, 2012|access-date=October 1, 2014}}</ref> The judge, ], held in a 35-page opinion that the rejected ad was “not only protected speech — it is core political speech ... is afforded the highest level of protection under the First Amendment.”<ref name="WSJDemeaning" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/nyregion/mta-violated-rights-of-pro-israel-group-judge-says.html|title=M.T.A. Violated Rights of Group, Judge Says|last=Weiser|first=Benjamin|date=July 20, 2012|work=]|location=New York City|access-date=May 7, 2015}}</ref>
She encouraged Israel to "stand loud and proud. Give up nothing. Turn over not a pebble. For every rocket fired, drop a ]. Take back ]. Secure ]. Stop buying '']''. Throw leftists bums out."<ref name="Indomitable Israel">{{cite news|url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/7968 |title=Op-Ed: Indomitable Israel|first=Pamela|last=Geller|first2=Eliza|last2=Saxon|publisher=Arutz Sheva|location=]|date=May 11, 2008|accessdate=September 14, 2010}}</ref> She is an ardent ].<ref name=jj120625/> She regards much of the Israeli media as "Jewicidal" and the ] movement as a failed idea and a variety of slavery.<ref name= Weiss />{{rp|133}}


Opponents argued that an ad with the text, “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad” implied Muslims are savages.<ref name="ap120920">{{cite news|url=https://news.yahoo.com/anti-jihad-savage-ads-going-nyc-subway-220228596.html|title=Anti-jihad 'savage' ads going up in NYC subway|last=Matthews|first=Karen|date=September 20, 2012|publisher=]|agency=]}}</ref><ref name="nyt120919">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/nyregion/ad-demeaning-muslims-to-appear-in-new-york-subway.html|title=Ad Calling Jihad 'Savage' Is Set to Appear in Subway|last=Flegenheimer|first=Matt|date=September 18, 2012|newspaper=]|location=New York City}}</ref> Columnists in the '']'' and '']'' argued the opposite—that it was insulting to assume Muslims will identify with violent jihad.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/shocking_assumption_gwMiupSSPR0d6waO4lVt6J|title=A shocking assumption|date=September 29, 2012|newspaper=]|publisher=]|location=New York City}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/09/27/mona-eltahawy-defends-jihad-we-are-all-proud-savages-now/|title=Mona Eltahawy Defends Jihad: We are all Proud Savages Now!|last=Marquardt-Bigman|first=Petra|date=September 27, 2012|newspaper=]}}</ref> Some Muslims argued that Geller's use of the word ''jihad'' is identical to Islamic extremists', and too common in general American usage. There is an effort to focus on the notion of ''jihad'' as a ''striving'', but find "rebranding" difficult in today's culture.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.salon.com/2013/01/09/can_jihad_be_rebranded/|title=Can "jihad" survive Pam Geller?|last=Seitz-Wald|first=Alex|date=January 9, 2013|website=]|publisher=]|location=San Francisco, California}}</ref> The ] called the ad "bigoted, divisive," and JCPA President Rabbi ] said: “The fact that ads have been placed in the subway attacking Israel does not excuse the use of attack ads against Muslims.”<ref>{{cite web|url=http://engage.jewishpublicaffairs.org/blog/comments.jsp?key=477&blog_entry_KEY=6561&t=|title=JCPA Condemns Bigoted, Divisive, and Unhelpful Anti-Muslim Ads|publisher=]|access-date=September 21, 2012|archive-date=October 14, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014130445/http://engage.jewishpublicaffairs.org/blog/comments.jsp?key=477&blog_entry_KEY=6561&t=|url-status=dead}}</ref> Israel Kasnett, editor for the '']'', argued that Geller is right in her description of violent jihad.<ref name="npr120924">{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/09/24/161706741/new-yorkers-rush-by-as-embattled-anti-jihad-ads-hit-the-subway|title=New Yorkers Rush By As Embattled Anti-Jihad Ads Hit The Subway|last=Fehling|first=April|date=September 24, 2012|website=]}}</ref><ref name="jpost120930">{{cite news|url=http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Support-the-civilized-man|title=Support the civilized man|last=Kasnett|first=Israel|date=September 30, 2012|newspaper=The Jerusalem Post}}</ref> Jewish groups, such as the ] and the ], have “successfully persuaded the ] to donate proceeds from the ads to the city's Human Rights Commission.”<ref name="Pine">{{cite news|last=Pine|first=Dan|url=http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/68578/new-ad-on-muni-buses-in-s.f.-has-disturbing-imagery-calls-israel-an-aparthe|title=New ad on Muni buses in S.F. has disturbing imagery, calls Israel an apartheid state|newspaper=]|date=May 16, 2013}}</ref> In a column for '']'', conservative columnist ] criticized the "media" for being “too quick to assume the ad is an attack on the religion and all Muslims.”<ref name="wsj121001">{{cite news|url=https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10000872396390444592404578030423958154556|title=Call a Terrorist a 'Savage'? How Uncivilized, An anti-jihad message is 'hate speech' by today's topsy-turvy standards.|date=October 1, 2012|newspaper=]|publisher=]|location=New York City}}</ref>
==Stop Islamization of America==


In 2013, Geller purchased ad space at thirty-nine New York City Subway stations for a new ad that “ Islam to terrorism.”<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/group-links-islam-terror-article-1.1235963|title=Group's ads link Islam to terrorism: Controversial American Freedom Defense Initiative paid $77,000 (4277h 47m) (4277h 47m) (4277h 47m) (4277h 47m) to quote Koran with flaming Twin Towers|last=Donohue|first=Peter|date=January 8, 2013|newspaper=]|publisher=]|location=New York City}}</ref> Prompted by an ad critical of Israel on the subway, Geller said she was exercising her freedom of speech by showing a picture of the burning ] juxtaposed with a quote from the ]. The ads went up in January 2013, and ran for about a month.<ref name="cbs130108">{{cite news|url=http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/01/08/more-ads-with-inflammatory-messages-about-islam-appear-in-nyc-subway/|title=More Ads With Inflammatory Messages About Islam Appear In NYC Subway|date=January 8, 2013|website=]}}</ref> In the fall of 2014, Geller paid $100,000 for a series of ads to run on the MTA again. They linked Islam to the ], ], ], and the beheading of ]; a court ruling required the MTA to run the ads.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/shocking-anti-islam-ad-campaign-okd-mta-article-1.1945174|title=Shocking anti-Islam ad campaign coming to MTA buses, subway stations|last=Fermino|first=Jennifer|date=September 19, 2014|newspaper=]|publisher=]|location=New York City}}</ref> The ads were also run on Philadelphia's ] transit system, and Washington, D.C.'s ] transit system.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dr-gridlock/wp/2014/05/15/in-metrobus-ads-pro-israel-group-features-photo-of-hitler/|title=In Metrobus ads, pro-Israel group features photo of Hitler|first=Paul|last=Deggan|date=May 15, 2014|newspaper=]|publisher=]|location=Washington, D.C.}}</ref> ] wrote the ads backfired, and united people of all religions against what was viewed as an attack on all Muslims.<ref name="pipes2015">{{cite news|url=http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/thinktank/SEPTA-ad-campaign-a-spectacular-failure.html|title=SEPTA ad campaign a spectacular failure|first=Daniel|last=Pipes|author-link=Daniel Pipes|date=May 26, 2015|work=]}}</ref> The MTA, SEPTA, and Washington's Metro have decided to ban all political ads.<ref name="pipes2015" /><ref>{{cite news|url=http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/04/mta-bans-political-ads-from-subways-and-buses.html|title=MTA Bans Political Ads From Appearing on Subways and Buses|first=Jessica|last=Roy|date=April 29, 2015|work=]|publisher=]|location=New York City}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/243351-dc-metro-limits-ads-after-request-for-muhammad-cartoon/|title=DC Metro bans 'issue' ads after Muhammad cartoon request|first=Julian|last=Hattem|date=May 28, 2015|work=]}}</ref>
Geller and ] co-founded ].<ref name="sioaonline1"/> Geller is a co-founder of Stop Islamization of Nations, an umbrella organization that includes ] and ].<ref>{{cite press release| url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/17/idUS133243+17-Jan-2012+PRN20120117|title=International Freedom Organizations Unite to Create Stop Islamization of Nations| date=January 17, 2012| publisher=Stop Islamization of America}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/09/a_plan_to_stop_the_islamization_of_the_world_is_at_hand.html|title=A Plan to Stop the Islamization of the World is at Hand|first= John K. |last= Press|work=]|date=September 16, 2012}}</ref> Both SIOA and FDI are described as exhibiting anti-Muslim bigotry by the ].<ref name=cbs/><ref name=ADL20110325>. ''Extremism''. ]. March 25, 2011 . Retrieved February 16, 2012.</ref> The ] classifies them as ].<ref name=SPLC20110301>{{cite web| last= Lach|first= Eric |date= 1 March 2011| url= http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/pam_geller_on_splc_hate_group_label_badge_of_honor.php |title= Pam Geller On 'Hate Group' Label: 'A Badge of Honor'| website=].com| accessdate= 16 February 2012}}</ref> According to the Center, Geller is the "anti-Muslim movement's most visible and flamboyant figurehead. She's relentlessly shrill and coarse in her broad-based denunciations of Islam."<ref>{{cite news| url= http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/13/texas-draw-the-prophet-_n_6679256.html | work= Huffington Post| title= Texas 'Draw the Prophet' Contest is Shameless Muslim-Baiting| first= Sarah |last= Cascone| agency= artnet News| date= 13 February 2015| accessdate= 7 May 2015}}</ref> Geller has dismissed the SPLC as an "uber left" organization,<ref>{{cite news |title= Southern Poverty Law Center lists anti-Islamic NYC blogger Pamela Geller, followers a hate group| first= Corky| last= Siemaszko| newspaper=]|url= http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/02/25/2011-02-25_southern_poverty_law_center_lists_antiislamic_nyc_blogger_pamela_geller_follower.html|location=New York City |date= February 25, 2011|accessdate=February 25, 2011}}</ref> and in 2015 stated "Who designated the SPLC as a legitimate authority? They are a radical leftist group who targets patriots, vets and even GOP presidential candidates. They have never named a jihadi group as a hate group."<ref>{{cite web |url= http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/04/us/what-is-american-freedom-defense-initiative/|title=Garland shooting: What is the American Freedom Defense Initiative?|website= CNN.com |date=4 May 2015}}</ref>


