Tom Gross

Tom Gross is a British-born journalist, international affairs commentator, and human rights campaigner specializing in the Middle East. In 2014, former Pentagon official Michael Rubin wrote that “Tom Gross is probably Europe’s leading observer of the Middle East.” He has advocated for the rights of the Roma, Domari, Kurdish and Yazidi minorities, among others.

He has written extensively about human rights worldwide from North Korea to Mauritania and criticized the UN for not doing more to promote freedom.

He has also conducted various on stage interviews, including with a French hostage kidnapped by Islamic State in Syria, a Nigerian schoolgirl kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria, and with the wife of the imprisoned Saudi liberal blogger and political prisoner Raif Badawi.

Gross was formerly the Jerusalem correspondent for the London Sunday Telegraph and for the New York Daily News. He is a contributor to The Wall Street Journal,Weekly Standard,National Review and Huffington Post in the United States, to The National Post in Canada, to The Australian in Australia, and to The India Times in India.

In Britain, he has written for The Guardian,Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail,Spectator, Standpoint and Evening Standard, among other publications; in Israel, for Ha’aretz, Ma’ariv and The Jerusalem Post; and in Iran, for a number of opposition websites.

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