Andrew G. Bostom

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|birth_name = Andrew Gould Bostom{{cite web|url=https://www.vitals.com/doctors/Dr_Andrew_Bostom.html|title=Dr. Andrew Gould Bostom|work=Vitals|accessdate=August 9, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240809165531/https://www.vitals.com/doctors/Dr_Andrew_Bostom.html|archive-date=August 9, 2024|url-status=live}}

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|alma_mater = SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University (MD)

|occupation = {{hlist|Author|physician|blogger}}

|nationality = American

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|known_for = Criticism of Islam
Criticism of COVID-19 vaccinations and mitigation

|website = {{URL|http://andrewbostom.org/}}

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Andrew Gould Bostom (born {{birth based on age as of date|68|2024|8|9|noage=1}}) is an American author, physician and critic of Islam, who is a former associate professor of medicine and researcher at Brown University Medical School.{{cite news|url=https://www.city-journal.org/article/speech-reduction-act|title=Speech Reduction Act|first=Rav|last=Arora|work=City Journal|date=September 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240620022647/https://www.city-journal.org/article/speech-reduction-act|archive-date=June 20, 2024|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://tennesseestar.com/news/harvard-med-research-on-mrna-vax-spike-protein-undermines-fact-checkers-covid-censorship/jtnews/2023/01/09/|title=Harvard Med Research on mRNA Vax Spike Protein Undermines Fact-Checkers, COVID Censorship|first=Greg|last=Piper|work=The Tennessee Star|date=January 9, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240719024048/https://tennesseestar.com/news/harvard-med-research-on-mrna-vax-spike-protein-undermines-fact-checkers-covid-censorship/jtnews/2023/01/09/|archive-date=July 19, 2024|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.golocalprov.com/news/The-Researcher-Brown-University-Doesnt-Want-You-to-Know-About|title=The Researcher Brown University Doesn't Want You to Know About|work=GoLocalProv|date=October 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240709015147/https://www.golocalprov.com/news/The-Researcher-Brown-University-Doesnt-Want-You-to-Know-About|archive-date=July 9, 2024|url-status=live}} Bostom has authored historical works such as The Legacy of Jihad and The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, and has also been noted for his criticism of COVID-19 vaccinations and the public health establishment's mitigation efforts and narrative about the pandemic.{{cite news|url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/twitter-files-white-house-pushed-platform-to-suppress-covid-misinformation.html|title=Twitter Files: Platform suppressed 'true but inconvenient' medical information during COVID pandemic|first=Ryan|last=Foley|work=The Christian Post|date=December 29, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240719024048/https://www.christianpost.com/news/twitter-files-white-house-pushed-platform-to-suppress-covid-misinformation.html|archive-date=July 19, 2024|url-status=live}}

Biography

=Background and writings on Islam=

Bostom grew up in New York City, lived in Queens most of his early life and went to medical school in Brooklyn,{{cite journal|url=https://www.dissentmagazine.org/wp-content/files_mf/1390433537d15Bostom.pdf|pages=145–146|last=Johnson|first=A.|year=2008|title=Islam and Antisemitism: An Interview with Dr Andrew Bostom|journal=Democratiya|issue=15|volume=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240710014942/https://www.dissentmagazine.org/wp-content/files_mf/1390433537d15Bostom.pdf|archive-date=July 10, 2024|url-status=live}} receiving his MD from SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University College of Medicine in 1990.{{cite web|url=https://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-andrew-bostom-2bnw2|title=Dr. Andrew Bostom, MD|work=Healthgrades|accessdate=August 9, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240809165530/https://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-andrew-bostom-2bnw2|archive-date=August 9, 2024|url-status=live}} He is Jewish, although "not particularly religious". He became an associate professor of medicine at Brown University Medical School, where he was an internal medicine specialist from 1997 to 2021.{{cite news|url=https://www.dailynews.com/2022/12/31/the-shameful-suppression-of-pandemic-public-policy-dissidents/|title= The shameful suppression of pandemic public policy dissidents |first=Susan|last=Shelley|date=December 31, 2022|work=Los Angeles Daily News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240312033915/https://www.dailynews.com/2022/12/31/the-shameful-suppression-of-pandemic-public-policy-dissidents/|archive-date=March 12, 2024|url-status=live}} In 2007, it was reported that Bostom had been awarded a $19.6 million federal grant to fund five more years of research at Rhode Island Hospital into ways to reduce heart attack and stroke in kidney transplant patients.{{cite news|url=https://pbn.com/ri-hospital-researcher-to-receive-196m-grant28803/|title=R.I. Hospital researcher to receive $19.6M grant|first=Marion|last=Davis|work=Providence Business News|date=December 15, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250206162523/https://pbn.com/ri-hospital-researcher-to-receive-196m-grant28803/|archive-date=February 6, 2025|url-status=live}}

