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Ilana Mercer was born in [[South Africa]].<ref name="Geoff">http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/qa/26773.html</ref> Her father, a [[rabbi]] and "vocal opponent of [[apartheid]],"<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/02/end-south-africa-josh-gelernter</ref><ref>https://www.wnd.com/2018/11/slates-resident-idiot-slanders-jewish-woman-me</ref> was "harassed by the South African security forces"<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/02/end-south-africa-josh-gelernter</ref> and, consequently, moved his family to [[Israel]].<ref name="Geoff"/> Later returning to the country of her birth, Mercer earned degrees at the University of South Africa ,<ref name="Geoff"/> before immigrating to [[Canada]] and finally settling in the [[United States]].<ref name="Geoff"/>
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Ilana Mercer was born in [[South Africa]].<ref name="Geoff">http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/qa/26773.html</ref> Her father, a [[rabbi]] and "vocal opponent of [[apartheid]],"<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/02/end-south-africa-josh-gelernter</ref><ref>https://www.wnd.com/2018/11/slates-resident-idiot-slanders-jewish-woman-me</ref> was "harassed by the South African security forces"<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/02/end-south-africa-josh-gelernter</ref> and, consequently, moved his family to [[Israel]].<ref name="Geoff"/> Later returning to the country of her birth, Mercer earned degrees at the University of South Africa,<ref name="Geoff"/> before immigrating to [[Canada]] and finally settling in the [[United States]].<ref name="Geoff"/>
  
 
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Revision as of 14:14, April 25, 2019

Ilana Mercer is a paleolibertarian[1] author, columnist, blogger and thinker. She is the author of three books, including Into the Cannibals Pot: Lessons for America From Post-Apartheid South Africa (2011) and The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed (2016), which was "the first libertarian defense" of the Trump candidacy.[2]

Early Life

Ilana Mercer was born in South Africa.[3] Her father, a rabbi and "vocal opponent of apartheid,"[4][5] was "harassed by the South African security forces"[6] and, consequently, moved his family to Israel.[3] Later returning to the country of her birth, Mercer earned degrees at the University of South Africa,[3] before immigrating to Canada and finally settling in the United States.[3]

Column

Mercer's weekly column began in 1999, in the now defunct Canadian North Shore News,[7] and currently appears on WorldNetDaily.com,[8] the Unz Review,[9] Townhall,[10] Quarterly Review,[11] and American Greatness.[12]

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