Mitchell Geoffrey Bard is an American foreign policy analyst, editor and author who specializes in U.S.–Middle East policy. He is the Executive Director of the nonprofit American–Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE), and the director of the
Jewish Virtual Library.
Biography
Bard received his academic degrees from the
University of California
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(UC):
B.A.
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in
economics
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Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...
from
Santa Barbara, his
Master's degree
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public policy
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from
Berkeley
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Berkeley may also refer ...
, and a
Ph.D.
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in
political science
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from
UCLA
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. His dissertation was on "the limits to domestic influence on U.S. Middle East Policy". He was a
postdoctoral fellow
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at
UC Irvine
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Arts and entertainment
* '' University Challenge'', a popular British quiz programme airing on BBC Two
** ''University Challenge (New Zealand)'', the New Zealand version of the British programme
* Universal Century, one of the t ...
from 1986 to 1987, researching the rescue by Israel of
Ethiopian Jews from the
Sudan, known as
Operation Moses
Operation Moses ( he, מִבְצָע מֹשֶׁה, ''Mivtza Moshe'') was the covert evacuation of Ethiopian Jews (known as the "Beta Israel" community or "Falashas") from Sudan during a civil war that caused a famine in 1984. Originally called '' ...
.
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Bard lives in Maryland with his wife and two sons.
Media career
Bard is a former editor of the ''Near East Report'', the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee's ("AIPAC") weekly newsletter on U.S.-Middle East policy. Before working for the AIPAC, he was a polling analyst for the
George (H.W.) Bush for President Survey Research Group during the
1988 presidential election. He has been interviewed on
Fox News
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,
MSNBC
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,
NBC
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,
Al-Jazeera,
The Jenny Jones Show
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and other media outlets.
In 2012, Bard attended the
Israeli Presidential Conference.
Awards and recognition
In 2013, he was on
the Algemeiner
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History
In 1972, Gershon Jacobson founded the Yiddish-language ...
's list of the Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life for his work.
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References
External links
Mitchell Bard Home PageArticlesat the Times of Israel
Will Israel survive? Interview with Bard(
Campus Watch)
Opinion pieces and articleson Fox News
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Living people
Goldman School of Public Policy alumni
University of California, Santa Barbara alumni
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
University of California, Irvine alumni
Judaic studies
Scholars of antisemitism
Jewish American writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American Jews