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| alma_mater = [[Wadham College, Oxford]] University

| parents = {{ubl|[[John Gross]], |[[Miriam Gross]]}}

}}'''Tom Gross''' is a British-born journalist, international affairs commentator,<ref>{{cite news |title=Palestine's Missing Critics |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |date=2 November 2009 |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703932904574511043050416578 |accessdate=25 October 2011}}</ref> and human rights campaigner specializing in the Middle East.<ref>{{cite news |title= Ein Linker im Kampf gegen linke Lebenslügen, By Alan Posener|newspaper= Die Welt|date= 17 September 2019|url= https://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article200099202/Tom-Gross-Ein-Linker-im-Kampf-gegen-linke-Lebensluegen.html|accessdate=26 October 2019}}</ref> Gross was formerly a foreign correspondent for the London ''[[Sunday Telegraph]]'' and ''[[New York Daily News]]''. He now works as an opinion journalist and has written for both Arab<ref>{{cite news |url= https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1886621/tom-gross/brexit-and-its-effect-middle-east |title= Brexit and its Effect on the Middle East |author=Tom Gross |newspaper= Asharq Al-Awsat (English) |date=4 September 2019 |accessdate=7 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://aawsat.com/home/article/1886021/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85-%D8%BA%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3/%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86-%C2%AB%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%AA%C2%BB-%D9%88%D8%A3%D8%AB%D8%B1%D9%87-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%82-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%B7 |title= جنون "بريكست" وأثره على الشرق الأوسط |author=Tom Gross |newspaper= Asharq Al-Awsat (Arabic) |date=4 September 2019 |accessdate=7 September 2019}}</ref> and Israeli<ref>{{cite news |title= The 'shy little bird' who survived Hitler and Stalin |newspaper= The Jerusalem Post|date= 22 December 2010|url= https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Appreciation-Heda-Margolius-Kovaly|accessdate=22 December 2010}}</ref> newspapers, as well as European and American ones, both liberal<ref>{{cite news |title= A modest proposal: Qatar could win by letting Gaza host the World Cup |author=Tom Gross |newspaper=The Guardian|date=30 November 2014 |url= https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/30/qatar-let-gaza-host-world-cup |accessdate=29 November 2019}}</ref> and conservative.<ref>{{cite news |title=If this Isn't Terrorism, What Is? |author=Tom Gross |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |date=2 December 2008 |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122816892289570229 |accessdate=25 October 2011}}</ref> He also appears as a commentator on the BBC in English,<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYjecl-F-_s|title= Israel & Arab states bypass Palestinians to make peace: BBC Lyse Doucet interviews Tom Gross, 8 April 2019|website= [[YouTube]]|date=8 April 2019}}</ref> andBBC various Middle Eastern networks.Arabic,<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhVD3EjHfdw&toHSqRSufBKI=10s34s |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/oHSqRSufBKI |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title= TheThird QueenIsraeli embracedelections Assad,within buta nowyear? finallyTom IsraelGross getson aBBC royalArabic |website=[[YouTube]] visit|date=28 MarchDecember 20182019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and various Middle Eastern and other networks.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goZSWU7pMScnhVD3EjHfdw&t=1s10s |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/nhVD3EjHfdw |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title= TomThe GrossQueen onembraced SkyAssad, Newsbut Arabianow onfinally Britain'sIsrael Brexitgets votea royal visit|website=[[YouTube]] |date=62 JuneMarch 20162018}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHSqRSufBKIgoZSWU7pMSc&t=34s1s |title= ThirdTom IsraeliGross electionson withinSky aNews year?Arabia Tomon GrossBritain's onBrexit BBCvote Arabic|website= [[YouTube]] |date=86 DecemberJune 20192016}}</ref>