Bostom's attention to Islam was started with the September 11 attacks in 2001, after which he read "everything" ever written by Bat Ye'or. He met Ye'or after a correspondence with Daniel Pipes, and thereafter brought her to Brown to give a guest lecture, following which she became a "very close" mentor to Bostom. He began writing short essays within a year of 9/11, and wrote his first book with the encouragement of Ibn Warraq. Bostom authored The Legacy of Jihad in 2005, a work which provides an analysis of jihad based on an exegesis of translations of Islamic primary sources done by other writers on the topic,{{cite journal|url=https://www.meforum.org/1840/the-legacy-of-jihad-islamic-holy-war-and-the-fate|title=The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims|first=Johannes J. G.|last=Jansen|journal=Middle East Quarterly|edition=Winter 2008|date=2008|volume=15|number=1|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250107003431/https://www.meforum.org/middle-east-quarterly/book-reviews/the-legacy-of-jihad-islamic-holy-war-and-the-fate|archive-date=January 7, 2025|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/576bjtmp.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060203061847/http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/576bjtmp.asp|title= All Jihad All the Time |first=Dean|last=Barnett|work=The Weekly Standard|date=January 30, 2006|archive-date=February 3, 2006}}{{cite news|url=https://www.jpost.com/arts-and-culture/books/jihad-diagnosed|title=Jihad diagnosed|first=Raphael|last=Israeli|work=The Jerusalem Post|date=September 17, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240312174554/https://www.jpost.com/arts-and-culture/books/jihad-diagnosed|archive-date=March 12, 2024|url-status=live}} and was the editor of the 2008 anthology of primary sources and secondary studies on the theme of Muslim antisemitism, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism.{{cite news|url=https://www.city-journal.org/article/islam-without-apologetics|title=Islam Without Apologetics|first=Bruce S.|last=Thornton|work=City Journal|date=August 8, 2008|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250107003717/https://www.city-journal.org/article/islam-without-apologetics|archive-date=January 7, 2025|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Islam's history of anti-Semitism|first=Raymond|last=Ibrahim|work=The Washington Times|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/may/20/islams-history-of-anti-semitism/|date=May 20, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240312172557/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/may/20/islams-history-of-anti-semitism/|archive-date=March 12, 2024|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.jpost.com/magazine/books/bostoms-legacy|title=Bostom's legacy|first=Raphael|last=Israeli|work=The Jerusalem Post|date=May 15, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240312172556/https://www.jpost.com/magazine/books/bostoms-legacy|archive-date=March 12, 2024|url-status=live}} He published his third compendium, Sharia versus Freedom: The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism, in 2012.{{cite news|url=https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/arab-winter/|title=Arab Winter: A review of Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy, by Andrew C. McCarthy and Sharia versus Freedom: The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism by Andrew G. Bostom|first=Robert R.|last=Reilly|work=Claremont Review of Books|volume=XIII|number=3|edition=Summer 2013|date=2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240710014942/https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/arab-winter/|archive-date=July 10, 2024|url-status=live}} He has additionally written articles in the New York Post, Washington Times, New York Daily News, National Review, American Thinker, Pajamas Media, FrontPage Magazine,{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishpress.com/author/andrewgbostom/|title=Andrew G. Bostom|work=The Jewish Press|access-date=July 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240226132044/http://www.jewishpress.com/author/andrewgbostom/|archive-date=February 26, 2024|url-status=live}} Blaze Media, and published his own blog.{{cite news|url=https://theobjectivestandard.com/2008/04/defender-of-civilization-andrew-bostom/|title=Defender of Civilization: Andrew Bostom|first=John David|last=Lewis|work=The Objective Standard|date=April 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240710014946/https://theobjectivestandard.com/2008/04/defender-of-civilization-andrew-bostom/|archive-date=July 10, 2024|url-status=live}}

