Pollak, Joel

Joel Pollak is senior editor-at-large and in-house counsel at Breitbart News. Prior to joining Breitbart, Pollak was a Tea Party backed Republican candidate for Congress in Illinois and a research fellow at the Hudson Institute, focusing on human rights and international law. Born in South Africa, Pollak became a US citizen in 1987. He holds law and bachelor s degrees from Harvard and a master s degree from the University of Cape Town. Pollak has authored several books, including "Wacko Birds: The Fall (and Rise) of the Tea Party", "The Kasrils Affair: Jews and Minority Politics in Post-Aparth...