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-<youtube size="medium" align="right" caption="Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens discusses the Taliban's UK funding on Sky News">b7gLvOgeCbU</youtube> [[Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens]] (born 1984) is an American think tank researcher who undertook his higher education in London and according to the [[Policy Exchange]] has worked in US right wing and neoconservative think tanks, though it is unclear when.<ref>Policy Exchange [http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/people/Alumni.cgi Alumni: Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, Research Fellow, 2008.], accessed 6 April 2009</ref> Since 2007 he has worked - in particular on Islam - successively at [[Standpoint]], [[Policy Exchange]] and the [[Centre for Social Cohesion]].<ref>Policy Exchange [http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/people/Alumni.cgi Alumni: Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, Research Fellow, 2008.], accessed 6 April 2009</ref>  He is a contributor to the [[Weekly Standard]]<ref name="hw">Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens & Michael Weiss, [http://justjournalism.com/opeds-features/terrorism-and-the-british-academy/ Terrorism and the British Academy], ''Just Journalism'', 22 October 2010</ref>, [[Hudson New York]]<ref>For example:[http://www.hudson-ny.org/author/Alexander+Meleagrou-Hitchens?year= Writings by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens,], accessed 29 June 2010</ref> and [[Henry Jackson Society]]'s ''The Scoop'' blog.<ref>For example: [http://www.henryjacksonsociety.org/thescoop.asp?pageid=106&poid=124 Don't fall for it Obama], ''HJS Blog - The Scoop'', posted by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens at 23/01/2009, accessed 6 April 2009</ref> He is the son of the journalist [[Christopher Hitchens]].
+<youtube size="medium" align="right" caption="Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens discusses the Taliban's UK funding on Sky News">b7gLvOgeCbU</youtube> [[Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens]] (born 1984) is an American think tank researcher who undertook his higher education in London and according to the [[Policy Exchange]] has worked in US right wing and neoconservative think tanks, though it is unclear when.<ref>Policy Exchange [http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/people/Alumni.cgi Alumni: Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, Research Fellow, 2008.], accessed 6 April 2009</ref> Since 2007 he has worked - in particular on Islam - successively at [[Standpoint]], [[Policy Exchange]] and the [[Centre for Social Cohesion]].<ref>Policy Exchange [http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/people/Alumni.cgi Alumni: Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, Research Fellow, 2008.], accessed 6 April 2009</ref>  He is a contributor to the [[Weekly Standard]]<ref name="hw">Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens & Michael Weiss, [http://justjournalism.com/opeds-features/terrorism-and-the-british-academy/ Terrorism and the British Academy], ''Just Journalism'', 22 October 2010</ref>, [[Hudson Institute]]<ref>For example:[http://www.hudson-ny.org/author/Alexander+Meleagrou-Hitchens?year= Writings by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens,], accessed 29 June 2010</ref> and [[Henry Jackson Society]]'s ''The Scoop'' blog.<ref>For example: [http://www.henryjacksonsociety.org/thescoop.asp?pageid=106&poid=124 Don't fall for it Obama], ''HJS Blog - The Scoop'', posted by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens at 23/01/2009, accessed 6 April 2009</ref> He is the son of the journalist [[Christopher Hitchens]].
 ==Early life and career==
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 ==Criticism of the counter-jihad movement==
 In an October 2010 article for his ''Standpoint'' blog, Meleagrou-Hitchens  criticised the links between the [[English Defence League]] and US counter-jihad bloggers such as [[Pamela Geller]]. He went on to endorse a comment by the leading US neoconservative [[Daniel Pipes]], which complained that:
-::Misled by the Islamists’ insistence that there is no such thing as ‘moderate Islam,’ my allies often fail to distinguish
+::Misled by the Islamists’ insistence that there is no such thing as ‘moderate Islam,’ my allies often fail to distinguish between Islam (a faith) and Islamism (a radical utopian ideology aiming to implement Islamic law in its totality). This amounts not just to an intellectual error but a policy dead-end.<ref>[http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3478 The EDL's American Apologists], Focus on Islamism, Standpoint blogs, 15 October 2010.</ref>
 In March 2013, he co-authored a report for the [[International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence]], entitled ''A Neo-Nationalist Network: The English Defence League and Europe’s Counter-Jihad Movement''.<ref>Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, Hans Brun, [http://icsr.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ICSR-ECJM-Report_Online.pdf A Neo-Nationalist Network: The English Defence League and Europe’s Counter-Jihad Movement], International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, 13 March 2013.</ref>

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 <youtube size="medium" align="right" caption="Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens discusses the Taliban's UK funding on Sky News">b7gLvOgeCbU</youtube> [[Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens]] (born 1984) is an American think tank researcher who undertook his higher education in London and according to the [[Policy Exchange]] has worked in US right wing and neoconservative think tanks, though it is unclear when.<ref>Policy Exchange [http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/people/Alumni.cgi Alumni: Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, Research Fellow, 2008.], accessed 6 April 2009</ref> Since 2007 he has worked - in particular on Islam - successively at [[Standpoint]], [[Policy Exchange]] and the [[Centre for Social Cohesion]].<ref>Policy Exchange [http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/people/Alumni.cgi Alumni: Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, Research Fellow, 2008.], accessed 6 April 2009</ref>  He is a contributor to the [[Weekly Standard]]<ref name="hw">Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens & Michael Weiss, [http://justjournalism.com/opeds-features/terrorism-and-the-british-academy/ Terrorism and the British Academy], ''Just Journalism'', 22 October 2010</ref>, [[Hudson New York]]<ref>For example:[http://www.hudson-ny.org/author/Alexander+Meleagrou-Hitchens?year= Writings by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens,], accessed 29 June 2010</ref> and [[Henry Jackson Society]]'s ''The Scoop'' blog.<ref>For example: [http://www.henryjacksonsociety.org/thescoop.asp?pageid=106&poid=124 Don't fall for it Obama], ''HJS Blog - The Scoop'', posted by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens at 23/01/2009, accessed 6 April 2009</ref> He is the son of the journalist [[Christopher Hitchens]].