His politics are mixed. The German newspaper ''[[Die Welt]]'' described Gross as "A leftist in the fight against left-wing hypocrisy".<ref>{{cite news |title= Ein Linker im Kampf gegen linke Lebenslügen, By Alan Posener|newspaper= Die Welt|date= 17 September 2019|url= http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/001873.html|accessdate=26 October 2019}}</ref> In a profile of Gross in the Saudi-owned pan-Arab newspaper [[Asharq Al-Awsat]] in 2019, it was noted that he started as a non-political entertainment and feature journalist before becoming a political commentator.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://aawsat.com/home/article/2037466/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85-%D8%BA%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3-%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%86%D9%82%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%AF%D8%AB-%D9%84%D9%83%D9%86-%D8%A3%D8%B5%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%AA-%D9%84%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%82%D9%8A%D9%82%D8%A9-%D8%A3%D9%83%D8%AB%D8%B1-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85 |title= توم غروس: دور الصحافي نقل الحدث لكن أصبحت للحقيقة أكثر من صورة اليوم |author= Raneem Hannoush |newspaper= Asharq Al-Awsat (Arabic) |date=16 December 2019 |accessdate=19 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/2094706/tom-gross-role-journalist-report-events-some-media-have-now-gone-beyond |title= Tom Gross: Role of the Journalist Is to Report Events, but Some Media Have Now Gone Beyond That |author= Raneem Hannoush |newspaper= Asharq Al-Awsat (English) |date=22 January 2020 |accessdate=2 February 2020}}</ref>

Gross was educated at [[Wadham College]] at [[Oxford University]],<ref>{{cite news |title= Ein Linker im Kampf gegen linke Lebenslügen, By Alan Posener|newspaper= Die Welt|date= 17 September 2019|url= https://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article200099202/Tom-Gross-Ein-Linker-im-Kampf-gegen-linke-Lebensluegen.html|accessdate=26 October 2019}}</ref> where he studied [[Philosophy, Politics and Economics]] (PPE). His father, [[John Gross]], was a distinguished author and critic,<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.economist.com/node/18007298|title= Obituary of John Gross |websitenewspaper= The Economist|date=27 January 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jan/15/my-hero-john-gross-victoria-glendinning|title= My Hero: John Gross|website =The Guardian|date=15 January 2011}}</ref> and his mother, [[Miriam Gross]], and sister, [[Susanna Gross]], are literary editors. His step-father Sir [[Geoffrey Owen]] was editor of the ''[[Financial Times]]''. His brother-in-law is the novelist and author [[John Preston (English author)|John Preston]]. His uncle was Tony Gross, a pioneering fashion optician.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/obituary-tony-gross-mlcjj8qcz|title= Tony Gross: British optician and designer who made sunglasses a celebrity necessity and constructed outlandish spectacles for Elton John |website= The Times|date= 14 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.economist.com/node/18007298|title= Tony Gross, Tony Gross, optician who introduced glamour into eyewear and attracted a host of celebrity clients|website= The Guardian|date= 28 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/03/11/tony-gross-designer-fashionable-glasses-obituary/|title= Tony Gross, designer of fashionable glasses – obituary|website= The Daily Telegraph|date=11 March 2018}}</ref> He has a daughter, Sivan.

Gross’sGross's maternal grandfather, [[Kurt May]], was a German-Jewish lawyer who fled [[Nazi]] persecution to [[Jerusalem]], where Gross's mother was born.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/3306/full|title=A Jerusalem Childhood - Standpoint|website=www.standpointmag.co.uk}}</ref> May later led the legal battle of The [[United Restitution Organization]], which fought to attain restitution from German companies for persecuted Jews, Roma and others, after World War II. May was also a senior advisor to the U.S. chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crime trials.<ref>Ferencz, Benjamin B. ''Less than Slaves''. 2002, page 40-1</ref> Gross’sGross's maternal grandmother, Vera Feinberg, also escaped Nazi Germany for pre-state [[Israel]], but her parents were deported to [[Theresienstadt concentration camp|Theresienstadt]] (Terezin) concentration camp and later to [[Treblinka extermination camp|Treblinka]] where they were gassed to death upon arrival.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/11/former-schindlers-list-factory-plans-czech-museum-nazi-industralist|title=Fate of former Schindler's list factory is met with Czech ambivalence|last=Tait|first=Robert|date=2016-10-11|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-08-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.holocaust.cz/databaze-obeti/obet/10168-adolf-feinberg/|title=Adolf Feinberg {{!}} Databáze obětí {{!}} Holocaust|last=(www.nux.cz)|first=Nux s.r.o.|website=www.holocaust.cz|language=cs|access-date=2018-08-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.holocaust.cz/databaze-obeti/obet/10170-pauline-feinberg/|title=Pauline Feinberg {{!}} Databáze obětí {{!}} Holocaust|last=(www.nux.cz)|first=Nux s.r.o.|website=www.holocaust.cz|language=cs|access-date=2018-08-05}}</ref>

