Gerald M. Steinberg is an Israeli academic and political scientist.
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Gerald M. Steinberg obtained his doctorate in government from Cornell University, in 1981. M.A. Government Department, Cornell University, 1978. M.Sc. Physics Department, University of California, San Diego, 1975. B.A. University of California, Berkeley, Departments of Physics and Near Eastern Studies, 1973.[1]
Steinberg is a Professor of Political Science at Bar Ilan University and the founder of the Program on Conflict Management and Negotiation. He specializes in international relations, strategy, arms control (including proliferation, the Iranian nuclear program, and the NPT regime), regional diplomacy and peace process negotiations, "soft power", the politics of human rights and NGOs.[2]
He is a columnist for the Jerusalem Post, and frequently publishes guest articles in the Financial Times, International Herald Tribune and others.[1] He also is an expert analyst for CNN, BBC, NPR and others.
Steinberg is founder and president of NGO Monitor.[3] He has also been a fellow of Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs; member of the Steering Committee of Forum on Antisemitism at the Office of the Prime Minister (Israel); member of the International Academic Board for The Israel Law Review and of the Academic Board for Menachem Begin Heritage Center; and Israel Representative at the Mediterranean Seminar Program, Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe. He has participated in “Track two” meetings on the Middle East peace process; the Research team at United Nations University Project on Conflict Resolution, Democracy and Peace; the Academic Council, Australia-Israel and Jewish Affairs Council and Canadian Institute for Jewish Research. He was a contributor to Israel at the Polls (the peace process and Israel-American relations) 1988-2004.
Steinberg has been a long time critic of the organization Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Christian Aid, Oxfam and various other groups who he accuses of having "contributed to the hatred, rather than supporting peace."[4] Writing in a 2004 Jerusalem Post article [5] he said, "HRW's press statement exposes it as a biased political organization hiding behind the rhetoric of human rights." Later he goes on to accuse HRW of "exploiting the rhetoric of human rights to delegitimize Israel." [6]
Human Rights Watch in turn accused Steinberg of "sleight of hand" in his reporting of its activities, and of conveniently ignoring its condemnations of Palestinian militant actions and of not mentioning inconvenient facts.[7]