Alyssa A. Lappen in the Journal for the Study of Antisemitism found Bostom's first book "groundbreaking", and the second a "landmark book" that was both "extensive" and "scientific".{{cite journal|title=In Their Own Words: Andrew Bostom's The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History|url=https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=6ecb5af9176fe56a398f5f4294e470286fcce0ea#page=212|first=Alyssa A.|last=Lappen|journal=Journal for the Study of Antisemitism|pages=293–297|volume=1|issue=2|year=2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240312033917/https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=6ecb5af9176fe56a398f5f4294e470286fcce0ea#page=212|archive-date=March 12, 2024|url-status=live}} Bostom's view that Islam and Islamism are "synonymous" has been criticized by professor Bassam Tibi who states that most Muslims in the world are not Islamists.{{cite book|title=Islamism and Islam|author=Bassam Tibi|year=2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HyEyLXcIXgUC&q=andrew+bostom+synonymous|publisher=Yale University|isbn=978-0300160147}} Christopher van der Krogt has described Bostom as a polemicist.{{Cite journal|last=van der Krogt|first=Christopher|date=April 2010|title=Jihad without apologetics|url=https://www.academia.edu/1561833|journal=Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations|language=en|publisher=Routledge|volume=21|issue=2|pages=127–142|doi=10.1080/09596411003619764|s2cid=216149118 |issn=0959-6410|via=Academia}} Matt Carr writing in Race & Class, described Bostom as a "protégé" of Bat Ye’or, and described Bostom's perspective of Islam as reducing to the acronym "‘MPED’ – massacre, pillage, enslavement and deportation".{{Cite journal | last1 = Carr | first1 = M. | doi = 10.1177/0306396806066636 | title = You are now entering Eurabia | journal = Race & Class | volume = 48 | pages = 1–22| year = 2006 | s2cid = 145303405|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306396806066636 }}

Bostom participated in the 2007 and 2008 international counter-jihad conferences,{{cite book|url=https://expo.se/wp-content/uploads/expo_migration/counterjihadrorelsen_en_del_av_den_antimuslimska_rorelsen_2012.pdf|title=Counterjihadrörelsen– en del av den antimuslimska miljön|first=Martha|last=Hannus|pages=66–69|year=2012|publisher=Expo Research|language=sv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241203232308/https://expo.se/wp-content/uploads/expo_migration/counterjihadrorelsen_en_del_av_den_antimuslimska_rorelsen_2012.pdf|archive-date=December 3, 2024}}{{cite news|url=https://libertiesalliance.org/2007/10/20/counter-jihad-brussels-18-19-october-2007/|title=Counter Jihad Brussels: 18-19 October 2007|date=October 20, 2007|work=International Civil Liberties Alliance|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024143639/https://libertiesalliance.org/2007/10/20/counter-jihad-brussels-18-19-october-2007/ |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |url-status=live}} and is regarded as part of the counter-jihad movement.{{cite book|title='Green Crescent, Crimson Cross': The Transatlantic 'Counterjihad' and the New Political Theology|url=https://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3780/1/Pertwee__green-crescent-crimson-cross.pdf|page=266|last=Pertwee|first=Ed|date=October 2017|publisher=London School of Economics|doi=10.21953/lse.xx0e1p4w3f3y|doi-access=free}}{{cite web|url=https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/factsheet-counter-jihad-movement/|title=Factsheet: Counter-Jihad Movement|date=September 17, 2020|work=Bridge Initiative|publisher=Georgetown University|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240301132624/https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/factsheet-counter-jihad-movement/|archive-date=March 1, 2024|url-status=live}}

