Oren Kessler is a jour­nal­ist and polit­i­cal ana­lyst based in New York and Tel Aviv. He has served as deputy direc­tor for research at the Foun­da­tion for Defense of Democ­ra­cies in Wash­ing­ton, an Arab affairs cor­re­spon­dent for The Jerusalem Post, and an edi­tor and trans­la­tor at Haaretz. Pales­tine 1936 is his first book