Gil Troy

Award-Winning, Bestselling American Presidential Historian; Leading Zionist Activist; Senior Fellow at the Global Think Tank, Jewish People Policy Institute

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Gil Troy Biography

Professor Gil Troy is an award-winning, bestselling American presidential historian and a leading Zionist activist. He is a senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute, the Global ThinkTank of the Jewish People, and a distinguished scholar in North American History at McGill University currently living in Jerusalem. He is the author of “To Resist the Academic Intifada: Letters to My Students on Defending the Zionist Dream."

Troy has authored numerous books including, “The Essential Guide to October 7th and its Aftermath: Facts, Figures, History,” which has been translated in French and widely reprinted. He is the editor of the new three-volume set, “Theodor Herzl: Zionist Writings,” the inaugural publication of The Library of the Jewish People. In 2020, he and Natan Sharansky co-authored "Never Alone: Prison, Politics and My People." This Memoirfesto or Manifestoire, as they call it, was published by PublicAffairs of Hachette. In 2023, an updated paperback edition including a Hebrew translation.

In the Foreword to Troy’s bestselling, classic, "The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland – Then, Now, Tomorrow," Natan Sharansky is thought of as a perfect follow-up to Arthur Hertzberg’s classic, "The Zionist Idea." Combining, like Hertzberg, a scholar’s eye and an activist’s ear, Troy demonstrated that we live in a world of Zionist Ideas, with many different ways to help Israel flourish as a democratic Jewish state.

Recently designated an Algemeiner J-100, one of the top 100 people influencing Jewish lives. Troy wrote "The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s," and ten other books on the American presidency. Troy edited and updated the multi-volume History of American Presidential Campaigns, originally edited by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. and Fred Israel.

Troy’s book "Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight against Zionism as Racism," describes the fall of the UN, the rise of Reagan and the spread of Anti-Zionism. Jewish Ideas Daily designated it one of 2012’s “best books.”

He appeared as a featured commentator on CNN’s popular multipart documentaries, The Eighties, The Nineties, and The 2000s. He was just interviewed for “The 2010s.” He has been interviewed on most major North American TV and Radio networks.

Troy has published essays in the American, Canadian, and Israeli media, including writing essays for the New York Times’ “Campaign Stops” in 2012 and 2016. He wrote a weekly column for the Daily Beast, “Secret Lives,” putting current events in historical perspective, and writes a weekly column for the Jerusalem Post. Recent articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Hill, and The Jewish Journal, among other publications.

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Gil Troy Videos

  • Prof. Gil Troy | Colleagues or Targets? | Adams Conference 2024
    Prof. Gil Troy McGill University Canada “Colleagues … or Targets? Maintaining a Proud Israeli Identity on the post-October 7th Campus”
  • ALEPH 2021, "Zionism, Israel, and Social Justice," with Prof. Gil Troy
    Gil Troy is an award-winning American presidential historian and a leading Zionist activist.
  • Keynote - Gil Troy - MOTL Canada

Gil Troy Books

  • Affairs Of State: The Rise And Rejection Of The Presidential Couple Since World War Two
    Affairs Of State: The Rise And Rejection Of The Presidential Couple Since World War Two
  • The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s
    The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s
  • Moynihan's Moment
    Moynihan's Moment
  • The Reagan Revolution
    The Reagan Revolution
  • Why I Am A Zionist: Israel, Jewish Identity And The Challenges Of Today, Updated Edition
    Why I Am A Zionist: Israel, Jewish Identity And The Challenges Of Today, Updated Edition

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