In 2015, Geller announced that she would run ads on public transit systems accusing donors to the ] of being supporters of the anti-Israel ], although a spokesperson from NIF said the charge is false. Geller wrote that: “These leaders are 21st-century kapos, but worse ... They are leftists aligned with the jihad force.”<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/.premium-1.646449|title=Moving on From Attacking Islam, Pamela Geller Sponsors NYC Bus Ads Targeting New Israel Fund Donors|first=Debra|last=Nussbaum Cohen|date=March 11, 2015|work=]|access-date=January 19, 2016}}</ref>
===Park51===


===Curtis Culwell Center attack===
In May 2010, they began a campaign against the proposed ] Islamic community center and mosque, which Geller called the "Ground Zero Mega Mosque".<ref name=elliott>{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/news/ground_zero_mosque/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/08/16/ground_zero_mosque_origins |title=How the "ground zero mosque" fear mongering began – Park51, Muslim Community Center in Lower Manhattan |work=Salon|date=August 16, 2010 |accessdate=September 14, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/religion_theseeker/2010/08/untold-story-behind-the-mosque-at-ground-zero.html |title=The Seeker: Untold story behind the so-called 'Ground Zero mosque' |publisher=Chicago Tribune |date=August 20, 2010 |accessdate=September 14, 2010}}</ref> She says that Park51 is viewed by Muslims as a "triumphal" monument built on "conquered land",<ref name=pbs110927/> and said, "I'm not leading the charge against the Islamic center near Ground Zero. The majority of Americans—70%—find this deeply insulting, offensive. To call it anti-Muslim is a gross misrepresentation and to say that I'm responsible for all this emotion, again a gross misrepresentation".<ref name="guardian"/>
{{main|Curtis Culwell Center attack}}
Geller helped to organize a "Draw the Prophet" cartoon contest on May 3, 2015, at the ] in ], the same site where a Muslim group held a "Stand With the Prophet" event in January 2015, after the ].<ref name="r150504">{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-shooting-texas-idUSKBN0NP01G20150504|title=Police shoot dead 2 gunmen at Texas exhibit of Prophet Mohammad cartoons|last1=Stone|first1=Mike|date=May 4, 2015|work=Reuters|last2=Garza|first2=Lisa Maria}}</ref><ref name="nyt150503">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/04/us/gunmen-killed-after-firing-on-anti-islam-groups-event.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0|title=Texas Police Kill Gunmen at Exhibit Featuring Cartoons of Muhammad|last=Stack|first=Liam|date=May 3, 2015|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> The same day, shots were fired outside the event in Garland, resulting in the death of two suspected shooters by the police, and the injury of one security guard.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/people-shot-texas-prophet-muhammad-art-exhibit-article-1.2208953|title=Two gunmen shot dead by cops after opening fire outside controversial 'Prophet Muhammad' art exhibit in Texas|date=May 3, 2015|work=Daily News|location=New York|access-date=May 4, 2015}}</ref> The decision to hold the cartoon contest ] from a number of journalists and other public figures.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-trump-lambasts-disgusting-pam-geller-for-baiting-muslims-with-draw-the-prophet-contest-in-texas-10226027.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-trump-lambasts-disgusting-pam-geller-for-baiting-muslims-with-draw-the-prophet-contest-in-texas-10226027.html |archive-date=May 24, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Donald Trump lambasts 'disgusting' Pam Geller for baiting Muslims with 'draw the prophet' contest in Texas|author=Jenn Selby|date=May 5, 2015|newspaper=The Independent|access-date=May 7, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/05/06/fox-newss-greta-van-susteren-scolds-pamela-geller/|title=Fox News's Greta Van Susteren scolds Pamela Geller|author=Erik Wemple|date=May 6, 2015|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=May 7, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418201/first-and-half-amendment-victor-davis-hanson|title=The First — and a Half — Amendment|author=Victor Davis Hanson|date=May 12, 2015|work=National Review|access-date=May 23, 2015}}</ref>


===June 2015 assassination plot===
When asked in an August 17, 2010, interview on ] whether she agreed "that the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 were practicing a perverted form of Islam, and that is not what is going to be practiced at this mosque", she responded "I will say that the Muslim terrorists were practicing pure Islam, original Islam."<ref name=Cooper360>{{cite news|title=Firestorm Grows Over Islamic Center Near Ground Zero|first=Randi|last=Kaye |work=]|publisher=CNN |date= August 17, 2010 | url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1008/17/acd.01.html|accessdate=August 26, 2010}}</ref>
{{main|2015 Boston beheading plot}}
On June 2, 2015, a 26-year-old Muslim man, identified as Rahim Nicholas, was shot and killed by police officers in ], after he waved a military knife at them and charged at them with it. Reported to have been radicalized by the militant Islamist group ], Rahim was plotting to travel out of the state to assassinate Geller. His thwarted plan was in retaliation to Geller's Muhammad art event and contest. Rahim allegedly abandoned the idea, and decided to behead police officers instead. Upon learning of the assassination plot, Geller said in an interview with CNN: “They targeted me for violating Sharia blasphemy laws.”<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/03/us/boston-police-shooting/index.html|title=Boston shooting: Suspect plotted to behead Pamela Geller, sources say|date=June 3, 2015|access-date=June 3, 2015|publisher=CNN}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/u-activist-pamela-geller-says-boston-beheading-plot-141534241.html|title=Activist says Boston beheading plot targeted her; police express doubt|date=June 4, 2015|publisher=Yahoo! News|access-date=June 4, 2015}}</ref> The leader of the plot, David Wright, was sentenced to 28 years in prison in 2017 for the plot, and resentenced to 30 years in 2020.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/man-gets-30-years-in-2nd-sentencing-for-is-plot-to-behead-right-wing-provocateur/|title=US man gets 30 years for IS plot to behead right-wing provocateur Pamela Geller|work=The Times of Israel|agency=Associated Press|date=September 28, 2020}}</ref>


==Views==
], a spokesman for the ], criticized Geller, stating:
{{quote|People say don't give her too much credit, she's a fringe character, but she is a fringe character who every day is on CNN, Fox, ''The Washington Post'', and ''The New York Times''. She is the driving force behind the Islamic center campaign. I would say that she is the queen of the Muslim bashers, I see her rise and the rise of these anti-Islam hate groups going hand in hand.<ref name = "QueenHP" />}}


===Anti-Muslim views===
], a senior fellow at ]<ref>Hogue, Ilyse (May 23, 2012). . ].</ref> <!--repeated talk page discussions have determined "progressive" is the correct political label, do not change to "liberal" without proper discussion --> watchdog group ], concurred with Hooper, remarking that "she's been instrumental, she has whipped up hatred in the right-wing blogosphere and now that's spilled out into the wider community"<ref name = "QueenHP" /> while ], writing in the ]<ref>, ''National Review Online''.</ref> magazine '']'', criticized Hooper's remarks on the matter, citing his controversial comments about ] and the ].<ref name=nr260784/> Media Matters said "Geller's history of outrageous, inflammatory and false claims, particularly when it comes to issues related to Islam, demonstrate that she cannot be expected to make accurate statements and should not be rewarded with a platform on national television."<ref name="mediamatters1"/>
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She has been widely described as anti-Muslim.{{refn|<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/17/us/on-religion-a-one-man-war-on-american-muslims.html|title=On Religion: A One-Man War on American Muslims|last=Freedman|first=Samuel G.|date=2011-12-16|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-07-04|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2014/09/runaway-bus-ads-016174|title=Runaway bus ads|last=Rubinstein|first=Dana|website=Politico PRO|date=September 30, 2014 |language=en|access-date=2019-07-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://cup.columbia.edu/book/making-sense-of-the-alt-right/9780231185127|title=Making Sense of the Alt-Right|last=Hawley|first=George|date=2017|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780231546003|pages=41}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Ernst|first=Carl W.|chapter=Introduction: The Problem of Islamophobia |date=2013|work=Islamophobia in America: The Anatomy of Intolerance|pages=1–19|editor-last=Ernst|editor-first=Carl W.|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US|language=en|doi=10.1057/9781137290076_1|isbn=9781137290076|title=Islamophobia in America}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Shryock|first=Andrew J.|chapter=Attack of the Islamophobes: Religious War (And Peace) in Arab/Muslim Detroit |date=2013|work=Islamophobia in America: The Anatomy of Intolerance|pages=165|editor-last=Ernst|editor-first=Carl W.|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US|language=en|doi=10.1057/9781137290076_6|isbn=9781137290076|title=Islamophobia in America}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/9780813588346|title=Forever Suspect|last=Selod|first=Saher|website=Rutgers University Press|page=75}}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Gardell|first=Mattias|date=2014-01-01|title=Crusader Dreams: Oslo 22/7, Islamophobia, and the Quest for a Monocultural Europe|journal=Terrorism and Political Violence|volume=26|issue=1|pages=129–155|doi=10.1080/09546553.2014.849930|s2cid=144489939|issn=0954-6553}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/right-wing-populism-in-europe-9781780932453/|title=Right-Wing Populism in Europe|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|pages=90–92|language=en|access-date=2019-07-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Yang|first1=Aimei|last2=Self|first2=Charles|date=2015-04-01|title=Anti-Muslim prejudice in the virtual space: A case study of blog network structure and message features of the 'Ground Zero mosque controversy'|journal=Media, War & Conflict|language=en|volume=8|issue=1|pages=46–69|doi=10.1177/1750635214541030|s2cid=147078469|issn=1750-6352}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-security-deportations-idUSKCN1GO2LN|title=British authorities ban three foreign right-wing activists|date=2018-03-12|work=Reuters|access-date=2019-07-08|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/07/politics/kfile-bolton-chief-of-staff-online-columns/index.html|title=John Bolton's chief of staff defended fringe anti-Muslim, far-right activists in online columns|author=Andrew Kaczynski and Chris Massie|website=CNN|date=June 7, 2018|access-date=2019-07-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2018/jul/10/blog-posting/did-facebook-remove-post-quoting-declaration-indep/|title=Did Facebook remove the Declaration of Independence?|website=@politifact|language=en|access-date=2019-07-08}}</ref>}} Geller is a prominent activist in what has been described as the ] in the ].{{refn|<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite journal|last1=Lee|first1=Benjamin|title=A Day in the "Swamp": Understanding Discourse in the Online Counter-Jihad Nebula|journal=Democracy and Security|date=4 September 2015|volume=11|issue=3|pages=248–274|doi=10.1080/17419166.2015.1067612|s2cid=62841363|url=http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/78286/1/a_day_in_the_swamp_author_sub.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Goodwin|first1=Matthew J.|last2=Cutts|first2=David|last3=Janta-Lipinski|first3=Laurence|title=Economic Losers, Protestors, Islamophobes or Xenophobes? Predicting Public Support for a Counter-Jihad Movement|journal=Political Studies|volume=64|date=September 2014|pages=4–26|doi=10.1111/1467-9248.12159|s2cid=145753701|quote=Particularly since 2009 the international and amorphous 'counter-Jihad' scene has encompassed the 'defence leagues' and 'stop the Islamisation' networks, prominent activists such as Pamela Geller in the United States ...}}</ref><ref name="Hall 2014 p.">{{cite book | last=Hall | first=Nathan | title=The Routledge international handbook on hate crime | publisher=Routledge | location=London | year=2014 | isbn=978-1-136-68436-4 | page=148}}</ref><ref name="Busher 2015 p.">{{cite book | last=Busher | first=Joel | title=The making of anti-Muslim protest : grassroots activism in the English Defence League | publisher=Routledge | location=London | year=2015 | isbn=978-1-317-33991-5 }}</ref><ref name="Taylor 2013 p.">{{cite book | last=Taylor | first=Max | title=Extreme right wing political violence and terrorism | publisher=Bloomsbury | location=London New York | year=2013 | isbn=978-1-4411-4087-6 | page=178}}</ref><ref name="Deland 2014 p.">{{cite book | last=Deland | first=Mats | title=In the tracks of Breivik : far right networks in Northern and Eastern Europe | publisher=Lit Verlag | location=Berlin Wien | year=2014 | isbn=978-3-643-90542-0 | page= 62}}</ref><ref name="Sadique 2016 p.">{{cite book | last=Sadique | first=Kim | title=Religion, Faith and Crime : Theories, Identities and Issues | publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK | location=London | year=2016 | isbn=978-1-137-45620-5 | page= 254}}</ref><ref name="Bronner 2014 p.">{{cite book | last=Bronner | first=Stephen | title=The bigot : why prejudice persists | publisher=Yale University Press | location=New Haven | year=2014 | isbn=978-0-300-16251-6 | page= 96}}</ref>}} She has been described as part of a broader anti-Muslim network or industry.<ref name=":2" /> ''Business Insider'' has described Geller as a "promoter of anti-Muslim conspiracy theories."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/pamela-geller-communications-with-john-bolton-2018-4|title=Anti-Muslim activist Pamela Geller has been in touch with Trump's new national security adviser, John Bolton|last=Relman|first=Eliza|website=Business Insider|access-date=2019-07-08}}</ref> Snopes has fact-checked a number of Geller's assertions about Muslims and Islam, and found them to be false. These include: false assertions by Geller that Muslims declared 24 December as Muhammad's birthday, in order to disrupt Christmas celebrations;<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/muslims-declare-december-24th-islamic-holiday/|title=FALSE: Muslims Declare Christmas Eve an Islamic Holiday|website=Snopes.com|date=December 17, 2015 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-08}}</ref> her promotion of a fake video as evidence of crime by Muslim immigrants in Italy;<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/did-migrants-destroy-a-car-in-italy/|title=FACT CHECK: Did Migrants Destroy a Car in Italy?|website=Snopes.com|date=February 13, 2018 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-08}}</ref> false claims that Muslim groups kept the money that they raised for the victims of the ];<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tree-of-life-muslim-groups-donations-mosque/|title=FACT CHECK: Did Muslim Groups Keep Money Intended for Victims of the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting?|website=Snopes.com|date=November 29, 2018 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-08}}</ref> and baseless assertions that Muslims celebrated the ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/04/17/misinformation-notre-dame-fire/|title=Different Disaster, Same Theme: Hoaxes and Misinformation Spread Online after Notre Dame Fire|website=Snopes.com|date=April 16, 2019 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-08}}</ref> In 2017, she falsely claimed that the ] was a leftist.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/las-vegas-shooter-trump-protest/|title=FACT CHECK: Was Las Vegas Shooter Identified at an Anti-Trump Protest?|website=Snopes.com|date=October 3, 2017 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-08}}</ref> In 2018, she falsely claimed that the ] “was immersed in Islamic and leftwing hate.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2018/feb/19/pamela-geller/no-proof-nikolas-cruz-was-motivated-islamic-or-lef/|title=No proof that Parkland shooter motivated by Islamic hate|website=@politifact|language=en|access-date=2019-07-08}}</ref>


