Efraim Karsh

Efraim Karsh is director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University, emeritus professor of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King’s College London, and editor of the Middle East Quarterly. He is the author most recently of The Tail Wags the Dog: International Politics and the Middle East (Bloomsbury, 2015).

Latest Content

Response · April 16, 2018
How Harry Truman Crossed His Own State Department to Recognize Israel in 1948
By Efraim Karsh
In the moments leading up to Israel's independence, America's diplomats did everything they could to stop the process, and the president, cold.
Response · July 7, 2014
The Uses of Lydda
By Efraim Karsh
How a confusing urban battle between two sides was transformed into a one-sided massacre of helpless victims.