Michael Dickson

Michael Dickson is a British-Israeli writer and public speaker. He serves as executive director of the StandWithUs Israel office in Jerusalem.

He is a senior Fellow at the Center for International Communication (CIC) of Bar Ilan University and an Honorary member of Alpha Epsilon Pi. He was appointed to the Spectrum Forum of leading Executive Directors in Israel under the age of 40.

He is the winner of the Bonei Zion Prize and author of ISResilience: What Israelis Can Teach the World, co-written with psychologist Dr. Naomi Baum, published in 2020.

He was listed as the 14th most influential person on "Jewish Twitter", now X, by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in 2016. In 2025, Michael Dickson was recognized at a ceremony in Israel's parliament by the Knesset Caucus for Public Diplomacy in recognition of 'his unwavering commitment to defending Israel and the truth" during the October 7th war.

StandWithUs Michael helped establish the StandWithUs Israel Fellowship, which has graduated over 1,500 of Israel's future diplomats and leaders. These young adults have gone on to staff major corporations, political parties in the Knesset, government ministries and embassies and NGOs worldwide.

Israel advocacy Dickson has led diplomatic, academic and journalist missions to Israel and has advocated for Israel in forums, such as the UN "Durban II" conference, in the Knesset, in Europe, the US and in the Far East. He helped pioneer StandWithUs' social media activity. He helped set up "social media situation rooms" as far back as in 2009 during Operation Cast Lead, which he referred to as "the first social media war".

Education Michael holds a Bachelor's degree from University College London (UCL) and diplomas in Management and Project management.