Caroline Glick

Caroline Glick
Born	Chicago, Illinois
Education	Bachelor of Arts in Political Science Master of Arts in Public Policy
Occupation	deputy managing editor
Notable credit(s)	Author of "Shackled Warrior"; co-authored an IDF-published book
Website	http://www.carolineglick.com/e/

Caroline Glick is an American-Israeli journalist and is the deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post. She is also the Senior Fellow for Middle East Affairs of the Washington, DC-based Center for Security Policy.

Life

Glick was born in Chicago and graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. She immigrated to Israel in 1991 and joined the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

She worked in the IDF's Judge Advocate General division during the First Intifada in 1992, and while there edited and co-authored an IDF-published book, Israel, the Intifada and the Rule of Law. Following the Oslo Accords, she worked as coordinator of negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. She retired from the military with the rank of captain at the end of 1996. In 1997 and 1998 she served as assistant foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. She returned to the US to get her Master of Arts in Public Policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, in 2000.

Upon her return to Israel, she became, and remains, the chief diplomatic correspondent for Makor Rishon newspaper, for which she writes a weekly column in Hebrew. She is also the deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post for which she writes two weekly syndicated columns. Her writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the National Review, The Boston Globe, the Chicago Sun-Times, The Washington Times, Maariv and major Jewish newspapers worldwide. She has appeared on MSNBC, Fox News Channel, Sky News, the Christian Broadcasting Network, and all of Israel’s major television networks. She also makes frequent radio appearances both in the US and Israel.

In 2003, during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Glick was embedded with the US Army’s 3rd Infantry Division and filed front-line reports for The Jerusalem Post and the Chicago Sun-Times. She also reported daily from the front lines, via satellite phone, for the Israeli Channel 1 news. Glick was on the scene when US forces took the Baghdad International Airport.

She is the Senior Middle East Fellow at the Center for Security Policy and is one of several co-authors of the Center’s latest book, War Footing. She has been a senior researcher at the IDF’s Operational Theory Research Institute (which as Israel’s Defense establishment’s most prestigious think tank is roughly equivalent to the US’s Rand Corporation). She has also worked as an adjunct lecturer in tactical warfare at the IDF’s Command and Staff College.

In 2003, Glick was named "The Most Prominent Woman in Israel" by the Israeli newspaper Maariv.

She was the 2005 recipient of the Zionist Organization of America’s Ben Hecht award for Outstanding Journalism (previous recipients have included A. M. Rosenthal, Sidney Zion and Daniel Pipes).

She also received Israel Media Watch’s 2006 award for critical journalism. She is an editor of the political satire website Latma TV.

On May 31, 2009 she received the Guardian of Zion Award from the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies at Bar Ilan University.

Remarks

Glick has remarked that "one of the greatest problems for international journalists covering the Middle East is that people who serve as guides for journalists are often affiliated with Islamic terrorists seeking to turn foreign visitors against Israel. They bring journalists to staged scenes that paint a false, overly optimistic picture of Arab life."

• "Also, civilians are sometimes willing to give their true opinion if a reporter will allow them to remain anonymous," Glick says, "but using anonymous sources opens a reporter to charges of fabrication."

• "The people often cannot tell you what they think of things because they can be physically punished," Glick said. "This is not just an Israeli problem. This is a problem for reporters in any place that is not free. "

Documentaries

Glick is featured as a speaker on the documentaries Relentless: The Struggle for Peace in Israel and Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West.

Articles

Glick's articles and papers can be found on the websites of The Jerusalem Post, the Center for Security Policy, and Townhall.com. A few of the articles that have been published by the Post have been titled "The world according to Olmert", "Column One: Anatomy of a massacre", and " prayer for 5767".

Glick has repeatedly voiced support in her columns for Dutch politician Geert Wilders, best known for his controversial condemnations of the Islamic religion and calls for the expulsion of Muslim immigrants.

Allegations of racism

Glick has come under fire for her allegedly anti-Arab and anti-Muslim parody, "We Con the World," which satirizes the Gaza flotilla attempt to defy the Israeli sea blockade of Gaza. Among the characters portrayed in the parody are men with beards and Arab headwear, with Arabic accents declaiming "As Allah showed us, for facts there's no demand" and "If Islam and terror brighten up your mood," among other expressions. The video is described by Alex Pareene in a Slate.com article alleging racism as the work of "racist[s]...who seem to cheer the death of their enemies" and "the complete elimination of Arabs". Paul J. Balles has criticized Caroline Glick for what he calls an insidious strain of anti-Arab bigotry in her work. Eilat Terry has written in defense of Glick on Glick's website that such charges of racism are unfounded: "The Arabs are the enemy, they are not nor will they ever be Israelis - they have never reconciled themselves to the existence of a Jewish state. There is nothing we can do about this except throw them out. This is not racism, it is common sense."

Books

• Glick, Caroline 2008, "Shackled Warrior. Israel and the Global Jihad?", Gefen Publishing House. ISBN 978-9652294159