Dov Waxman is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair of Israel Studies and a professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is also the scholar-in-residence at the Nexus Project and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, University of London. From 2000-2004, he was the director of the UCLA Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Before joining UCLA, he was the Stotsky Chair of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies, a professor of Political Science, and the co-director of the Middle East Center at Northeastern University. He has had visiting fellowships at Oxford University, Tel Aviv University, Bar-Ilan University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at 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 next book, The Question of Antisemitism: A Guide for a World Divided by Israel-Palestine, will be published by Princeton University Press in January 2027.
Dov Waxman is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair of Israel Studies and a professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is also the scholar-in-residence at the Nexus Project and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, University of London. From 2000-2004, he was the director of the UCLA Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Before joining UCLA, he...
Why is there so much fierce debate around antisemitism today? The Question of Antisemitism argues that antisemitism has become so contested primarily because it has become entangled with the divisive issue of Israel-Palestine. The book dives headfirst into today's toughest questions and provides nuanced answers to them:
No conflict in the world has lasted as long, generated as many news headlines, or incited as much controversy as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet, despite, or perhaps because of, the degree of international attention it receives, the conflict is still widely misunderstood. While Israelis and Palestinians and their respective supporters...
Trouble in the Tribe explores the increasingly contentious place of Israel in the American Jewish community. In a fundamental shift, growing numbers of American Jews have become less willing to unquestioningly support Israel and more willing to publicly criticize its government. More than ever before,...
