Dov Waxman is the Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Previously, he was the Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies and Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University. He is the author of four books: The Pursuit of Peace and The Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending / Defining the Nation (2006), Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within (2011), Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel (2016), and, The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know (2019).