Erick Stakelbeck

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Erick Stakelbeck
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Born (1976-01-21) January 21, 1976 (age 49)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
NationalityAmerican
Education Holy Family University
Occupation(s)Television host, investigative reporter
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Erick Stakelbeck (born January 21, 1976) is an American television host and presenter of The Watchman on TBN and The Watchman Newscast on YouTube. [1] [2] As a Christian Zionist, [2] [3] the show is sponsored by Christians United for Israel, [4] Stakelbeck being the director of its Watchman Project. [5] Stakelbeck has also been noted as an investigative reporter and author on radical Islam, [6] [7] [8] and is TBN's news director. [9]

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Early life

Stakelbeck had a working-class upbringing in Philadelphia, with his father, who was a factory electrician by trade, also being "an autodidact who loved to study biblical history." [2] [10] Growing up in the Fox Chase neighborhood, [11] Stakelbeck graduated from the Holy Family University in the same city. [12] While a long-time supporter of Israel, he also became increasingly drawn to studying the roots of Islamic terrorism after the September 11 attacks, and began writing articles for FrontPage Magazine . [2]

Television career

Stakelbeck worked as a senior writer and analyst at the Investigative Project on Terrorism from 2003 to 2005, and his articles appeared in several newspapers. [12] From 2005 he worked as a television correspondent, host and analyst for CBN News, where he covered "U.S. national security, the Middle East, Israel-related issues and the growth of radical Islam at home and abroad." [12] He has also been a regular contributor and guest host on The Blaze TV, and a regular guest on several Fox News shows. [11] He received the Ben Hecht Award for Outstanding Journalism from the Zionist Organization of America in 2014, [11] and a media "Truth" award from the Endowment for Middle East Truth in 2015. [13]

Stakelbeck began hosting The Watchman on TBN in 2016. [4] For his show, he has travelled throughout Israel, reporting from the borders of Gaza, Syria and Lebanon, and interviewing senior Israeli leaders. [2] [10] He regularly highlights Israel's "strategic predicament", noting its proximity to radical Islamic terror groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas at its borders. [2] He also focuses on biblical end times prophecy, believing that "we live in prophetic times", and that "the miraculous rebirth of Israel ... set the prophetic time clock into overdrive". [14] He additionally became a correspondent for TBN's new Centerpoint, a nightly news and analysis program in 2022, [15] and host of the new show Stakelbeck Tonight in 2024. [16]

Stakelbeck recorded an exclusive interview with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2022, [1] [17] and with then-former US president and presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2024. [18]

Views

Stakelbeck has addressed several conferences and events of conservative groups such as ACT for America, the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the Family Research Council, [19] including the Values Voter Summit, [20] [21] as well as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Israel Allies Foundation (IAF), the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), [12] and has aligned himself with counter-jihad activists. [24]

He has stated his view that "the Left sees Islam as an ally and Western Civilization and the Judeo-Christian tradition is the enemy" and that Islam and the Left "have a shared hatred for this country". [25] He also claims that there is a "concerted effort by Islamists to infiltrate the very heartland of American society" and that American Muslims are engaged in "stealth" or "civilizational" jihad to impose Sharia in the US. [19]

Personal life

Stakelbeck is married and has two daughters, [12] [16] and currently lives in the Dallas–Fort Worth area. [16] He previously lived outside Washington, D.C. [12]

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  24. ↑ Stakelbeck has himself repeatedly referred to people he has interviewed supportingly as "counter-jihad activists": [8] [22] [23]
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