Sasha Polakow-Suransky


Sasha Polakow-Suransky is an American journalist and author. He is the deputy editor of Foreign Policy, and a former staff editor of International Op-Ed page at the New York Times and former senior editor of Foreign Affairs.
In 2015 he was an Open Society Fellow, while writing a book about the political impact of immigration. His first book, The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa, was published in 2010. His second book, Go Back to Where You Came From: The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy.

Life

After graduating from Brown University, where he wrote for The College Hill Independent, Polakow-Suransky was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and attended Oxford University, where he earned a doctorate in modern history.
He is the younger brother of Shael Polakow-Suransky; both are the children of Valerie Polakow and Leonard Suransky, South African Jews who were anti-apartheid activists in South Africa before emigrating to the United States in 1973 to avoid possible arrest.

Works