-==Swift rise in the British Neocon firmament==
+==Early life and career==
 Meleagrou-Hitchens was born in 1984 and finished eighth grade at the [[Capitol Hill Day School]] in Washington DC in 1998 at age 14.  He presumably therefore left High School in 2001.
 He subsequently gained a BA in Classics from Kings College London.<ref>Policy Exchange [http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/people/Alumni.cgi Alumni: Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, Research Fellow, 2008.], accessed 6 April 2009</ref> He signed the [[Unite Against Terror]] manifesto in 2005.<ref>[http://www.unite-against-terror.com/whysigned/archives/000024.html Why I Signed: Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens], Unite Against Terror, accessed 6 May 2009.</ref>
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 At some point he is reported to have worked at [[Standpoint]], the magazine launched by the [[Social Affairs Unit]] (the think tank which published the manifesto of the British neoconservative [[Henry Jackson Society]]) - prior to joining [[Policy Exchange]] in 2008.<ref>Policy Exchange [http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/people/Alumni.cgi Alumni: Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, Research Fellow, 2008.], accessed 6 April 2009</ref> But since Standpoint only began publishing in June 2008, this must have been for a short period. He worked at the [[Policy Exchange]] in 2008 where he was involved in work on 'security and terrorism' including in September 2008 writing their controversial briefing on the Global Peace and Unity event in London.<ref>[http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/alexander_meleagrou-hitchens/blog/2008/10/08/talking_with_the_taliban Talking with the Taliban] ''Telegraph blogs'', Posted By: Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens at Oct 8, 2008 at 18:02:12</ref>.  By October 2008 he had moved on to the [[Centre for Social Cohesion]] headed by [[Douglas Murray]] author of ''Neoconservatism: Why we need it''. From here he became involved in blogging at the Centre for Social Cohesion and also at the Daily Telegraph, the [[Henry Jackson Society]] and [[Harry's Place]], appearing in the tabloid press as an 'expert' on Al Qaeda in early 2009.<ref>JAMES SLACK HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR 'CIVIL SERVANTS READY TO PAY £2,000 EACH (OF YOUR CASH) TO HEAR EXTREMIST PREACH', DAILY MAIL (London) February 26, 2009 Thursday; Cyril Dixon 'BBC accused of being too 'soft' on ex-terror suspect' The Express March 14, 2009 Saturday, U.K. 1st Edition SECTION: NEWS; 5</ref>
-Meleagrou-Hitchens runs Standpoint magazine's [[Focus on Islamism]] blog. His biography on Standpoint's site was updated in September 2010, describing him as a Phd student at [[Kings College London]].<ref> [http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/writers/?showid=Alexander%20Meleagrou-Hitchens Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens], Standpoint, September 2010. </ref>
+Meleagrou-Hitchens runs Standpoint magazine's [[Focus on Islamism]] blog. His biography on Standpoint's site was updated in September 2010, describing him as a Phd student at [[Kings College London]].<ref> [http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/writers/?showid=Alexander%20Meleagrou-Hitchens Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens], Standpoint, September 2010. </ref> Ironically, in a article for ''[[Slate]]'' in October 2010, [[Christopher Hitchens]] derided ''[[Standpoint]]'' as 'a monthly that ingeniously manages to unite both Zionist and Roman Catholic conservatives.'<ref>Christopher Hitchens, [http://www.slate.com/id/2269846/ Not So Hidden Influences], ''Slate'', 4 October 2010</ref>
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 A frequent focus of Hitchens's attention has been SNP Glasgow candidate Osama Saeed. Hitchens has described himself as one of the 'Saeed watchers'.<ref>Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, [http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/10/30/thank-you-osama/ Thank you Osama], Harry's Place, 30 October 2009</ref>
-===Parental Disapproval===
+==Criticism of the counter-jihad movement==
-Meleagrou-Hitchens has been employed at the neoconservative ''[[Standpoint]]'' magazine for nearly two years. But it appears the publication has as yet failed to rise in Hitchens senior's estimation. In a article for ''[[Slate]]'' in October 2010, [[Christopher Hitchens]] derided ''[[Standpoint]]'' as 'a monthly that ingeniously manages to unite both Zionist and Roman Catholic conservatives.'<ref>Christopher Hitchens, [http://www.slate.com/id/2269846/ Not So Hidden Influences], ''Slate'', 4 October 2010</ref>
+In an October 2010 article for his ''Standpoint'' blog, Meleagrou-Hitchens  criticised the links between the [[English Defence League]] and US counter-jihad bloggers such as [[Pamela Geller]]. He went on to endorse a comment by the leading US neoconservative [[Daniel Pipes]], which complained that:
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 *[http://www.spittoon.org/archives/1789 The BNP and the Online Fascist Network], 14 July 2009.
 *[http://www.spittoon.org/archives/1942 What Inayat Said], 24 July 2009, cross-post from [[Standpoint]].

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 *[http://www.spittoon.org/archives/1942 What Inayat Said], 24 July 2009, cross-post from [[Standpoint]].
 *[http://www.spittoon.org/archives/2016 In Nigeria, the Inevitable Has Begun], 29 July 2009, cross-post from [[Standpoint]].