Geller frequently characterizes incidents involving Muslims as part of a "jihad."<ref name=":8">{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/10/in-pam-geller-s-world-everybody-jihads|title=In Pam Geller's World, Everybody Jihads|last=Young|first=Cathy|date=2015-05-10|access-date=2019-07-08|language=en}}</ref> In 2011, she warned of “Vehicular Jihad in Arizona,” after reports of a man named Ajaz Rahaman had crashed into a supermarket; it was later shown that he had suffered a heart attack.<ref name=":8" /> She also claimed "vehicular jihad" when an Egyptian immigrant drove a car onto a curb, hurting pedestrians; she omitted that the police determined he had fallen asleep at the wheel.<ref name=":8" /> Geller has mischaracterized a variety of different events as being a part of jihad, including: an incident that involved a mentally ill, teenaged Bosnian shooter in ]; as well as assaults of Walmart staff and customers by meth addicts.<ref name=":8" /> She has speculated that ] Seung-Hui Cho was a jihadi.<ref name=":8" /> In 2011, she removed posts from her website as part of the settlement of a defamation lawsuit; she had accused a ] attorney of ties to Hamas.<ref name=":8" /> In 2017, her website published a video which falsely claimed a Muslim migrant had beat up a Dutch boy on crutches.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/30/videos-tweeted-by-trump-where-are-they-from-and-what-do-they-really-show|title=Videos tweeted by Trump: where are they from and what do they really show?|last=Henley|first=Jon|date=2017-11-30|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-07-08|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
===Paid ads on public transit===
] has sponsored ads which carry messages such as "Fatwa on Your Head?" and "Leaving Islam?" in several cities, including New York City and Miami, pointing readers to a website called RefugefromIslam.com.<ref name = "QueenHP" /><ref name="dailymail1">Mail Foreign Service. , ''Daily Mail'', May 27, 2010.</ref> Geller said the ads were meant to provide resources for Muslims who were afraid to leave the religion.<ref name="dailymail1"/>


Geller denies she is anti-Muslim,<ref name="guardian"/> saying: “I love Muslims. I help them.”<ref name="nd130408" /> She has said the only “moderate Muslim is a secular Muslim,” and that when Muslims pray, they are cursing Jews and Christians.<ref name=":5"/> She has claimed that Muslims practice ].<ref name=":6" /> Geller has expressed that “Islam is the most anti-Semitic, genocidal ideology in the world.”<ref>{{cite web|url=http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/11/new-york-times-con-job-daisy-khan-had-never-seen-so-many-jews-in-her-life.html|title=NY Times Con Job: 'Daisy Khan Had Never Seen So Many Jews In Her Life.'|last=Geller|first=Pamela|date=November 14, 2010|website=AtlasShrugs.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131126224836/http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/11/new-york-times-con-job-daisy-khan-had-never-seen-so-many-jews-in-her-life.html|archive-date=November 26, 2013|url-status=dead|access-date=March 2, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theislandnow.com/great_neck/news/article_fd4ffd10-a2b4-11e2-b729-0019bb2963f4.html|title=Under tight security, Geller addresses crowd of hundreds at Chabad|date=April 15, 2013|publisher=theislandnow.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130416001158/http://www.theislandnow.com/great_neck/news/article_fd4ffd10-a2b4-11e2-b729-0019bb2963f4.html|archive-date=April 16, 2013|url-status=dead|access-date=March 2, 2014|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harris-zafar/confronting-pamela-geller_b_1668089.html|title=Confronting Pamela Geller (Updated With Response)|date=July 13, 2012|work=The Huffington Post|access-date=March 2, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pamelageller.com/2012/07/confronting-the-huffington-post.html/|title=Confronting the #Huffington Post|date=July 16, 2012|publisher=pamelageller.com|access-date=March 2, 2014}}</ref> She has asserted that terrorists don't spring from “perversions of Islam, but from the religion itself.”<ref name="nytimes1" />
Geller and FDI/SIOA paid to run ads on the transit systems of New York City, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. The ad approved to run on the ] and ] read: "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad."<ref>{{cite news| url= http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/25/anti-muslim-subway-posters-nypd-increase-security_n_1912239.html| work= Huffington Post| date= 25 September 2012| title= Anti-Muslim Subway Posters Prompt NYPD To Increase Security In Stations | accessdate= 7 May 2015}}</ref>


Geller has been criticized by the Anti-Defamation League, Council on American-Islamic Relations, and Southern Poverty Law Center for espousing Islamophobia.<ref name=adlreport>{{cite web|url=http://www.adl.org/assets/pdf/civil-rights/stop-islamization-of-america-2013-1-11-v1.pdf|date=March 2011|publisher=]|title=Stop the Islamization of America|page=6}}</ref><ref name="ap120920" /><ref name="nyt120919" /><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/13/texas-draw-the-prophet-_n_6679256.html|title=Texas 'Draw the Prophet' Contest is Shameless Muslim-Baiting|last=Cascone|first=Sarah|date=February 13, 2015|work=The Huffington Post|access-date=May 7, 2015|agency=artnet News}}</ref> She has dismissed the SPLC as an "uber left" organization.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/02/25/2011-02-25_southern_poverty_law_center_lists_antiislamic_nyc_blogger_pamela_geller_follower.html|title=Southern Poverty Law Center lists anti-Islamic NYC blogger Pamela Geller, followers a hate group|last=Siemaszko|first=Corky|date=February 25, 2011|newspaper=]|access-date=February 25, 2011|location=New York City}}</ref> Political activist ] says that Geller takes aim at "radical Islam," comes to the defense of victims of honor killings, and deals with Islamist antisemitism—which the ADL and SPLC fail to address.<ref name="ja130510" />
New York's ] initially refused to display the ads in the New York City Subway system.<ref name= "CNN subway ad">{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/19/us/new-york-controversial-subway-ad/|title=Controversial 'Defeat Jihad' ad to appear in NYC subways|date=September 19, 2012|publisher =CNN|accessdate=October 1, 2014}}</ref> The authority's decision was overturned in July 2012, when Judge ] of the ] ruled that the ad was ] under the ], and that the MTA's actions were ].<ref name= "CNN subway ad" /><ref>{{cite news| url= http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/nyregion/ad-demeaning-muslims-to-appear-in-new-york-subway.html | work= The New York Times| title= Ad Calling Jihad ‘Savage’ Is Set to Appear in Subway | first= Matt | last= Flegenheimer | date= 18 September 2012 | accessdate= 7 May 2015}}</ref><ref name=WSJDemeaning>{{cite news|url=http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2012/07/20/court-rejects-mtas-ban-against-demeaning-transit-ads/|title=Court Rejects MTA's Ban Against 'Demeaning' Transit Ads|first= Ted |last= Mann|work=The Wall Street Journal|accessdate=October 1, 2014}}</ref> The judge held in a 35-page opinion that the rejected ad was "not only protected speech — it is core political speech ... is afforded the highest level of protection under the First Amendment."<ref name=WSJDemeaning /><ref>{{cite news| url= http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/nyregion/mta-violated-rights-of-pro-israel-group-judge-says.html | work= The New York Times| title= M.T.A. Violated Rights of Group, Judge Says| first= Benjamin |last= Weiser |date= 20 July 2012| accessdate= 7 May 2015}}</ref>


