Gil Troy

Gil Troy is the author of The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s. His forthcoming book, The Zionist Ideas, which updates Arthur Hertzberg's classic work, will be published by The Jewish Publication Society in Spring 2018. Professor Gil Troy is Distinguished Scholar in North American History at McGill University.

FROM LEFT: Former American Jewish Committee CEO David Harris, the writer, and Permanent Representative of Israel to the UN in Geneva Daniel Meron celebrate Zionism in Geneva.

Geneva’s Disneyland of deceit sets the stage for UN’s betrayal of Jews, Israel - opinion

A woman places a candle as people grieve at the site of the Nova festival where partygoers were killed and kidnapped, on the two-year anniversary of the deadly October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas from Gaza, in Reim, southern Israel, October 7, 2025.

New York Times’ lies about Israel, Palestinians spreading among US Jews - opinion

THE WRITER addresses the Conference on Informal Education and Leadership, sponsored by the World Zionist Organization’s Dept. of Pioneering Youth and Future Generations, run in parallel with the World Zionist Congress.

Idealism at the WZC: The future of Zionism looks bright - opinion


No to Mamdani: Vote for Andrew Cuomo rather than antisemitism and anti-Zionism - opinion

Not voting for Cuomo – the only realistic alternative to Mamdani – is voting against every innocent slaughtered, raped, maimed, and traumatized on October 7.

ANDREW CUOMO speaks at a news conference. ‘I’ve never endorsed an American political candidate from these pages... but these are not normal times,’ says the writer.

The DIY ally: Israel’s victory is America’s too - opinion

Once again, Israel’s decisive win has boosted America too.

US SPECIAL ENVOY Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner clasp hands while being recognized at the Knesset last week during the special session marking the hostage and ceasefire agreement. Once again, Israel’s decisive win has boosted America too, the writer asserts.

A time to heal: The end of the war should not bring Israel back to pre-Oct. 7 debates - opinion

Israel needs time to heal, not a return to the pre-October 7 tribal clashes. 

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu should emphasize that our victorious soldiers represent all of Israel, Jews and non-Jews, leftists and rightists, religious and secular, Bibi-lovers and Bibi-bashers too, says the writer.

Jews buying the genocide lie betray Israel and themselves - opinion

I’m even more ashamed of those American Jews swallowing these antisemitic “war crimes” libels, betraying themselves, not just their people.

A BILLBOARD in Times Square reads ‘Israel is committing genocide’ as part of a campaign for a soccer boycott against Israel over the war in Gaza last month. No genocidal army ever imported 14,125 tons of aid in one week alone, says the writer.

The UN’s descent into Jew-hatred and irrelevance - opinion

Many Americans gave up on the UN decades ago, reflecting their post-World War II protectiveness toward Jews and Israel.

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump gestures after addressing the UN General Assembly.

A Jewish New Year’s wish: A future with less Jew-hatred - opinion

As almost every Israeli Jew plans to attend Rosh Hashanah dinner, joined by millions of Jews worldwide, we have much to celebrate.

AN IDF soldier exercises near the border with the Gaza Strip last week. This is a war of deterrence, not vengeance, says the writer.

Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism, and Jew-hatred - opinion

Why we need an essential guide

DAVID BEN-GURION declares Israel a state on May 14, 1948. Says the writer: ‘For years, I refused to be a post-Holocaust Jew. Now, I don’t want October 7 Jews. Let’s be 1948 Jews – or 3,500-year-old Jews!’

Still singing, dreaming, and hoping: David Broza at 70 - opinion

“I work non-stop – that’s what makes me happy,” David Broza told me this Sunday.

FROM LEFT: The writer, David Broza, and Grammy-award winning record producer Steve Greenberg pose during the recording of ‘East Jerusalem/West Jerusalem’ in 2013 in Jerusalem.

Zionists must get up and defeat the ‘silent intifada’ - opinion

Instead of wallowing in self-pity, Zionists should reconceptualize their approach.

PRO-ISRAEL counter-demonstrators gather amid protesters in support of Palestinians on the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) campus last year. Let’s learn from Zionism and US Jewish history, reframing and transcending, urges the writer.

Israel's neglected North justifies pushing hard in Gaza - opinion

Old-timers recall the peaceful border from 1948 through the 1970s, when Israeli farmers worked lands inside Lebanon, and one-third of Western Galilee hospital’s ophthalmology patients were Lebanese.

 A huge 35 square meters Israeli national flag is raised on the eve of Yom Kippur to remember the fallen soldiers of the 1973 Kippur War in the Golan Heights, Tel Saki Memorial Site, Golan Heights, October 11, 2024.