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B. Daniel Diker (born in New York), is a former secretary general of the
World Jewish Congress
The World Jewish Congress (WJC) was founded in Geneva, Switzerland in August 1936 as an international federation of Jewish communities and organizations. According to its mission statement, the World Jewish Congress' main purpose is to act as ...
(WJC), an umbrella group representing Jewish communities and organizations in nearly 100 countries. Diker began his term as Secretary General designate in December 2010, and was formally elected WJC secretary general on 20 June 2011 by the WJC Governing Board in Jerusalem, Israel. In December 2012, the London-based
Jewish Chronicle
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
newspaper reported that Diker had announced his resignation effective January 2013, with the WJC’s relocation of its main office to NYC. According to the article, WJC President
Ronald S. Lauder praised Diker's "enthusiasm and dynamism" and said that his "love of Israel and the Jewish people is second to none..."
Prior to becoming WJC secretary general, Diker had served as the WJC's director for Strategic Affairs, and as WJC Middle East adviser on policy and diplomacy. He succeeded Michael Schneider, who served as the organization's secretary general since 2007.
Professional career
Diker earned a BA cum laude from Harvard University and pursued his MBA at the Harvard Graduate School of Business before receiving an MA in government, counter-terrorism and homeland security studies, summa cum laude, from Reichman University in Israel. His Doctoral dissertation on the Palestinian National Movement and the West is under the supervision of Professor Christian Kaunert, Department of Security Studies at the University of South Wales, Cardiff,UK.
Diker is a respected foreign affairs analyst and Middle East expert. From 2006 to 2010, he served as director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs at the
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
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, headed by
Dore Gold
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, Israel's former Ambassador to the United Nations and former Director General, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At JCPA, Diker has worked as a foreign policy analyst since 2002. Today, Diker is a Fellow and senior project director at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, where he heads the Program to Counter Political Warfare and BDS.
Diker also served as an adjunct fellow of the
Hudson Institute
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in Washington and currently serves as a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism at the IDC Herziliya and a foreign policy fellow at the
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
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. Diker has authored and edited numerous policy books on the global BDS movement for the JCPA including:Israelophobia and the West, (2020) "BDS Unmasked: Radical Roots, Extremist Ends"(2016), "Students for Justice in Palestine, Unmasked" (2017) and "Defeating Denormalization: Shared Palestinian and Israeli Perspectives on a New Path to Peace" (2018).
From 1984 to 1987, Diker worked on Wall Street, first as a marketing professional at
Drexel Burnham Lambert
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, and then as an advisor to the co-chairman on investment banking at Shearson Lehman Brothers.
In the mid 1980’s Diker trained as an actor at Stella Adler Conservatory in New York City, and landed several small roles in
Delta Force 3: The Killing Game.
Diker appears as a commentator and analyst on Israeli and Middle Eastern affairs on a variety of news networks, including
CNN
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,
Russia Today
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news channels and as a Middle East Affairs commentator for Israel's IBA English News. His articles have appeared in the ''
'' and ''Azure''.
Diker was the Executive Producer of a private online radio station confusingly named
/"Voice of Israel"), which operated between 2014-2015. He was also their National Security Analyst and the host of "National Security, a weekly radio program dealing with issues of national security in Israel and around the world.
He also founded and hosted Counter Terrorism Today on IDC International Radio.