====2011 Norway attacks====
Opponents argue that the ad implies Muslims are savages.<ref name=ap120920>{{cite news|url=http://news.yahoo.com/anti-jihad-savage-ads-going-nyc-subway-220228596.html|title=Anti-jihad 'savage' ads going up in NYC subway|first= Karen |last= Matthews|agency=Associated Press|date=September 20, 2012}}</ref><ref name=nyt120919>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/nyregion/ad-demeaning-muslims-to-appear-in-new-york-subway.html|newspaper=The New York Times|title=Ad Calling Jihad 'Savage' Is Set to Appear in Subway|first= Matt |last= Flegenheimer|date=September 18, 2012}}</ref> Others argue the opposite, that it is insulting to assume Muslims will identify with violent jihadi.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/shocking_assumption_gwMiupSSPR0d6waO4lVt6J|title=A shocking assumption|newspaper=New York Post|date=Sep 29, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/09/27/mona-eltahawy-defends-jihad-we-are-all-proud-savages-now/|title=Mona Eltahawy Defends Jihad: We are all Proud Savages Now! |date=September 27, 2012 |first= Petra |last= Marquardt-Bigman|newspaper=The Algemeiner}}</ref> Some moderate Muslims argue that Geller's use of the word ''jihad'' is identical to Islamic extremists' and too common in general American usage. Some moderates seek to focus on the notion of ''jihad'' as a ''striving'', but find
She was cited, along with others, in ]'s manifesto.<ref name="Shane">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/us/25debate.html?_r=2&pagewanted=2|title=Killings in Norway Spotlight Anti-Muslim Thought in U.S.|last=Shane|first=Scott|date=July 24, 2011|website=The New York Times|access-date=May 10, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/07/25/278677/islamophobic-right-wing-blogger-breivi/|title=CHART: Oslo Terrorist's Manifesto Cited Many Islamophobic Bloggers And Pundits|last=Clifton|first=Eli|date=July 25, 2011|website=ThinkProgress|access-date=May 10, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2011/07/christian_terrorism.html|title=Christian Terrorism: If Muslims are responsible for Islamic terrorism, are Muslim-bashers responsible for the massacre in Norway?|last=Saletan|first=William|date=July 25, 2011|website=Slate Magazine|access-date=May 10, 2015}}</ref> Breivik, who was responsible for the ], featured her writing in twelve sections of his manifesto, referred to her as a "decent human being," and noted that he had followed Geller's blog "for the better part of a year."<ref name="Lean">{{Cite book|last=Lean|first=Nathan Chapman|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1005078813|title=The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Hatred of Muslims|date=2017|publisher=Pluto Press|others=John L. Esposito, Jack G. Shaheen|isbn=978-1-78680-135-7|edition=Second|location=London|oclc=1005078813}}</ref> As the media began to report on her influence on the attacks, she removed statements from her blog that could have been considered incriminating, including part of an email that she posted in June 2007 describing a stockpile and cache of weapons, ammunition, and equipment being amassed by an ''Atlas Shrugs'' reader in Norway.<ref name="Lean"/>
"rebranding" difficult in today's culture.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.salon.com/2013/01/09/can_jihad_be_rebranded/|title=Can "jihad" survive Pam Geller?|date=January 9, 2013|first= Alex |last= Seitz-Wald|newspaper=Salon}}</ref>


Geller wrote on her blog that "any assertion" that she or other anti-jihad writers bore any responsibility for Breivik's actions was "ridiculous," and that “If anyone incited him to violence, it was Islamic supremacists.””<ref name="Shane" /><ref>{{cite web|last=Goldberg|first=Jeffrey|date=July 25, 2011|title=On Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and Other Jihadists|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/07/on-pamela-geller-robert-spencer-and-other-jihadists/242474/|access-date=May 10, 2015|website=The Atlantic}}</ref> She later described the location of the attack, a youth camp on Utoya Island, as "an 'anti-Semitic indoctrination center' where children with a 'clearly pro-Islamic agenda' play war games,"<ref name="Lean" /> citing as evidence a picture of the attendees of the camp claiming they "are more Middle Eastern or mixed than pure Norwegian".<ref>{{cite book | vauthors=((Ali, W., Clifton, E., Duss, M., Fang, L., Keyes, S., Shakir, F.)) | date=August 26, 2011 | title=The right-wing media enablers of anti-Islam propaganda | publisher=Center for American Progress | url=https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/issues/2011/08/pdf/islamophobia_chapter4.pdf| access-date=March 13, 2024}}</ref> Geller also provided a rationale for Breivik's actions that has been described as "If not a defense of Breivik, ... astonishingly close to one": {{Blockquote|text=Breivik was targeting the future leaders of the party responsible for flooding Norway with Muslims who refuse to assimilate, who commit major violence against Norwegian natives, including violent gang rapes, with impunity, and who live on the dole ... all done without the consent of the Norwegians.<ref name="Lean" />}}
The ] called the ad "bigoted, divisive", and JCPA President Rabbi ] said, "The fact that ads have been placed in the subway attacking Israel does not excuse the use of attack ads against Muslims".<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Jewish Council for Public Affairs|title=JCPA Condemns Bigoted, Divisive, and Unhelpful Anti-Muslim Ads|url=http://engage.jewishpublicaffairs.org/blog/comments.jsp?key=477&blog_entry_KEY=6561&t=|accessdate=September 21, 2012 }}</ref> Israel Kasnett, editor for the '']'', argued that Geller is right in her description of violent jihad.<ref name=npr120924>{{cite news|url=http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/09/24/161706741/new-yorkers-rush-by-as-embattled-anti-jihad-ads-hit-the-subway|title=New Yorkers Rush By As Embattled Anti-Jihad Ads Hit The Subway|first= April |last= Fehling|date=September 24, 2012|newspaper=NPR}}</ref><ref name=jpost120930>{{cite news|url=http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Support-the-civilized-man|title=Support the civilized man|date=September 30, 2012|first= Israel |last= Kasnett|newspaper=Jerusalem Post}}</ref> Jewish groups such as the ] and the ] "successfully persuaded the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to donate proceeds from the ads to the city’s Human Rights Commission".<ref name="Pine">Pine, Dan. ''J Weekly''. May 16, 2013.</ref>


=== Political philosophy ===
In 2013, Geller purchased ad space at 39 New York City Subway stations for a new ad that "links Islam to terrorism".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/group-links-islam-terror-article-1.1235963#ixzz2HSN3sGa|title=Group's ads link Islam to terrorism: Controversial American Freedom Defense Initiative paid $77,000 to quote Koran with flaming Twin Towers|date=January 8, 2013|location=New York|newspaper=Daily News|first= Peter |last= Donohue}}</ref> Prompted by an ad critical of Israel on the subway, Geller said she is exercising her freedom of speech by showing a picture of the burning ] with a quote from the ]. The ads went up in January 2013 and ran about a month.<ref name=cbs130108>{{cite news|url=http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/01/08/more-ads-with-inflammatory-messages-about-islam-appear-in-nyc-subway/|title=More Ads With Inflammatory Messages About Islam Appear In NYC Subway|date=January 8, 2013|publisher=CBS News}}</ref>
Geller has been described as "far-right" by news outlets, such as: the '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', and human rights activist ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-berkeley-free-speech-week-20170914-story.html|title=Stephen Bannon, Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos to headline far-right Berkeley festival|last=Oreskes|first=Javier Panzar, Benjamin|website=]|date=September 15, 2017|access-date=2019-07-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.646770| title=Jon Stewart labeled 'most disgusting Jew on planet' by Pamela Geller| newspaper=]| date=March 14, 2015| access-date=May 7, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/26/far-right-bloggers-banned-entering-uk | title=Far-right US bloggers banned from entering UK for Woolwich rally| first=Matthew | last=Taylor |work=The Guardian | date=June 26, 2013 | access-date=May 7, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/notre-dame-hoax-timeline|title=A Timeline Of How The Notre Dame Fire Was Turned Into An Anti-Muslim Narrative|website=BuzzFeed News|language=en|access-date=2019-07-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/are-you-funding-pamela-geller-1.5425772|title=Why Is Mainstream Jewish Philanthropy Funding anti-Muslim, Far Right Pamela Geller?|date=2015-11-23|work=Haaretz|access-date=2019-07-08|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/story/midterm-elections-2018-misinformation-voting-hoaxes/|title=Alert: Track Midterm Election Day Misinformation Right Here|author=WIRED Staff|date=2018-11-07|magazine=Wired|access-date=2019-07-08|issn=1059-1028}}</ref> Zeskind also classified Geller as a radical right ideologue, racist, and Islamophobic.<ref name="Weiss" />{{rp|137}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Zeskind |first=Leonard |author-link=Leonard Zeskind |chapter=The Tea Party Movement at the Crossroads of Nation and State |title=The Post-War Anglo-American Far Right: A Special Relationship of Hate |page=110 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2014 |isbn=9781137396204 |editor=Paul Jackson and Anton Shekhovtsov |quote=The Anglo-American far-right ... So although broadly speaking we can say that a common set of far-right, racist, Islamophobic and anti-immigrant ideas do exist across the Atlantic Ocean, epitomised by a figure such as Geller ...}}</ref> Geller is a supporter of the far-right ] (EDL), proclaiming: “I share the EDL's goals&nbsp;... We need to encourage rational, reasonable groups that oppose the Islamisation of the west.”<ref name="ObserverEDL">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/oct/10/english-defence-league-tea-party/print|title=English Defence League forges links with America's Tea Party|last=Townsend|first=Mark|date=October 10, 2010|work=]|access-date=February 28, 2014}}</ref> In June 2013, Geller was scheduled to speak at an EDL rally,<ref name="Huff20130620">{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/06/20/edl-robert-spencer-pamela-geller_n_3472196.html|title=Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer To Speak At EDL Rally In Woolwich, Campaigners Call For UK Entry Ban|last=Elgot|first=Jessica|date=June 20, 2013|newspaper=The Huffington Post|location=London}}</ref> but was barred from entering Britain by a Home Office ruling that described her as having established "anti-Muslim hate groups."<ref name="Ind20130626" /> Cited as evidence for the ban were statements categorizing ] as "a manifestation of devout Islam," and stating that jihad requires Jews as an enemy.<ref name="news4UK">{{cite news|url=http://www.channel4.com/news/usa-right-wing-activist-pamela-geller-banned-from-uk|title=American right-wing activists banned from entering UK|last=Whelan|first=Brian|date=July 26, 2013|newspaper=4 News|access-date=December 21, 2013|location=UK}}</ref> Geller called the decision “a striking blow against freedom ... The nation that gave the world the ] is dead.” ], which led a campaign to ban her, applauded the decision, stating: “There is a line in the sand between freedom of speech and the right to use hate speech.”<ref name="Ind20130626" />


