Sasha Polakow-Suransky (born April 3, 1979) is an American journalist and author. He is a deputy editor of ''

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'', and a former editor of international opinion at ''

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'' op-ed page and former senior editor of ''

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''. In 2015 he was an

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Fellow, while writing a book about the political impact of immigration. His first book, ''The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa'', was published in 2010. His second book, ''Go Back to Where You Came From: The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy'', was published in 2017.

Life

After graduating from

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, where he wrote for ''

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'', Polakow-Suransky was awarded a

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and attended

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, where he earned a doctorate in modern history. He is the younger brother of Shael Polakow-Suransky; both are the children of Valerie Polakow and Leonard Suransky,

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who were anti-

apartheid Apartheid ( , especially South African English: , ; , ) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterised by an ...

activists in South Africa before emigrating to the United States in 1973 to avoid possible arrest.

Works

*''The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa'', Pantheon, 2010. , *''Go Back to Where You Came From: The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy'', Nation Books, 2017. ,

References

1979 births Living people Brown University alumni American Rhodes Scholars The New York Times editors American people of South African-Jewish descent 21st-century American journalists {{US-journalist-1970s-stub