Jacki Karsh

Jacki Karsh is an American media personality and activist. In 2025, she launched the Karsh Journalism Fellowship, a fellowship created with the stated goal of helping Israel win an "information war".

Early life Karsh is Jewish. According to Karsh, "My great-great-grandmother fled Hungary at the turn of the 19th century, escaping the antisemitism that haunted Jewish life in Europe."

Activism Karsh has advocated on behalf of Israel since the October 7 attacks. She is a board member of the Jewish Federation Los Angeles, a pro-Israel organization, The Hill, the Jewish News Syndicate and The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. According to Current Affairs, Karsh "calls herself a 'journalist' but behaves much more like a PR officer for the Israeli government". which fact-checking website Misbar noted are "framing approaches that have often been used elsewhere to discredit criticism of Israeli policies or advocacy for Palestinian rights". and Michael Powell, a writer for The New York Times and The Atlantic who has criticized Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders for becoming "stridently critical of Israel".