Gross discussed his upbringing growing up surrounded by cultural and literary luminaries in London and New York, as well as his later career and work with Roma and human rights, in an interview in 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Pg-IDYJYE |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/T4Pg-IDYJYE |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title= An interview with Tom Gross about his life|website=[[YouTube]] |date= June 28, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Gross was formerly the Jerusalem correspondent for the London ''[[Sunday Telegraph]]'' and for the ''[[New York Daily News]]''. He has been a contributor to ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'',<ref>{{cite news |title=If this Isn't Terrorism, What Is? |author=Tom Gross |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |date=2 December 2008 |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122816892289570229 |accessdate=25 October 2011}}</ref> ''[[Weekly Standard]]'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/luckily-havel-wasn-t-guardian-reader_614631.html |title=Tom Gross Archive |work=Weekly Standard |accessdate=5 November 2013}}</ref> ''[[National Review]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalreview.com/author/18960 |title=Tom Gross Archive |work=National Review Online |accessdate=25 October 2011}}</ref> and ''[[Huffington Post]]'' in the United States, to ''[[The National Post]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http https://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/author/tgrossnp/ |work=National Post |title=Tom Gross archive| work=National Post |accessdate=81 JulyMay 20132023}}</ref> in Canada, to ''The Australian''<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/west-needs-reality-check-on-syria/story-e6frg6ux-1226035557307 |title=West needs reality check on Syria |author=Tom Gross |newspaper=The Australian |date=8 April 2011 |accessdate=25 October 2011}}</ref> in Australia, for the Saudi paper [[Asharq Al-Awsat]]<ref>{{cite news |url= https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1886621/tom-gross/brexit-and-its-effect-middle-east |title= Brexit and its Effect on the Middle East |author=Tom Gross |newspaper= Asharq Al-Awsat (English) |date=4 September 2019 |accessdate=7 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://aawsat.com/home/article/1886021/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85-%D8%BA%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3/%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86-%C2%AB%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%AA%C2%BB-%D9%88%D8%A3%D8%AB%D8%B1%D9%87-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%82-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%B7 |title= جنون "بريكست" وأثره على الشرق الأوسط |author=Tom Gross |newspaper= Asharq Al-Awsat (Arabic) |date=4 September 2019 |accessdate=7 September 2019}}</ref> and to ''The Times of India''.

In Britain, he has written for ''[[The Guardian]]'',<ref>{{cite news |title=Building peace without Obama's interference |author=Tom Gross |newspaper=The Guardian|date=7 December 2009 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/dec/07/obama-interference-independent-palestine |accessdate=25 October 2011}}</ref> ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'',<ref>{{cite news |title=When a French ambassador described Israel as a 'sh---y little country' – and polite society defended him |author=Tom Gross |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=16 January 2018 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/16/french-ambassador-described-israel-sh-y-little-country-reporter/|accessdate=16 January 2018}}</ref> ''[[The Spectator|Spectator]]'',<ref>{{cite news |title= Tom Gross archive |newspaper=The Spectator |date=16 February 2018 |url=https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/author/tom-gross/ |access-date=16 February 2018 |archive-date=29 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129192357/https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/author/tom-gross/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''[[Standpoint (magazine)|Standpoint]]'', ''[[Evening Standard]]'', and other publications; in Israel, for ''[[Ha’aretz|Haaretz]]'', ''[[Maariv (newspaper)|Maariv]]'' and ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]''; in Germany for ''[[Die Welt]]'';<ref>{{cite news |title= Ich will Deutscher werden, aber es ist so verdammt schwer |author=Tom Gross |newspaper=Die Welt |date=1 August 2019 |url= https://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article197801397/Nachkommen-verfolgter-Juden-Die-Schwierigkeit-Deutscher-zu-werden.html/|accessdate=30 August 2019}}</ref> and in Iran, for a number of opposition websites.<ref>{{cite webnews|url=https://www.radiofarda.com/a/f3_tomgross_Iran/1901756.html|title=تام گراس: جنبش سبز در به کارگیری اینترنت الهام‌بخش بوده است|website=رادیو فردا|date=11 December 2009 |last1=البرزی |first1=آرش }}</ref>

