1. Joel Barry Pollak was born on 25 April 1977 and is a South African born American conservative political commentator, writer, radio host, and attorney.
18 Facts About Joel Pollak
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Joel Pollak currently serves as the senior editor-at-large for Breitbart News.
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Joel Pollak attended Harvard College, the University of Cape Town, and Harvard Law School.
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Joel Pollak's parents moved to the United States in 1977, and became United States citizens in 1987.
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Joel Pollak grew up in the Chicago suburbs, principally in Skokie.
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Joel Pollak then attended Niles North High School, where he was the class valedictorian in 1995.
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Joel Pollak was politically liberal in his early life, active in groups that he later described as "the forebears of today's ANTIFA or Occupy movement".
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Joel Pollak then attended the University of Cape Town on a Rotary Scholarship, and earned a master's degree in Jewish Studies in 2006.
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From 2002 to 2006, Joel Pollak was chief speechwriter for Tony Leon, leader of the Democratic Alliance, South Africa's main opposition party, and he is a family friend of Leon's successor Helen Zille.
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Since 2017, Joel Pollak has been a radio host at SiriusXM.
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In 2010, at 32 years of age Joel Pollak was the Republican nominee for US Congress from Illinois's 9th congressional district, challenging incumbent Democrat Jan Schakowsky, whom he had voted for while still a Democrat, and who had represented the heavily Democratic district since 1999.
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Joel Pollak was endorsed by the Chicago Tea Party, and referred to himself as a Tea Party Republican.
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Joel Pollak was supported by Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz.
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Joel Pollak next was asked by Andrew Breitbart to become in-house counsel at Breitbart News, and Joel Pollak moved to California.
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Joel Pollak posted a lengthy article to the website questioning Fields's account of the incident.
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Joel Pollak co-authored How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution with Larry Schweikart in 2017.
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In 2020, Joel Pollak published Red November: Will the Country Vote Red for Trump or Red for Socialism.
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Joel Pollak is a black South African who converted to Judaism.