Biography

Dr. Mitchell Bard is the Executive Director of the nonprofit American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE) and a foreign policy analyst who lectures frequently on U.S.-Middle East policy. Dr. Bard is also the director of the Jewish Virtual Library, the world’s most comprehensive online encyclopedia of Jewish history and culture.

For three years he was the editor of the Near East Report, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) weekly newsletter on U.S. Middle East policy.

Prior to working at AIPAC, Dr. Bard served as a senior analyst in the polling division of the 1988 Bush campaign.

Dr. Bard is a member of a number of speakers bureaus, including the UJC, Hillel, Israel Bonds and the Jewish National Fund. He is also represented by the Harry Walker Agency.

Dr. Bard has appeared on Fox News, MSNBC, NBC, CBC, the Jenny Jones Show, al-Jazeera and other local and national television and radio outlets. His work has been published in academic journals, magazines and major newspapers. He is the author of 18 books:

• 48 Hours of Kristallnacht: Night of Destruction/ Dawn of the Holocaust
  
  
• Will Israel Survive?
  
  
• 1001 Facts Everyone Should Know About Israel [with Moshe Schwartz]
  
  
• The Water's Edge And Beyond: Defining the Limits to Domestic Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy
  
  
• Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict
  
  
• Forgotten Victims: The Abandonment of Americans in Hitler's Camps
  
  
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to World War II
  
  
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Middle East Conflict
  
  
• The Complete History of the Holocaust
  
  
• The Holocaust (Turning Points in World History)
  
  
• The Nuremberg Trials (At Issue in History)
  
  
• The Nuremberg Trials (Eyewitness to History)
  
  
• From Tragedy to Triumph: The Politics behind the Rescue of Ethiopian Jewry
  
  
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding the Brain
  
  
• Partners for Change: How U.S.-Israel Cooperation Can Benefit America
  
  
• U.S.-Israel Relations: Looking to the Year 2000
  
  
• Building Bridges: Lessons For America From Novel Israeli Approaches To Promote Coexistence
  
  
• Myths And Facts: A Concise Record of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (coauthor)
  
  
• 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
  
  
• The Founding of the State of Israel
  

Dr. Bard is also the author/editor of six 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

Bard holds a Ph.D. in political science from UCLA and a master’s degree in public policy from Berkeley. He received his B.A. in economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Dr. Bard's C.V.