In a series titled “Conversations with friends about their lives,” Gross has interviewed pianist [[Evgeny Kissin]],<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zKvyjlvleg |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/6zKvyjlvleg |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title= Conversations with friends about their lives: Pianist Evgeny Kissin|website=[[YouTube]] |date= May 24, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> lawyer [[Alan Dershowitz]],<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1oHW6Can_A |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/n1oHW6Can_A |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title= Conversations with friends: Alan Dershowitz on his life, career and the state of America|website=[[YouTube]] |date=November 19, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> filmmaker [[Hossein Amini]],<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_llnKPTT0FE |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/_llnKPTT0FE |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title= Conversations with friends about their lives: Oscar-nominated filmmaker Hossein Amini|website=[[YouTube]] |date= May 30, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> New York Times columnist [[Bret Stephens]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkiWXs9AUWk |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/SkiWXs9AUWk |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title= Conversations with friends: New York Times columnist Bret Stephens|website=[[YouTube]] |date=October 20, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Guardian columnist [[Jonathan Freedland]],<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_3phYh8WMU |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/Y_3phYh8WMU |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title= Conversations with friends about their lives: Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland|website=[[YouTube]] |date= June 20, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> writers [[David Pryce-Jones]],<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK8kppwX7UI |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/hK8kppwX7UI |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Conversations with friends about their lives: David Pryce-Jones|website=[[YouTube]] |date= May 21, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> [[John O'Sullivan (columnist)|John O'Sullivan]],<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKspJwfsibg |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/TKspJwfsibg |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title= Conversations with friends about their lives: John O’SullivanO'Sullivan|website=[[YouTube]] |date= May 29, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Nazi-hunter [[Efraim Zuroff]]<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEaUhSYX3hI |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/KEaUhSYX3hI |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title= Conversations with friends about their lives: The last Nazi-hunter Efraim Zuroff|website=[[YouTube]] |date= June 8, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and others.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://tomgross100.wixsite.com/chatswithtom|title= Conversations with friends: Journalist Tom Gross talks with friends around the world about their lives}}</ref>

He has criticized the UN for not doing more to promote freedom in countries such as North Korea<ref>[http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/03/16/tom-gross-the-true-face-of-human-rights-at-the-un/ “The true face of human rights at the UN,” March 16, 2012, ''The National Post'']</ref> and Mauritania.<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-gross/mauritania-un-human-rights-council_b_2758719.html “The UN Promotes a Slave-Owning Nation,” Feb. 25, 2013, ''The Huffington Post'']</ref> He has also conducted various on stage interviews, including with a French hostage kidnapped by [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant|Islamic State]]<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzlmnSVrqGs |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/tzlmnSVrqGs |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title= I was held captive by ISIS" - Pierre Torres interviewed by Tom Gross|website=[[YouTube]] |date=25 February 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> in Syria, a Nigerian schoolgirl kidnapped by [[Boko Haram]]<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xat2T31waGM |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/xat2T31waGM |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title= "I escaped Boko Haram" – A Nigerian girl who was kidnapped with 270 others ("Bring Back Our Girls")|website=[[YouTube]] |date=25 February 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> in Nigeria, and with the wife of the imprisoned Saudi liberal blogger and political prisoner [[Raif Badawi]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vxl9JjRN4E |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/5vxl9JjRN4E |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title= Imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi's wife speaks out (interviewed by Tom Gross)|website=2016 Geneva Summit for human rights|date=26 February 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Gross has advocated for the rights of the Roma,<ref>{{cite news |title= The Truth about Roma, a nation with no homeland|newspaper= (London) Evening Standard|date= 20 October 1999|url= https://wp.tomgrossmedia.com/tom-gross-in-the-london-evening-standard-on-roma/|accessdate=19 November 2019}}</ref><ref>"Obituary of Milena Hubschmannova, Czech champion of the Roma", ''The Guardian'', 19 Sep 2005 [https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,3604,1573093,00.html]</ref> Domari, Kurdish,<ref>{{cite news |title= The West should support an independent Kurdish state|date=15 October 2019 |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fnqsW9QPqI |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/9fnqsW9QPqI |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|accessdate=26 October 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Yazidi<ref>{{cite news |title=Threats against Yazidis were predictable and predicted|url=http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/001476.html |accessdate=12 December 2014}}</ref> and Rohingya<ref>{{cite news |title=The Rohingya: Mass murder under the gaze of a Nobel peace laureate|url=http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/001720.html |accessdate=9 December 2017}}</ref> minorities, and disabled people.<ref>[https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/03/is-new-zealand-really-such-a-tolerant-country/ “Is New Zealand really such a tolerant country?,” March 19, 2019, ''The Spectator'']</ref>