In economics, Geller favors "right-wing," "small government" fiscal policies of cutting taxes and reducing budgets.<ref name="bbc150504">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32580059|title=Pamela Geller: America's 'bigoted blogger'|date=May 5, 2015|work=BBC News}}</ref><ref name="Weiss" />{{rp|137}} She is "socially liberal" in her support of ]<ref name="nytimes1" /><ref name="jewish week 2010-09-01" /><ref name="VV121128" /> and ],<ref name="bbc150504" /><ref name="VV121128" /> but she believes drug legalization goes "too far."<ref name="Weiss" />{{rp|130}} ]'s writings had a big influence on her thought.<ref name="nytimes1" /><ref name="jewish week 2010-09-01" /><ref name="VV121128" /><ref name="guardian" /><ref name="Weiss" />{{rp|129–137}} Unlike Rand, Geller is a ] who defends the ] ethical tradition.<ref name="Weiss" />{{rp|134}} In her rhetorical style, she shares Rand's "verbal excesses," accompanied by a "willingness to provoke and offend."<ref name="Weiss" />{{rp|133–4}}
In the fall of 2014, Geller paid $100,000 for a series of ads to run on the MTA again. They link Islam to the ], ], ], and the beheading of ]; a court ruling required the MTA to run the ads.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/shocking-anti-islam-ad-campaign-okd-mta-article-1.1945174|title=Shocking anti-Islam ad campaign coming to MTA buses, subway stations|date=September 19, 2014|newspaper=New York Daily News|first= Jennifer |last= Fermino}}</ref> The ads were also run on Philadelphia's SPETA mass transit and Washington DC's mass transit.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dr-gridlock/wp/2014/05/15/in-metrobus-ads-pro-israel-group-features-photo-of-hitler/|title=In Metrobus ads, pro-Israel group features photo of Hitler|author=Paul Deggan|work=Washington Post|date=May 15, 2014}}</ref> ] wrote the ads backfired and united people of all religions against what was viewed as an attack on all Muslims.<ref name=pipes2015>{{cite news|url=http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/thinktank/SEPTA-ad-campaign-a-spectacular-failure.html|title=SEPTA ad campaign a spectacular failure|date=May 26, 2015|author=Daniel Pipes|work=Philadelphia Inquirer}}</ref> The MTA, SEPTA, and Washington's Metro have decided to ban all political ads.<ref name=pipes2015/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/04/mta-bans-political-ads-from-subways-and-buses.html|title=MTA Bans Political Ads From Appearing on Subways and Buses|author=Jessica Roy|date=April 29, 2015|work=New York Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/243351-dc-metro-limits-ads-after-request-for-muhammad-cartoon|title=DC Metro bans 'issue' ads after Muhammad cartoon request|date=May 28, 2015|work=The Hill|author=Julian Hattem}}</ref>


===Curtis Culwell Center attack=== === Israel ===
Geller is an ardent ].<ref name="jj120625">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/los_angeles/article/anti-muslim_activist_pamela_geller_barred_from_speaking_at_jewish_federatio|title=Anti-Muslim activist barred from speaking at Jewish Federation headquarters|date=June 25, 2012|work=]|access-date=February 4, 2013}}</ref> She encouraged Israel to “stand loud and proud. Give up nothing. Turn over not a pebble. For every rocket fired, drop a ]. Take back Gaza. Secure Judea and Samaria. Stop buying '']''. Throw leftists bums out,” referring to the ] as "Judea and Samaria".<ref name="Indomitable Israel">{{cite news|url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/7968 |title=Op-Ed: Indomitable Israel|first1=Pamela|last1=Geller|first2=Eliza|last2=Saxon|publisher=Arutz Sheva|location=Beit El|date=May 11, 2008|access-date=September 14, 2010}}</ref> She regards much of the Israeli media as "Jewicidal," and the ] movement as a failed idea and a variety of slavery.<ref name=Weiss />{{rp|133}}
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Geller helped to organize a "Draw the Prophet" cartoon contest on May 3, 2015, at the ] in ], the same site where a Muslim group held a "Stand With the Prophet" event in January 2015 after the ].<ref name=r150504>{{cite news|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/04/us-usa-shooting-texas-idUSKBN0NP01G20150504|title=Police shoot dead 2 gunmen at Texas exhibit of Prophet Mohammad cartoons|first1= Mike |last1=Stone|first2=Lisa Maria |last2= Garza|date=4 May 2015|newspaper=Reuters}}</ref><ref name=nyt150503>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/04/us/gunmen-killed-after-firing-on-anti-islam-groups-event.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0|title=Texas Police Kill Gunmen at Exhibit Featuring Cartoons of Muhammad|first= Liam |last= Stack|newspaper=New York Times|date=3 May 2015}}</ref> The same day, shots were fired at the event in Garland, resulting in the death of two suspects and the injury of one ] (ISD) police officer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/people-shot-texas-prophet-muhammad-art-exhibit-article-1.2208953|title=Two gunmen shot dead by cops after opening fire outside controversial 'Prophet Muhammad' art exhibit in Texas|work=New York Daily News|date=May 3, 2015|accessdate=May 4, 2015}}</ref> Reactions to the decision to hold the cartoon contest ranged from negative<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-trump-lambasts-disgusting-pam-geller-for-baiting-muslims-with-draw-the-prophet-contest-in-texas-10226027.html|title=Donald Trump lambasts 'disgusting' Pam Geller for baiting Muslims with 'draw the prophet' contest in Texas|newspaper=The Independent|date=May 5, 2015|author=Jenn Selby|accessdate=May 7, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/05/06/fox-newss-greta-van-susteren-scolds-pamela-geller/|title=Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren scolds Pamela Geller|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=May 6, 2015|author=Erik Wemple|accessdate=May 7, 2015}}</ref> to positive.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/meet-the-bravest-woman-in-america/|title=Meet the bravest woman in America|date=May 14, 2015|accessdate=May 23, 2015|author=Joseph Farah}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/alan-dershowitz-pamela-geller-like-martin-luther-king/2015/05/07/id/643355/|title=Dershowitz: Geller Critics Should Realize MLK Provoked, Too|date=May 7, 2015|accessdate=May 22, 2015|author=Greg Richter}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418201/first-and-half-amendment-victor-davis-hanson|title=The First — and a Half — Amendment|date=May 12, 2015|accessdate=May 23, 2015|author=Victor Davis Hanson}}</ref>


=== Barack Obama conspiracy theories ===
==''Atlas Shrugs'' blog==
Geller has put forth a number of conspiracy theories and falsehoods about ].<ref name=":5"/> She has claimed he is a Muslim,<ref name=":5"/> and that he was born in Kenya.<ref name="Kenya"/> She published a reader's letter speculating that Obama's mother was involved in pornography, that his "spiritual father" was a child rapist, that Obama "was involved with a ] in his youth," and that ] had impregnated Obama's mother.<ref name="QueenHP" /><ref name="VV121128" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/08/cnn-tells-sells-more-lies-about-palin-its-time-to-expose-the-truth-about-obama.html|title=CNN Tells, Sells More Lies About Palin – it's Time to Expose the truth about Obama|last=Geller|first=Pamela|date=August 1, 2009|work=Atlas Shrugs|access-date=August 22, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110129040937/http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/08/cnn-tells-sells-more-lies-about-palin-its-time-to-expose-the-truth-about-obama.html|archive-date=January 29, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/dunham.asp|title=Ann Dunham Soetoro|publisher=snopes.com|archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090709224926/http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/dunham.asp|archive-date=July 9, 2009|url-status=dead|access-date=September 14, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/how-could-stanl.html|title=How could Stanley Ann Dunham have delivered Barack Hussein Obama Jr. in August 1961 in Honolulu, when official University of Washington Records show her 2680 miles away in Seattle attending classes that same month?|date=October 24, 2008|work=Atlas Shrugs|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081031070524/http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/how-could-stanl.html|archive-date=October 31, 2008|url-status=dead|access-date=October 17, 2010}}</ref> She has accused Obama of appointing Muslims to government positions who may have ties to Muslim extremists and want to undermine the United States.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hammer|first=Juliane|chapter=Center Stage: Gendered Islamophobia and Muslim Women |date=2013|work=Islamophobia in America: The Anatomy of Intolerance|pages=127|editor-last=Ernst|editor-first=Carl W.|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US|language=en|doi=10.1057/9781137290076_5|isbn=9781137290076|title=Islamophobia in America}}</ref> She accused the State Department in the Obama administration of being run by "Islamic supremacists."<ref name="nytimes1" /> She wrote in a 2010 book (co-authored with Robert Spencer) that "Barack Hussein Obama" was pursuing the “implementation of a soft sharia: the quiet and piecemeal implementation of Islamic laws that subjugate non-Muslims.”<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/john-bolton-anti-muslim-enabler/556442/|title=John Bolton and the Normalization of Fringe Conservatism|last=Beinart|first=Peter|date=March 24, 2018|magazine=]|language=en-US|access-date=July 8, 2019}}</ref>


In July 2010, she published a book with Robert Spencer, ''The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America,''<ref name="Obamabook">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9RR2MyoDwBAC|title=The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America|last1=Geller|first1=Pamela|last2=Spencer|first2=Robert|date=July 2010|publisher=]|isbn=978-1-4391-8930-6}}</ref> which criticized the ].
Geller's blog, ''Atlas Shrugs,'' is named in homage to novelist/philosopher ]'s novel '']''.<ref name="nytimes1"/><ref name="guardian"/> Rand's writings had a seminal influence on her thought.<ref name="nytimes1"/><ref name="jewish week 2010-09-01"/><ref name= VV121128/><ref name="guardian"/> Geller was a frequent and prolific commenter on the ] '']'' when, encouraged by a fellow commenter, she started her own blog in late 2004.<ref name="nytimes1"/><ref name=adlreport/> She refers to her blog as "my living room and kitchen — a place where she can kick back and yell, like some people shout at their TV" in contrast to her books and published articles which are "more studied and more measured."<ref name="jewish week 2010-09-01"/>


