The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations. Dov Waxman is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair of Israel Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). From 2000-2004, he was the director of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Before joining UCLA, he was the Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies and the director of the Middle East Center at Northeastern University. He was previously an associate professor at the City University of New York, an assistant professor at Bowdoin College, and a visiting professor at the Middle East Technical University. He has also had visiting fellowships at Oxford University, Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He graduated from Oxford University and received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His research and writing focus on the Israel-Palestine conflict, contemporary antisemitism, Jewish politics, Israeli politics, and U.S.-Israel relations. He is the author of four books: The Pursuit of Peace and The Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending / Defining the Nation (2006), Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within (2011), Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel (2016), and The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know (2019). His writing has also been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Forward, The Atlantic, Time, Slate, Foreign Policy and many other places. He also appears regularly as a commentator for major media outlets including CNN, NBC, MSNBC, FOX News, CBS, PBS, BBC, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg TV, NPR. Read more about this author Read less about this author Read more about this author Read less about this author