Oren Kessler is a writer based in Washington, where he is the 2026-2027 Goldman Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. A fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he was previously deputy director for research at Foundation for Defense of Democracies, research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society in London, Arab affairs correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, and an editor and translator at Haaretz English.

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Raised in Rochester, New York, and Tel Aviv, he holds a BA in history from the University of Toronto and an MA in diplomacy and conflict studies from Reichman University.

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Kessler’s work has appeared in media outlets including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Politico. Palestine 1936 is his first book.