=== Genocide conspiracy theories ===
Her first "spike" in traffic came in early 2006. When thousands of Muslims worldwide protested – sometimes ] – over ] printed in a Danish newspaper,<ref>{{Cite news|title=Muslim cartoon fury claims lives|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4684652.stm|date=February 6, 2006|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=September 24, 2011}}</ref> Geller posted the cartoons on her blog.<ref name="nytimes1"/><ref>{{cite web|title=The Danes Wont Deign, But Will the UN?|url=http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2006/01/so_its_ok_to_ca.html|date=January 29, 2006|first=Pamela|last=Geller|work=Atlas Shrugs|accessdate=September 24, 2011}}</ref> Consequently her hits increased dramatically to tens of thousands.<ref name="nytimes1"/> By September 2010 she was attracting 184,000 visitors per month.<ref name="nytimes1"/>
According to a 2013 study of the ], Geller “is among the most vociferous revisionists” of the genocide.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/srebrenica-in-the-aftermath-of-genocide/9D3BD3456AB6963AA1D5F2C888AB0865|title=Srebrenica in the Aftermath of Genocide by Lara J. Nettelfield|last1=Wagner|first1=Sarah E.|last2=Nettelfield|first2=Lara J.|date=2013|publisher=Cambridge Core|page=374|doi=10.1017/CBO9781139034968|isbn=9781139034968|language=en}}</ref> She denies the genocide of Bosniaks in Srebrenica, describing it as the "Srebrenica Genocide Myth."<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":8" /> She has defended ], who died while standing trial for war crimes in the ], and denied the existence of Serbian ].<ref name="guardian" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/07/the-real-criminals-presiding-over-the-international-criminal-court-part-ii-of-nuremberg-ii.html|title=The Real Criminals Presiding over the International Criminal Court Part II of Nuremberg II|last=Geller|first=Pamela|work=Atlas Shrugs|access-date=October 30, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727193424/http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/07/the-real-criminals-presiding-over-the-international-criminal-court-part-ii-of-nuremberg-ii.html|archive-date=July 27, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> She claimed that the 1999 ] was “in order to pave the way for an Islamic state in the heart of Europe—Kosovo.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/pamela-geller-deemed-not-conducive-to-the-public-good/|title=Pamela Geller – Deemed 'Not Conducive to the Public Good'|website=blogs.timesofisrael.com|language=en-US|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190708182032/https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/pamela-geller-deemed-not-conducive-to-the-public-good/|archive-date=July 8, 2019|url-status=live|access-date=2019-07-08}}</ref>


She has been critical of the ], who are an ethnic minority in Myanmar that has been subjected to ] and ethnic cleansing.<ref name=":7"/> She has blamed the Rohingya for the violence in Myanmar, said that the inhabitants of Myanmar “have every right to be concerned” about the Rohingya, claimed “Muslims are waging jihad in Burma,” accused the Rohingya of “circulating fake pictures,” and directed her readers to a book called ''The Rohingya Hoax''.<ref name=":7" />
During the 2008 Presidential campaign she posted a number of critical articles on ], including a campaign donation story that was picked up by the national media.<ref name="Illegal Campaign D 103110">{{cite web|url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96403125|title=Illegal Campaign Donations Spur Calls For Change|publisher=NPR|date= October 31, 2008|accessdate=September 14, 2010}}</ref> She also posted rumors, some of which she later distanced herself from, that Obama's mother was involved in pornography, that his "spiritual father" was a child rapist, that Obama "was involved with a ] in his youth", and that ] had impregnated his mother.<ref name="QueenHP" /><ref name= VV121128/><ref>{{cite web | url = http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/08/cnn-tells-sells-more-lies-about-palin-its-time-to-expose-the-truth-about-obama.html | title = CNN Tells, Sells More Lies About Palin – it's Time to Expose the truth about Obama | accessdate = August 22, 2010 | last = Geller | first = Pamela | date = August 1, 2009 | work = Atlas Shrugs}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/dunham.asp |title=Ann Dunham Soetoro |publisher=snopes.com |date= |accessdate=September 14, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/how-could-stanl.html|title=How could Stanley Ann Dunham have delivered Barack Hussein Obama Jr. in August 1961 in Honolulu, when official University of Washington Records show her 2680 miles away in Seattle attending classes that same month?|work=Atlas Shrugs|accessdate=October 17, 2010|deadurl=no|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20081031070524/http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/how-could-stanl.html|archivedate=October 31, 2008|date=October 24, 2008}}</ref>


She has published articles advancing the false conspiracy theory of a ].<ref name="guardian" /><ref name="terrible'anche">{{cite journal|last=Goldberg|first=Jeffrey|date=October 18, 2010|title=Pamela Geller Supports English Pogromists, South African Fascists|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/10/pamela-geller-supports-english-pogromists-south-african-fascists/64693/|access-date=October 28, 2010|journal=]}}</ref>
Critics say that many other claims that Geller has posted in her blog are outrageous.<ref name="guardian"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://mediamatters.org/research/201008190024|title=Attention TV networks: Pam Geller is lying to your viewers|accessdate=August 24, 2010|date=August 19, 2010|publisher=]}}</ref><ref name="terrible'anche">{{cite journal|url=http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/10/pamela-geller-supports-english-pogromists-south-african-fascists/64693/|title=Pamela Geller Supports English Pogromists, South African Fascists|work=]|first=Jeffrey|last=Goldberg|accessdate=October 28, 2010|date=October 18, 2010}}</ref> For example, she has published articles that said black ]ns are engaging in a "]" against whites;<ref name="guardian"/><ref name="terrible'anche"/><ref>Geller, Pamela. , ''The American Thinker'', reprinted in ''Atlas Shrugs'', April 16, 2010.</ref> that argued the ] in Jerusalem, one of Islam's holiest sites, should be removed;<ref>{{cite web | url = http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/09/erev-yom-muslim-riot-attack-jews-in-jerusalem-policemen-wounded-in-temple-mt-riots.html | title = Erev Yom: Muslims Riot, Attack Jews in Jerusalem – Policemen wounded in Temple Mt. riots | accessdate = August 22, 2010 | last = Geller | first = Pamela | date = September 27, 2009 | work = Atlas Shrugs}}</ref> and that defended ] and ], perpetrators of the ] and ] against Bosnian Muslims and Croats, denying the existence of Serbian ] and arguing that many Muslim war victims were murdered by their own people in order to bring condemnation on the Serbs.<ref name="guardian"/><ref>{{cite web|last=Geller|first=Pamela|title=The Real Criminals Presiding over the International Criminal Court Part II of Nuremberg II|url=http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/07/the-real-criminals-presiding-over-the-international-criminal-court-part-ii-of-nuremberg-ii.html|work=Atlas Shrugs|accessdate=30 October 2010}}</ref> She denies supporting Milošević but has expressed skepticism of some accounts of the camps.<ref name=rebuttal>{{cite web|url=http://pamelageller.com/rebuttals-to-false-charges/|title=Rebuttals to False Charges|first= Pamela |last= Geller|accessdate=February 13, 2014}}</ref>


==Media response== ==Personal life==
Geller was married to Michael Oshry from 1990 until the couple divorced in 2007. She received nearly $4 million in the divorce settlement.<ref name="nytimes1" /> Michael died of a heart attack in 2008.<ref name="TDB 28 Feb 2018" /><ref name="nytimes1"/> As part of his life-insurance policy, his daughters gained $5 million.<ref name="nytimes1" /> Pamela and Michael had four daughters: Claudia, Jackie, Olivia, and Margo Oshry. The four of them are social media influencers, running the Girl With No Job account on ], and a ]/] show called ''The Morning Toast''.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Lorenz|first=Taylor|date=February 28, 2018|title=The Instagram Stars Hiding Their Famous, Muslim-Hating Mom, Pamela Geller|work=]|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-instagram-stars-hiding-their-famous-muslim-hating-mom-pamela-geller|access-date=May 31, 2020}}</ref>
According to Cord Jefferson in the '']'', "the media often craves controversy over substance" and paid "disproportionate attention" to the ] story. Citing Salon writer Justin Elliot as evidence that "the controversy was kicked up and driven by Pamela Geller, a right-wing, viciously anti-Muslim, conspiracy-mongering blogger, whose sinister portrayal of the project was embraced by Rupert Murdoch's ''New York Post''." Jefferson concludes that "... a small-time political blogger with an obsession was able to hijack the news cycle for months."<ref>, ], Justin Elliott, August 16, 2010. Retrieved 9 May 2015.</ref><ref name=prospect2011>{{cite journal|url=http://www.questia.com/read/1G1-252446753/the-right-messengers-can-the-media-responsibly-cover|title=The Right Messengers: Can the Media Responsibly Cover Race? Only with the Guidance of a More Diverse Audience|first= Cord |last= Jefferson |date=April 2011|journal=]}}</ref> The story was erroneously labeled "The Ground Zero Mosque" by "multiple conservative media outlets such as Fox News and drew national attention.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=QL17Mt4uhasC&pg=PA26&dq=%22pamela+geller%22+%22right+wing%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AzG4UvKCOc_NkQev_IHoCA&ved=0CGoQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22pamela%20geller%22&f=false|title=Journalism After September 11|first1= Barbie |last1= Zelizer|first2=Stuart |last2=Allan| publisher=Routledge|year=2002|isbn=978-0415288002}}</ref>

], writing in the '']'' on the subway ads, says they were meant to provoke by being ambiguous. There were immediately taken as many as hateful and "racist". McGurn says "most Americans probably read it the way it is written: Israel is a civilized nation under attack from people who do savage things in the name of jihad." He points out that the word "jihad" is taken in a benign spiritual sense or as a violent militant sense. He finds the media is too quick to assume the ad is an attack on the religion and all Muslims.<ref name="wsj121001"/>

The blog has been criticized by ] ],.<ref name="mediamatters1">{{cite web|url=http://mediamatters.org/research/201007140035|title=Memo to media: Pamela Geller does not belong on national television|publisher=]|accessdate=August 24, 2010|date=July 14, 2010}}</ref><ref name="mediamatters2">{{cite web|url=http://mediamatters.org/research/201008190024|title=Attention TV networks: Pam Geller is lying to your viewers|accessdate=August 24, 2010|publisher=]|date=August 19, 2010}}</ref> She was called "extreme" by ] of '']''.<ref name="guardian">{{cite web|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/20/rightwing-blogs-islam-america|title=The US blogger on a mission to halt 'Islamic takeover{{'-}}|work=]|location=London|accessdate=August 21, 2010|first=Chris|last=McGreal|date=August 20, 2010}}</ref> Conversely, it has been praised by Caroline Glick, managing editor of ''The Jerusalem Post'', who hailed the blog's coverage of Muslim "]s" and called her "an intrepid blogger".<ref>{{cite web|title=Political Messiah in the Holy Land|url=http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NGI4MmY4MmMyYzY1MDhiNTEzMmRmM2ViYmI5OTFkZjM=|work=]|date=July 25, 2008}}</ref><ref> ''Jerusalem Post''. December 14, 2010.</ref>