Much of his work has concerned the way the international media covers the Middle East. He has been cited on the subject in papers such as ''[[The New York Times|]]''The New York Times'']]<ref>{{cite news |url=http://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/22/war-and-media-in-the-gaza-strip/ |title= War and Media in the Gaza Strip |author= Flanigan, Jake |newspaper=The New York Times |date= 22 July 2014 |accessdate=27 September 2014}}</ref> and interviewed in ''[[Haaretz]]''<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/001485.html |title= Why journalists say Israeli-Arab reporting is 'rigged' |author=Maor, Dafna |newspaper=The Marker |date= 14 September 2014|accessdate=27 September 2014}}</ref> and on television<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/001472.html|title=The Breakfast Show |date=28 July 2014}}</ref> about this. He has been critical of the [[BBC]], arguing that their Middle East coverage is often slanted against [[Israel]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/BBC.htm|title=Tom Gross on the BBC|website=www.tomgrossmedia.com}}</ref><ref>"The BBC discovers 'terrorism,’ briefly: Suicide bombing seems different when closer to home", ''The Jerusalem Post'', 12 July 2005 [http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/BBCDiscoversTerrorism.html]</ref> and has subjected the coverage of Reuters,<ref>[http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/Reuters.htm “The Case of Reuters,” ''The National Review'']</ref> ''The Guardian''<ref>[{{Cite web |url=http://www.thecommentator.com/article/624/the_guardian_acknowledges_a_degree_of_anti_semitism “The|title="The Guardian acknowledges a degree of anti-Semitism,”" Nov. 10, 2011, ''The Commentator''] |access-date=10 December 2011 |archive-date=13 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111213155041/http://www.thecommentator.com/article/624/the_guardian_acknowledges_a_degree_of_anti_semitism |url-status=dead }}</ref> and CNN<ref>[{{Cite web |url=http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTA0NGJjMWJiYWQ1NjJlNWZkZmE1MTVlYjMyZjZhZTk= “This|title="This is CNN,”" March 20, 2009, ''The National Review''] |access-date=20 May 2009 |archive-date=5 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105173440/http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTA0NGJjMWJiYWQ1NjJlNWZkZmE1MTVlYjMyZjZhZTk= |url-status=dead }}</ref> and what he termed the "cult of [[Rachel Corrie]]”<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/TheForgottenRachels.html |title=The Forgotten Rachels |author=Tom Gross |newspaper=The Spectator |date=22 October 2005 |accessdate=25 October 2011}}</ref> to scrutiny.

