Caroline B. Glick (; born 1969) is an Israeli-American conservative journalist and author who lives in Efrat, in Gush Etzion.
Early life and education
Glick was born in 1969 in
Houston, Texas, to a Jewish family. They moved to Chicago when she was a baby, and she grew up in the Hyde Park neighborhood.
She graduated from Columbia College, Columbia University, in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science.
As a teenager traveling with her parents and siblings, Glick visited Israel for the first time at the onset of the First Lebanon War.[Glick, Caroline B. (January 4, 2019). "Why I am running for Knesset with Shaked, Bennett." Retrieved 7 January 2019. Jerusalem Post website] Glick aliyah in 1991, and joined the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
Glick is the sister of American diplomat Bonnie Glick.
Career
Military
Glick joined the Israel Defense Force in August 1991. She served 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.
Government
After her demobilisation, Glick worked for about a year as the assistant to the director general of the Israel Antiquities Authority. She then served as assistant foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from 1997 to 1998. Glick returned to the US to earn a Master of Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School in 2000.
In February 2025, Glick started a position as International Affairs Advisor to the Prime Minister.
Journalism
Following her return to Israel, she became the chief diplomatic correspondent for the
Makor Rishon newspaper, for which she wrote a weekly column in Hebrew. She was also the deputy managing editor of
The Jerusalem Post, and served as senior columnist and senior contributing editor until early 2019. In the summer of 2019, Glick joined Israeli newspaper
Israel Hayom, where she works as a senior columnist for its Hebrew and English editions. Her writings have appeared in
The Wall Street Journal, the
New York Times,
National Review,
The Boston Globe, the
Chicago Sun-Times,
Commentary magazine,
The Washington Times,
Maariv,
Moment, and other newspapers. Glick has also contributed to many online journals.
In addition to appearing on Israel's major television networks, she has appeared on US television programs on
MSNBC and
Fox News.
She 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.
Glick is the author of The Israeli Solution: A One State Plan for Peace in the Middle East, and Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad. She is the adjunct senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the far-right think tank Center for Security Policy,
In its Israeli Independence Day supplement in 2003, Israeli newspaper Maariv named her the most prominent woman in Israel.
Glick founded and edited the Hebrew language political satire website Latma from 2009 to 2013.
In July 2012, the David Horowitz Freedom Center announced the hiring of Glick as the Director of its Israel Security Project.
Politics
In a
Jerusalem Post opinion piece on the subject of the Iran nuclear agreement published on August 13, 2015, Glick characterized
American Jews as being at a crossroads, being threatened by President
Barack Obama to risk both alienation from the Democratic Party and a weakening of the traditional Israeli-USA relationship if influential American Jewish leaders fail to support the nuclear deal.
[Glick, Caroline B. (13 August 2015) "American Jewry's fateful hour". Jerusalem: Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 16 August 2015. Jerusalem Post website]
In January 2019, she became a member of the Israeli New Right party.
Reception
In Glick's 2014 book
The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East, she advocates for the annexation of the West Bank into a Jewish state. She wrote an introductory article for the book in
The Jerusalem Post.
[ jpost.com: "Column one: The Israeli solution", 24 February 2014] A review in the
Jewish Political Studies Review called it a "solid defense of
Zionism".
One reviewer in the United Arab Emirates'
The National was intrigued, but found the book problematic and flawed, found the author's historical account to be "mendacious", and saw the likely result of annexation as a collapse into civil war.
David P. Goldman's review at the
Asia Times was more favorable of Glick's one-state plan, but questioned whether it could be executed considering the demographic disaster predicted by Sergio Della Pergola. Goldman concludes, "If you read only one book about the Middle East this year, it should be Caroline Glick's".
[ atimes.com: "The Israeli Solution by Caroline Glick", Asia Times. 31 March 2014.]
We Con the World
In June 2010, Glick co-produced and appeared in
We Con the World, a satirical video by Latma TV about the Gaza Freedom Flotilla's attempt to breach the Israeli blockade of Gaza. The video clip quickly gained over 3,000,000 views from YouTube viewers, before being removed by the online hosting site due to alleged copyright infringement;
Glick disputed the infringement charges, claiming a right of
fair use.
[ YouTube removes ‘We Con the World’ video, Noah Rayman, JPost, 14 June 2010] The video drew both criticism
and praise.
[ Video spoof catches fire, fuels Israelis’ PR battle Dina Kraft, JTA 10 June 2010] Writing for
The Guardian, Meron Rapoport said the video was "
anti-Muslim",
while Eileen Read, writing for
The Huffington Post, described the mocking of the flotilla crew as "tasteless and blatantly racist".
Glick dismissed claims that the video is offensive, saying: "The point of satire is to make people uncomfortable. We're not trying to be fair and balanced, we're trying to make a point."
[ 'We Con the World' gets 1m. hits. Hartman, Ben. 'JPost.com]
Bibliography
Books
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Yahav, David; Amit-Kohn, Uzi. Edited and wrote several chapters. Israel, the Intifada and the Rule of Law. Israel Ministry of Defense Publications, 1993. .
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Gaffney Jr., Frank J.; et al. Contributions to "Part IV: Waging the 'War of Ideas'". War Footing: 10 Steps America Must Take to Prevail in the War for the Free World. Naval Institute Press, 2005.
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Glick, Caroline. Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad. Gefen Publishing House, 2008.
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Glick, Caroline. The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East. Crown Forum, 2014.
Documentaries
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Glick is featured as a speaker in the documentaries and .
See also
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