Eytan Gilboa is Professor of Political Science and International Communication and former founding Head of the School of Communication, Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He is also a senior research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies and the Center on Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.  He has published 15 books and about 150 book chapters and articles on American policy in the Middle East, international communication, and public diplomacy.  His most recent book is The American Public and Israel in the Twenty First Century (BESA 2020).