The Unz Review is an American website and blog founded and edited by Ron Unz, an American far-right activist and Holocaust denier. It is known for its publication of far-right, conspiracy theory, white nationalist, and antisemitic writings.
History
Ron Unz, far-right activist and Holocaust denier,
launched
The Unz Review in November 2013. Unz is editor-in-chief and publisher.
In May 2020, Facebook removed fake accounts tied to
The Unz Review.
Editorial positions
The Unz Review describes itself as a publication presenting an "alternative media selection",
and "controversial perspectives largely excluded from the American mainstream media".
It has been described as "alternative conservative",
far-right,
white nationalist,
and a publisher of antisemitism and Holocaust denial.
The
Associated Press describes the outlet as "a hodgepodge of views from corners of both the left and right".
According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the website is an "outlet for certain writers to attack Israel and Jews".
Debunk.org has written that
Unz articles promote a pro-
and anti-
Ukraine narrative based on conspiracy theories about COVID-19.
Writers
The Unz Review hosts blogs of far-right writers
Steve Sailer and Anatoly Karlin. The
Review of General Psychology describes Sailer as "a political writer who uses the language of IQ and genetics to further a White nationalist political agenda" and Karlin as a promoter of "antisemitic conspiracy theories and associates with
alt-right political activist Richard Spencer".
In October, 2021, Karlin posted on his personal blog that he would no longer be a regular contributor to
The Unz Review, while noting his "respect and appreciation" for Ron Unz.
In 2023, he posted that he had come to disagree with some of the views expressed at Unz,
and in 2024, he endorsed
Kamala Harris over
Donald Trump.
In June 2023, an article in The Guardian observed that "among those whose writings Unz republishes are Andrew Anglin, founder of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website ... and Eric Striker (real name Joseph Jordan), a founder of the neo-Nazi National Justice Party".
Controversy
In September 2017, former
CIA operative
Valerie Plame apologized after receiving attention for sharing
Philip Giraldi's antisemitic article "America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars" on her Twitter account.
The article's depictions of Jews controlling the media and politics echoed long-running tropes blaming them for a variety of social and economic ills.
In May 2021,
Luisa Neubauer accused Hans-Georg Maaßen, the former president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Germany's intelligence agency), of antisemitism for sharing links to
The Unz Review and using terms like "globalists" on his Twitter account.
