Michael Rubin was born on 1971 and is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
11 Facts About Michael Rubin
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Michael Rubin previously worked as an official at the Pentagon, where he dealt with issues relating to the Middle East, and as political adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority.
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From 2002 until 2004, Michael Rubin served as a staff adviser on Iran and Iraq for the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
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Between 2003 and 2004, Michael Rubin worked as a political adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad.
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Michael Rubin has received fellowships from the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
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Michael Rubin is a Contributing Editor for the online national security website 19FortyFive.
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Michael Rubin has repeatedly criticized Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the American Friends Service Committee for political bias and conflicts of interest.
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In 2016, Michael Rubin wrote an article on the case of Emirati economist Nasser bin Ghaith, one of the UAE Five, criticizing Human Rights Watch's calling for bin Ghaith's release.
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Michael Rubin criticized HRW for "cherry-picking" and not mentioning that bin Ghaith was accused of membership in the Emirati Ummah Party.
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Mansoureh Mills, an analyst at Amnesty International and Ahmed Mansoor accused Michael Rubin of having been paid by the UAE to write the piece on Ghaith.
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In September 2022, Michael Rubin wrote an article calling on the US to support the TPLF against the government of Ethiopia, by supplying weapons to the group, imposing a no-fly zone, and establishing relationship with Ethiopian regions by-passing the federal government.