=On COVID-19=

Bostom has supported and signed the controversial Great Barrington Declaration, which opposed government COVID-19 mitigation measures such as mask wearing and lockdowns, in favor of shielding those considered to be at risk, while those not at risk could resume normal activities.{{cite twitter|title=Just signed it: Great Barrington Declaration https://gbdeclaration.org|user=andrewbostom|number=1313303675528515586|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250106030002/https://x.com/andrewbostom/status/1313303675528515586|archive-date=January 6, 2025|url-status=live}} He has criticized COVID-19 vaccinations for the risks of myocarditis,{{cite news|url=https://cbn.com/news/health/american-heart-association-publishes-study-confirming-mrna-vaccines-may-contribute|title= American Heart Association Publishes Study Confirming mRNA Vaccines 'May Contribute to Myocarditis'|first=Talia|last=Wise|work=CBN News|date=January 11, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240713120242/https://cbn.com/news/health/american-heart-association-publishes-study-confirming-mrna-vaccines-may-contribute|archive-date=July 13, 2024|url-status=live}} and mitigation measures for college students, arguing with having found zero hospitalizations from 26,000 positive COVID tests on 29 universities,{{cite news|url=https://www.thecollegefix.com/bulletin-board/brown-u-epidemiologist-finds-zero-hospitalizations-from-26000-positive-covid-tests-for-college-students/|title= Brown U. epidemiologist finds zero hospitalizations from 26,000 positive COVID tests for college students |work=The College Fix|date=September 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240719024048/https://www.thecollegefix.com/bulletin-board/brown-u-epidemiologist-finds-zero-hospitalizations-from-26000-positive-covid-tests-for-college-students/|archive-date=July 19, 2024|url-status=live}} and stating that mask-wearing and quarantine mandates are "predicated on the disproven idea that there is asymptomatic transmission of the virus," arguing from a lack of support from randomized control trials.{{cite news|url=https://www.thecollegefix.com/ivy-league-epidemiologist-says-hard-data-dont-convey-covid-crisis-on-campus/|title= Ivy League epidemiologist says hard data don't convey COVID crisis on campus |first=Alexander Pease-Umass|last=Boston|work=The College Fix|date=December 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240719024048/https://www.thecollegefix.com/ivy-league-epidemiologist-says-hard-data-dont-convey-covid-crisis-on-campus/|archive-date=July 19, 2024|url-status=live}}

Bostom was suspended from Twitter after receiving five strikes for "misinformation", but, according to the Twitter Files, after his attorney contacted Twitter, Twitter's internal audit found that only one of his five violations had been valid.{{cite news|url=https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-files-platform-suppressed-valid-200142382.html|title=Twitter Files: Platform Suppressed Valid Information from Medical Experts about Covid-19|work=National Review|first=Ryan|last=Mills|date=December 26, 2022|via=Yahoo News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240430062518/https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-files-platform-suppressed-valid-200142382.html|archive-date=April 30, 2024|url-status=live}} The one tweet still considered to be in violation reportedly cited data that was found to be "legitimate but inconvenient to the public health establishment's narrative about the risks of flu versus Covid in children."{{cite news|url=https://www2.cbn.com/news/us/twitter-files-exposes-white-house-suppressed-information-medical-experts-about-covid-19|title= 'Twitter Files' Exposes White House Suppressed Information from Medical Experts About COVID-19 |first=Talia|last=Wise|work=CBN News|date=December 27, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240719024055/https://cbn.com/news/us/twitter-files-exposes-white-house-suppressed-information-medical-experts-about-covid-19|archive-date=July 19, 2024|url-status=live}} His account was later reinstated.{{cite news|url=https://nypost.com/2022/12/26/biden-admin-pushed-to-ban-twitter-users-for-covid-disinformation/|title= Biden admin pushed to bar Twitter users for COVID 'disinformation,' files show |first=Jesse|last=O'Neill|work=New York Post|date=December 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240319031002/https://nypost.com/2022/12/26/biden-admin-pushed-to-ban-twitter-users-for-covid-disinformation/|archive-date=March 19, 2024|url-status=live}}

In 2021, citing his connections to Brown University and his experience with clinical trials, Bostom testified as an expert witness in epidemiology for litigants who sought to overturn mask requirements for Rhode Island schoolchildren in Superior Court.{{cite news|url=https://providencejournal.com/story/news/education/2021/10/05/dr-andrew-bostom-brown-university-testifies-mask-litigation/6004982001/|title=Arguments over masking, and unmasking, of RI's schoolchildren are heard in Superior Court|first=Mark|last=Reynolds|work=The Providence Journal|date=October 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240709025556/https://providencejournal.com/story/news/education/2021/10/05/dr-andrew-bostom-brown-university-testifies-mask-litigation/6004982001/|archive-date=July 9, 2024|url-status=live}}

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