Emanuele Ottolenghi

Emanuele Ottolenghi (born 1969) is an Italian political scientist and publicist. He is a Senior Fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, DC ^{[1] [2]} and a Leone Ginzburg Research Fellow in Israel Studies at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and the St. Antony's College Middle East Centre. ^[3]

Early life and education

From 1993 to 1995, Ottolenghi was a junior research assistant at the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem. He earned a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University and an undergraduate degree from the University of Bologna. He has taught at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, as well as the Middle East Centre of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. He has been at Oxford University since 1998. ^[3] From 2006 to 2010, he ran the Brussels-based AJC Transatlantic Institute. ^[4]

Since 2010, Ottolenghi has been a member of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' (FDD) Center on Economic and Financial Power (CEFP). ^{[5] [6]}

Activities

Ottolenghi's main research interests are Israeli domestic policy, constitutional and electoral law issues, as well as Italian foreign policy and the Middle East conflict. ^[7] He has published articles on these topics in academic compilations. He has expertise on antisemitism, Iran, Israel, Italy, and terrorism. ^[8]

He has written about Middle East issues for Commentary , The Daily Mirror , The Guardian , National Review Online, Newsday , the Jewish Chronicle , and the Middle East Quarterly , as well as European publications: Corriere del Ticino , il Foglio , Libero , Il Riformista , Liberal , Standpoint , L'Unità , and Die Welt . ^[9]

Personal life

Emanuele Ottolenghi lives in Brussels, Belgium with his wife and two children. ^[4]

Works

Essays

• Immobility, stability and ineffectiveness. Assessing the impact of direct election of Israeli prime minister. In: The journal of legislative studies, Vol. 5 (1999), Booklet 1, p. 35–53.
• Why Palestinians and Israelis are not ready for peace. In: Survival - global politics and strategy. Vol. 46 (2004/05), Booklet 1, p. 41–54.

Books

• The Pasdaran: Inside Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (Washington, FDD Press: 2011). ^[10]
• Iran: the Looming Crisis (London, Profile Books: 2010). ^[11]
• Under a Mushroom Cloud: Europe, Iran and the Bomb (London, Profile Books: 2009). ^[12]
• La Bomba Iraniana (Turin, Lindau: 2008). ^[13]
• Autodafe': L'Europa, gli ebrei e l'antisemitismo (Turin, Lindau: 2007). ^[14]

References

1. "Iran: Geheimes Tunnelsystem im Visier des Westens - WELT". DIE WELT (in German). Retrieved 2024-10-28.
2. "Mit diesen illegalen Mitteln finanziert sich die Hizbollah". Tages-Anzeiger (in German). 2024-10-20. Retrieved 2024-10-28.
3. "House of Commons - Foreign Affairs - Minutes of Evidence". publications.parliament.uk. Retrieved 2025-08-11.
4. "Emanuele ran a US think-tank... from his home in Brussels". Jewish Telegraph. Retrieved 2024-10-28.
5. "Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi" . Retrieved 2025-08-11.
6. "Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi". EMET | Endowment for Middle East Truth. 2025-08-11. Retrieved 2025-08-11.
7. King, Alex (2023-09-12). "Terrorism Expert Emanuele Ottolenghi on Iran's Dangerous Presence in Latin America". B’nai B’rith International. Retrieved 2025-08-11.
8. "Emanuele Ottolenghi". Haaretz. 22 October 2006. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
9. "Emanuele Ottolenghi". Militarist Monitor. Retrieved 2024-10-28.
10. The Pasdaran: Inside Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Amazon. 2011. ISBN   978-0981971292.
11. Iran: The Looming Crisis. Amazon. 2010. ISBN   978-1846684234.
12. Under a Mushroom Cloud: Europe, Iran and the Bomb. Amazon. 2009. ISBN   978-1846682827.
13. "La bomba iraniana" (in Italian). Edizioni Lindau. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
14. "Autodafe': L'Europa, gli ebrei e l'antisemitismo" (in Italian). Edizioni Lindau. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2014.