Prof. Gil Troy

Prof. Gil Troy

Bio

A Distinguished Scholar in North American History at McGill University currently living in Jerusalem, Gil Troy is an award-winning American presidential historian and a leading Zionist activist. He is, the editor of the new three-volume set, “Theodor Herzl: Zionist Writings,” the inaugural publication of The Library of the Jewish People. Two years ago he co-authored with Natan Sharansky Never Alone: Prison, Politics and My People, was published by PublicAffairs of Hachette. Recently designated one of Algemeiner's J-100, one of the top 100 people "positively influencing Jewish life,".

Focus Areas and Research

Articles by Prof. Gil Troy

How Harvard Can Reform Itself

Fighting antisemitism beyond politics: Building alliances, not boycotting

Netanyahu, Bar, and all of Israel’s leaders failed and must step down

Fearless Zionism: American Jews need to reshape their view of Israel

This Is Our Moment for Fearless Zionism

Big problems require great leaps of creativity

The Hamas prisoner release is a justification for death penalty for terrorists

My Solomon Schechter school embodied a bygone American, Zionist and New York Jewish dream

How Israel should respond to the Houthis: Make them fear us more than we fear them

Generational Divides: Supporting our Shared Zionist Dream

Despite a Wary Ceasefire with Hezbollah, Israel Has Much to Celebrate

Jew-Hunting Riots in Amsterdam Expose Dangers of Bystander Inaction

We have failed to integrate the Haredim, and this will have a heavy price for Israel

Crazy Campaign Plus Catastrophic Candidates Equals Surprisingly Normal Results

How are Ultra-Orthodox Jews Protesting IDF Service if They’re Too Busy Studying Torah?

A Brutal US Presidential Campaign: Israelis Should Avoid Replicating it

Dear Students, This is How to Resist The Academic Intifada

The Freedom To Be Sharansky

Israel Must Not End The War Despite Sinwar Success

A Letter to Lebanon: Could Northern Arrows Free Lebanon from Hezbollah?

Biden Should Tell Israel: ‘We’ve Got This’ and Bomb Iran

The Academic Intifada Defeats the Association for Jewish Studies

Keep saying: God Bless America

Zionism After October 7

Unconditional Surrender: How Israel Can Create Peace

To Resist the Academic Intifada’

TikTok Banned My New Book Even Before It Was Published

7 octobre

Israelis have several reasons to say ‘God bless America’ this month

Trump’s surging popularity once again proves political assassinations backfire

The Essential Guidebook to October 7 and its Aftermath

The anti-Zionism of some rabbinical students is a poisonous self-deception

We must work hard to ensure US Jewish community, US-Israel alliance do not break

Jerusalem is the Jewish spiritual, national hotspot

Fighting against antisemitism effectively: Non-Jews should engage too

Campus protests must be branded ‘Academic Intifada’

Harassed students should study in Israel

Israel needs leaders like Joe Lieberman

Forget two states, let’s try a two-democracy solution

Beware of Dangerous Advice: An Urgent Letter to President Biden

Rabbis not supporting the war against Hamas are acting irresponsibly

American policymakers have ideological blinders on

Israel’s Gaza war is self-defense, no apologies needed

How Palestine Hijacked the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

Opinion: Netanyahu is not Sinwar but must go home

Can Zionism Save Academia?

Idan Amedi for Prime Minister of Israel

Returning to sites of the massacre, hard yet necessary

Trust Me, You’d Rather Live in a Pro-Israel America

Non-Jews should lead the fight against Jew hatred

Zionism: Still helping Jews save themselves

Israel stopped apologizing on October 7

Why, Once Again, Israel Will Survive

Our Failed Colleges: Time to Get Radical

Israel maintains moral clarity amid smog of Gaza war on Jihad

The Next Generation of Israelis:  We need your Tonal Zionism

Remembering David Ellenson, a Reform rabbi and Religious Zionist

Where are the righteous Palestinians?

All Israelis are hostages

It’s Time for Professors Who Support Israel to Proclaim their Zionism – the Toronto Way

Palestinians can stop the war by overthrowing Hamas

The Nine Big Lies Against Israel and What They Really Mean

Harvard must fight educational malpractice, not just antisemitism

Attacks on Israel are only the beginning. All democracies are at risk

Iran is no mere adversary, it is America’s mortal enemy

Feminists Are Consenting to Hamas’ Rape Culture

American Jews Need to Reexamine their Blinding ‘Conzeptzia Too’

Why Benjamin Netanyahu should vow to retire

Civilization is not a suicide pact

Students, it’s time to find your courage and confront Hamas apologists on campus

Israeli Soldiers Die Because Its Military Is So Moral; How to Fight the Next War

Silence of the tenured lambs

Palestinian Culture is Morally Bankrupt

The Many Ways American Jews Can Help

Amid the shock and horror, the nation stands together with moral clarity and resolve