{{Short description|American foreign policy analyst}} {{Infobox person | name = Mitchell Bard | alma_mater = UCLA (PhD) Berkeley (Master's degree) UCSB (B.A.) <ref>{{cite web | url=http://mitchellbard.com/mbbio.html | title=Biography }}</ref> | known_for = Executive director of American–Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE), Director of Jewish Virtual Library | website = {{URL|http://mitchellbard.com/}} }}
'''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),<ref>{{cite web | title=The Middle East Studies Association Imagines Its FUTURE | website=Telos Press | date=December 20, 2017 | url=http://www.telospress.com/the-middle-east-studies-association-imagines-its-future/ | access-date=April 20, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Glassman | first=Marvin | title=Palm Beach County synagogues collaborate on adult learning offerings | website=Jewish Journal | date=October 26, 2017 | url=http://www.sun-sentinel.com/florida-jewish-journal/news/palm/fl-jjps-learning-1101-20171026-story.html | access-date=April 20, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Scott Walker: Israel says its wall led to 90 percent reduction in terrorist attacks | website=@politifact | date=August 17, 2015 | url=http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2015/oct/02/scott-walker/scott-walker-israel-says-its-wall-led-90-percent-r/ | access-date=April 20, 2018}}</ref> and the director of the Jewish Virtual Library.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mitchell G. Bard|url=http://www.c-spanvideo.org/mitchellbard|work=C-SPAN|accessdate=21 December 2013}}</ref>
==Biography== Bard received his B.A. in economics from University of California, Santa Barbara, his Master's degree in public policy from University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in political science from University of California, Los Angeles. His dissertation was on "the limits to domestic influence on U.S. Middle East Policy".<ref>{{cite web|last1=Smith|first1=Lee|title=The Arab Lobby|url=http://tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/44096/the-arab-lobby|website=Tablet|date=September 2010 |accessdate=21 January 2015}}</ref> He was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Irvine from 1986 to 1987, researching the rescue by Israel of Ethiopian Jews from the Sudan, known as Operation Moses.<ref name=Bard>[http://www.mitchellbard.com/ Website of Mitchell Bard].</ref> Bard lives in Maryland with his wife and two sons.<ref>The Founding of the State of Israel – About the Editor p. 121</ref>
==Media career== Bard is a former editor of the ''Near East Report'', AIPAC's weekly newsletter on U.S.-Middle East policy.<ref>{{cite web | last=Berlinski | first=Claire | title=Agents of Influence | website=National Review | date=January 6, 2011 | url=https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2011/01/24/agents-influence/ | access-date=April 20, 2018}}</ref> 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, MSNBC, NBC, Al-Jazeera, The Jenny Jones Show and other media outlets.<ref>{{cite web|title=Introducing Dr. Mitchell Bard, Middle East Expert| website=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkFQ3iWFyy8 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140524090706/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkFQ3iWFyy8 |archive-date=2014-05-24 |url-status=dead|accessdate=21 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Analyst says Qatar has become one of the most harmful influences in Middle East | website=Al Arabiya English | date=April 8, 2018 | url=http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/features/2018/04/08/Analyst-says-Qatar-has-become-one-of-the-most-harmful-influences-in-Middle-East.html | access-date=April 20, 2018}}</ref>
==Awards and recognition== In 2013, he was on the ''Algemeiner Journal'' list of the Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life for his work.<ref>{{cite news|title=Algemeiner Jewish 100: The Full List|url=http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/04/25/algemeiner-jewish-100-the-full-list/|accessdate=21 December 2013|newspaper=The Algemeiner|date=April 25, 2013}}</ref>
