Gil Troy

Professor Gil Troy, a leading American presidential historian and a Senior Fellow in Zionist Thought at the JPPI – the global think tank of the Jewish people — is the author of “The Essential Guide to October 7th and its Aftermath: Facts, Figures, History” as well as “To Resist the Academic Intifada: Letters to My Students on Defending the Zionist Dream” and The Zionist ideas. His latest book -The Essential Guide to Zionism, Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism and Jew-hatred was just released.

“With these timely, must-read, letters to his students – and to us all – Gil Troy confirms his stature as a revered teacher, a leading public intellectual, and one of today’s influential Zionist thinkers,” President Isaac Herzog has written, while Noa Tishby, formerly Israel’s Special Envoy for Combating Anti-Semitism wrote: If you want to know Why Israel, Why Zionism, Why Liberalism, Why Americanism, Why stand up for yourselves – and how to fight the Jihadists and what he accurately calls The Academic Intifada – read this book… now.” Ambassador Michael Oren, a Columbia alum writes: I cannot think of a timelier and more essential book for pro-Israel students—and their parents—confronting virulent antisemitism, anti-Americanism, and anti-liberalism on their campuses. Gil Troy’s work belongs in the core curriculum of all those willing to stand up and defend the State of Israel.”

Troy, a Distinguished Scholar in North American History at McGill University living in Jerusalem, is an award-winning American presidential historian and a leading Zionist thinker. The author of eight books on the American presidency, including “The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s” and “Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s,” as well as five books on Zionism, his latest projects include the best-selling, instant classic “The Zionist Ideas”; the “masterful” three volume set of Theodor Herzl’s “Zionist Writings,” launching The Library of the Jewish People; and “Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People,” co-authored with Natan Sharansky. “Never Alone” was just released in Hebrew and an updated paperback edition.

A popular teacher and speaker, and a regular columnist for the Jerusalem Post, Troy is widely published as a presidential historian and a Zionist activist, with recent articles in the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, the Washington Post, the New York Times, The Hill, the Jewish Journal, Commentary, and the Jewish Week. Troy has also been a commentator on various television documentaries, including CNN’s popular “decades” series on the Eighties, the Nineties, the 2000s, and, just last summer, the 2010s.