Professor Gil Troy

Professor Gil Troy is a Senior Fellow in Zionist Thought at the JPPI - the global think tank of the Jewish people -- and the author, most recently, of "The Essential Guide to October 7th and its Aftermath: Facts, Figures, History" and "To Resist the Academic Intifada: Letters to My Students on Defending the Zionist Dream."

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, with a foreword written by President Isaac Herzog, who praised Troy as “a revered scholar, author and history professor,” while calling the book “as challenging, humorous, and intellectually sophisticated as its authors.”

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.