He has also been critical of ''[[The New York Times]]'', both for their general foreign coverage,<ref>"All The News That’s Fit To Print?” ''The National Review'', 14 March 2003 [http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/NewYorkTimes.htm]</ref> and historically for what he terms their "lamentable record of not covering the [[Holocaust]]."<ref>"Reporting Auschwitz, Then & Now: The lamentable record of The New York Times", ''The Jerusalem Post'', 2 February 2005 [http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/ReportingAuschwitz.html]</ref> "''The New York Times''," wrote Gross, "possibly because they feared people might -- wrongly -- think of it as a 'Jewish' paper, made sure reports were brief and buried inside the paper. During World War II, no article about the Jews' plight under the Nazis ever qualified as the ''Times''’ leading story of the day".

Gross has consistently supported the creation of an independent Palestinian Arab state alongside Israel.<ref>“ Could Donald Trump unexpectedly triumph in his bid for peace in the Middle East?,” ''The Spectator'', 4 April 2019 [https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/04/could-donald-trump-unexpectedly-triumph-in-his-bid-for-peace-in-the-middle-east/]</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=After Jerusalem decision, might Trump & Netanyahu yet help create a Palestinian state?|author=Tom Gross |newspaper=The Spectator |date=9 February 2018|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCSPdR6vDVQ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/JCSPdR6vDVQ |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|accessdate=9 December 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The good news about Gaza you won't hear on the BBC|url=https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/02/the-good-news-about-gaza-you-wont-hear-on-the-bbc/ |accessdate=9 February 2018}}</ref> ButGross, hehowever, has saidstated that "to be viable and successful it is not only a question of what Israel will give the Palestinians, but of the Palestinians themselves engaging in good governance.", andHe warned that "there is no point in creating a new Palestinian state if it will primarily be used as a launching ground for armed attacks on Israel, which would be likely to in turn only lead to a much bloodier war between Israelis and Palestinians than anything we have witnessed in the past".<ref>"A nice new shopping mall opened today in Gaza: Will the media report on it?” [http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/001127.html]</ref> He

Gross has also written about the [[Arab Jews|Jews of the Arab world]], specifically about the forced [[Jewish exodus from the Muslim world|removal of Jews from Arab countries]].<ref>{{cite news |title=The Jews driven out of homes in Arab lands|url=https://www.thejc.com/culture/features/the-jews-driven-out-of-homes-in-arab-lands-1.448713 |accessdate=9 December 2017}}</ref>

Gross has also lived and worked in [[Prague]], where he served as correspondent (covering the [[Czech Republic]], [[Slovakia]], and [[Albania]]) for the (London) ''Daily Telegraph'' and ''Sunday Telegraph''. He helped launch the Czech edition of ''[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]]'' magazine, the first international glossy magazine in post-communist central and eastern Europe.<ref>{{cite news |title='Elle' breaks ground with edition in Czech |author= Alison Veness |newspaper=The Independent |date=18 February 1994 |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/elle-breaks-ground-with-edition-in-czech-1394815.html |accessdate=1 December 2019}}</ref> In addition, he wrote a regular op-ed column for ''[[The Prague Post]]'' and op-eds for the Czech daily ''[[Lidové Noviny]]''. He has acted as a consultant to the Prague Jewish museum.<ref>{{cite news |title= Echoes from a lost world |author= Levy, Gideon |newspaper= Haaretz |date=20 April 2014 |url= http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-features/.premium-1.586379 |accessdate=26 April 2014}}</ref> In ''[[The Guardian|]]''The Guardian'']] Gross has been critical of the fact that Prague still has no central state-funded Holocaust memorial, unlike most other European capital cities from which Jews were deported.<ref>{{cite news |title= Fate of former Schindler's list factory is met with Czech ambivalence |author= Tait, Robert |newspaper= The Guardian|date=11 October 2016|url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/11/former-schindlers-list-factory-plans-czech-museum-nazi-industralist|accessdate=12 December 2016}}</ref>