==Published works== *{{cite book|last1=Bard|first1=Mitchell|title=The Water's Edge and Beyond: Defining the Limits to Domestic Influence on United States Middle East Policy|date=1991|publisher=Transaction|location=New Brunswick, New Jersey|isbn=0887383467}} *{{cite book|last1=Bard|first1=Mitchell|title=U.S.-Israel Relations: Looking To The Year 2000|date=1991|publisher=AIPAC}} *{{cite book|last1=Bard|first1=Mitchell|title=Forgotten Victims: The Abandonment of Americans in Hitler's Camps|date=1994|publisher=Westview Press|location=Boulder, CO|isbn=081332193X}} *{{cite book|last1=Bard|first1=Mitchell|title=The Nuremberg Trials (At Issue in History)|date=2001|publisher=Greenhaven Press|location=Farmington Hills, MI|isbn=0737710578|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/nurembergtrials0000unse}} *{{cite book|last1=Bard|first1=Mitchell|title=The Holocaust (Turning Points in World History)|date=2001|publisher=Greenhaven Press|location=Farmington Hills, MI|isbn=0737705760|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/holocaust00mitc}} *{{cite book|last1=Bard|first1=Mitchell|title=The Complete History of the Holocaust|date=2001|publisher=Greenhaven Press|location=Farmington Hills, MI|isbn=0737703733}} *{{cite book|last1=Bard|first1=Mitchell|title=The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding the Brain|date=2002|publisher=Alpha Books|location=New York, NY|isbn=0028643100|url=https://archive.org/details/completeidiotsgu00bard}} *{{cite book|last1=Bard|first1=Mitchell|title=The Nuremberg Trials (History Firsthand)|date=2002|publisher=Greenhaven Press|location=Farmington Hills, MI|isbn=0737710756|url=https://archive.org/details/nurembergtrials00mitc}} *{{cite book|last1=Bard|first1=Mitchell|title=From Tragedy to Triumph: The Politics behind the Rescue of Ethiopian Jewry|date=2002|publisher=Greenwood|location=Westport, CT|isbn=0324180233}} *{{cite book|last1=Bard|first1=Mitchell|title=The Founding of the State of Israel|date=2003|publisher=Greenhaven Press|location=Farmington Hills, MI|isbn=0737713496}} *{{cite book|last1=Bard|first1=Mitchell|title=1001 Facts Everyone Should Know About Israel|date=2003|publisher=Jason Aronson|isbn=0742543587}} *{{cite book|last1=Bard|first1=Mitchell|title=The Complete Idiot's Guide to Middle East Conflict|date=2008|publisher=Alpha Books|location=New York, NY|isbn=978-1592577910|url=https://archive.org/details/completeidiotsgu00bard_0|edition=Fourth}} *{{cite book|last1=Bard|first1=Mitchell|title=Will Israel Survive?|date=2007|publisher=Palgrave|location=Basingstoke, UK|isbn=978-1403981981|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/willisraelsurviv0000bard}} *{{cite book|last1=Bard|first1=Mitchell|title=On One Foot: A Middle East Guide for the Perplexed|date=2008|publisher=AICE Inc|location=Chevy Chase, MD|isbn=978-0971294554}} *{{cite book|last1=Bard|first1=Mitchell|title=Israel Studies: An Anthology|date=2009|publisher=Jewish Virtual Library|location=Chevy Chase, MD}} *{{cite book|last1=Bard|first1=Mitchell|title=The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War II|date=2010|publisher=Alpha Books|location=New York, NY|isbn=978-1615640249|edition=Third}} *{{cite book|last1=Bard|first1=Mitchell|title=48 Hours of Kristallnacht: Night of Destruction/ Dawn of the Holocaust|date=2010|publisher=Lyons Press|isbn=978-1599219660}} *{{cite book|last1=Bard|first1=Mitchell|title=The Arab Lobby: The Invisible Alliance That Undermines America's Interests in the Middle East|date=2010|publisher=Broadside Books|location=New York|isbn=978-0-061-72601-9}}<ref name="DershowitzReview">{{cite news|last1=Dershowitz|first1=Alan|title=The Arab Lobby Rules America (book review)|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/08/24/the-arab-lobby-in-america-alan-dershowitz.html|accessdate=19 February 2017|publisher=Newsweek|date=24 August 2010}}</ref> *{{cite book|last1=Bard|first1=Mitchell|title=Myths And Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict|date=2012|publisher=AICE Inc|location=Chevy Chase, MD|isbn=978-0971294561}} *{{cite book|last1=Bard|first1=Mitchell|title=Israel Matters: Understand the Past - Look to the Future|date=2012|publisher=Behrman House|location=Springfield, NJ}} *{{cite book|last1=Bard|first1=Mitchell|title=After Anatevka - Tevye Goes to Palestine|date=2013|publisher=CreateSpace|isbn=978-1481907132}} *{{cite book|last1=Bard|first1=Mitchell|title=Death to the Infidels: Radical Islam's War Against the Jews|date=2014|publisher=Palgrave|location=Basingstoke, UK|isbn=978-1137279071}}
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==External links== * [http://mitchellbard.com/ Mitchell Bard Home Page] * [http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/mitchell-bard/ Articles] at the Times of Israel * [http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4328 Will Israel survive? Interview with Bard] (Campus Watch)
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