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Ilana Mercer was born in South Africa.<ref>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/] National Review.</ref><ref>[https://www.wnd.com/2018/11/slates-resident-idiot-slanders-jewish-woman-me/] WorldNetDaily.</ref> was "harassed by the South African security forces"<ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/02/end-south-africa-josh-gelernter/] National Review.</ref> and, consequently, moved his family to Israel.<ref>http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/qa/26773.html</ref> Later returning to the country of her birth, Mercer earned degrees at the University of South Africa,<ref>http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/qa/26773.html</ref> before immigrating to Canada and finally settling in the United States.<ref>http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/qa/26773.html</ref>
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Ilana Mercer was born in [[South Africa]].<ref name="geoffmetcalf.com">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/] National Review.</ref><ref>[https://www.wnd.com/2018/11/slates-resident-idiot-slanders-jewish-woman-me/] WorldNetDaily.</ref> was "harassed by the South African security forces"<ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/02/end-south-africa-josh-gelernter/] National Review.</ref> and, consequently, moved his family to [[Israel]].<ref name="geoffmetcalf.com"/> Later returning to the country of her birth, Mercer earned degrees at the University of South Africa, before immigrating to [[Canada]] and finally settling in the [[United States]].<ref name="geoffmetcalf.com"/>
  
 
== Column ==  
 
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Revision as of 13:47, December 11, 2018

Ilana Mercer is a paleolibertarian author, columnist, blogger and thinker. [1] 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, 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] The column currently appears on WorldNetDaily.com,[8] The Unz Review,[9] Townhall,[10] Constitution.com,[11] Quarterly Review,[12] and American Greatness.[13] A few of Mercer's syndicated columns have appeared on The Daily Caller,[14] American Thinker,[15] and American Renaissance.[16]

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