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 non-profit American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise is a non-profit 501, "non-partisan" organization in the United States established in 1993 "to strengthen the U.S.-Israel relationship by emphasizing the fundamentals of the alliance." It is a member of the Israel on Campus Coalition. Its Executive...

 (AICE), and the director of the Jewish Virtual Library

Jewish Virtual Library

Jewish Virtual Library is an online encyclopedia published by the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise . Established in 1993, it is a comprehensive website covering Israel, the Jewish people, and Jewish culture.-History:...

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Education

Bard received his B.A. in economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara, his Master's in public policy from Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

, and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...

 (UCLA). His dissertation was on "the limits to domestic influence on U.S. Middle East Policy." He held a postdoctoral fellowship at University of California, Irvine

University of California, Irvine

The University of California, Irvine , founded in 1965, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, located in Irvine, California, USA...

 from 1986 to 1987, researching the rescue by Israel of Ethiopian Jews

Beta Israel

Beta Israel Israel, Ge'ez: ቤተ እስራኤል - Bēta 'Isrā'ēl, modern Bēte 'Isrā'ēl, EAE: "Betä Ǝsraʾel", "Community of Israel" also known as Ethiopian Jews , are the names of Jewish communities which lived in the area of Aksumite and Ethiopian Empires , nowadays divided between Amhara and Tigray...

 from the Sudan, known as Operation Moses

Operation Moses

Operation Moses refers to the covert evacuation of Ethiopian Jews from Sudan during a famine in 1984...

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Media career

Bard has written and edited many books, and his work has been published in academic journals and major newspapers. Bard is a former editor of the Near East Report, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee

American Israel Public Affairs Committee

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is a lobbying group that advocates pro-Israel policies to the Congress and Executive Branch of the United States...

'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

United States presidential election, 1988

The United States presidential election of 1988 featured no incumbent president, as President Ronald Reagan was unable to seek re-election after serving the maximum two terms allowed by the Twenty-second Amendment. Reagan's Vice President, George H. W. Bush, won the Republican nomination, while the...

. He has been interviewed on Fox News, MSNBC

MSNBC

MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...

, NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

, Al-Jazeera, The Jenny Jones Show

The Jenny Jones Show

The Jenny Jones Show is an American syndicated daytime tabloid talk show that was hosted by comedian/actress/singer Jenny Jones. It was produced by Telepictures and was distributed by Warner Bros. Television Distribution...

 and other media outlets.

Books

• The Holocaust, 2001
• The Water's Edge And Beyond: Defining the Limits to Domestic Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy, 1991
• U.S.-Israel Relations: Looking to the Year 2000, 1991
• Myths And Facts: A Concise Record of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, with Joel Himmelfarb, 1992
• Partners for Change: How U.S.-Israel Cooperation Can Benefit America, 1993
• Forgotten Victims: The Abandonment of Americans in Hitler's Camps, 1994
• Building Bridges: Lessons For America From Novel Israeli Approaches To Promote Coexistence, 1997
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War II, 1998.
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Middle East Conflict, 1991; third edition 2002; fourth edition 2008
• The Complete History of the Holocaust, 2001
• The Holocaust (ed), 2001
• Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 2001
• The Nuremberg Trials (ed), At Issue in History series, 2001
• The Nuremberg Trials (ed), Eyewitness to History series, 2002
• From Tragedy to Triumph: The Politics behind the Rescue of Ethiopian Jewry, 2002
• On One Foot: A Middle East Guide for the Perplexed or How to Respond on Your Way to Class When Your Best Friend Joins an Anti-Israel Protest, 2002
• The Founding of Israel, 2003
• 1001 Facts Everyone Should Know About Israel, with Moshe Schwartz, 2005
• Will Israel Survive? 2007
• 48 Hours of Kristallnacht: Night of Destruction / Dawn of the Holocaust, 2008
• Israel Studies: An Anthology. Co-editor with David Nachmias? 2009
• The Arab Lobby: The Invisible Alliance That Undermines America's Interests in the Middle East, 2010

Journal articles

• "How the Palestinian Arabs Became Refugees", Discovery (Spring 1981)
• "Ideology and Depression Politics I: Grover Cleveland (1893-1897)", Presidential Studies Quarterly (Winter 1985)
• "The Turning Point in United States Relations with Israel: The 1968 Sale of Phantom Jets", Middle East Review
  Middle East Review of International Affairs
  Middle East Review of International Affairs is a quarterly journal on Middle East issues edited by Barry Rubin and published by the Global Research in International Affairs Center of the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel, which he also owns and directs.The GLORIA Center also publishes...
  
   (Summer 1988)
• "Interest Groups, the President, and Foreign Policy: How Reagan Snatched Victory From the Jaws of Defeat on AWACS", Presidential Studies Quarterly (Summer 1988)
• "The Evolution of Israel’s Africa Policy", Middle East Review (Winter 1988)
• "How Fares The Camp David Trio?" Orbis
  Orbis (foreign policy)
  Orbis is a quarterly American journal on international relations and U.S. foreign policy. It is the flagship publication of the Philadelphia-based Foreign Policy Research Institute , an international affairs think tank established in 1955....
  
   (Fall 1990)
• "Behind the Wire" (film review), The Public Historian
  The Public Historian
  The Public Historian is the official publication of the National Council on Public History. It is a quarterly journal published by University of California Press, in Berkeley, California...
  
   (Winter 1996)
• "How Special is the U.S.-Israel Relationship?" with Daniel Pipes, Middle East Quarterly
  Middle East Quarterly
  Middle East Quarterly is a peer reviewed quarterly journal, a publication of the American conservative think tank Middle East Forum founded by Daniel Pipes in 1994. It is devoted to subjects relating to the Middle East and Islam and analyzes the region "explicitly from the viewpoint of American...
  
   (June 1997)
• "Deconstructing George W. Bush’s Middle East Strategy", Perspectives: An Israel Review (Brown University
  Brown University
  Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
  
  , Fall 2003, Vol. I, Issue 1)
• "Academic Freedom as a Shield for Anti-Semitism", The Journal of the James Madison Institute
  James Madison Institute
  The James Madison Institute is a free-market think tank headquartered in Tallahassee, Florida in the United States. It is a member of the State Policy Network.Their views are that "the Institute's ideas are rooted in a belief in the U.S...
  
   (Summer 2005)

Studies published by AICE

• "Learning Together: Israeli Innovations in Education that Could Benefit Americans"
• "Experience Counts: Innovative Programs For The Elderly In Israel That Can Benefit Americans"
• "Good Medicine: Israeli Innovations In Health Care That Could Benefit Americans"
• "Breakthrough Dividend: Israeli Innovations In Biotechnology That Could Benefit Americans"
• "Rewriting History in Textbooks"
• "Tenured or tenuous: Defining the Role of Faculty in Supporting Israel on Campus"

Book Reviews

• "Review of Operation Solomon: The Daring Rescue of Ethiopian Jews by Stephen Spector", Middle East Quarterly, (Spring 2006)
• "Review of Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present" by Michael B. Oren
  Michael Oren
  Michael B. Oren is an American-born Israeli historian and author and the Israeli ambassador to the United States...
  
  , Israel Studies
  Israel Studies
  Israel Studies is a multidisciplinary academic journal covering the history, politics, society and culture of the modern state of Israel....
  
   (Summer 2008)

External links

• Will Israel survive? Interview with Michael Bard (Campus Watch
  Campus Watch
  Campus Watch is a web-based project of the Middle East Forum, a think tank with its headquarters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to its website, Campus Watch "reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North America with an aim to improving them." Critics of Campus Watch say that it is a...
  
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