==Works==


She lives in ], and Sutton Place, New York.<ref name=nd130408>{{cite news|url=http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/blogger-involved-in-ground-zero-mosque-controversy-to-speak-in-great-neck-1.5033720|title=Blogger involved in 'Ground Zero mosque' controversy to speak in Great Neck|work=Newsday|date=April 8, 2013|access-date=February 21, 2014|first=Bart |last=Jones}}</ref>
===Books===
* '''', Pamela Geller with ], foreword by (former) Ambassador ], (], July 2010) ISBN 978-1-4391-8930-6
* {{cite book|title=Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide for the Resistance|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=haehZwEACAAJ|date=2011|publisher=WND Books|isbn=9781936488360}}
* ''Freedom or Submission: On the Dangers of Islamic Extremism & American Complacency'', Pamela Geller, (], April 3, 2013) ISBN 978-1-484019-65-8


==See also== ==Bibliography==
* ''The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America'', Pamela Geller with ], foreword by (former) Ambassador ], (], July 2010) {{ISBN|978-1-4391-8930-6}}
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* ''Freedom or Submission: On the Dangers of Islamic Extremism & American Complacency'', Pamela Geller, (], April 3, 2013) {{ISBN|978-1-484019-65-8}}
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* ''Fatwa: Hunted in America'', Pamela Geller, (Dangerous Books), November 1, 2017 {{ISBN|978-1-947979-00-0}}
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American activist, blogger, commentator

Pamela Geller
Geller in 2011
Born1958 (age 65–66)
Hewlett Harbor, New York, U.S.
Alma materHofstra University; left before completing degree
Occupation(s)Political activist, commentator, former newspaper editor
Known forOpposition to Park51 community center and mosque
SpouseMichael Oshry (1990–2007; divorced)
Children4
Websitepamelageller.com

Pamela Geller (born 1958) is an American anti-Muslim, far-right political activist, blogger and commentator. Geller promoted birther conspiracy theories about President Barack Obama, saying that he was born in Kenya and that he is a Muslim.

In 2006, Geller reproduced the controversial Danish cartoons of Muhammad published by the Jyllands-Posten newspaper on her blog. She came to further prominence in 2010 for leading the campaign against the proposed Park51 Islamic community center, which Geller called the "Ground Zero Mega Mosque." She is the president of Stop Islamization of America (also known as the American Freedom Defense Initiative), an anti-Muslim group which she co-founded with Robert Spencer. Since 2013, she has bought anti-Muslim ads on public transit networks in various cities. She has also denied genocides where Muslims were victims, including the Bosnian genocide and the Rohingya genocide. The British government barred Geller's entry into the UK in 2013, citing her anti-Muslim activism, and saying her presence would “not be conducive to the public good.” She has been targeted in an assassination attack by Islamic fundamentalists.

Geller launched her first blog, Atlas Shrugs, in 2004. It was succeeded by the Geller Report. Both websites have been known for promoting falsehoods and conspiracy theories.

Early life

Geller is the third of four sisters born to a Jewish family; her father, Reuben Geller, is a textile manufacturer, and her mother is Lillian Geller. She grew up in Hewlett Harbor, on New York's Long Island. She helped out in her father's business, where she learned to speak fluent Spanish. Two of her sisters became doctors, and the third became a teacher. Geller attended Lynbrook High School and Hofstra University, leaving before she completed her degree.

Career

Media

During most of the 1980s, Geller worked at the New York Daily Newsfirst as a financial analyst, and then in advertising and marketing. Subsequently, she was associate publisher of The New York Observer from 1989 through 1994. In a Village Voice interview, Geller indicated that she had only become political since the 9/11 attacks, after which she began reading authors on Islam such as Bat Ye'or and Ibn Warraq, saying she "spent years studying the matter before I started blogging."

Political activism

Geller created a blog called Atlas Shrugs (a reference to Atlas Shrugged, the novel by Ayn Rand) in 2004. Geller was a frequent and prolific commenter on the blog Little Green Footballs when, encouraged by a fellow commenter, she started her own blog in late 2004. She has referred to her blog as “my living room and kitchen—a place where she can kick back and yell, like some people shout at their TV,” in contrast to her books and published articles, which are “more studied and more measured.” The blog gained attention in 2006, when Geller reprinted the controversial cartoons of Muhammad that were originally published in the Danish Jyllands-Posten newspaper. In 2007, her campaign against an Arabic language public school in Brooklyn was said to have played "an important role" in the resignation of its principal, Debbie Almontaser. The blog has been criticized by progressive Media Matters for America. Conversely, it has been praised by Caroline Glick, managing editor of The Jerusalem Post, who hailed the blog's coverage of Muslim "honor killings" and called her "an intrepid blogger," specifically for Geller's coverage of treatment of women under Sharia law and in Islamic countries.

In 2010, Geller co-founded the American Freedom Defense Initiative organization (AFDI), also known as Stop Islamization of America, with Robert Spencer, an anti-Muslim activist. Geller is a co-founder of Stop Islamization of Nations, an umbrella organization that includes Stop Islamization of America and Stop Islamisation of Europe. Both SIOA and AFDI are described as exhibiting anti-Muslim bigotry by the Anti-Defamation League. The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies them as hate groups.

At the 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Geller criticized the Pentagon's report on the 2009 Fort Hood shooting for failing to talk about the religious motivations behind the attack. Geller was forbidden to appear at CPAC in 2013. Geller attributed her exclusion from the event to her having accused CPAC board members Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan of being “members of the Muslim Brotherhood and secret Islamist agents.”

The British government barred Geller's entry into the UK in 2013, citing her anti-Muslim activism, and saying her presence would “not be conducive to the public good.”

In April 2013, Rabbi Michael White and Jerome Davidson, in denouncing Geller as an anti-Muslim bigot, opposed her presentation on Sharia law at a Long Island synagogue. It was canceled due to security concerns. Israeli columnist Caroline Glick disputed the assertions by White and Davidson, and argued that Geller opposed jihadists, not all Muslims. In May 2013, the Jewish Defense League of Canada invited Geller to speak in Toronto, Canada. Initially, Geller was invited by Rabbi Mendel Kaplan to speak at Chabad@Flamingo. Because Kaplan was a chaplain with the York Regional Police, the police's Hate Crimes Unit stated that Kaplan's invitation conflicted with “our long-held position of inclusivity.” Kaplan consequently cancelled Geller's invitation, and she spoke at the Toronto Zionist Centre.

Geller has been a contributor to The Washington Times, Newsmax, Human Events, WorldNetDaily, the American Thinker, Israel National News and Breitbart News. She has written a column titled "Defending the West" for WorldNetDaily starting in 2011.

She runs the website, The Geller Report, which is registered through her organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative. In October 2018, the website falsely claimed that a Swedish Christmas concert had been cancelled, so as to not offend Muslims. In November 2018, the website falsely claimed that former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn had been cleared of criminal wrong-doing in the Russia probe. The website described the Russia probe as a "coup" against President Donald Trump. The website promoted falsehoods about the COVID-19 pandemic.

Park51

In May 2010, Geller began a campaign against the proposed Park51 Islamic community center and mosque, which she called the "Ground Zero Mega Mosque." Geller claimed that Park51 is viewed by Muslims as a "triumphal" monument built on "conquered land," and asserted: “I'm not leading the charge against the Islamic center near Ground Zero. The majority of Americans—70%—find this deeply insulting, offensive. To call it anti-Muslim is a gross misrepresentation, and to say that I'm responsible for all this emotion, again a gross misrepresentation.” When asked whether she agreed “that the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 were practicing a perverted form of Islam, and that is not what is going to be practiced at this mosque,” she responded: “I will say that the Muslim terrorists were practicing pure Islam, original Islam.” Based upon unsubstantiated evidence, Geller has claimed that Park51's project financing had potential ties to terrorists. Geller came to prominence over her opposition to the mosque's construction. According to Time magazine, Geller "played a pivotal role in making Park51 a national issue." According to Stephanie Wright in Fear of Muslims?, Geller's language in opposing the mosque was repeated by mainstream politicians, such as Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich.

The Council on American–Islamic Relations and the progressive watchdog group Media Matters for America criticized the media for giving attention to Geller. Andrew C. McCarthy, writing in the conservative magazine National Review, criticized the CAIR spokesperson's remarks on the matter, citing his remark: “I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic.” According to Cord Jefferson in the American Prospect, “the media often craves controversy over substance,” and paid "disproportionate attention" to the Park51 story, thus furnishing “a small-time political blogger with an obsession” an opportunity “to hijack the news cycle for months.”

Public transit ads

Stop Islamization of America has sponsored ads which carried instigative messages, such as "Fatwa on Your Head?" and "Leaving Islam?" in several cities, including New York City and Miami, which pointed readers to a website called RefugefromIslam.com. Geller and FDI/SIOA paid to run ads on the transit systems of New York City, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. The ad approved to run on the New York City Subway and San Francisco buses read: “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.” One ad had a picture of the World Trade Center in flames, with a quote from the Quran: “Soon we shall cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers.” Another ad showed a man in a keffiyah, with the text: “Killing Jews is Worship that draws us close to Allah. That's His Jihad. What's yours?”

New York's MTA initially refused to display the ads in the New York City Subway system, but the decision was overturned in July 2012 by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, which ruled that the ad was protected speech under the First Amendment, and that the MTA's actions were unconstitutional. The judge, Paul A. Engelmayer, held in a 35-page opinion that the rejected ad was “not only protected speech — it is core political speech ... is afforded the highest level of protection under the First Amendment.”

Opponents argued that an ad with the text, “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad” implied Muslims are savages. Columnists in the New York Post and The Algemeiner argued the opposite—that it was insulting to assume Muslims will identify with violent jihad. Some Muslims argued that Geller's use of the word jihad is identical to Islamic extremists', and too common in general American usage. There is an effort to focus on the notion of jihad as a striving, but find "rebranding" difficult in today's culture. The Jewish Council for Public Affairs called the ad "bigoted, divisive," and JCPA President Rabbi Steve Gutow said: “The fact that ads have been placed in the subway attacking Israel does not excuse the use of attack ads against Muslims.” Israel Kasnett, editor for the Jerusalem Post, argued that Geller is right in her description of violent jihad. Jewish groups, such as the Jewish Community Relations Council and the Anti-Defamation League, have “successfully persuaded the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to donate proceeds from the ads to the city's Human Rights Commission.” In a column for The Wall Street Journal, conservative columnist William McGurn criticized the "media" for being “too quick to assume the ad is an attack on the religion and all Muslims.”

