Dov Waxman is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Israel Studies and a professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of London’s Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism. From 2020-2024, he served as the director of UCLA’s Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Before joining UCLA, he was a Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and holder of the Stotsky Chair of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies at Northeastern University. He has also had visiting fellowships at the University of Oxford, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bar-Ilan University, and Tel Aviv University. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, and his B.A. degree from Oxford University. 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 and The Atlantic, among many other publications.