Tom Gross has also campaigned on behalf of the [[Romani people|Roma]] (Gypsies). "This is one of the most painful and disturbing problems in Europe today, though it is often neglected or misreported by the mainstream media", he wrote.<ref>"A Forgotten People, a Terrible Ordeal, ” ''The Wall Street Journal'', 19 January 2000 [http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/AForgottenPeople.html]</ref><ref>"Obituary of Milena Hubschmannova, Czech champion of the Roma", ''The Guardian'', 19 Sep 2005 [https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,3604,1573093,00.html]</ref><ref>{{cite news |title= The Truth about Roma, a nation with no homeland|newspaper= (London) Evening Standard|date= 20 October 1999|url= https://wp.tomgrossmedia.com/tom-gross-in-the-london-evening-standard-on-roma/

For two years, based in Prague, he served as a special advisor to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ([[UNHCR]]) on the plight of [[Relations between ethnic Czechs and Roma|Czech Roma]], mainly relating to citizenship issues arising as a result of the breakup of [[Czechoslovakia]]. He criticized the internationally renowned liberal icon and playwright [[Václav Havel]], in columns in ''[[The Spectator|]]''The Spectatorand '']] and [[The Prague Post|]]''The Prague Post'']],<ref>{{cite news |title= On Czech citizenship law, the President has no clothes|newspaper= The Prague post|date= 7 December 1994|url= https://wp.tomgrossmedia.com/roma-tom-gross-in-prague-post-on-czech-citizenship-president-havel-has-no-clothes/|accessdate=19 November 2019}}</ref> for not doing enough to help Roma while he served as Czech president.

Tom Gross has worked on a number of television programs and documentary films, including [[BBC TV]] specials on Czech Roma, and on [[Sudeten Germans]]. On the Middle East, he has appeared as a commentator on [[BBC]] World news,<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYjecl-F-_s|title= Israel & Arab states bypass Palestinians to make peace: BBC Lyse Doucet interviews Tom Gross, 8 April 2019|website= [[YouTube]]|date=8 April 2019}}</ref> [[CNN]], [[Fox News]], and [[NPR]]. He has been interviewed on international politics on Sky News Arabia,<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goZSWU7pMSc|title= Tom Gross on Sky News Arabia on Britain's Brexit vote, London, 23.6.16 |website= [[YouTube]] |date=23 June 2016}}</ref> i24 News,<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXqdwpmoJ7U |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/CXqdwpmoJ7U |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title= The UK votes in its closest election in decades 07/05/2015|website=[[YouTube]] |date=5 May 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Russia Today,<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zXebhyDJSY |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/5zXebhyDJSY |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title= Tom Gross interview with RT International, 8 May 2015|website=[[YouTube]] |date=8 May 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> TRT World Turkey,<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55q9CgaU_xY |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/55q9CgaU_xY |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title= Tom Gross on Boris Johnson, on the day he becomes British PM|website=[[YouTube]] |date=24 July 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Israel Channel 13<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dly0jhdMFf4 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/Dly0jhdMFf4 |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title= Tom Gross on international views of Israeli election results|website=[[YouTube]] |date=19 September 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and BBC Arabic.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U9m4HwQIpI |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/0U9m4HwQIpI |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title= Tom Gross: Will Benny Gantz form an Israeli government?|website=[[YouTube]] |date=23 October 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Gross is a voluntary director of the [[Raif Badawi]] Foundation<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.raifbadawifoundation.org/the-board-and-advisors/|title=The Board and Advisors - The Raif Badawi Foundation}}</ref> named after the imprisoned Saudi liberal dissident, and a member of the International Advisory Board of [[NGO Monitor]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article.php?viewall=yes&id=2028|title=Boards}}</ref> of Mideast Dig<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mideastdig.com/masthead/|title=Masthead - mideast dig}}</ref> and of Keren Malki, a charity helping special needs children in Israel.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kerenmalki.org/Advisory.htm|title=Keren Malki - Advisory Board|website=www.kerenmalki.org|access-date=8 April 2011|archive-date=27 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927135809/http://www.kerenmalki.org/Advisory.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> He is a founding signatory to The Henry Jackson Society's Statement of Principles in London.<ref>[http://henryjacksonsociety.org/about-the-society/signatories-to-the-statement-of-principles/ Henry Jackson Society signatories]</ref> He served as Chairman of The International Advisory Board of the Netanya Kibbutz Orchestra.

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