In 2013, Geller purchased ad space at thirty-nine New York City Subway stations for a new ad that “ Islam to terrorism.” Prompted by an ad critical of Israel on the subway, Geller said she was exercising her freedom of speech by showing a picture of the burning World Trade Center juxtaposed with a quote from the Koran. The ads went up in January 2013, and ran for about a month. In the fall of 2014, Geller paid $100,000 for a series of ads to run on the MTA again. They linked Islam to the Islamic State, Hamas, Adolf Hitler, and the beheading of James Foley; a court ruling required the MTA to run the ads. The ads were also run on Philadelphia's SEPTA transit system, and Washington, D.C.'s WMATA transit system. Daniel Pipes wrote the ads backfired, and united people of all religions against what was viewed as an attack on all Muslims. The MTA, SEPTA, and Washington's Metro have decided to ban all political ads.

In 2015, Geller announced that she would run ads on public transit systems accusing donors to the New Israel Fund of being supporters of the anti-Israel BDS movement, although a spokesperson from NIF said the charge is false. Geller wrote that: “These leaders are 21st-century kapos, but worse ... They are leftists aligned with the jihad force.”

Curtis Culwell Center attack

Main article: Curtis Culwell Center attack

Geller helped to organize a "Draw the Prophet" cartoon contest on May 3, 2015, at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, the same site where a Muslim group held a "Stand With the Prophet" event in January 2015, after the Charlie Hebdo shooting. The same day, shots were fired outside the event in Garland, resulting in the death of two suspected shooters by the police, and the injury of one security guard. The decision to hold the cartoon contest received both criticism and support from a number of journalists and other public figures.

June 2015 assassination plot

Main article: 2015 Boston beheading plot

On June 2, 2015, a 26-year-old Muslim man, identified as Rahim Nicholas, was shot and killed by police officers in Boston, after he waved a military knife at them and charged at them with it. Reported to have been radicalized by the militant Islamist group ISIS, Rahim was plotting to travel out of the state to assassinate Geller. His thwarted plan was in retaliation to Geller's Muhammad art event and contest. Rahim allegedly abandoned the idea, and decided to behead police officers instead. Upon learning of the assassination plot, Geller said in an interview with CNN: “They targeted me for violating Sharia blasphemy laws.” The leader of the plot, David Wright, was sentenced to 28 years in prison in 2017 for the plot, and resentenced to 30 years in 2020.

Views

Anti-Muslim views

Geller being heckled during a speech in 2017

She has been widely described as anti-Muslim. Geller is a prominent activist in what has been described as the counter-jihad movement in the United States. She has been described as part of a broader anti-Muslim network or industry. Business Insider has described Geller as a "promoter of anti-Muslim conspiracy theories." Snopes has fact-checked a number of Geller's assertions about Muslims and Islam, and found them to be false. These include: false assertions by Geller that Muslims declared 24 December as Muhammad's birthday, in order to disrupt Christmas celebrations; her promotion of a fake video as evidence of crime by Muslim immigrants in Italy; false claims that Muslim groups kept the money that they raised for the victims of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting; and baseless assertions that Muslims celebrated the Notre Dame fire of 2019. In 2017, she falsely claimed that the Las Vegas shooter was a leftist. In 2018, she falsely claimed that the Parkland shooter “was immersed in Islamic and leftwing hate.”

Geller frequently characterizes incidents involving Muslims as part of a "jihad." In 2011, she warned of “Vehicular Jihad in Arizona,” after reports of a man named Ajaz Rahaman had crashed into a supermarket; it was later shown that he had suffered a heart attack. She also claimed "vehicular jihad" when an Egyptian immigrant drove a car onto a curb, hurting pedestrians; she omitted that the police determined he had fallen asleep at the wheel. Geller has mischaracterized a variety of different events as being a part of jihad, including: an incident that involved a mentally ill, teenaged Bosnian shooter in Salt Lake City; as well as assaults of Walmart staff and customers by meth addicts. She has speculated that Virginia Tech mass shooter Seung-Hui Cho was a jihadi. In 2011, she removed posts from her website as part of the settlement of a defamation lawsuit; she had accused a Columbus, Ohio attorney of ties to Hamas. In 2017, her website published a video which falsely claimed a Muslim migrant had beat up a Dutch boy on crutches.

Geller denies she is anti-Muslim, saying: “I love Muslims. I help them.” She has said the only “moderate Muslim is a secular Muslim,” and that when Muslims pray, they are cursing Jews and Christians. She has claimed that Muslims practice bestiality. Geller has expressed that “Islam is the most anti-Semitic, genocidal ideology in the world.” She has asserted that terrorists don't spring from “perversions of Islam, but from the religion itself.”

Geller has been criticized by the Anti-Defamation League, Council on American-Islamic Relations, and Southern Poverty Law Center for espousing Islamophobia. She has dismissed the SPLC as an "uber left" organization. Political activist Charles Jacobs says that Geller takes aim at "radical Islam," comes to the defense of victims of honor killings, and deals with Islamist antisemitism—which the ADL and SPLC fail to address.

2011 Norway attacks

She was cited, along with others, in Anders Behring Breivik's manifesto. Breivik, who was responsible for the 2011 Norway attacks, featured her writing in twelve sections of his manifesto, referred to her as a "decent human being," and noted that he had followed Geller's blog "for the better part of a year." As the media began to report on her influence on the attacks, she removed statements from her blog that could have been considered incriminating, including part of an email that she posted in June 2007 describing a stockpile and cache of weapons, ammunition, and equipment being amassed by an Atlas Shrugs reader in Norway.

Geller wrote on her blog that "any assertion" that she or other anti-jihad writers bore any responsibility for Breivik's actions was "ridiculous," and that “If anyone incited him to violence, it was Islamic supremacists.”” She later described the location of the attack, a youth camp on Utoya Island, as "an 'anti-Semitic indoctrination center' where children with a 'clearly pro-Islamic agenda' play war games," citing as evidence a picture of the attendees of the camp claiming they "are more Middle Eastern or mixed than pure Norwegian". Geller also provided a rationale for Breivik's actions that has been described as "If not a defense of Breivik, ... astonishingly close to one":

Breivik was targeting the future leaders of the party responsible for flooding Norway with Muslims who refuse to assimilate, who commit major violence against Norwegian natives, including violent gang rapes, with impunity, and who live on the dole ... all done without the consent of the Norwegians.

Political philosophy

Geller has been described as "far-right" by news outlets, such as: the Los Angeles Times, Wired, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, Haaretz, Buzzfeed News, The Forward, and human rights activist Leonard Zeskind. Zeskind also classified Geller as a radical right ideologue, racist, and Islamophobic. Geller is a supporter of the far-right English Defence League (EDL), proclaiming: “I share the EDL's goals ... We need to encourage rational, reasonable groups that oppose the Islamisation of the west.” In June 2013, Geller was scheduled to speak at an EDL rally, but was barred from entering Britain by a Home Office ruling that described her as having established "anti-Muslim hate groups." Cited as evidence for the ban were statements categorizing Al-Qaeda as "a manifestation of devout Islam," and stating that jihad requires Jews as an enemy. Geller called the decision “a striking blow against freedom ... The nation that gave the world the Magna Carta is dead.” Hope not Hate, which led a campaign to ban her, applauded the decision, stating: “There is a line in the sand between freedom of speech and the right to use hate speech.”

In economics, Geller favors "right-wing," "small government" fiscal policies of cutting taxes and reducing budgets. She is "socially liberal" in her support of abortion rights and same-sex marriage, but she believes drug legalization goes "too far." Ayn Rand's writings had a big influence on her thought. Unlike Rand, Geller is a theist who defends the Judeo-Christian ethical tradition. In her rhetorical style, she shares Rand's "verbal excesses," accompanied by a "willingness to provoke and offend."

Israel

Geller is an ardent Zionist. She encouraged Israel to “stand loud and proud. Give up nothing. Turn over not a pebble. For every rocket fired, drop a MOAB. Take back Gaza. Secure Judea and Samaria. Stop buying Haaretz. Throw leftists bums out,” referring to the Israeli-occupied West Bank as "Judea and Samaria". She regards much of the Israeli media as "Jewicidal," and the kibbutz movement as a failed idea and a variety of slavery.

Barack Obama conspiracy theories

Geller has put forth a number of conspiracy theories and falsehoods about Barack Obama. She has claimed he is a Muslim, and that he was born in Kenya. She published a reader's letter speculating that Obama's mother was involved in pornography, that his "spiritual father" was a child rapist, that Obama "was involved with a crack whore in his youth," and that Malcolm X had impregnated Obama's mother. She has accused Obama of appointing Muslims to government positions who may have ties to Muslim extremists and want to undermine the United States. She accused the State Department in the Obama administration of being run by "Islamic supremacists." She wrote in a 2010 book (co-authored with Robert Spencer) that "Barack Hussein Obama" was pursuing the “implementation of a soft sharia: the quiet and piecemeal implementation of Islamic laws that subjugate non-Muslims.”

In July 2010, she published a book with Robert Spencer, The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America, which criticized the Obama administration.

Genocide conspiracy theories

According to a 2013 study of the Srebrenica genocide, Geller “is among the most vociferous revisionists” of the genocide. She denies the genocide of Bosniaks in Srebrenica, describing it as the "Srebrenica Genocide Myth." She has defended Slobodan Milošević, who died while standing trial for war crimes in the Bosnian War, and denied the existence of Serbian concentration camps. She claimed that the 1999 NATO intervention in Kosovo was “in order to pave the way for an Islamic state in the heart of Europe—Kosovo.”

She has been critical of the Muslim Rohingya people, who are an ethnic minority in Myanmar that has been subjected to genocide and ethnic cleansing. She has blamed the Rohingya for the violence in Myanmar, said that the inhabitants of Myanmar “have every right to be concerned” about the Rohingya, claimed “Muslims are waging jihad in Burma,” accused the Rohingya of “circulating fake pictures,” and directed her readers to a book called The Rohingya Hoax.

She has published articles advancing the false conspiracy theory of a white genocide in South Africa.

Personal life

Geller was married to Michael Oshry from 1990 until the couple divorced in 2007. She received nearly $4 million in the divorce settlement. Michael died of a heart attack in 2008. As part of his life-insurance policy, his daughters gained $5 million. Pamela and Michael had four daughters: Claudia, Jackie, Olivia, and Margo Oshry. The four of them are social media influencers, running the Girl With No Job account on Instagram, and a Facebook Live/YouTube show called The Morning Toast.

She lives in Hewlett, New York, and Sutton Place, New York.

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