Ron Skolnik is the director of Americans for a Confederation of Israel and Palestine. A dual American and Israeli citizen, he has served in the past as political adviser to the British Embassy in Israel and as executive director of Meretz USA/Partners for Progressive Israel. A columnist and analyst, his writing has appeared in the Forward, Jewish Currents, Haaretz, Tikkun, Al Monitor, Jerusalem Report magazine, and the Palestine-Israel Journal, and he has been interviewed on the BBC, Al Jazeera TV, ARD, and the Jewish Broadcasting Service. He is also a Hebrew-English translator and editor.