Gil Troy

Professor Gil Troy, a Senior Fellow in Zionist Thought at the Jewish People Policy Institute, the global think tank of the Jewish people, is an American presidential historian. His latest books, To Resist the Academic Intifada: Letters to My Students on Defending the Zionist Dream and The Essential Guide to October 7 and Its Aftermath: Facts, Figures, History, were recently published.

How Harvard Can Reform Itself
It can start by ending tenure
byGil Troy
How Palestine Hijacked the U.S. Civil Rights Movement
A new generation of progressives has stumbled on old Soviet antisemitic propaganda
byGil Troy
Feminists Are Consenting to Hamas’ Rape Culture
And they’re doing it proudly, on campuses and capitals around the world
byGil Troy
Israeli Democracy Is Fine, Thank You for Asking
Attempts to run the anti-Trump playbook against Bibi ignore the deep differences between Israel’s resilient democratic culture and America’s polarized partisan mess
byGil Troy
A Walk in the Park With A.B. Yehoshua
Talking Zionism and failure with the iconic Israeli novelist, who died this week
byGil Troy
Israel’s Memorial Day
The ritual of mourning Israel’s war dead is becoming part of Jewish tradition, and has a thing or two to teach Americans
byGil Troy
Remember Deir Yassin!
Historian Eliezer Tauber explores how Palestinian propaganda backfired by turning a bloody battle into a fateful blood libel
byGil Troy
Welcoming Zionist Ideas Into the Sukkah, Day 5: Occupy Zionism
Today, for our ongoing series of influential Zionist texts, a double billing from modern Israel: Stav Shaffir’s political activism and Yedidia Stern’s balance of competing identities
byGil Troy
The Rabbi’s Feminist Zionism
Welcoming Zionist Ideas Into the Sukkah, Day 4: ‘A Jewish Feminist-Womanist Appreciation’ from the first Israeli-born woman rabbi
byGil Troy
Welcoming Zionist Ideas Into the Sukkah, Day 3
For every day of Sukkot, we’re publishing a text by a different Zionist writer. Today it’s the French-Algerian author, Shmuel Trigano, on the illusions of post-Zionism
byGil Troy
Welcoming Zionist Ideas Into the Sukkah, Day 2
For every day of Sukkot, we’re publishing a text by a different Zionist pioneer. Today, a seminal figure in Hebrew literature: Joseph Hayyim Brenner
byGil Troy
Welcoming Zionist Ideas Into the Sukkah, Day 1
For every day of Sukkot, we’ll provide a text by a different Zionist pioneer. Today’s excerpt comes from Berl Katzenelson’s ‘Revolution and Tradition’
byGil Troy
The Newly Relevant Case for Liberal Zionism
In the wake of attacks from both the alt-right and the left, what we can learn about the values of nationalism
byGil Troy
Leonard Garment, Beyond Watergate
The late lawyer’s critical role fighting the UN’s Zionism is Racism Resolution
byGil Troy
Happy Birthday, Mr. Kissinger
The influential former secretary of state—courtier, careerist, proud American, conflicted Jew—turns 90
byGil Troy
When Feminists Were Zionists
A new generation of women is being misled into assuming an ideological tension between feminism and Zionism
byGil Troy
National Insecurity: The Case for Jonathan Pollard
American Jews haven’t stood up for Jonathan Pollard. That might finally be changing.
byGil Troy
Oh, Canada
Why anti-Zionism festers in a country otherwise known for its friendliness
byGil Troy