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Tom Gross is a British-born journalist, international affairs commentator, and human rights campaigner specializing in the Middle East. In 2014, former Pentagon official Michael Rubin wrote that “Tom Gross is probably Europe’s leading observer of the Middle East.” He has advocated for the rights of the Roma, Domari, Kurdish and Yazidi minorities, among others. Gross was formerly the Jerusalem correspondent for the London ''Sunday Telegraph'' and for the ''New York Daily News''. He is a contributor to ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''Weekly Standard'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tom Gross Archive )〕 ''National Review''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tom Gross Archive )〕 and ''Huffington Post'' in the United States, to ''The National Post''〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=National Post )〕 in Canada, to ''The Australian'' in Australia, and to ''The India Times'' in India. In Britain, he has written for ''The Daily Telegraph'', ''The Guardian'', ''The Daily Mail'', ''The Spectator'' and ''Evening Standard'', among other publications; in Israel, for ''Ha’aretz'', ''Ma’ariv'' and ''The Jerusalem Post''; and in Iran, for a number of opposition websites.〔(“Interview with Radio Farda, December 9, 2009 )〕 He has also conducted various on stage interviews, including with a French hostage kidnapped by Islamic State〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKZvfzhXFi0title="I was held captive by ISIS" - Pierre Torres interviewed by Tom Gross, at the 2015 Geneva Summit〕 in Syria and a Nigerian schoolgirl kidnapped by Boko Haram〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xat2T31waGMtitle="I escaped Boko Haram" - Nigerian girl who was kidnapped with 270 others ("Bring Back Our Girls")〕 in Nigeria. 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 and interviewed in Haaretz and on television about this. His article “The Forgotten Rachels” criticizing the “cult of Rachel Corrie” caused a stir. He has been sharply critical of the BBC, arguing that their Middle East coverage is slanted against Israel,〔(“Living in a Bubble: The BBC’s very own Mideast foreign policy” )〕〔“The BBC discovers ‘terrorism,’ briefly: Suicide bombing seems different when closer to home,” ''The Jerusalem Post'', 12 July 2005 ()〕 (although he has written on his website that it has become less biased in recent years) and has subjected the coverage of Reuters,〔(“The Case of Reuters,” ''The National Review'' )〕 The Guardian〔(“The Guardian acknowledges a degree of anti-Semitism,” Nov. 10, 2011, ''The Commentator'' )〕 and CNN〔(“This is CNN,” March 20, 2009, ''The National Review'' )〕 to scrutiny. He has also been critical of ''The New York Times'', both for their general foreign coverage,〔“All The News That’s Fit To Print?” ''The National Review'', 14 March 2003 ()〕 and historically for what he terms their “lamentable record of not covering the Holocaust.”〔“Reporting Auschwitz, Then & Now: The lamentable record of The New York Times,” ''The Jerusalem Post'', 2 Feb 2005 ()〕 “''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 and praised the reforms of former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. But he has said 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” and 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.”〔“A nice new shopping mall opened today in Gaza: Will the media report on it?” ()〕 He has also written extensively about human rights and advocated that the UN do more to promote human rights worldwide.〔(“The true face of human rights at the UN,” March 16, 2012, ''The National Post'' )〕〔(“The UN Promotes a Slave-Owning Nation,” Feb. 25, 2013, ''The Huffington Post'' )〕 ==Education and family== Gross was educated at Oxford University, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE). He was born into a literary family in London. His father, John Gross, was a distinguished author and critic, and his mother, Miriam Gross, and sister, Susanna Gross, are prominent literary editors. His step-father Sir Geoffrey Owen was editor of the Financial Times. Gross’ maternal grandfather, Kurt May, was a German-Jewish lawyer who fled Nazi persecution to Jerusalem, where Gross’s mother was born.〔(“A Jerusalem Childhood” (Standpoint magazine, Sept. 2010) )〕 May, who was disbarred in Nazi Germany after defending a leading Social Democrat politician whom the Nazis wrongly accused of being a communist, 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 trials.〔Ferencz, Benjamin B. ''Less than Slaves''. 2002, page 40-1〕 Gross has also cited the strong influence during his childhood of his godmother, Sonia Orwell, widow of the writer George Orwell. Gross wrote in The Spectator magazine that Sonia had no children of her own, and “she became almost like a second mother to me”. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tom Gross」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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