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), and the director of the

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Biography

Bard received his academic degrees from the

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(UC): B.A. in

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from Santa Barbara, his

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public policy Public policy is an institutionalized proposal or a Group decision-making, decided set of elements like laws, regulations, guidelines, and actions to Problem solving, solve or address relevant and problematic social issues, guided by a conceptio ...

from Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

from

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. His dissertation was on "the limits to domestic influence on U.S. Middle East Policy". He was a postdoctoral fellow at

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from 1986 to 1987, researching the rescue by Israel of

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from the

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, known as Operation Moses.Website of Mitchell Bard
Bard lives in Maryland with his wife and two sons.

Media career

Bard is a former editor of the ''Near East Report'', the

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's ("AIPAC") weekly newsletter on U.S.-Middle East policy. 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

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, Al-Jazeera, The Jenny Jones Show and other media outlets.

Awards and recognition

In 2013, he was on the '' Algemeiner Journal'' list of the Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life for his work.

Published works

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References

External links

Mitchell Bard Home Page

Articles
at the Times of Israel
Will Israel survive? Interview with Bard
( Campus Watch)
Opinion pieces and articles
on Fox News {{DEFAULTSORT:Bard, Mitchell Living people American male non-fiction writers Goldman School of Public Policy alumni University of California, Santa Barbara alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni University of California, Irvine alumni Scholars of antisemitism Jewish American non-fiction writers Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American Jews