Tom Gross
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Tom Gross is a British-born journalist, international affairs commentator,[2] and human rights campaigner specializing in the Middle East.[3] Gross was formerly a foreign correspondent for the London Sunday Telegraph and New York Daily News. He now works as an opinion journalist and has written for both Arab[4][5] and Israeli[6] newspapers, as well as European and American ones, both liberal[7] and conservative.[8] He also appears as a commentator on the BBC in English,[9] BBC Arabic,[10] and various Middle Eastern and other networks.[11][12]
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Born | London, England, United Kingdom |
Occupation | Journalist and commentator |
Language | English |
Alma mater | Wadham College, Oxford University |
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His politics are mixed. The German newspaper Die Welt described Gross as "A leftist in the fight against left-wing hypocrisy".[13] In a profile of Gross in the Saudi-owned pan-Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat in 2019, it was noted that he started as a non-political entertainment and feature journalist before becoming a political commentator.[14][15] Long involved in discreet behind-the-scenes bridge-building meetings between officials and activists from Israel and nations throughout the Arab world,[16] Gross was the first journalist sympathetic to Israel to be favorably profiled in a Saudi newspaper, at a time when Saudi outreach to Israel was in its infancy.[17]
In 2014, former Pentagon official Michael Rubin wrote that "Tom Gross is probably Europe’s leading observer of the Middle East".[18] Gross was similarly described in Toronto's National Post in April 2019.[19]